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Traffic Signal

Definition: Traffic Signal

Traffic Signal

Noun

1. A visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Traffic Signal

Synonyms: stoplight (n), traffic light (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Traffic Signal

DomainTitle

Books

  • Maintenance management of traffic signal equipment and systems (reference)

  • Management of Traffic Signal Maintenance (reference)

  • Manual of Traffic Signal Design (reference)

  • Peak-Hour Traffic Signal Warrant (reference)

  • Selecting Traffic Signal Control at Individual Intersections (National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report Ser.: No. 233) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Traffic Signal

Illustrations:
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Traffic Signal

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

traffic signal

153

traffic signal light

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Traffic Signal

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

Chinese 

  

紅 燈 (traffic light). (various references)

   

French

  

signal lumineux (traffic light). (various references)

   

German

  

Lichtsignal (blinker, light signal). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

villanyrendőr (traffic light), forgalmi jelzőlámpa (traffic light). (various references)

   

Italian

  

segnale luminoso (flare, traffic light). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

交通信号 , 主信号 (main signal). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅし""う (main signal), "うつうし""う. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

affictray ignalsay

   

Portuguese

  

sinal de trânsito (traffic lights). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дорожный сигнал. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

señal de tráfico. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Traffic Signal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-f-g-i-i-l-n-r-s-t"

-3 letters: afflicting.

-4 letters: antalgics, articling, firstling, franglais, lariating, racialist, ringtails, safariing, satirical, sclaffing, sgraffiti, taffrails, tariffing, triflings.

-5 letters: actinias, affiants, afflicts, airlifts, antalgic, caitiffs, carlings, castling, catlings, craaling, crafting, failings, fairings, fanatics, fantails, fatlings, filarian, finalist, flagrant, flatcars, flirting, fractals, gracilis, graffiti, granitas, granitic, griffins, iatrical, ignatias, infarcts, inflicts, infracts, ingrafts, intarsia, raffling, railings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Traffic Signal


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

54 72 61 66 66 69 63      53 69 67 6E 61 6C

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

    

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

01010100 01110010 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101001 01100011 00100000 01010011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#102 &#102 &#105 &#99 &#32 &#83 &#105 &#103 &#110 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0066 0066 0069 0063      0053 0069 0067 006E 0061 006C

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

548467727275692537573806778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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