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roʊˈzɛt əroset·ta

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  1. rosettanoun

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  1. Rosetta

    Rosetta ( roh-ZET-ə) or Rashid (Arabic: رشيد, romanized: Rašīd, IPA: [ɾɑˈʃiːd]; Coptic: ϯⲣⲁϣⲓⲧ, romanized: ti-Rashit) is a port city of the Nile Delta, 65 km (40 mi) east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate. The Rosetta Stone was discovered there in 1799. Founded around the 9th century on site of the ancient town Bolbitine, Rosetta boomed with the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, only to wane in importance after Alexandria's revival. During the 19th century, it was a popular British tourist destination, known for its Ottoman mansions, citrus groves and relative cleanliness.

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  1. Rosetta

    Rosetta is a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt. It is located 65 km east of Alexandria, in Beheira governorate. It was founded around 800 AD. With the decline of Alexandria following the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, Rashid boomed, only to wane in importance after Alexandria's revival. During the 19th century it was a popular British tourist destination, known for its charming Ottoman mansions, citrus groves and cleanliness. The town of Rashid came to be known in the West as Rosette, the name by which it was referred to by the French during Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt. Rosetta gave its name to the Rosetta Stone which was found by French soldiers at the nearby Fort Julien in 1799.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Rosetta

    a town on the left branch of the delta of the Nile, 44 m. NE. of Alexandria, famous for the discovery near it by M. Boussard, in 1799, of the Rosetta stone with inscriptions in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, and by the help of which archæologists have been able to interpret the hieroglyphics of Egypt.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. rosetta

    A seaport city of Egypt, near the mouth of a branch of the Nile. It was built by one of the Saracen caliphs in the 9th century. In 1798 this place was taken by the French, and in 1807 it was besieged by the British, who were repulsed by the Turks. The battle of the Nile was fought near Rosetta, August 1, 1798.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ROSETTA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rosetta is ranked #39960 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rosetta surname appeared 549 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rosetta.

    59.7% or 328 total occurrences were White.
    26.9% or 148 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    7.6% or 42 total occurrences were Black.
    4.3% or 24 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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  1. rotates

  2. toaster

  3. retoast

  4. stoater

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rosetta in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rosetta in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Rosetta in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Howell:

    The term Rosetta Stone is used too often as an analogy when we find a new astrophysical object, but in this case I think it is fitting, this supernova is literally helping us decode thousand-year-old records from cultures all over the world.

  2. European Space Agency officials:

    The data acquired during Rosetta's close flyby will provide incredible new details of the comet's surface and near-coma environment, complementing that collected earlier in the mission while on bound orbits.

  3. Steve Brusatte:

    [The back end of the skull] turned out to be the Rosetta stone, it's a very complex part of the anatomy that we can easily compare to a lot of other dinosaurs, and that's what told us we definitely had a tyrannosaur, that it was a new species, and that it was only about the size of a horse.

  4. Professor Lattanzio:

    These include the detection of biologically relevant molecules in interstellar clouds and comets, mid-infrared spectra of interstellar grains and the dust from comets, a diverse set of data from comets including the Rosetta mission showing consistency with biology and the frequency of Earth-like or habitable planets in the Galaxy.

  5. Patrick Martin:

    This time, as we're riding along next to the comet, the most logical way to end the mission is to set Rosetta down on the surface, but there is still a lot to do to confirm that this end-of-mission scenario is possible. We'll first have to see what the status of the spacecraft is after perihelion and how well it is performing close to the comet, and later we will have to try and determine where on the surface we can have a touchdown.

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