NC

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nc"

Translingual

Symbol

NC

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

   Synonym: NCL (alpha-3)

Anagrams

• CN

English

Proper noun

NC

1. Abbreviation of North Carolina, a state of the United States of America.

Noun

NC

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

Phrase

NC

1. Initialism of no change.
2. Initialism of no charge.
3. Initialism of no connection.

Adjective

NC

1. (electronics, of a relay) Initialism of normally closed.

Anagrams

• C/N, CN, c'n

French

Noun

NC m

1. (nautical, telecommunications) CS (“cable ship”): Initialism of navire câblier (“cable ship”).

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtseː/

• Audio:

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Noun

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

1. Initialism of Numerus clausus.