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Meaning of "gammadion" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GAMMADION

From Late Greek, literally: little gamma.
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PRONUNCIATION OF GAMMADION

gammadion  [ɡæˈmeɪdɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GAMMADION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gammadion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GAMMADION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Swastika

The swastika is a symbol that generally takes the form of an equilateral cross, with its four arms bent at 90 degrees. The earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization as well as the Mediterranean Classical Antiquity and paleolithic Europe. Swastikas have been used in various other ancient civilizations around the world including Turkic, India, Iran, Armenia, Nepal, China, Japan, Korea and Europe. It represents the principle originating the universe, or life, with the four swirling arms representing the four directions of the manifest universe. It remains widely used in Indian religions and Far Eastern religions. The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" combined with "asti", along with the diminutive suffix "ka." The swastika literally means "well-being." It is a common practice for Hindus to draw Swastika symbols on the doors and entrances to their houses during festivals, which is believed to symbolize an invitation to goddess Lakshmi. The name "sauwastika" is sometimes given to the left-facing arms symbol, which is a mirror image of swastika.

Definition of gammadion in the English dictionary

The definition of gammadion in the dictionary is a decorative figure composed of a number of Greek capital gammas, esp radiating from a centre, as in a swastika.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GAMMADION


Acadian
əˈkeɪdɪən
Accadian
əˈkeɪdɪən
Arcadian
ɑːˈkeɪdɪən
Barbadian
bɑːˈbeɪdɪən
Canadian
kəˈneɪdɪən
circadian
sɜːˈkeɪdɪən
Euclidean
juːˈklɪdɪən
Floridian
flɒˈrɪdɪən
French-Canadian
ˌfrɛntʃkəˈneɪdɪən
Gideon
ˈɡɪdɪən
Grenadian
ɡrɛˈneɪdɪən
meridian
məˈrɪdɪən
milliradian
ˈmɪlɪˌreɪdɪən
obsidian
ɒbˈsɪdɪən
ophidian
əʊˈfɪdɪən
Orcadian
ɔːˈkeɪdɪən
Palladian
pəˈleɪdɪən
radian
ˈreɪdɪən
steradian
stəˈreɪdɪən
viridian
vɪˈrɪdɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GAMMADION

gamma
gamma camera
gamma distribution
gamma function
gamma globulin
gamma hydroxybutyrate
gamma iron
gamma knife
gamma radiation
gamma rays
gamma stock
gamma-aminobutyric acid
gamma-carotene
gamma-ray astronomy
gamma-ray burst
gamma-ray burster
gammadia
gammat
gamme
gammed

WORDS THAT END LIKE GAMMADION

accordion
collodion
diacodion
encheiridion
enchiridion
melodion
piano accordion
pyramidion
rhipidion
stasidion
tordion

Synonyms and antonyms of gammadion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gammadion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GAMMADION

Find out the translation of gammadion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gammadion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gammadion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

gammadion
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

gammadion
570 millions of speakers

English

gammadion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gammadion
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

gammadion
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

gammadion
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

gammadion
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gammadion
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

croix gammée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gwanion
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gammadion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

gammadion
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

gammadion
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gwanion
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gammadion
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gammadion
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गिगडीयन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gammadion
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

gammadion
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gammadion
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

gammadion
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gammadion
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγκυλωτός σταυρός, σβάστικα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gammadion
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gammadion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gammadion
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gammadion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GAMMADION»

The term «gammadion» is used very little and occupies the 151.712 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GAMMADION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gammadion» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gammadion» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gammadion

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GAMMADION»

Discover the use of gammadion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gammadion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Gammadion Or Swastik
THIS 62 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Migration of Symbols, by Count Goblet D'Alviella. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594424.
Count Goblet D'Alviella, 2010
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The Gammadion Or Swastika
THIS 62 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Migration of Symbols, by Count Goblet D'Alviella. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564594424.
Count Goblet D'Alviella, 2010
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The Migration of Symbols
CHAPTER II. ON THE GAMMADION OR SWASTIKA. I. Geographical distribution of the gammadion.—Different patterns of the gammadion.—Its common occurrence amongst all the nations of the Old World, with the exception of the Egyptians, ...
comte Eugène Goblet d'Alviella, 1956
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Nanoplasmonics: Advanced Device Applications
One of the representative studies in this area is the gammadion-shaped aperture shown in Figure 4.3a [24,25]. The gammadion geometry has chirality, since the bent wings are arranged in a certain rotating direction. It has four wings with ...
James W. M. Chon, Krzysztof Iniewski, 2013
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T.D. Lee: Selected Papers 1985-1996
The mirror symmetry in this pattern is made possible by using the composite of two ancient symbols, the Wan of the Chinese and the Gammadion of the Greeks. The Wan is an old Chinese character meaning good luck. The Gammadion ...
Hai-Cang Ren, Yang Pang, 1998
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Convergence of Terahertz Sciences in Biomedical Systems
10 shows the detailed structure of the conjugated gammadion with the definitions of the geometrical parameters. The geometric parameters were a = 50 lm, l=40lm, w=4lm,t=0.1lm,d=5lm,andr=5lm. The transmission coefficients for the linearly ...
Gun-Sik Park, Yong Hyup Kim, Haewook Han, 2012
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The Migration of Symbols
CountGoblet D'Alviella1 writes in this connexion : A first observation, made long ago, is that the gammadion is almost the exclusive property of the Aryan race. It is found, in fact, among all the peoples of the Indo-European branch, whilst it is ...
D. Mackenzie, 2013
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Eight Worlds of C M Kornbluth
His pudgy finger pointed to: "PARSONS, George Warmcrdam, organic chemist, news-ppr pubr, b. Gammadion 172, s. Henry and Dolores (Warmcrdam) P., studied Gammadion Chcm. Inst. B.Ch 191, M.Ch 193, D.Ch 194; cmpl. dir research ...
C. M. Kornbluth, 2010
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The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic ...
The Britannica points out that the svastika is often called the Gammadion because its form is "that of four Greek capital letters gamma Y placed together" ( EB, 7:506). The associative leap from a geometrical figure composed of "four Greek ...
John T. Irwin, 1996
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Mechanisms for enhancing the optical transmission through a ...
Moreover, other more sophisticated shapes such as gammadion shapes, allows that incident linearly polarized light becomes elliptically polarized upon interaction with them, with the same handedness as the gammadion itself (see Fig. 1.6).
Sol Carretero Palacios, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GAMMADION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gammadion is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Right Way to Remember the Confederacy - WSJ
The most obvious example is the ancient “gammadion,” which in early Eastern cultures meant “god,” “good luck,” “eternity” and other benign ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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Seen as a symbol of subjugation and slaughter, the Confederate …
Despite a history of 2,000 years, the gammadion cross is now known as the swastika of Germany's Nazi Party of the 1930s and '40s and is ... «Deseret News, Jun 15»
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Drew Barrymore Shocked Some While Sporting a Swastika
The Swastika is also known as the gammadion cross, cross cramponmeé, or manji is a symbol considered to be very sacred and auspicious in ... «World Religion News, Apr 15»
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Swastikas denote need for tolerance training at UC Davis
Quite rightly it is repugnant, particularly so when the symbol (also known as the gammadion cross or cross cramponn?e) is used to make some ... «Daily Democrat, Feb 15»
5
McLarty learns trustees well schooled in art of retribution
It is much like the gammadion cross that has been around for centuries that's also known as a swastika. You see one and likely think of Nazi ... «Manteca Bulletin, Jan 15»
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English Is Seldom at a Loss for Words
But how many know it's also called a gammadion, fylfot, or crux gammata? Or that for the medical symbol called a caduceus (a winged staff with ... «Huffington Post, Dec 14»
7
Xenophobia still haunting Germany
... the demonstrators wave flags, fliers and placards painted with Nazi emblems — swastikas (i.e. the gammadion cross) — and call themselves ... «Daily Times, Dec 14»
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Swastikas painted on Kingston Medical Centre and Boots store in Hull
... as follows: The swastika (also known as the gammadion cross or cross ... The older term gammadion cross derives from its appearance, ... «Hull Daily Mail, Nov 14»
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Gunplay Releases NO DJ Version of "Gunplay"
The older term gammadion cross derives from its appearance, which is identical to four Greek gamma letters affixed to each other. Its use in ... «Rhyme Junkie, Nov 14»
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Everything's About Gunplay On Self Titled Mixtape From MMG
The older term gammadion cross derives from its appearance, which is identical to four Greek gamma letters affixed to each other. Its use in ... «Rhyme Junkie, Oct 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Gammadion [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gammadion>. Apr 2024 ».
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