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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 |
TCA | Dutch | Tijd van de dichtste benadering | Electrical Engineering |
TCA | English | Temperature control assembly | N/A |
TCA | French | Taxe sur le chiffre d'affaires | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TCA": tca-precipitable, tca-precipitation. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 | ||||
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). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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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