"OCT" meaning in English

See OCT in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} OCT
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Oct (“October”). Wikidata QID: Q124 Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: Oct (extra: October)
    Sense id: en-OCT-en-name-en:Q124 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 14 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 68 13 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 72 10 17 Related terms: JAN [comeronym], FEB [comeronym], MAR [comeronym], APR [comeronym], MAY [comeronym], JUN [comeronym], JUL [comeronym], AUG [comeronym], SEP [comeronym], NOV [comeronym], DEC [comeronym]
  2. Initialism of Oxford Classical Texts. Wikidata QID: Q658748 Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Oxford Classical Texts Coordinate_terms: OCD
    Sense id: en-OCT-en-name-en:Q658748

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} OCT (uncountable)
  1. (medicine) Initialism of optical coherence tomography: an optical signal acquisition and processing method that captures high-resolution three-dimensional images from biological tissues. Wikidata QID: Q899552 Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: optical coherence tomography (extra: an optical signal acquisition and processing method that captures high-resolution three-dimensional images from biological tissues) Hypernyms: tomography, imaging
    Sense id: en-OCT-en-noun-en:Q899552 Categories (other): Medicine Topics: medicine, sciences
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