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ZIGAMORPH

Specialty Definition: ZIGAMORPH

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Zigamorph /zig'*-morf/ n. 1. Hex FF (11111111) when used as a delimiter or fence character. Usage: primarily at IBM shops. 2. [proposed] n. The Unicode non-character U+FFFF (1111111111111111), a character code which is not assigned to any character, and so is usable as end-of-string. (Unicode is a 16-bit character code intended to cover all of the world's writing systems, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, hiragana, katakana, Devanagari, Thai, Laotian and many other scripts - support for elvish is planned for a future release). Source: Jargon File.

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

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Derivations: ZIGAMORPH

Derivations

Words beginning with "ZIGAMORPH": zigamorphs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ZIGAMORPH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-m-o-p-r-z"

-2 letters: morphia, rhizoma.

-3 letters: mahzor, mohair.

-4 letters: amigo, ghazi, gizmo, gramp, graph, ihram, imago, mirza, moira, morph, ogham, pargo, pirog, prima, primo, ziram.

-5 letters: agio, amir, gamp, gimp, giro, gorp, gram, grim, grip, hair, harm, harp, hoar, hora, izar, magi, mair, mora, ogam, ohia, opah, pair, phiz, pima, pram, prao, prig, prim, proa, prog, prom.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-m-o-p-r-z"
 

+1 letter: zigamorphs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ZIGAMORPH


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

5A 49 47 41 4D 4F 52 50 48

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

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

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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)

01011010 01001001 01000111 01000001 01001101 01001111 01010010 01010000 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#90 &#73 &#71 &#65 &#77 &#79 &#82 &#80 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

005A 0049 0047 0041 004D 004F 0052 0050 0048

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

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

604341354749525042

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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