ac
abbreviation
acre; acres.
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1 Americanabbreviation
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,
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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American
abbreviation
A.C.
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American
abbreviation
A.C.
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American
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
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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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
Ngawang Doka replied in clear, sparkling English that carried a hint of a Canadian ac cent.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
An agent from Homeland Security Investigations determined that both men are in the U.S. illegally and that Balcarcel Ac has had two previous deportations, the affidavit states.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 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
The disasters suffered by his troops obliged him to retrace his steps without having advanced further than Ac Boulak, the last outpost erected by the Russians in 1839, at 180 kilometres from the Emba.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
The AC in my car was on the fritz and I arrived red faced and sweaty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Against AC Milan on Saturday, Chelsea's standout performer of pre-season, Joao Pedro, scored twice in a 3-0 win to take his tally to six goals in as many games, including behind-closed-doors fixtures.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Americans need their AC this cold to sleep.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
AC Milan and Kaka's heads were turned by City's staggering £108m offer, which would have been more than double the world record transfer at the time.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
“There’s no AC in your dad’s car,” said Mr. Patterson.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
To study the process, the researchers developed a mouse model in which they could switch off the lamin A/C gene specifically in adipocytes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Appeared in the July 25, 2026, print edition as 'Notable & Quotable: A/C'.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
I mean cool both figuratively and literally since the A/C is always blasting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 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
Very democratic, proud of being a plain American, she likes people, is always ac- cessible to strangers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
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
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 Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
Other historical Pasadena figures in the book include the bookseller A.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
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 previous six editions of the Champions League, for example, had been won by Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and A.C.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
It explains how the group, formally known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, was founded by A.C.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
These two divisions then formed the 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
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
If you pay £5 into my a/c at Childs, it will be simplest.
From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer
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