IC (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

  1. immediate constituent.
  2. integrated circuit.
  3. intensive care.
  1. a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally in Greek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses “having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the base noun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic).
  2. a suffix, specialized in opposition to -ous, used to show the higher of two valences: ferric chloride.
  3. a noun suffix occurring chiefly in loanwords from Greek, where such words were originally adjectival (critic; magic; music).
abbreviation
  1. Jesus Christ.
abbreviation for
  1. internal-combustion
  2. integrated circuit
  3. I see
  4. (in transformational grammar) immediate constituent
  5. Imum Coeli: the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Midheaven
suffix forming adjectives
  1. of, relating to, or resembling
  2. (in chemistry) indicating that an element is chemically combined in the higher of two possible valence states
abbreviation for
  1. in charge (of)
IC (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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