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DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Defense Technical Information Center mean?
• DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER (noun)
The noun DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER has 1 sense:
1. the agency in the Department of Defense that provides scientific and technical information to federal agencies and their contractors
Familiarity information: DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The agency in the Department of Defense that provides scientific and technical information to federal agencies and their contractors
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Defense Technical Information Center; DTIC
Hypernyms ("Defense Technical Information Center" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Defense Technical Information Center" is a part of...):
Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)
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