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unusual facts about prefix



/r/

Reddit, from the "/r/" prefix appended to the names of sub-Reddits

Altweidelbach

Only since the 16th century has the municipality used the prefix Alt— (“Old”) to distinguish itself from another, nearby place called Weidelbach, itself now called Kleinweidelbach (an outlying centre of Rheinböllen).

Andis

However, if "Andes" were an Albanian name, then it is most likely to represent the Genitive case (English = "of Anda, or "belonging to Anda"; "Albanian -i Andes", with prefix "-i" diminished in the name) and not the Dative, given that names and surnames traditionally and technically represent the Genitive case, also known as Possessive case or Second case ( e.g. "O'Connor"= "of Connor", "Johnson"= "Son of John" etc.).

Area code 805

Area code 805 also serves the U.S. military facilities in Kwajalein, Republic of the Marshall Islands with a Paso Robles prefix (805-355-xxxx).

Autotransformer

The "auto" (Greek for "self") prefix refers to the single coil acting on itself and not to any kind of automatic mechanism.

Brackenfell

Currently, Brackenfell (together with Kraaifontein) uses the prefix "CFR-" in their registered motor vehicles (since approximately 2000 the prefix "CF-" which was formerly been allocated to Grahamstown has also been allocated to these suburbs)

BSA Welgun

The "Wel-" prefix to the weapon's name derives from Welwyn Garden City, near which Station IX was located.

Coleophora neolycii

The specific name is derived from the Greek prefix neo- (meaning new) and the specific name lycii, in reference to its relationship with Coleophora lycii.

FBReader

The FBReader name with the FB prefix comes from FictionBook, an e-book format which is popular in Russia, the country of FBReader's author.

Flight number

Space Shuttle launches got numbers with the prefix STS, for example, STS-93.

Geohash

Edge case locations close to each other but on opposite sides of the Equator or a meridian can result in Geohash codes with no common prefix.

George Carmichael Low

In 1907 he formed, together with James Cantlie, the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene which in 1920 was granted the Royal prefix to become the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Golf Canada

The Royal prefix was granted to the CGA in June 1896 by Queen Victoria through then Governor General of Canada, Lord Aberdeen.

Helen Wallace

--Professionally known as Helen Wallace, not Lady Wallace, and thus the prefix is correctly added--> DBE, CMG, FBA (born 25 June 1946), née Rushworth, is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress.

Her Majesty's Australian Ship

This prefix is derived from HMS (Her/His Majesty's Ship), the prefix used by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and can be equally applied to warships and shore bases (as Australia follows the British tradition of referring to naval establishments as ships or stone frigates).

Huffman coding

;Find: A prefix-free binary code (a set of codewords) with minimum expected codeword length (equivalently, a tree with minimum weighted path length from the root).

Internet-related prefixes

Robert Trappl credits William Gibson and his novel Neuromancer with triggering a "cyber- prefix flood" in the 1980s.

Irwell Vale railway station

The crossing features the original warning sign, listing a telephone number with an area code prior to the Phone Day introduction of the "01" prefix.

Jennifer Roberson

She breeds and exhibits Cardigan Welsh Corgis under the CHEYSULI kennel prefix, and creates mosaic artwork as hobbies.

Kiss Me thru the Phone

An unsuspecting family in Oldham, Greater Manchester, found themselves inundated with calls from fans in the UK who dialled the number without using the international dialling code prefix for the United States.

Kubuntu

Since ubuntu is a Bantu term translating roughly to "humanity", and since Bantu grammar involves prefixes to form noun classes, it turns out that the prefix ku- having the meaning "towards" in Bemba, kubuntu is also a meaningful Bemba word or phrase translating to "towards humanity".

Kuttyedathi Vilasini

Her portrayal of Kuttyedathi in the movie of same title, by M. T. Vasudevan Nair won her prefix for her name.

Lord British

Ultima series creator Richard Garriott acquired the nickname "British" as a teenager from friends at computer camp who claimed his first greeting to them, "hello", was distinct from the American "hi"; The "Lord" prefix was added when he played the dungeon master in Dungeons & Dragons games.

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam

Phone numbers belonging to MTNL start with the prefix 2 in fixed line telephones and WLL.

Maliakal

The prefix, Malik, retains the root meaning of "absolute ruler", in Arabic or Aramaic, hence its subsequent coinage as an alternative to a representative of Allah's keenest followers.

McDonald's legal cases

Justice David Neuberger ruled the McChina name would not cause any confusion among customers and that McDonald's had no right to the prefix Mc.

Meta

For example: the term Metatheria (the name for the clade of marsupial mammals) uses the prefix meta- merely in the sense that the Metatheria occur on the tree of life adjacent to the Theria (the placental mammals).

Moonmist

("Frob" is a word in MIT slang, and appears as a prefix for invented words throughout many of Infocom's works. Here it is most likely playing on 'Penzance Cove', the backdrop of the famous comic opera Pirates of Penzance.)

N-ary code

A prefix that indicates an integer, e.g., "bin", "tern," or "quatern", may be used in lieu of a numeral, to produce "binary", "ternary", or "quaternary" (2, 3, and 4 states respectively).

Newsarama

Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada's column "Joe Fridays" (renamed "New Joe Fridays" in 2006 as a joke regarding Marvel's penchant for relaunching titles with the prefix "new") appeared weekly until 2008, when the column moved to MySpace.

Nkisi

In its earliest attestations in Kikongo dialects in the early seventeenth century it was spelled "mokissie" (in Dutch), as the mu- prefix in this noun class were still pronounced, and was reported by Dutch visitors to Loango as referring both to a material item and the spiritual entity that inhabits it.

Octahedral molecular geometry

The octahedron has eight faces, hence the prefix octa. The octahedron is one of the Platonic solids, although octahedral molecules typically have an atom in their centre and no bonds between the ligand atoms.

Pancake sorting

The problem is notable as the only well-known mathematics paper ever written by Microsoft founder Bill Gates (as William Gates), entitled "Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal".

Punctapinella paraconchitis

The species name refers to similarity with Punctapinella conchitis plus the Latin prefix para (meaning near, close).

Rambo Rajkumar

He earned the prefix of 'Rambo' because of his style of realistic close combat scenes, which resembled Sylvester Stallone's style in the movie, Rambo.

Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes

However, the Royal Warrant Act required any organisation using the 'Royal' prefix to register with the Lord Chamberlain's Office and to desist from using the title if permission was not granted.

Royal Daffodil

SS Royal Daffodil, originally a Mersey ferry named Daffodil, gained the Royal prefix after the Zeebrugge Raid on 1918

Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand

The Royal prefix was granted in 1946, and since then the Patron of the Society has been the Governor-General of New Zealand or his wife.

Samuel Leonard Tilley

The Fathers of Confederation had been discussing what to prefix Canada with, Kingdom of Canada being Macdonald's preference.

Spahn Ranch

This number reflects the old telephone exchange name prefix system: DI is the first two letters of "Diamond," representing the numerals 3 and 4 respectively.

Sparganothina neoamoebaea

The species name refers to the habitus similarity between this species and Sparganothina amoebaea, with the Greek prefix neos (meaning new).

Tlamatini

The word is analyzable as derived from the transitive verb mati "to know" with the prefix tla- indicating an unspecified inanimate object translatable by "something" and the derivational suffix -ni meaning "a person who are characterized by ...": hence tla-mati-ni "a person who is characterized by knowing something" or more to the point "a knower".

Unsaturated hydrocarbon

Alkenes and alkynes with more than one double or triple bond respectively are named with a prefix preceding the -ene or -yne (e.g. 2,4-pentadiene).

Walther P38

Walther began manufacture at their plant in Zella-Mehlis and produced three series of "Test" pistols, designated by a "0" prefix to the serial number.

William Frederick Chambers

Ernest, the new king of Hanover, on 8 August 1837 created him KCH; but at his urgent request allowed him to decline the assumption of the ordinary prefix of knighthood.

YV

YV, the ITU prefix for Venezuela, used in amateur radio call signs and aircraft registration numbers


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