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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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 |
DFC | English | Disk file check | N/A |
DFC | French | Finances et comptabilité | Public Administration, Finance |
DFC | Italian | Finanze e contabilità | Public Administration, Finance |
DFC | Latin | RM:Finanzas e contabilitad | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.74% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 3.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dfc | 44 |
ceramics dfc | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 46 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. ..-. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000110 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D F C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0046 0043 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)384037 |
| 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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