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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oct mean? 

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

1. the month following September and preceding November

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following September and preceding November

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Oct; October

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

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Oct"):

Columbus Day; Discovery Day; October 12 (a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)

October 24; United Nations Day (a day for celebrating the founding of the United Nations)

mid-October (the middle part of October)

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

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 Context examples 

2016 TB57 is a rather small asteroid — about 50 to 115 feet (16 to 36 meters) in size — that will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31 at just beyond five times the distance of the moon.

(Catalog of Known Near-Earth Asteroids Tops 15,000, NASA)

NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars orbiters, while preserving opportunities to gather valuable scientific data, as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring heads toward a close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19.

(Mars spacecraft prepare for close comet flyby, NASA)

The asteroid will fly past Earth at a safe distance slightly farther than the moon's orbit on Oct. 31 at 10:05 a.m. PDT (1:05 p.m. EDT).

(Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

On Oct. 19, 2017, astronomers confirmed it was the first object of interstellar origin that we’ve seen.

(New Study Shows What Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Can Teach Us, NASA)

On Oct. 12 EDT (Oct. 11 PDT), a small asteroid designated 2012 TC4 will safely pass by Earth at a distance of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers).

(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)

A/2017 U1 was discovered Oct. 19 by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

This syndrome was previously referred to as Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome until BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME was identified as a distinct entity. (From N Engl J Med. 1989 Oct 12;321(15):1002-9)

(Laurence-Moon Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

At the Museum of the Environment on Thursday (Oct 20), the minister received two boxes containing more than 800,000 signatures collected by Greenpeace and other organisations.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

Cassini is scheduled to make a close flyby of Enceladus on Oct. 28, in the mission's deepest-ever dive through the moon's active plume of icy material.

(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)

Information from provider and not independently verified by NIH: Cells are positive for cell markers SSEA-3, SSEA-4, TRA 1-60, TRA 1-81, Oct-4, and alkaline phosphatase; Cells are negative for the cell marker SSEA1.

(BG01, NCI Thesaurus)