ad hoc
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæd ˈhɒk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæd ˈhɑk/, /ˌæd ˈhɔk/
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Adjective edit
ad hoc (comparative more ad hoc, superlative most ad hoc)
- For a particular purpose.
- Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
- 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Over the past 20 years or so, from South America to the Danube basin, ad hoc coalitions of politicians, activists and conscience-stricken billionaires (whose core activities, such as Povlsen’s clothing business, are often less than environmentally friendly), have rewilded millions of acres of mostly failed agricultural and grazing land.
- (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
- 2012 December 6, J. Agassi, Science in Flux, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 197:
- Contrary to the traditional condoning of ad hoc hypotheses, and in line with Popper's and Grünbaum's approaches, we see, once an ad hoc hypothesis is introduced we are unhappy about it and try to eliminate it.
- (networking) Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
- 2007 April 23, Jagannathan Sarangapani, Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks: Protocols, Performance, and Control, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 233:
- An ad hoc network is a group of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The applications for ad hoc networks have grown tremendously with the increase in the use of wireless sensor networks.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
for this particular purpose
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special — see special
impromptu — see impromptu
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Adverb edit
ad hoc (comparative more ad hoc, superlative most ad hoc)
- On the spur of the moment.
- For a particular purpose.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
on the spur of the moment
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for a particular purpose
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Further reading edit
- “ad hoc”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ad hoc, ad-hoc at Google Ngram Viewer
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
ad hoc (not comparable) (rare)
- ad hoc (for a particular purpose)
Usage notes edit
The Finnish term mainly used instead of "ad hoc committee" is työryhmä
Declension edit
Used only in uninflected form to modify a noun, as in ad hoc -komitea ("ad hoc committee").
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ad hok/, [äd̪ hɔk]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad ok/, [äd̪ ɔk]
Phrase edit
- to this end, for this, to this point, to this.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From the Latin phrase ad hoc (“for this”).
Adjective edit
Adverb edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From the Latin phrase ad hoc (“for this”).
Adjective edit
Adverb edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from New Latin ad hoc.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ad hoc (not comparable)
- ad hoc (on the spur of the moment)
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad hoc.
Adjective edit
ad hoc (invariable)
- ad hoc (created for a particular purpose)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ad hoc
- ad hoc (for this particular purpose)
Further reading edit
- “ad hoc”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014