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Cx

Definition: Cx

Cx

Adjective

1. Being ten more than one hundred.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cx" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)


Specialty Definition: Cx

DomainDefinition

Computing

Cx The country code for Christmas Island. (1999-01-27). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Specialty Definition: Cx

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Alternate uses, see Cx (disambiguation)

Cx is the fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet. While it is written as cx in the x system, it is C with a circumflex (ĉ) when written accented.

See also: Esperanto language




CX

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

CX or Cx may stand for:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cx."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cx

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

CX

DanishJuleøenGeography

CX

DutchTerritorium ChristmaseilandGeography

CX

EnglishChristmas IslandGeography

CX

FinnishJoulusaariGeography

CX

FrenchL'Ile ChristmasGeography

CX

GermanWeihnachts-inselGeography

CX

ItalianIsola ChristmasGeography

CX

PortugueseIlha do NatalGeography

CX

SpanishTerritorio de la isla ChristmasGeography

CX

SwedishJulönGeography

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

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Synonym: Cx

Synonym: one hundred ten (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cx

Specialty definitions using "cx": Total.. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Cx" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (Christmas Island, Christmas Island Territory).

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Commercial Usage: Cx

DomainTitle

Books

  

High Tech

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

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Photo Album: Cx

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Pl. CX. 374. Aphoristia fasciata. Collected at Jamaica, West Indies. 375. Aphoristia nebulosa. At N. Lat. 32.1, W. Lon. 78.6, in 229 fathoms. 376. Aphori stia marginata. At N. Lat. 29.1, W. Lon. 88.3, in 324 fathoms. 377. Aphoristia pigra. Collected off St. Kitt's, West Indies in 250 fathoms. 378. Aphoristia dio mediana. 25.1 N, 83.0 W, in 26 fath. 379. Aphoristia pusilla. 40N, 70W, 179 fa. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cx

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The virus is transmitted to man by Culex mosquitoes, primarily Cx. tritaeniorhynchus, which breed in rice fields. (references)

In Florida, the principal vector is Cx. nigripalpus, in the Midwest, Cx. pipiens pipiens and Cx. p. quinquefasciatus and in the western United States, Cx. tarsalis and members of the Cx. pipiens complex. (references)

In the western United States, the enzootic cycle of WEE involves passerine birds, in which the infection is inapparent, and culicine mosquitoes, principally Cx. tarsalis, a species that is associated with irrigated agriculture and stream drainages. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Cx

"Cx" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cx" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Cardinal Number100%1590,616

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cx

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cx

127

crew cx

9

citroen cx

45

cx 65

8

honda cx 500

44

korg cx 3

7

kodak cx 4300

34

panasonic cx dp610

7

quantum fireball cx

34

aiwa cx

7

honda civic cx

24

kodak cx

7

cx programmer

23

colleague cx

7

cx atv boot

22

9 coby cx

7

axo cx atv boot

21

cx sports.com

7

kodak cx 4200

18

cx prestige

7

4230 cx kodak

16

1992 civic cx honda

6

cx majordomo

15

500 custom cx honda

6

cx 500

15

citroen cx prestige

6

5200 cx epson

13

civic cx

6

cx 4300

12

cx 4200

6

650 cx honda

11

920 cx nordic track

6

bridge cx

11

5200 cx

6

epson cx 3200

11

cx 3200 epson stylus

6

cx dp610

10

epson stylus cx 5200

5

cx honda

9

9 cx jxzv sw3 x

5

9 acoustic boston cx

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Cx

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-x"
 

+1 letter: cox.

 

+2 letters: calx, coax, coxa, crux, exec.

 

+3 letters: calix, calyx, carex, cimex, codex, comix, coxae, coxal, coxed, coxes, culex, cylix, exact, excel, execs, toxic, xebec, xenic, xeric.

 

+4 letters: anoxic, ataxic, axenic, axonic, boxcar, calxes, caudex, cervix, claxon, climax, coaxal, coaxed, coaxer, coaxes, coccyx, commix, convex, cortex, cowpox, coxing, cruxes, exacta, exacts, exarch, exceed, excels, except, excess, excide, excise, excite, excuse, exilic, exonic, exotic, expect, exsect, icebox, lexica, oxalic, oxcart, oxidic, pickax, scolex, toxics, xebecs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cx


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

43 78

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 01111000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#120

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0078

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

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

3790

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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