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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 |
AOC | English | Anodal opening contraction | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AOC |
| Specialty definitions using "AOC": dry lease, dry leasing. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The air force has long planned to establish a modern, fully integrated, and centralized air operations center (AOC) at Bangkok's Don Muang Air Force Base. The RTAF is interested in putting together a package deal that would address all the AOC's procurement needs, including radar systems, command-and-control computer systems, and ground radio systems. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | The prospects now appear to have improved as, given the difficulties, the Ministry of Science and Technology has allowed the companies to fulfill their broadband access compromises with the support of other technologies such as LMDS. One of the leading consortia, ONO, together with the AOC (Agrupacion de Operadores de Cable - Cable Operators) have plans to invest USD 6.4 billion within the next ten years. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AOC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "AOC" is used about 35 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) | 80% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.14% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
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 |
aoc monitor | 123 |
aoc camembert de normandie | 2 |
aoc bourgeois classement cru medoc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "AOC": contraoctave, contraoctaves, intraocular, intraocularly, subcontraoctave, subcontraoctaves. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oca. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-o" | |
+1 letter: arco, calo, capo, chao, ciao, coal, coat, coax, coca, coda, cola, coma, coxa, loca, ocas, orca, taco. | |
+2 letters: achoo, acock, acold, acorn, actor, ancon, ascot, azoic, bacon, banco, cabob, cacao, cahow, cajon, calos, cameo, campo, canoe, canon, canso, canto, capon, capos, carbo, cargo, carob, carol, carom, chaos, chiao, claro, cloak, coach, coact, coala, coals, coaly, coapt, coast, coati, coats, cobia, cobra, cocas, cocoa, codas, colas, colza, comae, comal, comas, comma, conga, copal, copra, coral, coria, costa, cotan, cotta, coxae, coxal, croak, cyano, focal, guaco, havoc, loach, local, macho, macon, macro, mocha, nacho, narco, ocean, ocrea, octad, octal, octan, orach, orcas, poach, racon, roach, tacos, taroc, vocal, wacko. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4F 43 |
| 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)01000001 01001111 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A O C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004F 0043 |
| 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)354937 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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