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"MCS" is a plural of: mc. |
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Computing | MCS Meta Class System. A portable object-oriented extension of Common Lisp from GMD. It integrates the functionality of CLOS and TELOS. (ftp://gmdzi.gmd.de/pub/lisp/mcs) (1994-10-21). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Weather | Mesoscale Convective System. A complex of thunderstorms which becomes organized on a scale larger than the individual thunderstorms, and normally persists for several hours or more. MCSs may be round or linear in shape, and include systems such as tropical cyclones, squall lines, and MCCs (among others). MCS often is used to describe a cluster of thunderstorms that does not satisfy the size, shape, or duration criteria of an MCC. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MCS | English | Mechanical Cultivation Services | N/A |
MCS | French | Matrice des comptes sociaux | Statistics |
MCS | Italian | Meccanismo complementare applicabile agli scambi | Business, Economics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: MCS |
| Specialty definitions using "MCS": Anvil Crawler ♦ Derecho ♦ ISETL ♦ MCC ♦ TLAs. (references) |
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Lyrics | But I'm the grandmaster with the three MCs ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) So the sucker MCs can bite all night ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) So when the sucker MCs try to chump my style ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) With the sureshot MCs for the affair. ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
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| "MCS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MCS" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Germany | MCS Modulare Computer and Software Systeme AG (MCS) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-m-s" | |
+1 letter: cams, cwms, macs, mocs, scam, scum. | |
+2 letters: acmes, calms, camas, cames, camps, chams, chasm, chums, clams, comas, combs, comes, comps, corms, crams, culms, cymas, cymes, maces, machs, macks, marcs, mesic, micas, micks, mocks, mucks, mucus, musca, music, osmic, scamp, scams, schmo, scram, scrim, scrum, scums, smack, smock, sumac. | |
+3 letters: amices, amicus, amucks, camass, camels, cameos, camisa, camise, campos, campus, caroms, celoms, cesium, champs, charms, chasms, chasmy, chemos, chiasm, chimbs, chimes, chimps, chirms, chomps, chrism, chumps, chymes, civism, claims, clamps, climbs, climes, clomps, clumps, clumsy, combes, combos, comers, comets, comics, commas, comose, comous, compos, compts, comtes, coombs, cosmic, cosmos, cramps, creams, cremes, crimes, crimps, crumbs, crumps, cubism, cumins, custom, cymars, cymols, cymose, cymous, emcees, locums, macaws, macers, maches, machos, macles, macons, macros, magics, manics, mascon, mascot, mastic, meccas, medics, mensch, mescal, miches, micros, mimics, minces, misact, miscue, miscut, mochas, mosaic, muches, mucins, mucors, mucosa, mucose, mucous, mucros, mulcts, muscae, muscat, muscid, muscle, muscly, musics, mystic, osmics, racism, sachem, sacrum, samech, scampi, scamps, schema, scheme, schism, schmoe, schmos, scrams, scream, scrimp, scrims, scrums, scummy, scutum, shmuck, sitcom, smacks, smirch, smocks, smooch, smutch, socman, socmen, sumach, sumacs, syncom, umiacs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 43 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- -.-. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M C S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0043 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)473753 |
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