DFC

  

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DFC

Specialty Definition: DFC

DomainDefinition

Computing

DFC A dataflow language. ["Data Flow Language DFC: Design and Implementation", S. Toshio et al, Systems and Computers in Japan, 20(6):1- 10 (Jun 1989)]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: DFC

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DFC

EnglishDisk file checkN/A

DFC

FrenchFinances et comptabilitéPublic Administration, Finance

DFC

ItalianFinanze e contabilità Public Administration, Finance

DFC

LatinRM:Finanzas e contabilitadN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: DFC

Specialty definitions using "DFC": TLAs. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DFC" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (Financial Administrating and Accounting).

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Commercial Usage: DFC

DomainTitle

Books

  • Buck McNair: Canadian Spitfire Ace, The Story of Group Captain R W McNair DSO, DFC & 2 Bars, Ld'H, CdG, RCAF (reference)

  • Coningham : a biography of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC (reference)

  • Double mission : RAF fighter ace and SOE agent, Manfred Czernin, DSO, MC, DFC (reference)

  • Ensor's Endeavour: A Biography of Wing Commander Mick Ensor Dso & Bar, Dfc & Bar, Afc, Rnzaf & Raf (reference)

  • Fighter leader : the story of Wing Commander Ian Gleed, DSO, DFC, Croix de Guerre (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DFC

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Honduras

The DFC is not opposed to the bar code being included on labels. (references)

Honduras

Any exceptions to the above requirements must be approved by the DFC. (references)

Honduras

However, all samples are subject to laboratory analysis and DFC approval. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DFC

"DFC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.74% of the time. "DFC" is used about 54 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)90.74%4948,677
Noun (singular)5.56%3202,518
Noun (common)3.7%2245,945
                    Total100.00%54N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DFC

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dfc

44

ceramics dfc

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DFC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-d-f"
 

+2 letters: decaf, faced.

 

+3 letters: chafed, codify, coifed, cuffed, decafs, deface, defect, deific, facade, farced, fecund, fenced, forced, fucked, fucoid, fundic.

 

+4 letters: acidify, chaffed, chefdom, cheffed, chuffed, clefted, codfish, coffled, cofound, coiffed, confide, cornfed, crafted, defaced, defacer, defaces, defects, defence, deficit, deflect, defocus, deforce, defrock, defunct, dogface, dulcify, edifice, effaced, enfaced, facades, faceted, faciend, factoid, fancied, faradic, fatidic, fetched, filched, flaccid, flacked, flecked, fleeced, flicked, flocced, flocked, fluidic, focused, fracted, frocked, fucoids, refaced, scarfed, scoffed, scuffed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DFC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 46 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..-.    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000110 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#70 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0046 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384037

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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