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ACS

"ACS" is a plural of: ac.

"ACS" is a common misspelling or typo for: ace, aces, act, acts, ads, arcs, as, sacs.


Specialty Definition: ACS

DomainDefinition

Agriculture

Alternative conservation system. (references)

Census

(Automated Control System) An interactive computer system established by Services Division to manage the check-in and flow of questionnaires associated with the Monthly and Annual Business Sample Revision. See also BSR (Business Sample Revision). (references)

Shipping

U.S. Customs' master computer system, "Automated Commercial Systems." (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: ACS

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

ACS is a TLA that may stand for:

ACS is the stock symbol for Affiliated Computer Services Inc.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ACS."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ACS

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ACS

DutchGeavanceerd cellulair systeemPost & Telecom

ACS

EnglishAcceptance and Certification SpecificationN/A

ACS

FrenchAssociation Cinématographique SuisseFine Arts, Sports & Leisure

ACS

Greekυπηρεσία ελέγχου συσχέτισηςComputing

ACS

PortugueseServiço de controlo de associaçãoComputing

ACS

SwedishAssociationsstyrd tjänstN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: ACS

Synonyms by domain: Acceptance and Certification Specification (finance), Adjacent channel selectivity (computing), Admiralty Computing Service, advanced cellular system (post & telecom), Advanced Communication System (computing), advanced connectivity system, Alternating Current Synthesis (electrical engineering), Analog control system (computing), Annealed Copper-covered Steel (metallurgy), Applied Computer Sciences (computing), assembly for construction site (electrical engineeringbuilding & civil engineering), associate clinical scientist (chemical industry, medicine), association control service (computing), Association of Caribbean States (economics), Association of Commonwealth Students (education), attitude control system (electrical engineering, transportation), Australian Commodity Statistics (statistics), Australian Container Service (transportation), automated confirmation service (computing, finance), flight control system (electrical engineering, transportation), reaction control system.

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Crosswords: ACS

Specialty definitions using "ACS": ACS Coverage ProgramConfidence interval, control wordEstimatesHispanic or Latino originSpanish/Hispanic/Latino. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ACS

DomainTitle

References

  • ACS, Actividades de Construccion y Servicios, S.A.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Diuretic agents : based on a symposium sponsored by the ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry at the 174th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 29, 1977 (reference)

  • Fate of Chemicals in the Environment: Compartmental Modeling for Predictions: Based on a Symposium Sponsored by the Acs Division of Pesticide Chemi (reference)

  • Catalytic Aspects of Metal Phosphine Complexes: Based on a Symposium Sponsored by the Acs and Cic Divisions of Inorganic Chemistry at the 1980 Bienn (reference)

  • Carbohydrate sulfates : a symposium sponsored by the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry at the 174th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 30-31, 1977 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ACS

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

In the Framingham and ACS studies, the increase in excess mortality with increasing degrees of overweight was present in both smokers and nonsmokers. (references)

Trade

Australia

ACS issues Export Clearance Numbers, based on export data lodged by exporters, which are checked electronically against required permits and licenses. (references)

Travel

Israel

The after hours number is: 519 7551. The fax number is 972-3-516 0315. The e-mail address is acs.amcit-telaviv@dos.us-state.gov. (references)

Korea

Recorded information on passport, notarial and other ACS services is available 24 hours a day at 397-4603/4604. On-line information is also available at: www.asktheconsul.org Our website includes information for American citizens about renewing passports, registering with the Embassy, notarials, voting and other services we provide. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ACS

"ACS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACS" is used about 20 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%2078,262

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ACS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ACS": pag-acs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

acs

1,802

acs technology

18

acs education.com

176

acs gcro.com

18

acs loan student

148

acs att partner

16

acs inc.com

110

acs yellow page

15

acs inc

87

acs services

13

acs loan

66

acs local office

13

avaya acs

63

acs publication

12

acs alaska

57

acs headset phone

12

partner acs

51

acs care health state

12

acs wireless

51

turbo acs

12

acs education

47

acs exam

11

acs education services

46

acs infobank

10

acs i

43

acs educational services

10

acs defense

38

acs world

10

acs partner t

34

acs alaska contract state telecommunication

10

acs local solution state

31

acs system

10

acs industry

28

acs webmail.ucsd.edu

9

acs dataline

28

acs afsa

9

acs e

27

acs file

9

sms acs

20

acs internet

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: ACS

Derivations

Words ending with "ACS": algolagniacs, almanacs, ammoniacs, amnesiacs, amtracs, anaphrodisiacs, antiaphrodisiacs, aphasiacs, aphrodisiacs, armagnacs, bibliomaniacs, bivouacs, brainiacs, calpacs, cardiacs, celeriacs, celiacs, champacs, cognacs, coprophiliacs, corsacs, demoniacs, dipsomaniacs, egomaniacs, elegiacs, galyacs, guaiacs, hemophiliacs, hypochondriacs, insomniacs, ipecacs, kleptomaniacs, lacs, lilacs, linacs, macs, maniacs, medevacs, megalomaniacs, melancholiacs, monomaniacs, muntjacs, mythomaniacs, necrophiliacs, neophiliacs, nymphomaniacs, oomiacs, ovisacs, pacs, paranoiacs, pyromaniacs. (additional references)

Words containing "ACS": facsimile, facsimiles, telefacsimile, telefacsimiles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ACS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sac.

Words within the letters "a-c-s"

-1 letter: as.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-s"
 

+1 letter: aces, acts, arcs, asci, cabs, cads, cams, cans, caps, cars, casa, case, cash, cask, cast, cats, caws, cays, lacs, macs, ocas, pacs, sack, sacs, scab, scad, scag, scam, scan, scar, scat, vacs.

 

+2 letters: aches, acids, acmes, acnes, acres, acyls, alecs, arcus, ascot, ascus, asdic, aspic, backs, basic, cacas, cades, cadis, cafes, caffs, cages, caids, cains, cakes, calfs, calks, calls, calms, calos, camas, cames, camps, canes, canso, canst, cants, capes, caphs, capos, carbs, cards, cares, carks, carls, carns, carps, carrs, carse, carts, casas, cased, cases, casks, casky, caste, casts, casus, cates, cauls, cause, caves, cease, cesta, chads, chams, chaos, chaps, chars, chase, chasm, chats, chaws, chays, chias, clads, clags, clams, clans, claps, clash, clasp, class, clast, claws, clays, coals, coast, coats, cocas, codas, colas, comas, costa, crabs, crags, crams, craps, crash, crass, craws, cyans, cycas, cymas, czars, daces, escar, faces, facts, hacks, jacks, laces, lacks, laics, maces, machs, macks, marcs, micas, musca, narcs, orcas, pacas, paces, packs, pacts, picas, races, racks, sacks, sacra, saice, salic, sauce, sauch, saucy, scabs, scads, scags, scald, scale, scall, scalp, scaly, scamp, scams, scans, scant, scape, scare, scarf, scarp, scars, scart, scary, scats, scatt, scaup, scaur, scena, schav, schwa, scrag, scram, scrap, scuba, scuta, serac, shack, slack, smack, snack, space, spacy, spica, stack, sumac, taces, tachs, tacks, tacos, tacts, talcs, wacks, yacks, yucas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ACS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 43 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

353753

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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