"CAR" meaning in English

See CAR in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} CAR
  1. Initialism of Central African Republic. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Central African Republic Translations (Central African Republic): RCA (French), RCA (Portuguese), ЦАР (english: CAR) (Russian), ЦАР [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), CAR [Latin] (Serbo-Croatian), RCA (Spanish), ЦАР (english: CAR) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-CAR-en-name-Fv-PmStv Disambiguation of 'Central African Republic': 88 4 8
  2. (sports) Abbreviation of Carolina. (North Carolina or South Carolina, states in the United States of America) Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Carolina (extra: North Carolina or South Carolina, states in the United States of America) Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-CAR-en-name-1UDV2aj7 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  3. Initialism of Cordillera Administrative Region. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Cordillera Administrative Region
    Sense id: en-CAR-en-name-a6ldU4pK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 20 55 7 15

Noun

Forms: CARs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} CAR (countable and uncountable, plural CARs)
  1. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Abbreviation of carnitine. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable Alternative form of: carnitine Categories (topical): Organic compounds
    Sense id: en-CAR-en-noun-dIoRz~dj Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
  2. (countable, immunology) Initialism of chimeric antigen receptor. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism Alternative form of: chimeric antigen receptor Categories (topical): Immunology
    Sense id: en-CAR-en-noun-yk5ut~9N Topics: immunology, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ALC (english: acetyl-L-carnitine), ALCAR (english: acetyl-L-carnitine), LAC (english: L-acetylcarnitine), DAC (english: D-acetylcarnitine), DLC (english: DL-carnitine)

Inflected forms

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