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NRC

Definition: NRC

NRC

Noun

1. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: NRC

DomainDefinitions

Agriculture

National Research Council (see National Academy of Sciences). (references)

Census

(National Research Council) A council organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and of advising the Federal Government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: NRC

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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 "NRC."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: NRC

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

NRC

EnglishNestlé Research CentreN/A

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

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Synonym: NRC

Synonym: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: NRC

Specialty definitions using "NRC": Anticipated Transient Without ScramDerived air concentrationNuclear wastePerformance-based regulatory actionRisk-informed regulationStandard Review Plan, Standard Technical SpecificationsTechnical Specifications. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NRC

DomainTitle

References

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

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • 21st Century Complete Guide to Nuclear Power: Encyclopedic Coverage of Power Plants, Reactors, Fuel Processing, NRC and Department of Energy Regulations, Radioactive Waste, New Plant Designs, plus Cleanup and Environmental Restoration at Nuclear Weapons P (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: NRC

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

E-beam and X-ray sources are not monitored by the NRC, but rather by the part of the FDA that regulates medical X-ray devices, and by the same State authorities that regulate other medical, dental and industrial uses of these technologies. (references)

Economic History

Sierra Leone

NRC members were imprisoned, and other army and police officers deposed. (references)

Sierra Leone

The NRC in turn was overthrown in April 1968 by a "sergeants' revolt," the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement. (references)

Ghana

The NRC promised improvements in the quality of life for all Ghanaians and based its programs on nationalism, economic development, and self-reliance. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: NRC

"NRC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.10% of the time. "NRC" is used about 62 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)87.1%5446,184
Noun (singular)9.68%6143,867
Noun (common)3.23%2245,945
                    Total100.00%62N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: NRC

CountryName
India

NRC Limited

 (more examples...)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NRC

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

  nrc

577

  act anderson doe near near nrc price

3

  nrc handelsblad

33

  aptec nrc

3

  nrc picker

18

  cover engine nrc

3

  nrc ranking

14

  licensing near near new nrc reactor

3

  canada nrc

14

  cnrc nrc

3

  concern nrc

10

  dairy nrc

2

  fire nrc nuclear safety

10

  irap nrc

2

  nrc towing

7

  nrc ottawa

2

  nrc wrecker

6

  adelphi nrc

2

  nrc us

6

  cryptogram nrc

2

  act anderson doe nrc price

5

  inc.org nrc

2

  licensing new nrc reactor

5

  fifth nrc towing wheel

2

  nrc time

5

  guide nrc regulatory

2

  nrc pony

4

  cleveland nrc

2

  nrc solomons

4

  ariake.com nrc

2

  nrc quincy

4

  conversion nrc

2

  council national nrc research

4

  alaska ft nrc richardson

2

  industry nrc

3

  memphis nrc

2

  nrc usasma.bliss.army.mil

3

  nrc tow truck

2

  nrc rating

3

  nrc recycle.org

2
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Modern Translations: NRC

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

Russian 

  

комиссия по контролю ядерной энергии. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NRC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-n-r"
 

+1 letter: carn, corn, curn, narc.

 

+2 letters: acorn, bronc, cairn, caner, carns, carny, churn, corns, cornu, corny, crane, crank, crone, crony, croon, crown, curns, franc, incur, nacre, narco, narcs, naric, nicer, orcin, racon, rance, ranch, recon, ricin, runic, scorn.

 

+3 letters: acinar, acorns, anarch, anchor, anuric, arcana, arcane, archon, arcing, arnica, bicorn, bicron, branch, bronco, broncs, brucin, brunch, cairns, cairny, canard, canary, cancer, candor, caners, canker, canner, canter, cantor, carbon, careen, carina, caring, carlin, carman, carmen, carnal, carnet, carney, carnie, carton, carven, casern, cavern, cedarn, censer, censor, center, centra, centre, cering, churns, cinder, citrin, citron, cloner, coiner, concur, condor, confer, conger, conker, conner, contra, corban, cordon, coring, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, cornua, cornus, corona, cortin, cranch, craned, cranes, crania, cranks, cranky, cranny, craton, craven, crayon, crenel, crepon, cretin, cringe, crinum, crones, croons, croton, crowns, crunch, crying, cunner, curing, curran, dancer, decern, drench, encore, enrich, fencer, francs, french, garcon, grinch, inarch, incurs, irenic, ironic, lancer, lucern, macron, micron, mincer, nacred, nacres, narcos, necker, nectar, nicker, nitric, nordic, orcein, orcins, pincer, prance, prince, racing, racons, racoon, rances, rancho, rancid, rancor, raunch, recane, recant, recent, reckon, recoin, recons, richen, ricing, ricins, scorns, screen, secern, tanrec, tenrec, trance, trench, uncork, uncurb, uncurl, uranic, urchin, wincer, wrench, zircon.

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Alternative Orthography: NRC


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

4E 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)

01001110 01010010 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#82 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0052 0043

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

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

485237

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INDEX

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


  

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