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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ADC Analog to Digital Converter. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | = analog to digital converter.Abbreviation. (references) |
Agriculture | Animal Damage Control Program. (references) |
Census | (Assistant Division Chief) An acronym used to refer to a specified position in the Census Bureau. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ADC."
| 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 |
ADC | Dutch | Analoog-digitaal-converter | Computing |
AdC | English | Address code | N/A |
AdC | French | Action de Carême | Religion & Philosophy, Social Sciences |
ADC | German | Ausgleichszahlung für Zugangsdefizit | Business, Post & Telecom |
AdC | Greek | κωδικός διεύθυνσης | Computing, Post & Telecom |
ADC | Spanish | Centro Asiático de Desarrollo | Economics, Politics & International Affaires |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ADC |
| Specialty definitions using "ADC": Alternative Measures of income, analog to digital converter, Animal Damage Control Program ♦ Public assistance or welfare payments ♦ sensitivity to propagation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ADC" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (analog-to-digital-converter). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The studies funded by the ADCS are carried out largely through the ADC clinical cores. (references) | |
Until NIA established the NACC, each ADC collected and stored its own information separately. (references) | ||
Many NIH-supported research projects depend on the ADC Program to provide access to patients and biological fluid and tissue samples. (references) | ||
Trade | Colombia | The ADC has provided direct financing to the private sector for the development of greenfield projects in various infrastructure sectors. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ADC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ADC" is used about 46 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 (proper) | 100% | 46 | 50,285 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | ADC Telecommunications Inc |
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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. |
| Language | Translations for "ADC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Poboèník (adjutant, aide de camp, galloper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | integrerende A/D-omformer (integrating ADC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | integrerende ADC (integrating ADC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | integroiva AD-muunnin (integrating ADC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | convertisseur analogique numérique intégrateur (integrating ADC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | integrierender AD-Konverter (integrating ADC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | AdC εκτροπής (divert AdC), αναλογοψηφιακός μετατροπέας ολοκλήρωσης (integrating ADC), DAdC (divert AdC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Szárnysegéd (adjutant, aide de camp, aide-de-camp, aides-de-camp, doggie), Segédtiszt (adjutant, aide, aide de camp, Ma, military assistant, personnel adjutant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | convertitore analogico-digitale integratore (integrating ADC), convertitore A/D integratore (integrating ADC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adcay conversor A/D de integração (integrating ADC). (various references) conversor A/D integrador (integrating ADC). (various references) integrerande analog-digitalomvandlare (integrating ADC). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "ADC": breadcrumb, breadcrumbs, broadcast, broadcasted, broadcaster, broadcasters, broadcasting, broadcasts, broadcloth, broadcloths, headcheese, headcheeses, headcount, headcounts, madcap, madcaps, nonbroadcast, nonbroadcasts, rebroadcast, rebroadcasting, rebroadcasts, shadchan, shadchanim, shadchans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d" | |
-1 letter: ad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d" | |
+1 letter: aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, card, chad, clad, coda, dace, scad. | |
+2 letters: ached, acids, acidy, acned, acold, acred, acrid, acted, adunc, alcid, arced, asdic, caddy, cades, cadet, cadge, cadgy, cadis, cadre, caged, caids, caird, caked, candy, caned, canid, caped, cards, cared, cased, cauld, caved, cawed, cedar, chads, chard, clade, clads, codas, cycad, daces, dacha, dance, daric, decaf, decal, decay, dicta, ducal, ducat, faced, laced, maced, nicad, octad, paced, raced, scads, scald. | |
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