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MRC

Specialty Definition: MRC

DomainDefinition

Census

(Mail Reminder Card) A card mailed to recipients of census questionnaires reminding them to complete the questionnaire and mail it back to the Census Bureau. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: MRC

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

MRC

EnglishMekong River CommissionN/A

MRC

FrenchMultiplex(age)par répartition du codeN/A

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: MRC

SubjectTopicQuote

Women

South Africa

In a 1999 study by the MRC of 1,394 men working for 3 Cape Town-area municipalities, approximately 44 percent admitted to abusing their female partners. (references)

South Africa

In a MRC study of 1,800 working men in the Western Cape Province over a 10-year period, 22 percent reported forcing their wives or girlfriends to have sex. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: MRC

"MRC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "MRC" is used about 68 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)75%5147,619
Noun (common)13.24%9117,287
Noun (singular)11.76%8124,375
                    Total100.00%68N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: MRC

CountryName
Philippines

MRC Allied Industries, Inc.

 (more examples...)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MRC

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

mrc 11

73

11 mrc review

46

mrc bearing

35

check electrical mrc pms safety

3

abitibi mrc

2

dcc mrc

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: MRC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-m-r"
 

+1 letter: corm, cram, marc.

 

+2 letters: carom, charm, chirm, comer, corms, cramp, crams, cream, creme, crime, crimp, crumb, crump, cymar, macer, macro, march, marcs, mercy, micra, micro, mucor, mucro, scram, scrim, scrum.

 

+3 letters: amerce, amtrac, bromic, calmer, camber, camera, camper, carman, carmen, caroms, carrom, cerium, cermet, charms, chimar, chimer, chirms, chrism, chroma, chrome, chromo, clamor, comber, comers, corium, cormel, corymb, crambe, crambo, cramps, creams, creamy, cremes, crimes, crimps, crimpy, crinum, crumbs, crumby, crummy, crumps, cumber, cummer, cuprum, curium, cymars, dermic, drachm, formic, karmic, macers, macron, macros, maraca, marcel, mercer, metric, micron, micros, mincer, mocker, mucker, mucors, mucros, myrica, raceme, racism, recomb, rectum, sacrum, scrams, scream, scrimp, scrims, scrums, smirch, tarmac, uremic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MRC


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

4D 52 43

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)

01001101 01010010 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#82 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0052 0043

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

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

475237

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Usage Frequency
3. Names: Company Usage
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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