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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Ptc A Pascal to C translator. (ftp://uxc.sco.uiuc.edu/languages/ptc). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Health | Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (per-kyoo-TAN-ee-us trans-heh-PAT-ik ko-LAN-jee-AH-gra-fee). A procedure to x-ray the bile ducts. In this procedure, a dye is injected through a thin needle inserted through the skin into the liver or the gallbladder, and an x-ray picture is taken. (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 |
PTC | Danish | Perkutan | Medicine |
PTC | English | Phase Transfer Catalysis | N/A |
PTC | French | Iles Pitcairn | N/A |
PTC | German | Phenylthiocarbamid | Chemistry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: PTC |
| Specialty definitions using "PTC": percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | PTO - Posts & Telecommunications Corporation (PTC), is 100 percent government owned. (references) | |
It is expected that the New Communications Bill, if passed, will remove the monopolies of ZBC (Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation) and PTC. This law will facilitate the formation of a Communications Authority to regulate all telecommunications operators. (references) | ||
Economic History | Zimbabwe | The PTC is beginning an expansion and modernization program. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PTC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PTC" is used about 10 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) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "PTC": PTC thermistor final resistance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "PTC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | slutmodstand (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
Dutch | eindweerstand (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
Finnish | PTC-vastuksen loppuvastus (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
French | résistance du film (PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
German | Endwiderstand (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
Greek | τελική αντίσταση (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
Italian | resistenza finale (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ptcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resistência extrema (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
Spanish | resistencia final (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
Swedish | slutresistans hos termistor med positiv temperaturkoefficient (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance), slutresistans hos PTC-termistor (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance), slutresistans (final resistance, positive-temperature-coefficient thermistor final resistance, PTC thermistor final resistance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words containing "PTC": bankruptcies, bankruptcy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pact. | |
+2 letters: caput, chapt, clapt, clept, clipt, coapt, compt, coopt, crept, crypt, cutup, epact, optic, pacts, patch, picot, pitch, topic, typic. | |
+3 letters: accept, aspect, atopic, atypic, capita, caplet, capote, captan, captor, carpet, cartop, catnap, catnip, catsup, claspt, coapts, coempt, compts, coopts, coplot, copout, copter, cotype, cowpat, crypto, crypts, cutups, depict, ectype, epacts, except, expect, haptic, hepcat, impact, incept, octopi, optics, packet, pataca, patchy, pecten, pectic, pectin, peptic, phatic, photic, picket, picots, pitchy, placet, pocket, poetic, preact, precut, ptotic, putsch, recept, script, sculpt, septic, teacup, tipcat, toecap, topics, tropic, upcast, uptick, yclept. | |
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