NOC

Pronunciation (US):

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

1. an undercover agent who is given no official cover

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

• NOC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An undercover agent who is given no official cover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

intelligence agent; intelligence officer; operative; secret agent (a person secretly employed in espionage for a government)

 Context examples 

Gallium Ga 68-DOTANOC is a conjugate of the somatostatin analogue Nal3-octreotide (NOC) and gallium Ga 68-labeled 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-N,N',N'',N'''-tetraacetic acid (DOTA).

(Gallium Ga 68-DOTANOC, NCI Thesaurus)

The somatostatin analogue NOC has a high affinity for somatostatin receptor subtypes 2, 3, and 5; these receptor subtypes have been shown to be present in large numbers on neuroendocrine tumors and their metastases, while most other normal tissues express low levels of these somatostatin receptor subtypes.

(Gallium Ga 68-DOTANOC, NCI Thesaurus)