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"AFTERSHOCKS" is a plural of: aftershock. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geological | Earthquakes that follow the largest shock of an earthquake sequence. They are smaller than the mainshock and within 1-2 fault lengths distance from the mainshock fault. Aftershocks can continue over a period of weeks, months, or years. In general, the larger the mainshock, the larger and more numerous the aftershocks, and the longer they will continue.(See also Earthquake ABC's). (references) |
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Crosswords: AFTERSHOCKS |
| Specialty definitions using "AFTERSHOCKS": mainshock. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Aftershocks (1998) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| "AFTERSHOCKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AFTERSHOCKS" is used about 12 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "AFTERSHOCKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 余震 . (various references) | |
Italian | scosse successive alla principale. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aftershocksay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AFTERSHOCKS" (pronounced a"ftershÄ'ks) |
| 3 | -Ä' k s | boombox, boondocks, breadbox, deadlocks, detox, equinox, feedstocks, flintlocks, gearbox, heterodox, hollyhocks, icebox, jukebox, mailbox, matchbox, matchlocks, orthodox, padlocks, paradox, peacocks, roadblocks, saltbox, Sandbox, skybox, smallpox, soapbox, spacewalks, tinderbox, unorthodox. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-k-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: aftershock, rockshafts, shortcakes. | |
-2 letters: forecasts, rockshaft, shortcake. | |
-3 letters: coarsest, coasters, earshots, forecast, forsakes, hoarsest, hotcakes, restacks, restocks, shackoes, shockers, stackers, starches, stockers, thoraces. | |
-4 letters: actress, arkoses, caskets, casters, castors, chafers, chaoses, chasers, chaster, chokers, choreas, coaster, coaters, corsets, coshers, costars, costers, crashes, earshot, eschars, escorts, factors, fasters, fathers, fatsoes, forests, forsake, fossate, fosters, frescos. | |
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