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Definition: NRC |
NRCNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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) |
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| 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 |
NRC | English | Nestlé Research Centre | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: NRCSynonym: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: NRC |
| Specialty definitions using "NRC": Anticipated Transient Without Scram ♦ Derived air concentration ♦ Nuclear waste ♦ Performance-based regulatory action ♦ Risk-informed regulation ♦ Standard Review Plan, Standard Technical Specifications ♦ Technical Specifications. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 87.1% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.68% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (common) | 3.23% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| India | NRC Limited |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| 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. | ||
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 52 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)01001110 01010010 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N R C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0052 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)485237 |
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