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cyc

1 American  
[sahyk] / saɪk /

noun

Informal.
  1. cyclorama.


CYC 2 American  
cyc. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. cyclopedia.


Etymology

Origin of cyc

Shortened form

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With that, George and Gil were called over to the cyc wall, where they posed in various configurations.

From The New Yorker Sep. 21, 2016

The CYC dates to the early 1920s, started by boat owners from the Los Angeles Athletic Club and other yacht clubs.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2023

For the last 24 years, Dakoske Koslu and her family have been dedicated members of the CYC, whose clubhouse is a few miles away from their home in Playa del Rey.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2023

The first message she read simply stated, “The CYC is gone.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2023

But programs like CYC and Cog, not chess machines like Deep Blue, currently define the cutting edge of applied artificial intelligence--the 40-year effort to build machines that think.

From Time Magazine Archive

But CYC, with its ability to make commonsensical leaps of logic, can connect a request, say, for pictures of "happy people" with the caption, "A man watching his daughter learn to walk."

From Time Magazine Archive

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