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Translingual
Symbol
SC
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Seychelles.
- Synonym: SYC (alpha-3)
English
Adjective
SC (not comparable)
- (medicine) Abbreviation of subcutaneous.
- Alternative form: s.c.
Noun
SC (countable and uncountable, plural SCs)
- Initialism of superior court.
- Initialism of status conference.
- Initialism of settlement conference.
- Initialism of small claims.
- (with proper names) Initialism of State College.
- Initialism of Senior Counsel.
- (Australia, wayfinding) Initialism of shopping centre.
- (India) Initialism of Scheduled Caste.
- (astronomy) Initialism of supercluster.
- (biology) Initialism of stem cell.
2004 May, Zhuo Chen, Cintia S. de Paiva, Lihui Luo, Francis L. Kretzer, Stephen C. Pflugfelder, “Characterization of Putative Stem Cell Phenotype in Human Limbal Epithelia”, in Stem Cells, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 355–366:This putative SC phenotype may facilitate the identification and isolation of limbal epithelial SCs.
- (medicine) Initialism of subcutaneous injection.
- (crystallography) Initialism of simple cubic.
- (physics) Initialism of superconductor.
- (physics) Initialism of supercapacitor.
- (motor racing) Initialism of safety car.
- (sports) Initialism of sports club.
- Short for supercentenarian.
Derived terms
- (stem cell): PSC, iPSC, piPSC, hiPSC, ESC, hESC, HSC, hHSC, tHSC, MSC, hMSC, mMSC, NSC, ADSC
- (safety car): VSC
Proper noun
SC
- Initialism of Supreme Court.
- (UN) Initialism of Security Council (of the United Nations).
- Initialism of South Carolina.
- Initialism of Serbo-Croatian.
- (video games) Initialism of StarCraft.
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
SC
- Initialism of Senatus consultum, a decree of the Roman Senate.
Phrase
SC
- (chiefly money) Initialism of Senatus consulto, with the consultation of the Senate, by order of the Senate.
Portuguese
Proper noun
SC
- Abbreviation of Santa Catarina. (Brazilian state)