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sc

sc is the initialism of softcover.

sc is the initialism of small caps.

sc is the initialism of single crochet.

sc is the initialism of screen capture.

Meaning of softcover

Noun

softcover (plural softcovers)

  1. A book having such covers.

See all 2 meanings of softcover

Meaning of small caps

Noun

small caps pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Capital letters shown in the same form but in small size (typically of the same size as lower-case letters).
    • Because small caps are smaller than full size caps—slightly larger than the x-height—they are less obtrusive and do not overwhelm the upper and lower case type as full size capitals would.2006, Nigel French, chapter 3, in InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Press, →ISBN, page 37
    Synonyms:
    small capitals

Adjective capitalized: SC

SC (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of subcutaneous.

Noun (1) capitalized: SC

SC (countable and uncountable, plural SCs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of service charge.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of superior court.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of status conference.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of settlement conference.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of small claims.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of State College.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Senior Counsel.
  8. (Australia, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of shopping centre.
  9. (India, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Scheduled Caste.
  10. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of supercluster.
  11. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of stem cell.
    • This putative SC phenotype may facilitate the identification and isolation of limbal epithelial SCs.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...
  12. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of subcutaneous injection.
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  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of simple cubic.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of superconductor.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of supercapacitor.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of safety car.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sports club.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of supercentenarian.

Proper noun capitalized: SC

SC

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Supreme Court.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, UN) Initialism of Security Council (of the United Nations).
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, postal) Initialism of South Carolina: a state of the United States.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Serbo-Croatian.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of StarCraft.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Santa Catarina: a state of Brazil.

Noun (2) capitalized: Sc

Sc

  1. (chiefly US/Canada) The Scott catalogue of stamp values.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of subcosta.

Forms of sc

pluralSCs

Words formed from sc

Phrases with sc

Questions about sc

What does sc mean?
Sc means the Scott catalogue of stamp values.
What is sc the initialism of?
Sc is the initialism of softcover.
What part of speech is sc?
Sc can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near sc in the dictionary

  1. SBUX
  2. SbW
  3. SBX
  4. sby
  5. Sbârcioara
  6. sc
  7. Sc'ianew
  8. SC'IȺNEW̱
  9. sc.
  10. Sc.B.
  11. Sc.D.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sc (page history and authors); SC (page history and authors); Sc (page history and authors); softcover (page history and authors); small caps (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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