ac
abbreviation
acre; acres.
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Ac
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American
Symbol, Chemistry.
AC
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American
abbreviation
Electricity.
A/C
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American
[ey-see]
/ ˈeɪˈsi /
Also
AC,
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a/c
abbreviation
A/C
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American
Or
a/c
ac-
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-ac
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American
a.c.
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A.C.
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A.C.
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abbreviation
-
Army Corps.
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Athletic Club.
a.c.
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British
abbreviation
AC
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British
abbreviation
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alternating current Compare DC
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ante Christum
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Air Corps
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athletic club
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Companion of the Order of Australia
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appellation d'origine contrôlée: the highest French wine classification; indicates that the wine meets strict requirements concerning area of production, strength, etc See VDQS vin de pays vin de table
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Aelodau'r Cynulliad: Member of the Assembly (that is, the National Assembly of Wales)
ac
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British
abbreviation
A/C
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British
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a/c
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abbreviation
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account
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account current
Ac
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British
symbol
AC
Scientific
Etymology
Origin of -ac8
From Latin -acus, from Greek -akos
Origin of a.c.9
From Latin ante cibum
Origin of A.C.10
From Latin ante Christum
Example Sentences
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Our Welsh language friends can start listening to the big match build-up now by using the Carl ac Alun link above.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024
He was a very well-known, established character ac even before "I Love Lucy."
From Fox News ● Jun. 5, 2021
Comparing not having A/C to 100 years ago when there was no ac is not a fair comparison.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2016
Figure 10.5 Centripetal acceleration ac occurs as the direction of velocity changes; it is perpendicular to the circular motion.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
It stood just ac ross from the cobhoust, a tumbledown shed full of stuff left there in Grandpa Dowdel’s time.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
An agent from Homeland Security Investigations determined that Balcarcel Ac has had two previous deportations, the affidavit states.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
Both men are being held in local jails, Balcarcel Ac in Charlottesville and Alvarado-Dubon in Richmond.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Even to copy a relatively short paper, “Proc Nat Ac Sci”—“Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”—could take the better part of an hour.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
Actinium, Ac, is the first member of the fourth transition series, which also includes Rf through Rg.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Ac ure g�da F�der us gecl�nsa� and geh�l�, swa swa se witega cw��, "Drihten, geh�l me, and ic beo geh�led; geheald �u me, and ic beo gehealden."
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
A heat wave means everybody uses more AC, so there’s more power demand, but it can also disrupt the power supply, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Four of the squad won the helped Paris St-Germain win the past two Champions League titles - left-back Nuno Mendes, midfielders Vitinha and Joao Neves and striker Goncalo Ramos, who joined AC Milan this summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
After driving so many years without AC, Reyez says he is surprised how much even a few minutes at a time keeps fatigue away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
"It was 42-45 degrees in India when we left but everywhere there is AC," said Rajasekhar, on a two-week trip to Europe with his wife and their two teenage children.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
"My mom goes totally mental when the AC is on and the door is open."
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
Ferrari reveals its new EV, the UN shares an alternative metric to GDP, and Europe won’t embrace A/C despite deadly heatwaves.
From Slate ● May 30, 2026
And the maximum possible efficiency of SMACool is still lower than that of conventional air conditioning, although the aim is to beat the energy efficiency of A/C.
From BBC ● May 19, 2025
If what comes out when we look at the A/C circles entails the representation of the form of the conclusion, BOOM, the argument is valid.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
“The A/C here wasn’t cutting it for a really long time,” Shaw said, citing temperatures above 100 degrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
Roy waited inside for a while, but without A/C it was unbearably hot and sticky.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
Still, with the prices of many commodities climbing, the companies couldn’t ac- commodate price shocks, so they often wound up hiring banks to hedge their vulnerability to volatile product markets.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014
“I suppose the problem at the moment is that we don’t have a one- to-one mapping, because even our best theories aren’t completely ac- curate,” Ladyman said.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2014
The government has devised civic ac- tion programs to rebuild damaged hamlets, and anti-guerrilla patrols are often accompanied by doctors who bring free medical care to the hill people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very democratic, proud of being a plain American, she likes people, is always ac- cessible to strangers.
From Time Magazine Archive
And when the drummers, ac- cepting his drink, raised their glasses and said, “Here’s to you,” Charles was delighted.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
NOTE.—The suffix -ac is found only in Latin derivatives of Greek origin.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
A new report finds that about 3% of autos--high- and low-end models--have fungi and bacteria breeding in the moisture that collects on the a.c.
From Time Magazine Archive
It turned out that all electricity here was d.c., conjured up by commanding the electrons in a wire to move in one direction, and completely useless with a.c. motors.
From The Sky Is Falling by Del Rey, Lester
These writings are said to date from about 97 to 150 a.c.
From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini
Power.—A transformer for stepping down a commercial alternating current for lighting and heating the filament and for stepping up the commercial a.c., for charging the plate of a vacuum tube oscillator.
From The Radio Amateur's Hand Book by Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick)
In the third century a.c. he composed in Greek a history of his native land, which has perished.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
Other historical Pasadena figures in the book include the bookseller A.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Tired of having to scrap their way through the streets of West Compton in the early 1970s, A.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
But the filmmaking team is fairly confident it belongs to Irvine, due to the sock found inside the boot being embroidered with the words "A.C. Irvine".
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024
The company was born in the garage of A.C.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
This brigade formed part of the 1st A.C. which had arrived at St. Omer from the Aisne on the 17th and 18th, and had been billeted outside Ypres on the night of the 19th.
From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.
Chris Coucheron-Aamot, a guest at the Sandals resort, wrote on Facebook that the cause of the episode “may have been a fault with the a/c in the unit, causing a toxic coolant leak.”
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022
During this meeting, Spencer noted some 30 claims which he attributes to Bashir, including Jephson's alleged plots against her: "Jephson - dangerous: money. Left offshore a/c in March 1994".
From BBC ● May 20, 2021
But then, not all of those 90% of American households with a/c are affluent – not even close.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2019
Not a single prison should get a/c before all the schools in our nation have a/c.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2016
Was two hours late getting in to Chicago on a/c freight wreck and missed seeing Kuhner his sister's daughter gets married and Kuhner goes to the wedding.
From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague
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