ADC

abbr.
1 aide-de-camp.
2 analogue-digital converter.

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abbreviation

1. aide-de-camp

2. aid to dependent children

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1. advanced developing countries.

2. Aid to Dependent Children.

3. Air Defense Command.

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abbrev

1. Advice of duration and charge, a telephone service by which the operator advises the caller of the cost of the call he or she has just made, now called Charge Advice (also AD and C)

2. Aide-de-camp

3. Analogue-to-digital converter (computing)

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ADC UK [ˌeɪ diː ˈsiː] US [ˌeɪ di ˈsi] noun [countable] [singular ADC plural ADCs] computing

analogue-to-digital converter: a piece of equipment that changes analogue information into a digital form that can be used by a computer

Thesaurus: computer equipment and parts_hyponym

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ADC¹ (no periods),

1. Aid to Dependent Children (a program of the federal and state governments in the United States to provide financial and medical assistance to needy children and the adults taking care of them).

2. advanced developing country: »

Foreign aid has contributed to the rise of a series of economically free and prosperous “ADCs,”…including South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand (Time).

ADC² (no periods) or A.D.C.,

1. aide-de-camp.

2. Air (or Aerospace) Defense Command.

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abbr.

■ aide-de-camp

■ Aid to Dependent Children

■ Air Defense Command

■ analog-to-digital converter

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ADC [ADC] [ˌeɪ diː ˈsiː] [ˌeɪ diː ˈsiː] abbreviation

↑aide-de-camp