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CSO

Specialty Definition: CSO

DomainDefinition

Computing

CSO Campus Phone Book software developed for, and originally used at, the Computer Services Office of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The server software is known as "qi" and the client is "ph". Recent versions of the software refer to CCSO (Computing & Communications Service Office). (ftp://uxc.cso.uiuc.edu/). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CSO

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CSO

EnglishCentral Seismological ObservatoryN/A

CSO

ItalianUfficio di sicurezza della CommissioneN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CSO

Specialty definitions using "CSO": Gopher object typeTLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CSO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Short measure from Whitehall : how CSO statistics understate the British tax burden (reference)

  • Stormwater: Best Management Practices and Detention for Water Quality, Drainage, and Cso Management (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: CSO

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Burma

Despite rapid growth in tourist arrivals in the early 1990's, that trend slowed markedly after FY 96/97. According to CSO statistics, tourist arrivals continuously declined 4.4 percent and 3.7 percent in FY 99/00 and FY 00/01 (up to February 2001) respectively. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

According to the Home Affairs Permanent Secretary, the Government spent $250,000 (20 million shillings) on the CSO in 2000 and $500,000 (40 million shillings) before year's end. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CSO

"CSO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 46.03% of the time. "CSO" is used about 63 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)46.03%2964,444
Noun (common)31.75%2078,262
Noun (proper)22.22%1493,893
                    Total100.00%63N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CSO

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

cso

136

cso magazine

13

architect cso

5

cable cso operator service

5

2001 cso mortality table

4

2001 cso

3

close combat cso

3

blue cso deep

3

cso eg government

3

cso home page

3

cso go hp.com status

3

cso status warp1.external.hp.com

3

cso in minnesota officer

2

2001 cso table

2

cso table

2

cso magazine.com

2

cso officer vehicle

2

cso ctb measurement result

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

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Derivations: CSO

Derivations

Words containing "CSO": frolicsome. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CSO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cos.

Words within the letters "c-o-s"

-1 letter: os, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-o-s"
 

+1 letter: cobs, cods, cogs, cols, cons, coos, cops, cors, cosh, coss, cost, cosy, cots, cows, coys, docs, mocs, ocas, orcs, rocs, scop, scot, scow, sock.

 

+2 letters: ascot, blocs, bocks, calos, canso, capos, ceros, chaos, chops, chose, chows, cions, cisco, clods, clogs, clons, clops, close, clots, cloys, coals, coast, coats, cobbs, cocas, cocks, cocos, codas, codes, coeds, coffs, cohos, coifs, coils, coins, coirs, cokes, colas, colds, coles, colts, comas, combs, comes, comps, cones, conks, conns, conus, coofs, cooks, cools, coons, coops, coots, copes, copse, cords, cores, corks, corms, corns, corps, corse, cosec, coses, coset, cosey, cosie, costa, costs, cotes, coups, coves, cowls, coxes, cozes, crocs, crops, cross, crows, cusso, decos, disco, docks, echos, escot, flocs, focus, hocks, hocus, icons, jocks, lochs, locks, locos, locus, mocks, nocks, onces, orcas, osmic, pisco, pocks, rocks, schmo, scion, scoff, scold, scone, scoop, scoot, scope, scops, score, scorn, scots, scour, scout, scowl, scows, scrod, scudo, secco, shock, sicko, smock, socko, socks, socle, sodic, sonic, stock, stoic, tacos, torcs, uncos, voces, yocks.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CSO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 53 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ...    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010011 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#83 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0053 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

375349

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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