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RCT

Specialty Definition: RCT

DomainDefinition

Health

Randomized clinical trial. An epidemiologic experiment in which subjects in a population are randomly allocated into groups, usually called study and control groups, to receive or not to receive an experimental prevention or therapeutic product, maneuver, or intervention. The results are assessed by rigorous comparison of rates of disease, death recovery, or other appropriate outcome in the study and control groups, respectively. RCTs are generally regarded as the most scientifically rigorous method of hypothesis testing available in epidemiology. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: RCT

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

RCT

EnglishRelayed Coherence TransferN/A

RCT

GermanAbgesetzte FernmeldestationN/A

RCT

Greekδοκιμή ραδιοκαναλιούPost & Telecom

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

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Commercial Usage: RCT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hills of Sacrifice : The 5th RCT in Korea (reference)

  • The Last Fox: A Novel of the 100th/442nd RCT (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: RCT

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Azurix reported that it purchased 20,000 meters for its Buenos Aires concession in October 1999. It invited five companies to bid for this purchase, ABB, Schlumberger, Lao, Meinecken and RCT (local firm). (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: RCT

"RCT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "RCT" is used about 12 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)66.67%8124,375
Noun (common)25%3202,518
Noun (singular)8.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%12N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RCT

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

rct trainer

191

loopy landscape rct trainer

5

rct

164

game rct saved

5

2 rct trainer

61

beast rct trainer

5

2 rct

60

rct science

5

downloads rct

52

2 park rct

5

cheat rct

35

3 rct

5

2 downloads rct

20

cd no rct

5

rct station

13

drexler patch rct

5

patch rct

12

2 demo rct

5

2 cheat rct

12

inc rct

4

rct track

12

rct scenario

4

rct video

11

download rct trainer

4

math rct

10

2 rct wacky world

4

dragon rct trainer

10

exam rct

4

park rct

8

login.asp mercury.msbeas.com rct

4

2 rct scenario

8

money rct trainer

4

rct workbench

6

2 rct workbench

4

rct test

6

rct world

3

2 park rct real

6

code rct

3

cheat code rct

6

new rct state york

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: RCT

Derivations

Words ending with "RCT": infarct. (additional references)

Words containing "RCT": antarctic, arctangent, arctangents, arctic, arctically, arctics, coarctation, coarctations, infarcted, infarction, infarctions, infarcts, subantarctic, subarctic, subarctics. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: RCT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-r-t"
 

+1 letter: cart, curt, torc.

 

+2 letters: actor, bract, carat, caret, carte, carts, cater, chart, chert, citer, court, craft, crate, crept, crest, croft, cruet, crust, crwth, crypt, curet, curst, cuter, erect, eruct, ratch, react, recta, recti, recto, recut, retch, rotch, scart, taroc, terce, torch, torcs, toric, trace, track, tract, triac, trice, trick, trock, truce, truck.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RCT


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

52 43 54

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)

01010010 01000011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#67 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0043 0054

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

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

523754

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INDEX

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


  

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