Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

LEAPFROGGING

Specialty Definition: LEAPFROGGING

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

The process of phasing, or delaying the ranging pulse of a tracking radar in order to move, or shift (on the radarscope presentation) the target blip past the target blip from another radar. (references)

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

Top     

Usage Frequency: LEAPFROGGING

"LEAPFROGGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "LEAPFROGGING" is used about 14 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)71.43%10111,207
Noun (singular)14.29%2245,945
Noun (proper)7.14%1339,140
Adjective (general or positive)7.14%1339,140
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEAPFROGGING

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

leapfrogging

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: LEAPFROGGING

Language Translations for "LEAPFROGGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

馬跳び . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

うまとび (leapfrog). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eapfrogginglay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Rhyming with "LEAPFROGGING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "LEAPFROGGING" (pronounced lē"pfrô'ging)
4-ô' g i ngcataloguing.
3-g i ngbagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, bugging, cataloging, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, drugging, fatiguing, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, legging, logging, lugging, mugging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snagging, snugging, tagging, tugging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: LEAPFROGGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-g-g-i-l-n-o-p-r"

-4 letters: arpeggio, finagler, flaggier, flagging, flogging, florigen, foraging, fragging, frogging, galoping, ganglier, gargling, geraniol, gigaflop, gogglier, grapline, lagering, leapfrog, paroling, pearling, pelorian, pinafore, progging, regaling, regional.

-5 letters: agelong, aileron, alienor, aligner, argling, eloping, engrail, fagging, fearing, finagle, firepan, flagger, flanger, flaring, flinger, flogger, foaling, foggage, foggier, fogging, foliage, foreign, forging, fragile, gangrel, gaoling.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: LEAPFROGGING


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

4C 45 41 50 46 52 4F 47 47 49 4E 47

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    .-    .--.    ..-.    .-.    ---    --.    --.    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001100 01000101 01000001 01010000 01000110 01010010 01001111 01000111 01000111 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#65 &#80 &#70 &#82 &#79 &#71 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0041 0050 0046 0052 004F 0047 0047 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

463935504052494141434841

Top     



INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.