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Pangea

Definition: Pangea

Pangea

Noun

1. (plate tectonic theory) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland.

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

"Pangea" is a common misspelling or typo for: Apnea, Page, Pane, Panes, Pinged, Pongee.

Synonym: Pangea

Synonym: Pangaea (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Pangea

DomainTitle

Books

  • Laurentia-Gondwana Connections Before Pangea (Special Papers (Geological Society of America), 336.) (reference)

  • Mountain Building in the Uralides: Pangea to the Present (Geophysical Monograph, 132) (reference)

  • Pangea : global environments and resources (reference)

  • The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province: Insights from Fragments of Pangea (Geophysical Monograph, 135) (reference)

  • The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Pangea

Illustrations:
Pangea

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pangea

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Tanzania

Ashanti Goldfields Mine in Geita, the second large scale mine, started gold production in June 2000, while the remaining new large scale gold mining projects by Kahama Mining Corporation Ltd. in Bulyanhulu, Afrika Mashariki Gold Mines in Tarime and Pangea Minerals Ltd., in Shinyanga started in 2001. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Pangea

"Pangea" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pangea" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pangea

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

pangea

304

breaking pangea

32

map pangea

28

continent pangea

16

pangea software

15

pangea picture

9

pangea theory

7

breaking lyrics pangea

6

pangea vegan

6

nyc pangea

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

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Modern Translations: Pangea

Language Translations for "pangea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

angeapay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pangea

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-n-p"

-1 letter: agape, apnea, paean, pagan, panga.

-2 letters: anga, gaen, gane, gape, nape, neap, page, pane, pang, peag, pean.

-3 letters: aga, age, ana, ane, ape, eng, gae, gan, gap, gen, nae, nag, nap, pan, pea, peg, pen.

-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, an, en, na, ne, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-n-p"
 

+1 letter: apanage, apogean, pageant, pawnage.

 

+2 letters: apanages, appanage, campagne, lagnappe, paganise, paganize, pageants, paginate, pawnages, phalange, pygmaean.

 

+3 letters: appanages, appealing, appearing, appeasing, appendage, champagne, lagnappes, lagniappe, orphanage, paganised, paganises, paganized, paganizer, paganizes, pageantry, paginated, paginates, paragoned, parentage, parsonage, patronage, pentagram, phalanger, phalanges.

 

+4 letters: anemograph, antiplague, appareling, appendages, asparagine, asperating, campaigned, campaigner, champagnes, frangipane, heptagonal, lagniappes, orphanages, pacemaking, paganizers, palavering, paramagnet, parentages, parsonages, patronages, pentagonal, pentagrams, phalangeal, phalangers, phanerogam, pharyngeal, plasmagene, plateauing, prearrange, readapting, separating.

 

+5 letters: alphabeting, anemographs, antiplagues, apparelling, appealingly, asparagines, campaigners, chaperonage, coappearing, deadpanning, evaporating, expatiating, frangipanes, grandparent, greasepaint, managership, meatpacking, pacemakings, pageantries, panegyrical, paperhanger, papermaking, parageneses, paragenesis, paragenetic, paralleling, paramagnets, peacemaking, pentagonals, phanerogams, plantigrade, plasmagenes, platemaking, pomegranate, preadapting, prearranged, prearranges, reappearing, repackaging, spermagonia, straphanger, unappealing, ungraspable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pangea


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

50 61 6E 67 65 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 006E 0067 0065 0061

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

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

506780737167

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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