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Definition: Laurasia |
LaurasiaNoun1. A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | Hypothetical continent in the Northern Hemisphere that broke up about theend of the Carboniferous Period to form the present northern continents. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Laurasia was a supercontinent that broke off from the Pangaean supercontinent in the late Mesozoic period. Laurasia divided into Eurasia and North America around 200 million years ago.
See also: Alfred Wegener, Pangaea, Gondwana, continental drift
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Crosswords: Laurasia |
| English words defined with "Laurasia": Pangaea, Pangea. (references) |
| "Laurasia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Laurasia" is used about 4 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 (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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| 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 |
laurasia | 11 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: lauras, urials. | |
-3 letters: alias, arias, arils, aural, auras, auris, laari, lairs, laris, laura, liars, liras, raias, rails, rials, sural, urial. | |
-4 letters: aals, ails, airs, alar, alas, aria, aril, aura, lair, lari, lars, liar, lira, raia, rail, rial, rias, sail, sari, saul, sial, slur, sura, ursa. | |
-5 letters: aal, aas, ail, air, ais, ala, als, ars, lar, las, lis, ras, ria, sal, sau, sir, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-l-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: adularias. | |
+2 letters: saturnalia. | |
+3 letters: saturnalian, saturnalias. | |
+4 letters: avascularity, maquiladoras, salutatorian. | |
+5 letters: astronautical, equalitarians, intravascular, parasexuality, salutatorians, saturnalianly, supranational, suprarational, ultraradicals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 75 72 61 73 69 61 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- ..- .-. .- ... .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110101 01110010 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a u r a s i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0075 0072 0061 0073 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667878467857567 |
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