Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 5 compound words that contain robinson. The most common are listed below. Open robinson in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- Mrs. RobinsonAn older woman who seduces a younger man.
- Robinson MillA census-designated place in Butte County, California, United States.
- Robinson CrusoeA fictional castaway.
- Heath RobinsonAnything ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.
- Robinson projectionA map projection that is neither equal-area nor conformal, designed as a compromise to show the entire world as a flat image.
- Fransén-Robinson constantThe numeric value of the integral over the positive real numbers of the reciprocal of the gamma function, F=∫₀ ᪲1/(Γ(x))dx=2.8077702420285....
- Robinson Crusoe IslandThe second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands.
- Robinson arithmeticA finitely axiomatized fragment of first-order Peano arithmetic, lacking the axiom schema of mathematical induction.
- before you can say Jack RobinsonVery quickly; quicker than one expects.
- Robinson-Schensted correspondenceA bijective correspondence between permutations and pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. It has applications in combinatorics and other areas.
- Robinson projectionsplural of Robinson projection: A map projection that is neither equal-area nor conformal, designed as a compromise to show the entire world as a flat image.
- Robinson-Schensted correspondencesplural of Robinson-Schensted correspondence: A bijective correspondence between permutations and pairs of standard Young tableaux of the same shape. It has applications in combinatorics and other areas.
Compound words 5
- robinsonadeA genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.
- RobinsonianSuggestive of the fictional Robinson Crusoe, a resourceful castaway on a desert island.
- georgerobinsoniteA bright orange-red lead chromate mineral with the chemical formula Pb₄(CrO₄)₂(OH)₂FCl.
- RobinsonesqueSuggestive of the fictional Robinson Crusoe, a resourceful castaway on a desert island.
- robinsonadesplural of robinsonade: A genre of adventure fiction where a hero is stranded alone on a desert island and has to survive with their own wits.