ICC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ICC mean? 

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

1. a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

ICC; Interstate Commerce Commission

Context example:

the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency

Hypernyms ("ICC" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)

 Context examples 

Using a statistical measurement called the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), which measures how well individuals within a group resemble each other (with a value of 1 marking perfect agreement), the researchers found that identical twins had an ICC of 0.91 for eye-looking and 0.86 for mouth-looking.

(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)