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Date "OC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Oc |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
OC | Dutch | Oppervlakte cultuurgrond | European Union |
OC | English | Oil Cooler | N/A |
OC | French | Organisme de certification | N/A |
OC | German | Operations-Charakteristik | Business |
OC | Spanish | Ondas decamétricas | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: OC |
| English words defined with "OC": One-valued function. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "OC": Brix ♦ coagulante quÃmico ♦ Directed Oc, dry extract ♦ pearl wine., perl wine, petillant wine. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "OC" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (their, theirs). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Bioterrorism Preparedness Press Briefing, August 27, 2002. Moderator: Lisa Swenarski, OC. Credit: CDC. | |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "OC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 59.09% of the time. "OC" is used about 22 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) | 59.09% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Unclassified Items | 18.18% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 13.64% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "OC": directed Oc. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "OC": OC-12, OC-3, OC-48, OC-n. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
oc register | 981 | oc spray | 27 |
oc transpo | 350 | mortgage oc | 25 |
oc | 308 | oc att | 24 |
oc weekly | 183 | cox.com oc | 22 |
fair oc | 88 | oc system | 22 |
oc tanner | 43 | oc performing arts center | 22 |
oc remix | 43 | chopper oc | 21 |
fox oc | 43 | oc welch | 20 |
oc register.com | 43 | oc restaurant | 20 |
oc sheriff | 42 | maryland oc | 19 |
auto oc trader | 42 | oc ottawa transpo | 19 |
oc now | 40 | exotics oc | 19 |
the oc supertones | 35 | oc 12 | 18 |
oc 192 | 35 | oc ocean | 18 |
md oc | 33 | oc 48 | 17 |
oc job | 32 | oc rental | 17 |
review oc | 31 | oc news | 15 |
escort oc | 30 | oc performing arts | 14 |
oc 3 | 28 | oc recycler | 14 |
finder job oc | 28 | boardwalk cam oc | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "OC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | fin,lamellar perlit,hvor karbidlamellerne findes som korte,ofte bugtede,uregelmaessigt fordelte stave (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short), det som kedelstaal velegnede manganstaal bliver foer anvendelsen normaliseret ved 880 grader til 910 grader C og spaendingsfrigloedet mellem 530 grader og 620 grader C (is normalized industrially at 880 to 9l0 C and is then stress relieved between 550 and 620 oC, suitable for boiler plates, them manganese steel), den homogene kimdannelse kraever en underafkoeling paa mere end 100 grader C (homogeneous germination necessitates a degree of supercooling greater than l00 oC). (various references) | |
Dutch | homogene kiemvorming heeft een onderkoeling nodig van meer dan 100 C (homogeneous germination necessitates a degree of supercooling greater than l00 oC), het voor ketelplaat geschikte mangaanstaal wordt voor industriële toepassingen bij 880 tot 910 C normaalgegloeid en wordt daarna spanningsarmgegloeid tussen 550 en 620 C (is normalized industrially at 880 to 9l0 C and is then stress relieved between 550 and 620 oC, suitable for boiler plates, them manganese steel), fijn lamellair perliet waarin lamellaire carbiden als korte,vaak gebroken lamellen onregelmatig verdeeld voorkomen (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short). (various references) | |
French | une perlite lamellaire fine, les lamelles de carbure en sont courtes, souvent incurvées et disposées irrégulièrement (in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short), la germination homogène exige une température de surfusion supérieure l00 oC (homogeneous germination necessitates a degree of supercooling greater than l00 oC), dans la pratique industrielle, l'acier au manganèse destiné la fabrication de tôles pour chaudières, est soumis une normalisation entre 880 et 910 oC et un recuit de détente entre 500 et 620 oC (is normalized industrially at 880 to 9l0 C and is then stress relieved between 550 and 620 oC). (various references) | |
German | feinstreifiger Perlit, bei dem die Karbidlamellen kurz, oft gewunden und unregelmaessig angeordnet sind (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short), die homogene Keimbildung erfordert eine Unterkuehlung von mehr als l00 oC (homogeneous germination necessitates a degree of supercooling greater than l00 oC), der fuer Kesselbleche geeignete Mangan-Stahl wird fuer die technische Verwendung bei 880 bis 910 c normalgeglueht und erhaelt eine Spannungsfreigluehung zwischen 550 und 620 oC (is normalized industrially at 880 to 9l0 C and is then stress relieved between 550 and 620 oC, suitable for boiler plates, them manganese steel). (various references) | |
Greek | στην βιομηχανία,ο μαγγανιούχος χάλυβας,χρήσιμος στην κατασκευή ελασμάτων για λέβητες,υφίσταται εξομάλυνση μεταξύ 880° και 910° C και αποτατι (is normalized industrially at 880 to 9l0 C and is then stress relieved between 550 and 620 oC, suitable for boiler plates, them manganese steel), η ομοιογενής πυρηνοποίηση απαιτεί θερμοκρασία υπέρτηξης ανώτερη των 100° C (homogeneous germination necessitates a degree of supercooling greater than l00 oC), λεπτομερής φυλλοειδής περλίτης εντός του οποίου τα φυλλίδια καρβιδίου είναι μικρού μήκους,τεθλασμένα και διευθετημένα ακανόνιστα (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short). (various references) | |
Italian | perlite a lamelle fini in cui le lamelle di carburo sono corte, spesso incurvate e disposte irregolarmente (broken and irregular rods, fine lamellar pearlite, in which the carbide lamellae oc cur as short), per l'impiego industriale l'acciaio al manganese destinato a lamiere di caldaie viene normalizzato tra 880 e 910C e disteso tra 550 e 620C (is normalized industrially at 880 to 9l0 C and is then stress relieved between 550 and 620 oC, suitable for boiler plates, them manganese steel), La nucleazione omogenea richiede un sottoraffreddamento di oltre100.deg.C (homogeneous germination necessitates a degree of supercooling greater than l00 oC). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | a germinação homogénea exige uma temperatura de sobrefusão superior a 100 graus C (homogeneous germination necessitates a degree of supercooling greater than l00 oC). (various references) | |
Russian | океан (deep, oc ocean, ocean). (various references) | |
Spanish | jefe (bellwether, boss, chef, chief, chieftain, foreman, guv, head, headman, leader, manager, master, minister, officer, president, scoutmaster, superior). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OC": oca, ocarina, ocarinas, ocas, occasion, occasional, occasionally, occasioned, occasioning, occasions, occident, occidental, occidentalize, occidentalized, occidentalizes, occidentalizing, occidentally, occidents, occipita, occipital, occipitally, occipitals, occiput, occiputs, occlude, occluded, occludes, occluding, occlusal, occlusion, occlusions, occlusive, occult, occultation, occultations, occulted, occulter, occulters, occulting, occultism, occultisms, occultist, occultists, occultly, occults, occupancies, occupancy, occupant, occupants, occupation, occupational. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "OC": bloc, croc, doc, duroc, floc, havoc, manioc, moc, nostoc, postdoc, roc, taroc, tictoc. (additional references) | |
Words containing "OC": acanthocephalan, acanthocephalans, acock, acrocentric, acrocentrics, adenocarcinoma, adenocarcinomas, adenocarcinomata, adenocarcinomatous, adipocyte, adipocytes, adrenochrome, adrenochromes, adrenocortical, adrenocorticosteroid, adrenocorticosteroids, adrenocorticotrophic, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotrophins, adrenocorticotropic, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotropins, advocacies, advocacy, advocate, advocated, advocates, advocating, advocation, advocations, advocative, advocator, advocators, aftershock, aftershocks, agalloch, agallochs, agranulocyte, agranulocytes, agranulocytoses, agranulocytosis, agrochemical, agrochemicals, allocable, allocatable, allocate, allocated, allocates, allocating, allocation, allocations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o" | |
+1 letter: cob, cod, cog, col, con, coo, cop, cor, cos, cot, cow, cox, coy, coz, doc, moc, oca, orc, roc. | |
+2 letters: arco, bloc, bock, calo, capo, cero, chao, chon, chop, chow, ciao, cion, clod, clog, clon, clop, clot, cloy, coal, coat, coax, cobb, cobs, coca, coco, coda, code, cods, coed, coff, coft, cogs, coho, coif, coil, coin, coir, coke, cola, cold, cole, cols, colt, coly, coma, comb, come, comp, cone, coni, conk, conn, cons, cony, coof, cook, cool, coon, coop, coos, coot, cope, cops, copy, cord, core, corf, cork, corm, corn, cors, cory, cosh, coss, cost, cosy, cote, cots, coup, cove, cowl, cows, cowy, coxa, coys, cozy, croc, crop, crow, deco, dock, docs, echo, fico, floc, foci, hock, icon, jock, loca, loch, loci, lock, loco, mock, mocs, nock, ocas, odic, once, orca, orcs, otic, ouch, pock, poco, rock, rocs, scop, scot, scow, sock, taco, torc, unco, yock, zoic. | |
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