AUC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AUC mean? 

• AUC (noun)
  The noun AUC has 1 sense:

1. a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members

  Familiarity information: AUC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

AUC; Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia; United Self-Defense Force of Colombia; United Self-Defense Group of Colombia

Context example:

the AUC conducted over 800 assassinations in one year

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)

 Context examples 

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the dose.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The observed area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity divided by the surface area.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The observed area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity divided by the dose.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the curve (AUC) over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by the weight.

(AUC from T1 to T2 Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

The observed area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity divided by the body mass index.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The observed area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity divided by the weight.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.

(AUC Infinity Observed Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Observed Area Under the Curve Infinity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)