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 Dictionary entry overview: What does BC mean? 

• BC (adverb)
  The adverb BC has 1 sense:

1. before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born

  Familiarity information: BC used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BC (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born

Synonyms:

B.C.; BC; before Christ

Context example:

in 200 BC

 Context examples 

Encoded by human BC-2 Gene, 222-amino acid 32 kD BC-2 Protein has an unknown function and low similarity to Vps24p (S. cerevisiae).

(BC-2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

At the El Barranquete necropolis, the earliest burials would have taken place between 3030 and 2915 BC, again some 4,000 years ago, and the most recent between 1075 and 815 BC, about 2,000 years ago.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

Cullin Family Genes encode Cullin Family Proteins, which are components of SCF ubiquitin ligase complexes or E3 ubiquitin ligase complexes with elongin BC complexes and other factors, involved in ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation of target cell cycle, signal transduction, and transcription proteins.

(Cullin Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A plasmid DNA encoding for the A fragment of Diphtheria Toxin (DTA) under the control of the H19 gene promoter (BC-819 or DTA-H19) and mixed with the transfectant polyethylenimine (PEI), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(BC-819 Plasmid/Polyethylenimine Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

The archaeologists have identified a series of hitherto unrevealed funeral rituals, which were performed between the end of the second millennium BC and the beginning of the first millennium BC in the Biniadris Cave located in Menorca.

(Hair was dyed for first time as part of funeral rituals, University of Granada)

In the case of Panoría, the first burials would have taken place between 3525 and 3195 BC (about 5500 years ago), with the last ones taking place between 2125 and 1980 BC (about 4,000 years ago), the burials there spanning over a period of approximately 1500 years.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)