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XPC

Specialty Definition: XPC

DomainDefinition

Computing

XPC eXplicitly Parallel C. A dialect of Parallel C which is efficiently compilable to both SIMD and MIMD architectures. Only research implementations exist. ["Toward Semantic Self-Consistency in Explicitly Parallel Languages," M.J. Phillip & H.G. Dietz, Proc 4th Intl Conf on Supercomputing, Santa Clara, CA, May 1989, v.1, pp.398-407]. (1994-12-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: XPC

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

XPC

EnglishX Performance CharacterizationComputer - (GPC, X-Windows)

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

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Crosswords: XPC

Specialty definitions using "XPC": TLAs. (references)

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Usage Frequency: XPC

"XPC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "XPC" is used about 4 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)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: XPC

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

shuttle xpc

85

sb61g2 xpc

3

xpc

70

driver xpc

2

sb61g2 shuttle xpc

10

power supply xpc

2

club golf xpc

9

shuttle ss51g xpc

2

michelin xpc

8

sn45g xpc

2

shuttle sn41g2 xpc

8

amd xpc

2

golf xpc

6

case xpc

2

shuttle sk41g xpc

5

music xpc

2

sn41g2 xpc

4

review xpc

2

review shuttle xpc

4

line shuttle xpc

2

3000 xpc

4

energize xpc

2

spy xpc

3

energize xpc

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

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Anagrams: XPC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-p-x"
 

+3 letters: cowpox, except, expect, pickax.

 

+4 letters: apraxic, carapax, complex, excepts, excerpt, exciple, exocarp, expects, hypoxic, packwax, panchax, pickaxe, princox, pyrexic.

 

+5 letters: chapeaux, cineplex, cowpoxes, epicalyx, epitaxic, excepted, excerpts, exciples, exocarps, expected, explicit, octuplex, oxpecker, pickaxed, pickaxes, precieux, proxemic, sixpence, xylocarp.

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

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Alternative Orthography: XPC


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

58 50 43

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)

01011000 01010000 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#88 &#80 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0058 0050 0043

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

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

585037

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Abbreviations
5. Acronyms
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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