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TCA

Abbreviations & Acronyms: TCA

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

TCA

DutchTijd van de dichtste benaderingElectrical Engineering

TCA

EnglishTemperature control assemblyN/A

TCA

FrenchTaxe sur le chiffre d'affairesFinance

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

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Synonyms: TCA

Synonyms by domain: 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (chemical industry), target channel adapter (computing), Telecommunicate America! (post & telecom), Telecommunications Association (computing, post & telecom), telemetering control assembly (meteorology & standards), Television Companies Association Ltd. (post & telecom), Temperature control assembly (mechanical engineering, engineering & technology), Temporary Change Authorization (finance), Terminal communications adapter (computing), Thermocentrifugometric Analysis (chemistry, physics), Thrust chamber assembly (mechanical engineering), Time Correlation Analysis (nuclear energy & physics, physics), time of closest approach (electrical engineeringmilitary & defense), Tissue Culture Association (medicine), tricyclic antidepressant, Turbulent Contact Absorber (engineering & technology), Turks et Caicos Islands-ISO code (geography, meteorology & standards), Two Channel Analyzer (computing, post & telecom).

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Non-Fiction Usage: TCA

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

ECT is at least as effective as TCA and more effective than sham ECT in the short-term treatment of these severe endogenous/melancholic depressions. (references)

The patient's medical status is often the determining consideration in the use of ECT. ECT may be necessary when the patient has medical conditions that preclude the use of TCA, MAOI, lithium, and neuroleptics. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Furthermore, the TCA gave the Minister of Communications sole authority to set communications policy and to issue licenses. (references)

South Africa

SATRA's role of interpreting the TCA, issuing regulations, and recommending licensees frequently put it conflict between the Ministry, Telkom, and commercial telecommunications providers. (references)

South Africa

The TCA gave the telecommunications parastatal Telkom a monopoly over the provision of voice communication lines and the direct sale of infrastructure (including "last mile" services) to end-users. (references)

Political Economy

SOUTH AFRICA

The TCA also provided the Minister of Communications sole authority to set communications policy and to issue licenses. (references)

SOUTH AFRICA

The industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) has a mandate to interpret the TCA, to issue regulations, and to recommend licensees. (references)

Trade

Haiti

TCA is not applied to petroleum products, agricultural inputs and equipment, pharmaceuticals, school materials, and raw materials for assembly to be re-exported. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: TCA

"TCA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "TCA" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)70%7133,076
Noun (singular)30%3202,518
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Expressions: TCA

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TCA": tca-precipitable, tca-precipitation.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TCA

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

tca

170

handbook tca

3

tca peel

41

780 tca

3

cycle tca

16

fastrak tca

3

tca wireless

8

center rebate tca

2

785 tca

6

consulting group tca

2

tca cable

6

consulting tca

2

fulfillment services tca

5

tca cable tv

2

access tca

5

precipitation protein tca

2

fulfillment tca

5

award tca

2

tca chemical peel

5

inc tca

2

code tca

4

club tca

2

advanced tca

4

synergo.com tca

2

internet tca

4

tca peeling

2

precipitation tca

4

cicatrizes tca

2

rebate tca

3

systems.com tca

2

700 tca y

3

systems.com tca

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

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Modern Translation: TCA

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

Chinese 

  

三辛胺. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

トリカルボン酸回路 (tricarboxylic acid cycle, trigger). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

トリカルボンさ"かいろ (tricarboxylic acid cycle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atcay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TCA

Derivations

Words containing "TCA": catcall, catcalled, catcalling, catcalls, flatcap, flatcaps, flatcar, flatcars, fruitcake, fruitcakes, gnatcatcher, gnatcatchers, hotcake, hotcakes, nightcap, nightcaps, nutcase, nutcases, oatcake, oatcakes, outcaper, outcapered, outcapering, outcapers, outcast, outcaste, outcastes, outcasts, outcatch, outcatches, outcatching, outcaught, outcavil, outcaviled, outcaviling, outcavilled, outcavilling, outcavils, postcapitalist, postcard, postcardlike, postcards, postcava, postcavae, postcaval, shortcake, shortcakes, streetcar, streetcars, suitcase, suitcases. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TCA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: act, cat.

Words within the letters "a-c-t"

-1 letter: at, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-t"
 

+1 letter: acta, acts, cant, cart, cast, cate, cats, chat, coat, fact, pact, scat, tace, tach, tack, taco, tact, talc.

 

+2 letters: aceta, acted, actin, actor, acute, aitch, antic, ascot, attic, batch, bract, cacti, cadet, canst, canto, cants, canty, caput, carat, caret, carte, carts, caste, casts, catch, cater, cates, catty, cesta, chant, chapt, chart, chats, cheat, clapt, clast, cleat, coact, coapt, coast, coati, coats, costa, cotan, cotta, craft, crate, dicta, ducat, eclat, enact, epact, exact, facet, facts, hatch, latch, match, natch, octad, octal, octan, pacts, patch, ratch, react, recta, scant, scart, scats, scatt, scuta, stack, taces, tacet, tache, tachs, tacit, tacks, tacky, tacos, tacts, talcs, taroc, teach, tecta, thack, theca, tical, trace, track, tract, triac, vatic, watch, yacht.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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