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SIEVERT

Specialty Definition: SIEVERT

DomainDefinition

Energy

The new international system (SI) unit for dose equivalent equal to 1 Joule/kilogram. 1 sievert = 100 rem. (Sv). (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Sievert

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The sievert (symbol Sv) is an SI derived unit of radiation dose. It is defined as the dose received in one hour at a distance of 1 cm from a point source of 1 mg of radium in a 0.5 mm thick platinum enclosure. It is approximately equivalent to 8.4 röntgens or 21.6 curies per kilogram.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sievert."

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Crosswords: SIEVERT

Specialty definitions using "SIEVERT": Annual limit on intakeDerived air concentrationQuality factor. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SIEVERT" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (sievert).

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Usage Frequency: SIEVERT

"SIEVERT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SIEVERT" is used about 3 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
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Name Usage Frequency: SIEVERT

The following table summarizes the usage of "SIEVERT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SievertLast name1,00014,761
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SIEVERT

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

sievert

16

max sievert

4

primus sievert

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

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Modern Translation: SIEVERT

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

Dutch

  

sievert. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ievertsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SIEVERT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: restive, veriest, verites.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: everts, evites, reives, resite, reties, revest, revets, revise, rivets, stiver, strive, verist, verite, verset, verste.

-2 letters: ester, evert, evite, reest, reive, reset, retie, revet, rites, rives, rivet, serve, sever, sieve, siree, siver, steer, stere, terse, tiers, tires, trees, tries, veers, verse, verst, verts, viers, vires.

-3 letters: erst, ever, eves, ires, rees, reis, rest.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-r-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: nerviest, reinvest, restrive, riveters, severity, sirvente, verities, vertices, vestries, vetivers.

 

+2 letters: advertise, assertive, brevities, derivates, detersive, diverters, eruptives, extrusive, inventers, invertase, inverters, levirates, overbites, overedits, overtimes, overtires, poverties, reinvents, reinvests, reinvites, relatives, reservist, resistive, restively, restriven, restrives, retrieves, revesting, revisited, secretive, serviette, servitude, sirventes, timesaver, tirrivees, varieties, verditers, veritates, versatile, vertigoes, vetiverts, virescent.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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