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saic

saic noun: a kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava.

Noun

saic (plural saics)

  1. A kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava

Proper noun capitalized: SAIC

SAIC

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Science Applications International Corporation, a defense contractor, one of the largest employee-owned companies in the USA.

Forms of saic

pluralsaics
alternative form (obsolete)saick

Origin of saic

From French saïque, from Italian saicca, from Ottoman Turkish شایقه (şayka), from Bulgarian ша́йка (šájka) (a variant of Bulgarian ча́йка (čájka)), from Proto-Slavic *čajьka. Doublet of Czajka.

Questions about saic

What does saic mean?
Saic means a kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava.
What part of speech is saic?
Saic can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of saic?
The plural of saic is saics.

Words near saic in the dictionary

  1. Saia
  2. Saias
  3. saibara
  4. saibling
  5. saiblings
  6. saic
  7. SAICA
  8. SAICAR
  9. SAICAR synthase
  10. saice
  11. saices

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: saic (page history and authors); SAIC (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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