ac
noun
Meaning
- Initialism of adenylyl cyclase.
- Initialism of adjuvant chemotherapy.
- Initialism of air corps.
- Initialism of army corps.
- Initialism of athletic club.
- Initialism of audible chuckle.
- The maximum altitude above sea level that an aircraft or missile can maintain horizontal flight under normal conditions.
- Account; money of account
- Alicyclic
- Ante cibum, before meals
- The practice of restricting entrance to a property, a building, or a room to authorized persons.
- In technology, permitting or denying the use of a particular resource.
- A regularly updated record of transactions between two parties showing what is owed or due to each party or a statement summarising the position
- An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's plowing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square meters.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- (usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
- (usually in the plural) A large quantity.
- A field.
- The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
- A category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.
- The state of temperature and humidity produced by an air conditioner.
- An air conditioner or system of air conditioners.
- A member of the lowest rank in the Royal Air Force or the air forces of various other Commonwealth countries.
- An electric current in which the direction of flow of the electrons reverses periodically, such as sawtooth, sinusoidal or square wave current.
- An electric current in which the direction of flow of the electrons reverses periodically by a sinusoidal law, hence having an average of zero, with positive and negative values (with a frequency of 50 Hz in Europe, 60 Hz in the US, 400 Hz for airport lighting, and some others); especially such a current produced by a rotating generator or alternator.
- A water-soluble salt of ammonia and hydrochloric acid, having the formula NH4Cl.
- A space inside the eye between the cornea and the iris, filled with aqueous humour.
- A prefix appended to a telephone number indicating the geographical area.
- One of the axioms of set theory, equivalent to the statement that an arbitrary direct product of non-empty sets is non-empty; any version of said axiom, for example specifying the cardinality of the number of sets from which choices are made.
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