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kc

kc is the abbreviation of kilocycle.

Meaning of kilocycle

Noun

kilocycle (plural kilocycles)

  1. A thousand cycles (of any periodic phenomenon).
  2. (ellipsis) A thousand cycles per second; a kilohertz.

Proper noun capitalized: KC

KC

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Kansas City.

Noun (1) capitalized: KC

KC (plural KCs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of King's Counsel.
    • "How about a K.C.?" Well, they don't plead in police courts."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
    • A leading KC who as a young barrister represented the Association of London Authorities at the Fennell Inquiry into the King's Cross fire, he is associated with Labour's Corbynite left.2024 July 24, “Network News: Labour's new team at DfT packed with railway experience”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 9
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of KatyCat.
    • As well as announcing ‘When I’m Gone’ and sharing a snippet of the track, [Katy] Perry told fans to mark their calendars for January 10, 2022, writing, “it will be the day im giving the KCs everything they want.”2021 December 16, Will Lavin, “Katy Perry teases new Alesso collaboration ‘When I’m Gone’”, in NME

Noun (2) capitalized: KC

KC (plural KCs)

  1. (Unicode) Compatibility Decomposition followed by Canonical Composition

Forms of kc

pluralKCs

Words formed from kc

Questions about kc

What does kc mean?
Kc means compatibility Decomposition followed by Canonical Composition.
What is kc the abbreviation of?
Kc is the abbreviation of kilocycle.
What part of speech is kc?
Kc can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near kc in the dictionary

  1. kbp
  2. kbps
  3. kbs
  4. kbyte
  5. kbytes
  6. kc
  7. kc/s
  8. KCAA
  9. kcal
  10. kcalorie
  11. kcalories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kc (page history and authors); KC (page history and authors); kilocycle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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