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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ACIS |
Literature | Acis The son of Faunus, in love with Galatea. Polyphemos, his rival, crushed him under a huge rock. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ovid, Metamorphoses XIII, 750-68
Acis is also a 3D solid modeler from Spatial Corp. See ACIS.ACIS stands for Andy, Charles, Ian's System. It is a solid modelling geometric engine that most CAD packages now use. ACIS uses a sophisticated object-oriented approach for modelling, the data is stored in boundary representation. Acis is owned by Spatial Technologies.
This article was originally based on content from FOLDOC used with permission. Update as needed. Acis was also a character in Greek mythology. See Acis
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Acis."
Date "ACIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: ACIS |
| Specialty definitions using "ACIS": Galate'a ♦ POP3 ♦ Scene Painters, Spatial Technologies. (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 |
ACIS | English | American Council for International Studies | N/A |
| ACIS du col utérin | French | Adénocarcinome in situ du col utérin | Medicine |
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| "ACIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACIS" is used about 2 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 (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acis | 52 |
acis majid sheila | 4 |
acis travel | 3 |
acis sat | 3 |
acis auto cad sat | 2 |
acis galatea | 2 |
acis dan majid sheila | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ACIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | sauer (acetous, acid, acidic, acidly, acrid, cross, mad, moped, moping, off, pickled, sharp, shirty, sickly, sore, sour, soured, sourly, sulkily, sulky, tart, tartly, uptight). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | acisay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ACIS": bonacis, glacis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ACIS": antiracism, antiracisms, antiracist, antiracists, glacises, iotacism, iotacisms, ostracise, ostracised, ostracises, ostracising, ostracism, ostracisms, pharmacist, pharmacists, racism, racisms, racist, racists, supremacist, supremacists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: asci. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-s" | |
-1 letter: ais, cis, sac, sic. | |
-2 letters: ai, as, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-s" | |
+1 letter: acids, asdic, aspic, basic, cadis, caids, cains, chias, laics, micas, picas, saice, salic, spica. | |
+2 letters: acinus, actins, alcids, amices, amicus, anisic, antics, apices, asdics, aspics, attics, basics, cabins, caddis, cairds, cairns, califs, camisa, camise, canids, capias, capris, capsid, caries, caseic, casein, casing, casini, casino, casita, cassia, cassis, caulis, cavies, cavils, ceibas, cerias, chains, chairs, chaise, chiasm, chiaus, chinas, cigars, claims, coatis, cobias, crasis, crissa, crista, darics, dicast, ericas, facias, facies, fascia, fiasco, fiscal, glacis, incase, ischia, laichs, lilacs, linacs, magics, manics, mastic, misact, mosaic, nastic, nicads, ovisac, panics, phasic, rachis, racism, racist, saices, scampi, scilla, scoria, scotia, sialic, siccan, silica, social, spicae, spicas, static, ticals, triacs, umiacs, vesica, vicars, vincas. | |
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