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NCDC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does NCDC mean?
• NCDC (noun)
The noun NCDC has 1 sense:
1. the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data
Familiarity information: NCDC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
National Climatic Data Center; NCDC
Hypernyms ("NCDC" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("NCDC" is a part of...):
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NOAA (an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather)
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