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Definition: ICBM |
ICBMNoun1. A ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
ICBM | English | International Consortium for Brain Mapping | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ICBMSynonym: intercontinental ballistic missile (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: ICBM |
| Specialty definitions using "ICBM": missile address. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan has signed the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (1992), the START Treaty (1992), and the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1993). Under the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the U.S. spent $78 million to assist Kazakhstan in eliminating START related systems such as ICBM silo launchers, strategic heavy bombers, and liquid rocket fuel storage facilities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ICBM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "ICBM" is used about 7 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) | 57.14% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ICBM": icbm address. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
icbm | 86 |
icbm type | 13 |
icbm missile | 6 |
icbm outlaw | 3 |
icbm russian | 3 |
icbm minuteman | 3 |
icbm soviet | 3 |
icbm performance teknique | 3 |
icbm india | 3 |
atlas icbm | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ICBM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | interkontinental ballistisk raket (intercontinental ballistic missile). (various references) | |
Dutch | intercontinentale ballistische raket (intercontinental ballistic missile). (various references) | |
French | missile balistique intercontinental. (various references) | |
German | ballistische Intercontinentalrakete (intercontinental ballistic missile). (various references) | |
Greek | διηπειρωτικός βαλλιστικός πύραυλος (intercontinental ballistic missile), διηπειρωτικό βαλλιστικό βλήμα (intercontinental ballistic missile). (various references) | |
Hungarian | interkontinentális ballisztikus rakéta (Ibm, intercontinental ballistic missile). (various references) | |
Italian | missile balistico intercontinentale (intercontinental ballistic missile). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 大陸"弾"ミサイル . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいりくか" "どうミサイル. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | icbmay.(various references) | |
Spanish | misil balístico intercontinental (intercontinental ballistic missile). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-i-m" | |
-1 letter: mib. | |
-2 letters: bi, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-i-m" | |
+1 letter: chimb, climb. | |
+2 letters: amebic, bromic, cambia, chimbs, climbs, cubism, iambic, limbic. | |
+3 letters: alembic, amoebic, becrime, bulimic, cambial, cambism, cambist, cambium, cambric, cembali, chimbly, climbed, climber, combine, combing, cubisms, embolic, iambics, limbeck, microbe, minicab, plumbic, rhombic, umbonic, upclimb. | |
+4 letters: alembics, ambiance, ambience, amicable, amicably, balsamic, becoming, becrimed, becrimes, besmirch, bichrome, bionomic, bombycid, brachium, bromidic, bulimiac, bulimics, cabalism, cambisms, cambists, cambiums, cambogia, cambrics, carbamic, cherubim, chimbley, choriamb, ciborium, cimbalom, climbers, climbing, columbic, combined, combiner, combines, combings, comblike, crumbier, crumbing, cubiform, cymbidia, cymbling, imbecile, incumber, limbecks, micawber, microbar, microbes, microbic, microbus, minicabs, miscible, molybdic, morbific, outclimb, symbolic, umbilici, upclimbs. | |
+5 letters: ambiances, ambiences, amblyopic, bacterium, becalming, becomings, becriming, bemocking, biblicism, bicameral, biometric, bionomics, bismuthic, blackmail, bombastic, bombycids, bronchium, cabalisms, cambering, cambogias, carbamide, carbamino, chemisorb, cherubims, chimbleys, chimblies, choriambs, cimbaloms, claimable, climbable, cobalamin, columbine, columbite, columbium, combating, combative, combiners, combining, coulombic, crumbiest, crumblier, crumbling, cubiculum, cumbering, cymbalist, cymbidium, cymblings, embracing, embracive, embryonic, imbalance, imbeciles, imbecilic, imbricate, incumbent, incumbers, medicable, metabolic, micawbers, microbars, microbeam, microbial, microbrew, misbecame, misbecome, monobasic, outclimbs, procambia, recombine, recombing, scombroid, scumbling, shambolic, subatomic, subclimax, submicron, symbiotic, umbilical, umbilicus, upclimbed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 43 42 4D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -.-. -... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01000011 01000010 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I C B M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0043 0042 004D |
| 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)43373647 |
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