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Definition: Specular |
SpecularAdjective1. Capable of reflecting light like a mirror; "mirrorlike surface of the lake"; "a specular metal". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "specular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1671. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Mirrorlike, as specular iron ore, which is a hard variety of hematite.See also:specularite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SpecularSynonym: mirrorlike (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Specular |
| English words defined with "specular": mirrorlike ♦ Oligist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "specular": banded quartz-hematite ore, Bidirectional Reflectance ♦ mirror reflection ♦ photographic transmission density, pressure vent, procedural shader ♦ reflected glare, regular reflection, regular reflector ♦ simple reflection, simple reflector, specular reflector, specular schist, surface crack, surface vent. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A specular microscopic study. (references) | |
A qualitative evaluation with the specular microscope. (references) | ||
A endothelial specular microscope will be used to image and count the endothelial cells. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Specular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Specular" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "specular": specular iron ♦ specular pig iron ♦ specular reflector. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "specular": off-specular. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
reflector specular | 3 |
reflection specular | 3 |
map specular | 3 |
3ds d3d specular | 2 |
hematite specular | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "specular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | براق (brilliant, flaming, glossy, incandescent, lustrous, meretricious, opalescent, prismatic, radiant, sheeny, shining, shiny, tawdriness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отразяващ (reflective), огледален (mirror, reflex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 镜子 (mirror). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | reflektor (mirror, reflecting telescope, reflector, reflector lens, reflector-mirror, reflex reflector, repeller, specular reflector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reflector (headlight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وابسته به اینه طبی یاسپکولوم . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | reflektori (reflector, specular reflector), peili (looking-glass, mirror), heijastin (luminous badge, reflector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spéculaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spiegel (escutcheon, glass, lapel, level, looking-glass, mirror, mirrors, panel, reflector, speculum, tab, type area), Reflektor (reflector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατοπτρικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tükröző (reflective), tükör (glass, looking glass, looking-glass, mirror), fényvisszaverő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | speculare (gamble, profiteer, speculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 거울같은. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | scaanagh (crannied, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, mirrorlike, representative, spectral, spooky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecularspay relativo a espelho, polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, glossy, mannerly, neat, net, polished, polite, precise, shiny, sleek, sleeky, smooth, urbane, well-bred, well-spoken), especular (engross, profiteer, speculate). (various references) de espejo. (various references) reflektor (reflector). (various references) spekuluma ait, yansıtıcı (reflective, reflector, reverberator), aynaya özgü olan. (various references) дзеркальний (glassy, hyaline). (various references) phản chiếu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "specular": specularities, specularity, specularly. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "specular" (pronounced 'Spec"u*lar'): Acapsular, Acetabular, Acicular, Acutangular, Adminicular, Alar, Alular, Anangular, Annular, Antisolar, Apicular, Apolar, Appendicular, Arbuscular, Areolar, Astragalar, Astylar, Auricular, Avicular, Avuncular, Axillar, Biangular, Bicapsular, Bicycular, Bifilar, Biglandular, Bilocular, bimolecular, Bimuscular, bipolar, Birectangular, Bivalvular, Bolar, Branular, Burglar, Calycular, Canicular, Cannular, Carbuncular, Cellar, Cellular, Circumpolar, Clancular, Clausular, Clavicular, Condylar, Consular, Cornicular, Corpuscular, Coticular. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: apercus, capsule, carpels, clasper, parcels, perusal, placers, pleuras, reclasp, recusal, scaleup, scalper, scauper, scruple, secular, specula, upscale. | |
-2 letters: apercu, capers, carles, carpel, carpus, caules, causer, cesura, clause, clears, crapes, culpae, cupels, escarp, lacers, lapser, lucres, pacers, parcel, pareus, parles, parsec, pauser, pearls, placer, places, pleura, pulers, pulsar, pulser, recaps, saucer, saurel, scaler. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: peculiars. | |
+2 letters: curlpapers, operculars, parbuckles, peculators, pelycosaur, sepulchral, specularly, speculator, superclass, superclean, superflack, superscale. | |
+3 letters: apicultures, crepuscular, leprechauns, pelycosaurs, precalculus, procedurals, purchasable, republicans, spectacular, specularity, speculators, superficial, superflacks, superscales. | |
+4 letters: capitularies, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, microcapsule, particulates, plutocracies, porcelaneous, precariously, proconsulate, prosecutable, reduplicates, sepulchrally, spectaculars, sprachgefuhl, superciliary, superclasses, superhelical, superplastic, superspecial, thunderclaps, ultraprecise. | |
+5 letters: alphanumerics, ceruloplasmin, claustrophobe, hydrocephalus, inoperculates, leprechaunish, microcapsules, multispectral, overspeculate, particularise, peculiarities, porcellaneous, precalculuses, proconsulates, prosecutorial, quadriplegics, quasiparticle, recapitulates, republicanism, spectacularly, specularities, sprachgefuhls, supercalender, supercolossal, supercriminal, supercritical, superficially, superphysical, superspecials, unrespectable, unspectacular, upperclassman, upperclassmen. | |
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