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ICI

Date "ICI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

"ICI" is a common misspelling or typo for: ice, iced, ices, icily, icing, icy.


Specialty Definition: ICI

DomainDefinition

Computing

ICI An extensible, interpretated language by Tim Long with syntax similar to C. ICI adds high-level garbage-collected associative data structures, exception handling, sets, regular expressions, and dynamic arrays. Libraries provide additional types and functions to support common needs such as I/O, simple databases, character based screen handling, direct access to system calls, safe pointers, and floating-point. ICI runs on Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS, Unix, and Linux and in embedded environments. Home (http://www.zeta.org.au/~atrn/ici/). (ftp://ftp.research.canon.com.au/pub/misc/ici). E-mail: Andy Newman . Mailing list: ici@research.canon.com.au. (1999-12-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ICI

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

ICI

EnglishIntegrated intelligent process control and inspection in robot finishingN/A

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

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Crosswords: ICI

Specialty definitions using "ICI": ICI assemblyraltitrexed, RTL/1, RTL/2TLAs. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ICI" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (here, hither, over here), French Canadian (here), Romanian (here).

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Modern Usage: ICI

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Par ici la monnaie (1974)

Ici peut-être (1973)

Et par ici la sortie (1957)

Ici l'on pêche (1941)

Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1931)

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

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Commercial Usage: ICI

DomainTitle

References

  • ICI Pakistan Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • ICI : the company that changed our lives (reference)

  • ICI INDIA LTD.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Je Suis Ici Dans Les Gallas (reference)

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Imperial Chemical Industr - ICI [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Par Ici 4C (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: ICI

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Ne vous melez, jamais des affairs d'autrui: : Ce que l'on voit ici montre ce qu'il en cuit! / Louis Legrand. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Viens par ici, mon ami, je vais demander à l'inventeur... / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ICI

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Local and foreign firms including Dow, ICI, Monsanto, and Atanor, currently serve this subsector. (references)

The main suppliers are BASF (Germany), Ciba-Geigy (Switzerland), Dystar (Italy), ICI (United Kingdom), and Crompton & Knowle (United Kingdom). (references)

Major European suppliers are Aventis Pharma, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Hoechst, ICI, Berna, Sclvo, Bayer, Roche, Novo Nordisk, Merck, Boehringer Ingelheim, Organon, and Glaxo Wellcome. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Principal competitors of U.S. products are European companies with such trademarks as, Henkel, Rodia, Aventis (Rhone Poulenc/Hoechst), Roche, Degussa, Mallincroft, Basf, Bayer, Ciba-Geigy, Sandoz, ICI, and Shell. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: ICI

"ICI" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.29% of the time. "ICI" is used about 1,278 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 (proper)89.29%1,1416,712
Adjective (general or positive)4.53%5844,427
Noun (plural)4.07%5247,145
Noun (singular)1.09%1493,893
Noun (common)0.78%10111,207
Cardinal Number0.23%3202,518
                    Total100.00%1,278N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: ICI

CountryNameCountryName
India

ICI India Limited

Pakistan

ICI Pakistan Limited

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: ICI

Expressions using "ICI": ICI 182780 ICI assembly. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ICI": ici-air, ici-developed, Ici-farma, ici-manufactured.

Ending with "ICI": ex-ici, Non-ici.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ICI

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

ici

478

ici montreal

9

ici paint

217

devoe ici

9

calcolo ici

64

ici autocolor

9

home ici

50

ici america inc

8

aliquote ici

47

ici chemical

7

dulux ici

37

ici londres

6

2003 ici

25

canada ici paint

6

2003 aliquote ici

24

ici solution

6

ici pagamento

24

delux ici paint

6

ici paris

22

ici milano

6

dulux ici paint

18

builder ici

6

ici pakistan

17

ici paint store

6

francais ici

16

glidden ici

5

2003 calcolo ici

15

ici university

5

canada ici

14

construction ici

5

ici paris xl

11

bollettino ici

5

dichiarazione ici

11

ici roma

5

ici america

10

ici line pagamento

5

ici system inc

10

canada ici inc

4

ici nerf bar

9

aliquota ici

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ICI

Language Translations for "ICI"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Kerninstrument-Baugruppe (ICI assembly, in-core instrument assembly), kerninnere Messgeraet-Baugruppe (ICI assembly, in-core instrument assembly), Kerninnenmessungs-Baugruppe (ICI assembly, in-core instrument assembly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Elemento strumentato da inserire nel nocciolo (ICI assembly, in-core instrument assembly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iciay

   

Portuguese

  

conjunto de instrumentação interna do núcleo (ICI assembly, in-core instrument assembly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

conjunto de instrumentación del núcleo (ICI assembly, in-core instrument assembly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ICI

Derivations

Words beginning with "ICI": icicle, icicled, icicles, icier, iciest, icily, iciness, icinesses, icing, icings. (additional references)

Words ending with "ICI": amici, cantatrici, umbilici. (additional references)

Words containing "ICI": academician, academicians, academicism, academicisms, acaricidal, acaricide, acaricides, acoustician, acousticians, aerobicize, aerobicized, aerobicizes, aerobicizing, aerodynamicist, aerodynamicists, aeroelasticities, aeroelasticity, aeromedicine, aeromedicines, aesthetician, aestheticians, aestheticism, aestheticisms, aestheticize, aestheticized, aestheticizes, aestheticizing, afficionado, afficionados, aficionada, aficionadas, aficionado, aficionados, agnosticism, agnosticisms, algicidal, algicide, algicides, allergenicities, allergenicity, allicin, allicins, altricial, americium, americiums, amoxicillin, amoxicillins, ampicillin, ampicillins, analyticities, analyticity. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ICI

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-i-i"
 

+2 letters: acini, amici, chili, cilia, cirri, civic, civie, civil, disci, ficin, icier, icily, icing, ictic, iliac, iodic, ionic, lichi, licit, mimic, ricin, vinic.

 

+3 letters: acidic, acinic, adipic, amidic, aminic, anisic, bionic, biopic, biotic, casini, chichi, chilis, chilli, chitin, cilice, cilium, citied, cities, citify, citing, citric, citrin, civics, civies, civism, clinic, clitic, clivia, congii, crisic, crisis, critic, deific, diacid, dicier, dicing, dickie, echini, elicit, exilic, ficins, filmic, fistic, iambic, iatric, ibices, icicle, iciest, icings, ickier, ickily, iconic, idiocy, imidic, incise, incite, inclip, incubi, indict, ionics, irenic, iridic, iritic, ironic, ischia, italic, kimchi, lichis, limbic, limnic, litchi, lithic, mimics, miotic, niacin, niobic, nitric, otitic, oxidic, pianic, picnic, picric, pionic, quinic, ricing, ricins, sialic, sickie, silica, uncini, unific, viatic, vicing, victim, viscid, vitric, zincic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ICI


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

49 43 49

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

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

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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)

01001001 01000011 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#67 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0043 0049

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

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

433743

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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