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POCKET COMPASS

Specialty Definition: POCKET COMPASS

DomainDefinition

Mining

A magnetic needle enclosed in a nonmagnetic case, the needle being free to swing over a graduated face or dial. The compass is useful for experimental purposes or for direction-finding in desolate parts of thecountryside, or during darkness and foggy weather. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: POCKET COMPASS

English words defined with "POCKET COMPASS": Compass dial. (references)
Specialty definitions using "POCKET COMPASS": Kebla-Noma. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POCKET COMPASS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pocket compass

22

dalvey pocket compass

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: POCKET COMPASS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-k-m-o-o-p-p-s-s-t"

-4 letters: apoptoses, smokepots, stopcocks.

-5 letters: apocopes, cocomats, comatose, compacts, composes, composts, compotes, maestoso, osteomas, papooses, peacocks, petcocks, scotomas, seacocks, smokepot, stopcock.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: POCKET COMPASS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 43 4B 45 54      43 4F 4D 50 41 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01000001 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#65 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0043 004B 0045 0054      0043 004F 004D 0050 0041 0053 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504937453954237494750355353

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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