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- US Pronunciation
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- [vuhl-kuh n]
- /ˈvʌl kən/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [vuhl-kuh n]
- /ˈvʌl kən/
Definitions of vulcan word
- noun vulcan the ancient Roman god of fire and metalworking, identified with the Greek Hephaestus. 1
- noun vulcan Military. a six-barrel, 20mm U.S. Army antiaircraft gun system mounted on an armored personnel carrier and first deployed in 1968. 1
- noun vulcan Astronomy. a hypothetical planet nearest the sun whose existence was erroneously postulated to account for perturbations in Mercury's orbit. 1
- noun Definition of vulcan in Technology 1. (database) A version of JPLDIS ported to CP/M by Wayne Ratliff around 1980. VULCAN evolved into dBASE II. 2. (database) The dBASE-like interpreter and compiler sold by RSPI with their Emerald Bay product. [Same as 1?] 3. (language) An early string manipulation language. 4. (language) A concurrent object-oriented logic programming language implemented as a preprocessor for FCP by Kahn et al at Xerox PARC. 1
- noun vulcan the Roman god of fire and metalworking 0
- noun vulcan a hypothetical planet once thought to lie within the orbit of Mercury 0
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Origin of vulcan
First appearance:
before 1505 One of the 26% oldest English words
First recorded in 1505-15, Vulcan is from the Latin word Vulcānus
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Vulcan
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
vulcan popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
vulcan usage trend in Literature
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