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DBV

Abbreviations & Acronyms: DBV

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

DBV

EnglishDubrovnikN/A

dbv

GermanDezibel bezogen auf 1 VoltMeteorology & Standards, Physics

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

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Usage Frequency: DBV

"DBV" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DBV" is used about 10 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 (proper)100%10111,207

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

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Usage in Company Names: DBV

CountryName
Germany

DBV Winterthur Holding AG

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Anagrams: DBV

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-d-v"
 

+2 letters: bovid.

 

+3 letters: adverb, bovids, braved, verbid.

 

+4 letters: adverbs, bedevil, behaved, behoved, beloved, beveled, bravado, bravoed, obovoid, overbed, overbid, overdub, verbids.

 

+5 letters: absolved, beavered, bedcover, bedevils, bedrivel, behooved, believed, beloveds, bereaved, beslaved, bevelled, bivalved, bravados, breveted, deverbal, divebomb, drivable, evadable, evadible, lovebird, observed, obverted, obviated, ovenbird, overbids, overbold, overbred, overdubs, reverbed, riverbed, subvened, svedberg, vagabond, vendable, vendible, vendibly, vibrated, vibrioid, voidable, waveband.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DBV


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

44 42 56

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)

01000100 01000010 01010110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#66 &#86

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0042 0056

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

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

383656

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Names: Company Usage
3. Abbreviations
4. Acronyms
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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