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SMC

"SMC" is a common misspelling or typo for: sac, sic, smack, smock, sum, sumac.


Specialty Definition: SMC

DomainDefinition

Space

Small Magellanic Cloud, the smaller of two small galaxies orbiting nearby our Milky Way galaxy, which are visible from the southern hemisphere. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: SMC

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

SMC

EnglishSun Media Corp.N/A

SMC

FrenchStérilité mâle cytoplasmiqueMedicine

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

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Commercial Usage: SMC

DomainTitle

References

  • SMC Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • New directions in reinforced thermoset plastics : SMC, BMC, pultrusion, filament winding, SRIM, RTM (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

  • SMC 2632W Wireless PC ard (802.11b) (reference)

  • SMC Networks SMC7004VWBR Barricade Wireless 4-Port Cable/DSL Router (reference)

  • SMC SMC2404WBR Barricade Turbo 22 Mbps Wireless Cable/DSL Router (reference)

  • Pentax SMC -2 Diopter Correction Lens with M Adapter (reference)

  • SMC 5 Port 10MBPS Hub 5 RJ45 Ports Stand Alone Eternal Power Supply (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: SMC

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Bahrain

SMC is the largest hospital in Bahrain. (references)

Bahrain

A feasibility study was carried out to identify the most modern equipment to bring to SMC on a par with the most sophisticated hospitals in the field of health information systems and information technology. (references)

Nigeria

Babangida cited the misuse of power, violations of human rights by key officers of the SMC, and the government's failure to deal with the country's deepening economic crisis as justifications for the takeover. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: SMC

"SMC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.32% of the time. "SMC" is used about 31 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)90.32%2865,706
Noun (singular)6.45%2245,945
Noun (common)3.23%1339,140
                    Total100.00%31N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: SMC

CountryNameCountryName
Japan

SMC Corporation

USA

SMC Corporation

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SMC

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

smc

2,761

ircc smc

17

smc network

213

smc member

15

smc pneumatics

168

smc ez card

15

smc barricade

72

smc air cylinder

14

driver smc

72

smc connector

12

smc router

70

smc switch

11

smc corp

48

smc merchandise

11

smc product

47

emulator smc

10

smc corporation

46

smc 1255tx

10

smc valve

43

smc 7004

10

smc cylinder

40

smc ethernet

10

smc wireless

36

rom smc snes

10

smc barricade router

31

smc ez

10

smc wireless router

21

smc networking

9

smc wholesale

21

smc air valve

9

smc web site

21

free smc info.com

9

pneumatic smc

19

card driver ez smc

9

file smc

18

smc solenoid valve

9

smc network card

17

smc gift

9

smc fitting

17

smc pneumatics inc

9

driver network smc

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SMC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-m-s"
 

+1 letter: cams, cwms, macs, mocs, scam, scum.

 

+2 letters: acmes, calms, camas, cames, camps, chams, chasm, chums, clams, comas, combs, comes, comps, corms, crams, culms, cymas, cymes, maces, machs, macks, marcs, mesic, micas, micks, mocks, mucks, mucus, musca, music, osmic, scamp, scams, schmo, scram, scrim, scrum, scums, smack, smock, sumac.

 

+3 letters: amices, amicus, amucks, camass, camels, cameos, camisa, camise, campos, campus, caroms, celoms, cesium, champs, charms, chasms, chasmy, chemos, chiasm, chimbs, chimes, chimps, chirms, chomps, chrism, chumps, chymes, civism, claims, clamps, climbs, climes, clomps, clumps, clumsy, combes, combos, comers, comets, comics, commas, comose, comous, compos, compts, comtes, coombs, cosmic, cosmos, cramps, creams, cremes, crimes, crimps, crumbs, crumps, cubism, cumins, custom, cymars, cymols, cymose, cymous, emcees, locums, macaws, macers, maches, machos, macles, macons, macros, magics, manics, mascon, mascot, mastic, meccas, medics, mensch, mescal, miches, micros, mimics, minces, misact, miscue, miscut, mochas, mosaic, muches, mucins, mucors, mucosa, mucose, mucous, mucros, mulcts, muscae, muscat, muscid, muscle, muscly, musics, mystic, osmics, racism, sachem, sacrum, samech, scampi, scamps, schema, scheme, schism, schmoe, schmos, scrams, scream, scrimp, scrims, scrums, scummy, scutum, shmuck, sitcom, smacks, smirch, smocks, smooch, smutch, socman, socmen, sumach, sumacs, syncom, umiacs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SMC


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

53 4D 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)

01010011 01001101 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#77 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004D 0043

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

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

534737

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INDEX

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


  

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