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| Domain | Definition |
Geological | EDC is a national archive, production, distribution, and research facility for remotely sensed data and other geographic information. See also EROS. (Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center). (references) |
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 |
EDC | English | External disk/drum channel | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: EDC |
| Specialty definitions using "EDC": EDC. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | EDC or ELECAR (Electricidad de Caracas) is the largest of the eight privately held companies. (references) | |
AES' hostile takeover acquired control of 87.1 percent of EDC by paying over USD 1.2 billion. (references) | ||
EDC was incorporated in 1895 and with a current installed capacity of 2,325 MW provides electricity to the Metropolitan area of Caracas (approximately 20 percent of country's population). (references) | ||
Economic History | Venezuela | EDC was then Venezuela's largest publicly traded company. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "EDC" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "EDC" is used about 77 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) | 71.43% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (common) | 18.18% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.39% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | 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 |
edc | 208 |
2003 edc | 12 |
edc rave | 7 |
edc canada | 6 |
edc industry | 5 |
edc provider | 4 |
edc publishing | 4 |
2c condensate control design development edc electronic electronic facility international manufacturing pump | 3 |
edc orlando | 3 |
edc m5 | 3 |
edc ven.com | 3 |
clan edc | 3 |
edc tech.org | 3 |
biosystems edc | 2 |
edc fresno | 2 |
edc nyc | 2 |
edc st thomas | 2 |
edc metro orlando | 2 |
edc spokane | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "EDC": bedchair, bedchairs, bedchamber, bedchambers, bedclothes, bedcover, bedcovering, bedcoverings, bedcovers, friedcake, friedcakes, redcap, redcaps, redcoat, redcoats, seedcake, seedcakes, seedcase, seedcases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e" | |
-1 letter: de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e" | |
+1 letter: aced, cade, cede, cedi, code, coed, cued, dace, deck, deco, dice, duce, iced. | |
+2 letters: ached, acned, acred, acted, arced, cades, cadet, cadge, cadre, caged, caked, caned, caped, cared, cased, caved, cawed, cebid, cedar, ceded, ceder, cedes, cedis, cered, chide, cider, cited, clade, clued, codec, coded, coden, coder, codes, codex, coeds, coked, coled, coned, cooed, coped, cored, coted, coude, coved, cowed, coxed, coyed, credo, creed, cried, crude, cubed, cured, cyder, daces, dance, decaf, decal, decay, decks, decor, decos, decoy, decry, deice, deuce, diced, dicer, dices, dicey, dolce, douce, dreck, duces, dunce, eched, edict, educe, educt, faced, laced, maced, medic, paced, raced, riced, scend, viced. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 44 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)01000101 01000100 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E D C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0044 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)393837 |
| 1. Synonyms 2. Crosswords 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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