3-letter words containing c
- ecr — efficient consumer response: the use of point-of-sale data to initiate the reordering of stock from a supplier
- ecs — European Communications Satellite
- ect — electroconvulsive therapy
- ecu — the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
- edc — European Defence Community
- eec — European Economic Community (now subsumed within the European Union)
- emc — Electromagnetic Compatibility
- enc — Enclosure (indicating that a letter is accompanied by further material).
- eoc — Equal Opportunities Commission
- eqc — Earthquake Commission
- erc — (database) An extended entity-relationship model.
- esc — escape
- etc — ExTendible Compiler
- f2c — A Fortran 77 to C translator by S. I. Feldman, D. M. Gay, M. W. Maimone and N. L. Schryer. Produces ANSI C or C++. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- fac — A large ornamental letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
- fca — Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
- fcb — (operating system) file control block.
- fcc — Face-centered cubic.
- fco — Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- fcp — Flat Concurrent Prolog.
- fcs — Frame Check Sequence
- fec — Forward Error Correction
- fic — A fanfic.
- fmc — Federal Maritime Commission
- fnc — Federal Networking Council
- foc — father of the chapel
- fpc — A translator from Backus's FP to C.
- fsc — Brothers of the Christian Schools; Christian Brothers
- ftc — Federal Trade Commission
- gac — The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.
- gca — ground control approach
- gcb — (Knight) Grand Cross of the Bath
- gcc — (compiler, programming) The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). GCC formerly meant the GNU C compiler, which is a very high quality, very portable compiler for C, C++ and Objective C. The compiler supports multiple front-ends and multiple back-ends by translating first into Register Transfer Language and from there into assembly code for the target architecture. Mailing lists: [email protected], [email protected] (announcements).
- gcd — greatest common divisor
- gce — General Certificate of Education: a public examination in specified subjects taken in English and Welsh schools at the ages of 17 and 18. The GCSE has replaced the former GCE O-level for 16-year-olds
- gcf — Greatest common factor.
- gch — gas(-fired) central heating
- gcl — General Control Language. A portable job control language.
- gcr — Group Code Recording
- gcs — gigacycles per second
- gct — (programming, tool) A test-coverage tool by Brian Marick <[email protected]>, based on GNU C. Version 1.4 was ported to Sun-3, Sun-4, RS/6000, 68000, 88000, HP-PA, IBM 3090, Ultrix, Convex, SCO but not Linux, Solaris, or Microsoft Windows. Commercial support is available from the author (+1 217 351 7228).
- ghc — (language) 1. Guarded horn clauses. 2. Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
- gic — Guaranteed Investment Certificate: a form of investment that earns interest but is guaranteed not to incur loss
- glc — Greater London Council, abolished 1986
- gmc — Germanic
- gnc — General Nursing Council
- goc — General Officer Commanding(-in-Chief)
- gtc — (on a commercial order for goods) good till cancelled (or countermanded)
- hac — Honourable Artillery Company
- hbc — Hudson's Bay Company