PAC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PAC mean? 

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

1. committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

PAC; political action committee

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

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

 Context examples 

PACs are maintained as circular molecules.

(P1-derived Artificial Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)

Pancreatic beta cells were engineered with a gene that encodes a photoactivatable adenylate cyclase (PAC) enzyme.

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The resource provides sequence assembly services such as plasmid, PCR product, lambda, cosmid, PAC, BAC DNA templates sequencing, and consultation services and protocols for designing sequencing strategies and for the preparation of substrates.

(DNA Sequencing Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Inserts up to 100Kb can be cloned in PACs.

(P1-derived Artificial Chromosome, NCI Thesaurus)

The PAC produces the molecule cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) when exposed to blue light, which in turn cranks up the glucose-stimulated production of insulin in the beta cell.

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)