ANC

¹

1. Also A.N.C. African National Congress.

2. Army Nurse Corps.

anc.

²

abbreviation

1. ancient.

ANC

abbreviation

1. African National Congress

Example Sentences

There have been people who expressed sympathy for the IRA or the ANC in previous decades.

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The increased use of ANC headphones and earplugs is a mass experiment in doing something new to our bodies, which has led to questions about whether there could be a hidden cost to sound control.

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The core technology of ANC headphones has remained essentially the same since it was first introduced to the consumer market in 2000, after Dr. Amar Bose invented the headphones for pilots in 1978.

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Next generation ANC can discern which sounds are valuable to you and which are noise, and filter this in real time.

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On a recent night out to the club, I was surrounded by people wearing ear protection—I saw several filtering earplugs, a few old-school foamies, and even some AirPods, as ANC headphones can be used to bring ambient noise down to safer levels.

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