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Definition: Great Year |
Great YearNoun1. Time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | The period of one complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic, about 25,800 years. Also called platonic year. See precession of the equinoxes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: Great YearSynonym: Platonic year (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Great Year |
| English words defined with "great year": Isthmian Games ♦ office ♦ power ♦ time, Torrid Zone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "great year": Achish, Annus Mirabilis ♦ Demon Internet Ltd., Divinity in Odd Numbers ♦ Fairy ♦ Godless Florin ♦ Hulsean Lectures ♦ MACROBIAN, mining purposes ♦ Nemean Games ♦ Radegund, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Ships ♦ University of Durham ♦ Whittington. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's going to be a great year. (Revenge of the Nerds; writing credit: Jeff Buhai, Steve Zacharias) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The year 1999 was a great year for fiber optics in Argentina. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
great year | 3 |
depression great year | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Argusianus argus, Colymbus immer, Gavia immer. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: greater, regrate. | |
-3 letters: aerate, artery, eatery, ergate, errata, garret, garter, grater, grayer, greyer, gyrate, regear, regret, retear, tearer, terrae. | |
-4 letters: agate, agree, areae, arete, array, eager, eagre, eater, egret, gayer, grate, great, greet, ragee, rater, reata, retag, retry, targe, tarre, tarry, teary, terga, terra, terry, yager, yarer. | |
-5 letters: aery, agar, agee, ager, area, arty. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-r-r-t-y" | |
+3 letters: exaggeratory. | |
+4 letters: carpetbaggery. | |
+5 letters: greatheartedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 65 61 74 59 65 61 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r e a t   Y e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0065 0061 0074 0059 0065 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4184716786259716784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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