NC

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nc"

Translingual

Symbol

NC

2. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for New Caledonia.

   Synonym: NCL (alpha-3)

Anagrams

• CN

English

Proper noun

NC

2. Initialism of North Carolina: a state of the United States.

   Synonym: US-NC

   Comeronyms: SC, US-SC

Noun

NC

2. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of nitrocellulose.
4. (law) Initialism of nolo contendere, no contest, a plea in criminal cases.
6. (computing theory) Initialism of Nick's Class, the complexity class of decision problems solvable in polylogarithmic time using a polynomial number of processors.
8. (linguistics) Initialism of noun class.
10. (US, aviation, prefix code) NASA research cargo plane designations.
12. (audio) Initialism of noise control.
14. (audio) Initialism of noise cancellation.
16. (copyright law) Initialism of noncommercial.
18. Initialism of numerical control.

    Near-synonyms: CNC, computer numerical control (broadly synonymous in current usage)

Phrase

NC

1. Initialism of no change.
2. Initialism of no charge.
3. Initialism of no connection.
4. Initialism of not classified.

Adjective

NC

2. (electronics, plumbing, of switches, relays, and valves) Initialism of normally closed.

   Antonym: NO

Anagrams

• C/N, CN, c'n

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of NC – see 腦殘 (“brain-dead; stupid; a stupid person”). (This term is an Internet slang variant form of 腦殘).

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

NC m

1. (nautical, telecommunications) initialism of cable ship

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtseː/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

NC m (strong, genitive NCs or NC, plural NCs or NC)

1. initialism of Numerus clausus