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TOC

TOC is the initialism of table of contents.

TOC is the initialism of train operating company.

TOC is the initialism of translocon on outer chloroplast membrane.

TOC is the initialism of tactical operations center.

TOC is the initialism of theory of constraints.

Meaning of table of contents

Noun

table of contents (plural tables of contents)

  1. A list of titles of the parts of a book or document, organized in the order in which the parts appear.
  2. A region of data on a compact disc that describes the contents that follow.
    Synonyms:
    TOC

Meaning of train operating company

Noun

train operating company (plural train operating companies)

  1. (UK) A company that operates passenger trains on the mainline railway network in Great Britain under franchise or license from the Government.
    • The DfT has remained committed to Driver Controlled Operation with the elimination of guards, and expects train operating companies to work in this mode when new vehicles are introduced.2019 November 6, “Industry Insider: Blame the policymakers”, in Rail, page 76

Noun capitalized: ToC

ToC (plural ToCs)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of TOC (“table of contents”).
    • The first method aims at parsing the ToC page so as to segment it into entries, each entry being formed by a label and a reference to a page number.2010, Hervé Déjean, Jean-Luc Meunier, “XRCE Participation to the 2009 Book Structure Task”, in Shlomo Geva, Jaap Kamps, Andrew Trotman, editors, Focused Retrieval and Evaluation: 8th International...
    • Fig.11 shows the ToC structure of a book which can be departed into following seven layers: (1) book title (BT); (2) chapter (CH); (3) subchapter (SC); (4) paragraph (PH); (5) page (PG); (6) sentence (ST); and (7) words (WD).2012, Xueming Qian, “Semantic Based Sport Video Browsing”, in Muhammad Tanvir Afzal, editor, Semantics in Action: Applications and Scenarios, InTech, →ISBN, page 155

Forms of TOC

pluralTOCs
pluralToCs

Phrases with TOC

Questions about TOC

What is TOC the initialism of?
TOC is the initialism of table of contents.
What part of speech is TOC?
TOC is a noun.
What is the plural of TOC?
The plural of TOC is TOCs.

Words near TOC in the dictionary

  1. toby rib
  2. tobying
  3. tobyman
  4. tobymen
  5. Tobys
  6. TOC
  7. toc emma
  8. toc emmas
  9. Toca
  10. tocainide
  11. Tocal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: TOC (page history and authors); ToC (page history and authors); table of contents (page history and authors); train operating company (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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