AC

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ac"

English

Alternative forms

• (air conditioning) a.c., A/C, a/c
• (alternating current) A.C., a.c., ac
• (army corps, atheletic club) A.C.
• (anno Christi, ante Christum) A.C., A. C.
• (ante cibum) a.c.

Pronunciation

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Noun

AC (plural ACs)

1. (aviation) Initialism of absolute ceiling.
2. Initialism of access control.
3. Initialism of account current.
4. (anatomy) Initialism of anterior chamber.
5. (music) Initialism of adult contemporary, (a radio format)
6. (medicine) Initialism of adjuvant chemotherapy.
   • 2018, Gollins S, et al. "A prospective phase II study of pre-operative chemotherapy then short-course radiotherapy for high risk rectal cancer: COPERNICUS", British Journal of Cancer

     Current UK practice, supported by NICE guidance is to complete local pelvic treatment with surgery±pre-operative radiotherapy, before considering systemic adjuvant chemotherapy (AC)

7. Initialism of air conditioning.
8. Initialism of air corps.
9. Initialism of aircraftman.
10. (electricity) Initialism of alternating current, (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current, as in 110 V AC.)
11. Initialism of appellation contrôlée.
12. Initialism of area code.
13. Initialism of army corps.
14. Initialism of athletic club.
15. (Internet, slang) Initialism of audible chuckle. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
16. Initialism of author's correction.
17. Initialism of automobile club.
18. (US, military) Initialism of Auxiliary Collier, (a naval coal transport that travels with the fleet to provide coal for coal powered warships)
19. (set theory) Initialism of axiom of choice.
20. (Australia) Companion of the Order of Australia.
21. Initialism of aviation cadet.
22. (chemistry) Initialism of ammonium chloride.

Antonyms

• (alternating current): DC

Hyponyms

• (access control): RBAC

Derived terms

• AC/DC

Translations

alternating current

• Dutch: wisselstroom (nl)
• Finnish: vaihtovirta (fi)
• German: Wechselstrom (de) m
• Indonesian: arus bolak-balik
• Japanese: 交流 (ja) (こうりゅう, kōryū)
• Korean: 교류 (ko) (gyoryu)/交流 (ko)
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• Polish: prąd zmienny, prąd przemienny
• Portuguese: CA f
• Romanian: curent alternativ (ro) m, c.a.
• Russian: переме́нный ток (ru) m (pereménnyj tok)
• Spanish: CA, corriente alterna
• Swedish: AC (sv), växelström (sv) c

alternating potential

• Dutch: wisselspanning (nl)
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• German: Wechselspannung

Adjective

AC (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of acromioclavicular.

   AC joint;  AC separation

2. Initialism of air conditioned.
3. (religion) Initialism of antichristian.

Adverb

AC (not comparable)

1. Initialism of anno Christi, (in the year of Christ.)
2. Initialism of ante Christum, (before Christ.)

Synonyms

• (anno Christi): AD (anno Domini)
• (ante Christum): BC (before Christ)

Antonyms

• (ante Christum): AD (anno Domini)

Phrase

AC

1. Initialism of all clear, (as in button on electronic calculator)
2. (medicine) Initialism of ante cibum, (before meals.)
3. (law) as charged, as in: guilty as charged, usually a/c

Proper noun

AC

1. Aceh, an autonomous province of Indonesia.
2. (geography) Acre, a state of Brazil.
3. Initialism of America's Cup, (competition yacht sailing match racing regatta)

Derived terms

• (America's Cup):
  • IACC
  • AC72
  • AC45
  • AC90

Anagrams

• C.A., CA, ca, ca.

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Italian

Noun

A.C.

1. anno Christi
2. associazione calcio (football club)

   AC Milan

Adjective

a.C.

1. avanti Cristo

Anagrams

• ca, ca'

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Japanese

Noun

AC(アーケード) • (ākēdo) 

1. (only in compounds) Abbreviation of アーケード (“arcade, establishment with coin-operated games”).

   AC(アーケード)音( おと)ゲー

   ākēdo otogē

   arcade rhythm game

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Latin

Alternative forms

• A. C.

Phrase

AC

1. ante Christum
2. anno Christi

Synonyms

• 1.: a. Chr. n, a. C. n., a. Chr.
• 2.: A. D., A.D., AD; p. Chr. n., p. C. n., p. Chr.

References

• “AC”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• AC in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

AC

1. Acre (Brazilian state)

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Welsh

Noun

AC m (plural ACau)

1. (politics) Initialism of Aelod Cynulliad.