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PRONUNCIATION OF SHAPLEY

Shapley  [ˈʃæplɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHAPLEY

noun
adjective
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conjunction
determiner
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Shapley 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 SHAPLEY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Shapley in the English dictionary

The definition of Shapley in the dictionary is Harlow. 1885–1972, US astronomer, director of the Harvard College Observatory : noted for his work on the size and structure of the galaxy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHAPLEY


amply
ˈæmplɪ
appley
ˈæplɪ
cheaply
ˈtʃiːplɪ
Copley
ˈkɒplɪ
crisply
ˈkrɪsplɪ
damply
ˈdæmplɪ
deeply
ˈdiːplɪ
dimply
ˈdɪmplɪ
haply
ˈhæplɪ
limply
ˈlɪmplɪ
panoply
ˈpænəplɪ
pimply
ˈpɪmplɪ
ripely
ˈraɪplɪ
Ripley
ˈrɪplɪ
shapely
ˈʃeɪplɪ
sharply
ˈʃɑːplɪ
Shipley
ˈʃɪplɪ
simply
ˈsɪmplɪ
steeply
ˈstiːplɪ
triply
ˈtrɪplɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHAPLEY

Shanxi
shapable
shape
shape up
shapeable
shapeless
shapelessly
shapelessness
shapelier
shapeliest
shapeliness
shapely
shapen
shaper
shapeup
shapewear
Shapiro
shaps
Shar Pei

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHAPLEY

alley
Ashley
bailey
Bentley
Berkeley
Bradley
Haley
Harley
hurley
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Marley
medley
Oakley
Riley
smiley
Stanley
the life of Riley
trolley
valley
Wesley

Synonyms and antonyms of Shapley in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Shapley» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHAPLEY

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沙普利
1,325 millions of speakers

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Shapley
570 millions of speakers

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Shapley
510 millions of speakers

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Shapley
380 millions of speakers
ar

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شابلي
280 millions of speakers

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Шепли
278 millions of speakers

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Shapley
270 millions of speakers

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Shapley
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Shapley
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Shapley
190 millions of speakers

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Shapley
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シャプレー
130 millions of speakers

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샤플리
85 millions of speakers

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Shapley
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Shapley
80 millions of speakers

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ஷேப்லி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेपली
75 millions of speakers

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Shapley
70 millions of speakers

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Shapley
65 millions of speakers

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Shapley
50 millions of speakers

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Шеплі
40 millions of speakers

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Shapley
30 millions of speakers
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Shapley
15 millions of speakers
af

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Shapley
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Shapley
10 millions of speakers
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Shapley
5 millions of speakers

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHAPLEY»

Discover the use of Shapley in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Shapley and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley
Composed in honour of the sixty-fifth birthday of Lloyd Shapley, this volume makes accessible the large body of work that has grown out of Shapley's seminal 1953 paper. Each of the twenty essays concerns some aspect of the Shapley value.
Alvin E. Roth, 1988
2
Interprocess Communications in Linux
The "definitive" guide to Linux processes and IPC for programmers and system administratorsPipes, message queues, semaphores, shared memory, RPC, sockets, the /proc filesystem, and much moreIn-depth coverage of multithreading with POSIX ...
John Shapley Gray, 2003
3
Broadcasting a life: the autobiography of Olive Shapley
Olive Shapley was one of the most imaginative and creative documentary radio producers in British broadcasting.
Olive Shapley, Christina Hart, 1996
4
Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara
This is the first major biography, & only complete history, of this enigmatic man who has been a towering figure of the 20th century.
Deborah Shapley, 1993
5
The Three Shapley Pigs
This story is about how to make a house out of a square, a circle, and a triangle.
Linda Johns, 2004
6
The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy
In 1 9 1 8 Shapley proposed his new model of the Galaxy (Chapter 12), a model which abscribed truly enormous dimensions to the Milky Way system. To Shapley , the gigantic size of our Galaxy seemed to make it unlikely that the spiral ...
Frank H. Shu, 1982
7
Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979
For an outline of the proposed volume, see the fourteen-page typescript "Stellar Variability, by Boris P. Gerasimovic and Cecilia H. Payne," Shapley Directorial Papers, HUA. On Gerasimovic, see P. G. Kulikovsky, "Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich ...
Pnina G. Abir-Am, Dorinda Outram, 1987
8
Economic Thinkers: A Biographical Encyclopedia: A ...
veteran, Shapley is known for many mathematical economics and game-theory theorems that bear his name: Bondareva-Shapley theorem, Shapley value, Shapley-Folkman theorem, Gale-Shapley algorithm, and the Shapley-Shubik power ...
David A. Dieterle, 2013
9
The Art and Science of Negotiation
Another so-called fair solution for this negotiation exercise is known extensively in the literature as the Shapley Value, after game theorist Lloyd Shapley. Consider a hypothetical model of the dynamics of coalition formation in which one player ...
Howard Raiffa, 1982
10
Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Routledge Revivals): Historical, ...
(In fact, our galaxy is unusually large, but there was no independent evidence then to overthrow Shapley's presumption of uniformity.) Next, Shapley argued that if the spiral nebula Ml01 was even one-fifth as large as the newly estimated value ...
Norriss S. Hetherington, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHAPLEY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Shapley is used in the context of the following news items.
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Space map that reveals our place in the universe may be about to …
The Shapley Supercluster was discovered in the 1930s by American astronomer Harlow Shapley, as a remarkable concentration of galaxies in the Centaurus ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
2
State Auditor 'puzzled' by federal probe
Instead, Kelley, 50, sent out spokesman Thomas Shapley to tell reporters that Kelley would not meet with them, to answer questions, and to pass out a written ... «Crosscut, Mar 15»
3
Federal Agents Search Washington State Auditor's Home …
Thomas Shapley, a spokesperson for the state auditor's office, said the subpoena of the office was served March 6. The U.S. Attorney's office in Seattle says it is ... «KUOW News and Information, Mar 15»
4
The Great Debate over whether the universe is small or large
It is often known as the Shapley-Curtis debate, so named after Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, and a public debate they had in 1920. Shapley, you may ... «Phys.Org, Sep 14»
5
No South Wales Police misconduct over prison death of Christopher …
Mr Shapley, aged 43, was arrested by officers at his home in Aberdare on September 17 2013, following an argument with his mother. He was taken to the ... «Southwales Evening Post, Jul 14»
6
What Is The Great Attractor?
A March 2013 picture of the Shapley Supercluster from the European Space ... The Shapley Supercluster is, in fact, the most massive galaxy cluster within a ... «Universe Today, Jul 14»
7
The world's most popular sport is terrible at statistics
Instead, he offers up as a more useful predictor the Shapley value, an economic concept used in game theory to determine each team member's contribution to ... «Quartz, May 14»
8
Fruit and veg seller found hanged while in custody at Cardiff prison …
Wife Karen Shapely and mother, Barbara told from the witness box that Mr Shapley had began to drink heavily from around September 2012. After the ... «WalesOnline, Mar 14»
9
Largest Structures in the Universe Reveal a Mystery --"An Unseen …
Several hundred galaxies and the huge amounts of gas that permeate them are shown in the image above of the core of the Shapley Supercluster, the largest ... «The Daily Galaxy, Oct 13»
10
Telescopio capta imagen del supercúmulo de Shapley
Esta estructura tiene más de 8.000 galaxias y su masa total equivale a más de diez mil billones de veces la de nuestro Sol. «Latercera, Oct 13»

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