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Princeton's WordNet
aspernoun
20 aspers equal 1 kurus in Turkey
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
ASPERadjective
Rough; rugged. This word I have found only in the following passage.
Etymology: Lat.
All base notes, or very treble notes, give an asper sound; for that the base striketh more air than it can well strike equally. Francis Bacon.
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asper
Asper is a term used in the world of finance referring to the small copper coin used in the Ottoman Empire. The term can also pertain to a unit of currency that was used in modern Turkey before the introduction of the kurus. However, in the context of botany or plant science, Asper is a former taxonomic genus within the Pucciniaceae family of fungus. Species previously classified under this genus are mostly plant rust known to cause diseases to many types of plants. Please note that the context in which the term is being used would determine its exact meaning.
Webster Dictionary
Asperadjective
rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce
Aspernoun
the rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r
Aspernoun
a Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster
Etymology: [OE. aspre, OF. aspre, F. pre, fr. L. asper rough.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Asper
as′pėr, n. a small silver Turkish coin.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
asper
A minute Turkish coin in accounts, of which three go to a para.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
ASPER
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Asper is ranked #25226 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Asper surname appeared 982 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Asper.
90% or 884 total occurrences were White.
3.2% or 32 total occurrences were Asian.
3.2% or 32 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.7% or 17 total occurrences were Black.
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spaer
parse
spare
prase
spear
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Asper in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Asper in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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