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
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/ ˈeɪˈsi /
Also
AC,
or
a/c
abbreviation
A/C
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American
Or
a/c
ac-
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American
-ac
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American
a.c.
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A.C.
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A.C.
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American
abbreviation
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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
abbreviation
a/c
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British
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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Shortly after Khalife absconded from prison, at around 20:41 BST, Khan messaged his then-girlfriend Chowdhury's bank details and told her to "put 120£ in this ac… please thank u baby".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
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
It is also useful to express ac in terms of angular velocity.
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
Both men are being held in local jails, Balcarcel Ac in Charlottesville and Alvarado-Dubon in Richmond.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
No attorney is listed on court documents for Balcarcel Ac.
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 þe þe her naueð ibet muchel he haued to bete 135 Maniman seið hwo reche pine þe sal habben ende Ne bidde ich no bet bie ich alesed a domesdai of bende.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
The AC in my car was on the fritz and I arrived red faced and sweaty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Americans need their AC this cold to sleep.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
AC Milan will pay tribute to their former captain ahead of their friendly match again Inter on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The current AC Milan squad is in Australia on a pre-season tour but some first-team players not involved did attend, including USA forward Christian Pulisic.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
“What were you doing with the window open and the AC on? Electricity’s not free.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Older APOE2 knock-in mice had smaller nucleoli, higher levels of the nuclear scaffolding protein Lamin A/C, and better-preserved heterochromatin in the hippocampus than mice carrying APOE3 or APOE4.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Appeared in the July 25, 2026, print edition as 'Notable & Quotable: A/C'.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
The first statement shows a payment was sent to a Barclays account where Reinaldo Avila da Silva is named as "A/C", typically an abbreviation for account.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
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
She is all that is artistic without being vulgar and is the one ac- tress today who can wink without being suggestive.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
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
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 A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins
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 Donald Alexander Mackenzie
The 60 h.p. has parallel a.c. cylinders, the other two are radial w.c.
From Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1913 by Various
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 Lester Del Rey
Other historical Pasadena figures in the book include the bookseller A.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
His gardening business began by accident in 1979, when he began volunteering at the A.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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 case originally required John R. Wooden Middle School in Martinsville to allow a seventh-grader identified only as A.C. to have access to the restroom while litigation continues.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
The 6th Division arrived at this time, thus technically completing General Pulteney's 3rd A.C.
From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Ernest W. Hamilton
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
If that power comes from fossil fuels, a/c alone will account for a half-degree Celsius rise in global temperatures.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2019
People with no a/c had access to open windows and the wind.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 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 Montague Glass
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