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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
bcf | English | Bulked continuous fiber | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Launching party of DAVID STARR JORDAN at Christy Shipyards. Bob Wolf of BCF in center of photo (tallest) and F. E. Carbine, Regional Director of BCF Great Lakes on far right. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Venezuela | Venezuela currently produces about 6 BCF. The government envisions a modern, environmentally sound industrial base through plentiful cheap gas and cheap electricity. (references) |
Venezuela | Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) announced a projected Venezuelan gas production of roughly 14.5 billion cubic feet (BCF) in 2010, which represents an increase of approximately 2 BCF over the prior expansion plans. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BCF" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BCF" is used about 9 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 (common) | 66.67% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-f" | |
+3 letters: biface, confab, fabric. | |
+4 letters: backfit, befleck, benefic, bifaces, bifocal, confabs, fabrics, fatback, finback, subfusc. | |
+5 letters: backfill, backfire, backfits, backflow, beatific, beefcake, beflecks, benefice, bifacial, bifocals, blackfin, blackfly, boldface, boniface, clubfeet, clubfoot, cubiform, faceable, fallback, fastback, fatbacks, febrific, feedback, fencible, fibrotic, finbacks, fireback, forcible, forcibly, fullback, halfback, morbific, softback, subchief. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 43 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... -.-. ..-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000011 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B C F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0043 0046 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363740 |
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