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LAUNCHING APRON

Specialty Definition: LAUNCHING APRON

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A covering of loose stones or blocks laid on the berm of a river embankment to protect it from erosion. The stone from the apron gradually falls and goes on covering the slope as scour takes place and this process is called "launching" Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: LAUNCHING APRON

Language		Translations for "LAUNCHING APRON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		skridende daeklag (falling apron). (various references)

Dutch		bestorting (falling apron). (various references)

French		radier plongeant. (various references)

German		nachrutschende Schuettung (falling apron). (various references)

Greek		καθελκυομένη κοιτόστρωσις (falling apron). (various references)

Italian		berma adagiata sulla sponda dopo erosione (falling apron). (various references)

Pig Latin		aunchinglay apronay

Portuguese		tapete de enrocamento (falling apron). (various references)

Swedish		släntskydd i form av oordnad stenfyllning (falling apron). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: LAUNCHING APRON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-h-i-l-n-n-n-o-p-r-u"
	-3 letters: unanchoring.
	-5 letters: anaphoric, anchoring, cupolaing, graphical, launching, nonplanar, nonracial, nonruling, orphaning, parochial, pharaonic.
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Alternative Orthography: LAUNCHING APRON

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

4C 41 55 4E 43 48 49 4E 47 41 50 52 4F 4E

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

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

01001100 01000001 01010101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000001 01010000 01010010 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#85 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#65 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0055 004E 0043 0048 0049 004E 0047 0041 0050 0052 004F 004E

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

46355548374243484123550524948

INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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