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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | British thermal unit.Abbreviation. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 lb of water by 1 degree F, at 60 degree F under 30 in of Hg, equivalent to 1055, 06 joules or 0, 252 kcal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Measure of heat, representing the quantity of heat absorbed by one pound of water during a rise of temperature by 1° Fahrenheit, from 39°F to 40°F. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
BTU | English | British Thermal Unit | N/A |
Btu | Finnish | Brittiläinen lämpömäärän yksikkö | Public Administration |
BTU | Greek | Cal | Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BTU |
| Specialty definitions using "BTU": Building Heat-Loss Factor, Building Overall Heat Loss Rate, Burner Capacity ♦ Coefficient of Heat Transmission, Compliance Coal ♦ DISPATCHER, RELAY ♦ Electric Energy ♦ float-and-sink analysis ♦ GAS DISPATCHER ♦ HEAT RATE, Heating Seasonal Performance Factor ♦ LABORATORY ASSISTANT, laboratory technicia, LANDFILL GAS, Low Btu Gas ♦ MCF, Medium Btu Gas ♦ NATURAL-GAS-TREATING-UNIT OPERATOR, Non-Compliance Coal ♦ Performance Ratings, pound-calorie ♦ Refrigeration Capacity ♦ Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, subbituminous coal ♦ TON OF COOLING. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BTU" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (british thermal unit). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | SAUDI ARABIA | On January 1, 1998, the Saudi government announced a 50 percent across-the-board increase in natural gas prices from $.50/million btu to $.75/million btu. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | I mean, that's an issue that I have fought for very much for purely philosophical reasons. Btu I find it, as usual with this cause, very hard to get the people to organize in the way they should. |
Tim Johnson | Well, I'll take each issue as it comes. As you know, I've also voted against party leadership on some of the trade issues. I voted against on some tax issues in the past, when President Clinton tried to range the BTU tax, energy tax. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BTU" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BTU" is used about 15 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 (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | BTU International, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "BTU": low BTU gas. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "BTU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 英制热单位. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mager gas (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low joule value gas), gas med lav brændværdi (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low joule value gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | laagwaardig gas (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low joule value gas), laagcalorisch gas (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas), laag calorisch gas (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low joule value gas), gas met lage verbrandingswaarde (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas), gas met lage calorische waarde (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas), arm gas (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pienlämpöarvoinen kaasu (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas, low joule value gas), köyhä kaasu (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gaz pauvres de gazogènes (low BTU gas), gaz pauvre (low BTU gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwachgas (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas, low joule value gas), Armgas (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low joule value gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πτωχόν αέριον (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas), αέριον χαμηλής εσωτερικής θερμικής αποδόσεως (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gas povero (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas, low joule value gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | unnid-hiass goaldagh (BTU British Thermal Unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubtay gás pobre (dry gas, generator gas, lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas, low joule value gas, poor gas, producer gas), gás de baixo valor calorífico (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas). (various references) gas pobre (producer gas), gas de pequeño valor calorífico (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas). (various references) svaggas (lean gas, low BTU gas, low calorific gas, low calorific value gas), lågvärdegas (lean gas, LJV gas, low BTU gas, low joule value gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "BTU": obtund, obtunded, obtunding, obtunds, obturate, obturated, obturates, obturating, obturation, obturations, obturator, obturators, obtuse, obtusely, obtuseness, obtusenesses, obtuser, obtusest, obtusities, obtusity, subtunic, subtunics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: but, tub. | |
| Words within the letters "b-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-t-u" | |
+1 letter: abut, bhut, bout, brut, bunt, bust, bute, buts, butt, stub, tabu, tuba, tube, tubs. | |
+2 letters: about, abuts, battu, beaut, bhuts, bluet, blunt, blurt, bouts, bruit, brunt, brute, built, bundt, bunts, buret, burnt, burst, busts, busty, butch, buteo, butes, butle, butte, butts, butty, butut, butyl, cubit, debut, doubt, outby, rebut, stubs, tabun, tabus, thumb, tsuba, tubae, tubal, tubas, tubby, tubed, tuber, tubes, turbo. | |
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