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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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 |
CSO | English | Central Seismological Observatory | N/A |
CSO | Italian | Ufficio di sicurezza della Commissione | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CSO |
| Specialty definitions using "CSO": Gopher object type ♦ TLAs. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 46.03% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (common) | 31.75% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "CSO": frolicsome. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 53 4F |
| 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)01000011 01010011 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C S O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0053 004F |
| 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)375349 |
| 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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