Asdic

Definition: Asdic

Asdic

Noun

1. A measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return (sonar is SOund NAvigation Ranging; asdic is Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee).

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	British term for sonar . (references)
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Synonyms: Asdic

Synonyms: echo sounder (n), sonar (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Asdic

English words defined with "asdic": echo sounder ♦ sonar. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Asdic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (sonar).

"Asdic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Asdic" is used about 11 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	81.82%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	18.18%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

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Language		Translations for "asdic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		echolot (echo sounder, sonar). (various references)

Hungarian		hangradar. (various references)

Italian		ecogoniometro. (various references)

Pig Latin		asdicay

Swedish		ekolod (echo sounder, sonar). (various references)

Vietnamese		thiết bị phát hiện t� u ngầm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "asdic": asdics. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Asdic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aaswdu, abdick, Adac, adic, Adick, adoic, adsit, Aidoc, Amdec, Asdas, Asdc, asde, Asdex, asdics, Asdir, asic, asik, astec, astic, astik, Astwick, atsic, Casdec, Edsac, Esdec, isic, jasic, Psdec, sabic, sadc, sadic, Sadig, sadiki, Sadok, Samdech. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: acids, cadis, caids.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-s"
	-1 letter: acid, aids, asci, cadi, cads, caid, dais, disc, sadi, said, scad.
	-2 letters: ads, aid, ais, cad, cis, dis, ids, sac, sad, sic.
	-3 letters: ad, ai, as, id, is, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-s"
	+1 letter: alcids, asdics, caddis, cairds, canids, capsid, darics, dicast, nicads.
	+2 letters: acarids, acedias, addicts, advices, ascarid, ascidia, caddies, caddish, candids, candies, capsids, cardias, cicadas, cladist, codeias, cyanids, dacoits, diacids, dibasic, dicasts, didacts, discant, discard, discase, drastic, dyadics, incased, radices, sarcoid, scaldic, scandia, scandic, sidecar, skaldic, subacid, zodiacs.
	+3 letters: abscised, accidias, accidies, acidness, acidoses, acidosis, acridest, adscript, alcaides, antacids, arcadias, ascarids, ascidian, ascidium, ascribed, backside, backslid, baldrics, bawdrics, cabildos, caddices, caddises, cadmiums, camisade, camisado, candidas, capsidal, capsized, carabids, carbides, cardiacs, cardings, carditis, carotids, casefied, catbirds, caudices, cedillas, chalcids, chiliads, citadels, cladists, coadmits, codeinas, cordials, corridas, cuspidal, cyanides, deciares, deciduas, decimals, declaims, decrials, diabasic, dialects, dicastic, dichasia, dictates, diebacks, diocesan, diphasic, diptycas, discants, discards, discased, discases, disclaim, disgrace, dispatch, displace, distance, distract, dynamics, dynastic, dystocia, ecdysial, echidnas, edacious, faciends, factoids, idocrase, indicans, indicias, laicised, medicals, midspace, misacted, monacids, nonacids, oxidasic, oxyacids, pedicabs, peracids, picadors, placoids, quadrics, rachides, radicals, radicels, radicles, saccadic, sadistic, sandwich, sarcoids, sardonic, scalding, scandias, scandium, scaphoid, sciaenid, sidecars, spadices, spicated, spondaic, sporadic, subacrid, suicidal, syndical, triacids, triadics, triclads, viaducts, wildcats.
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