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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CTC Cornell Theory Center. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CTC."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CTC | Danish | Fjernstyring | Transportation |
CTC | Dutch | Chloortetracycline | N/A |
CTC | English | Cemented tungsten carbide | N/A |
CTC | Italian | Collegatevi | Transportation |
CTC | Spanish | Costes de transición a la competencia | Economics, Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CTC |
| Specialty definitions using "CTC": computed tomographic colonography, Cornell Theory Center, ctc operator ♦ TLAs, traffic-control operator. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Periodicals |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | CTC News reported on August 20th that China only has 50,000 GPRS users, most of them are from Guangdong province. (references) | |
Economic History | Taiwan | Agencies that need to purchase equipment inform CTC of their requirements. (references) |
Taiwan | CTC itself estimates that they procure less than 10 percent of the authorities total procurement. (references) | |
Qatar | Under the direction of the Ministry of Finance, Economy and Commerce, the CTC handles the bidding process and awarding of contracts. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cuba | The CTC is a member of the Communist, formerly Soviet-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions. (references) |
Colombia | On November 1, members of the CUT, the CGTD, and the CTC staged a 24-hour strike to protest the Government's economic and social policies, high unemployment, and violence against labor leaders and human rights activists. (references) | |
Cuba | According to Minister of Basic Industry Marcos Portal, the state employment agencies consult with the Party, the CTC, and the Union of Communist Youth to ensure that the workers chosen "deserve" to work in a joint enterprise. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CTC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.06% of the time. "CTC" is used about 81 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 95.06% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.47% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 2.47% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 81 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | CTC Communications Group Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CTC": Cuba-ctc. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CTC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | シーソー遊び (CD, CD-ROM, ceiling, ceiling lamp, centralized traffic control, coelacanth, compact disk, computerized typesetting system, consumer price index, consumer price survey, CPI, CPS, CTS, fielding practice, maximum amount to allot for a budget, Sea Beam, sea berth, Sea Chicken, sea utopia, seafood, seahorse, Sealab, seamless, seat, seat belt, seat cover, seat warmer, seed, seesaw, series, sheet, sheet feeder, sheet pile, skiers' greeting meaning "Good skiing!"). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | シーティーシー (centralized traffic control). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ctcay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-t" | |
+2 letters: cacti, catch, coact, cutch, ictic. | |
+3 letters: accent, accept, accost, acetic, arctic, cachet, cactus, cantic, catchy, citric, clitic, clutch, coacts, cratch, cretic, critic, crotch, crutch, cultch, cultic, cystic, decoct, hectic, lactic, occult, pectic, scotch, scutch, stucco, tactic, tictac, tictoc. | |
+4 letters: accents, accepts, accosts, account, accrete, accurst, acmatic, acrotic, actinic, arctics, ascetic, ascitic, atactic, baccate, cachets, cactoid, calcite, catcall, catcher, catches, catchup, catclaw, catechu, catface, cathect, caustic, centric, cerotic, chaotic, chicest, circlet, circuit, clastic, claucht, clitics, clutchy, coacted, coactor, cockpit, cocomat, coconut, cocotte, coenact, coerect, colitic, collect, comatic, cometic, compact, conceit, concent, concept, concert, concoct, conduct, confect, connect, contact, convect, convict, copycat, correct, cretics, crewcut, cricket, critics, crochet, crocket, cryptic, cutback, cutches, cuticle, cyclist, decocts, deictic, docetic, ectatic, ectopic, icteric, mycotic, occiput, occults, octadic, orectic, peccant, petcock, practic, saccate, sceptic, schtick, sciatic, scratch, smectic, stichic, stuccos, succoth, tactics, technic, tictacs, tictocs, tobacco, toccata, toccate. | |
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