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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NC mean? 

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

1. a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "NC"):

Pee Dee; Pee Dee River (a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States)

Cape Fear River (a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear)

Blue Ridge; Blue Ridge Mountains (a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia)

Winston-Salem (a city of north central North Carolina)

Wilmington (a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River)

Greenville (a city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market)

Greensboro (a city of north central North Carolina)

Goldsboro (a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina)

Fayetteville (a town in south central North Carolina)

Durham (a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University)

Charlotte; Queen City (the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina)

Chapel Hill (a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina)

Asheville (a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte)

capital of North Carolina; Raleigh (capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina)

Hatteras Island (a barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore)

Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina)

Cape Fear (a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Holonyms ("NC" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Carolina; Carolinas (the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina)

Holonyms ("NC" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

 Context examples 

The chemical structure is C1(NC=C2)=C2C=CC=C1.

(Indole, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

"We are not limited to binary configurations, such as a grabber being either open or closed," says Jessica Liu, first author of the paper and a Ph.D. student at NC State.

(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)

DACH-platin micelle NC-4016 is prepared through the formation of a polymer-metal complex between DACH-platin and the polyethylene glycol-poly (glutamic acid) block copolymer, PEG-P(Glu).

(DACH-Platin Micelle NC-4016, NCI Thesaurus)

In micellar nanoparticle-encapsulated cisplatin NC-6004, cisplatin forms a polymer-metal complex with hydrophilic polyethylene glycol poly(glutamic acid) block copolymers by attaching to the micelle inner core consisting of the hydrophobic polyamino acids.

(Micellar Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Cisplatin NC-6004, NCI Thesaurus)

The ACOSOG (Durham, NC) includes general and specialty surgeons, representatives of related oncologic disciplines and allied health professionals in academic medical centers and community practices throughout the US and foreign countries.

(American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)

We wanted to design a flexible thermoelectric harvester that does not compromise on the material quality of rigid devices yet provides similar or better efficiency, said Mehmet Ozturk, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

All of those things are valuable, in terms of this technology's utility in biomedical or aerospace applications, says Joe Tracy, a professor of materials science and engineering at NC State.

(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)