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OSC

OSC is the initialism of order to show cause.

OSC is the initialism of object show community.

OSC is the initialism of Open Sound Control.

OSC is the initialism of Ontario Securities Commission.

Meaning of order to show cause

Noun

order to show cause (plural orders to show cause)

  1. A type of court order that requires a person to justify, explain, or prove something to the court.
    Synonyms:
    OSC, OTSC

Meaning of Open Sound Control

Proper noun

Open Sound Control

  1. A communication protocol among computers and multimedia devices, such as sound synthesizers, which is optimized for modern networking technology.

Forms of OSC

pluralOSCs

Questions about OSC

What is OSC the initialism of?
OSC is the initialism of order to show cause.

Words near OSC in the dictionary

  1. Osbornes
  2. Osbornes Flat
  3. osbornite
  4. Osbourn
  5. Osbourne
  6. OSC
  7. Osc.
  8. Oscan
  9. Oscans
  10. oscar
  11. Oscar Asche

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: OSC (page history and authors); order to show cause (page history and authors); Open Sound Control (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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