"TC" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: TCs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} TC (plural TCs)
  1. (electronics) Initialism of time counter. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: time counter
  2. (electronics) Initialism of thermocouple. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: thermocouple
  3. Initialism of traffic collision. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: traffic collision
    Sense id: en-TC-en-noun-ffFB5Ek3
  4. Initialism of textile color. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: textile color
    Sense id: en-TC-en-noun-vuw019mS
  5. Initialism of total compensation. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: total compensation
    Sense id: en-TC-en-noun-Qgv6Sg~R
  6. (chess) Initialism of time control. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: time control
    Sense id: en-TC-en-noun-HBYiykTy Categories (other): Chess Topics: board-games, chess, games
  7. (video games) Initialism of total conversion. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: total conversion
    Sense id: en-TC-en-noun-u8miLxNi Categories (other): Video games, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 4 3 2 1 1 9 22 7 8 4 11 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 4 1 0 0 7 27 8 8 2 13 24 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 9 5 1 1 8 36 12 13 3 Topics: video-games
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Tc, TDC

Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} TC
  1. (advertising) Initialism of till cancelled/countermanded. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: till cancelled/countermanded
    Sense id: en-TC-en-phrase-L~bBoHHa Categories (other): Advertising Topics: advertising, business, marketing
  2. (Internet) Initialism of topic closed: indicating that no further replies are allowed in a discussion thread. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: topic closed (extra: indicating that no further replies are allowed in a discussion thread)
    Sense id: en-TC-en-phrase-TWCxFnuX Categories (other): Internet

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb}} TC
  1. Initialism of take care. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: take care
    Sense id: en-TC-en-verb-pYRgXMHY

Inflected forms

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        "(chess) Initialism of time control."
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          "ref": "2000 November, “Gunman Chronicles”, in PC Zone, page 80:",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-07-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-07-01 using wiktextract (45c4a21 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.