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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | RFC /R-F-C/ n. [Request For Comment] One of a long-established series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the Internet mail-format standard). The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated through an institution such as ANSI. For this reason, they remain known as RFCs even once adopted as standards. The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has important advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process typical of ANSI or ISO. Emblematic of some of these advantages is the existence of a flourishing tradition of `joke' RFCs; usually at least one a year is published, usually on April 1st. Well-known joke RFCs have included 527 ("ARPAWOCKY", R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973), 748 ("Telnet Randomly-Lose Option", Mark R. Crispin; 1 April 1978), and 1149 ("A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers", D. Waitzman, BBN STC; 1 April 1990). The first was a Lewis Carroll pastiche; the second a parody of the TCP-IP documentation style, and the third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese, describing protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by carrier pigeon (since actually implemented; see Appendix A). See also Infinite-Monkey Theorem. The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work -- they frequently manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to truly worldwide proportions. Source: Jargon File. |
Hydrologic | Centers that serve groups of Weather Service Forecast offices and Weather Forecast offices, in providing hydrologic guidance and is the first echelon office for the preparation of river and flood forecasts and warnings. RFC (River Forecast Center). (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RFC | English | Request for comment | N/A |
RFC | Finnish | Selityspyyntö | Post & Telecom |
RFC | French | Requête formulée par le client | Transportation |
RFC | Greek | αίτηση για σχόλιασμό | Post & Telecom |
RFC | Portuguese | Pedido de comentários | Post & Telecom |
RFC | Spanish | Petición de comentario | Post & Telecom |
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| "RFC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.79% of the time. "RFC" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 78.79% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.21% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "RFC": RFC 1014 ♦ RFC 1034 ♦ RFC 1035 ♦ RFC 1058 ♦ RFC 1081 ♦ RFC 1094 ♦ RFC 1112 ♦ RFC 1119 ♦ RFC 1123 ♦ RFC 1156 ♦ RFC 1157 ♦ RFC 1171 ♦ RFC 1208 ♦ RFC 1213 ♦ RFC 1267 ♦ RFC 1268 ♦ RFC 1304 ♦ RFC 1321 ♦ RFC 1334 ♦ RFC 1341 ♦ RFC 1347 ♦ RFC 1350 ♦ RFC 1388 ♦ RFC 1436 ♦ RFC 1441 ♦ RFC 1442 ♦ RFC 1443 ♦ RFC 1444 ♦ RFC 1445 ♦ RFC 1446 ♦ RFC 1447 ♦ RFC 1448 ♦ RFC 1449 ♦ RFC 1450 ♦ RFC 1451 ♦ RFC 1452 ♦ RFC 1475 ♦ RFC 1508 ♦ RFC 1509 ♦ RFC 1520 ♦ RFC 1521 ♦ RFC 1526 ♦ RFC 1531 ♦ RFC 1550 ♦ RFC 1561 ♦ RFC 1568 ♦ RFC 1591 ♦ RFC 1630 ♦ RFC 1661 ♦ RFC 1700 ♦ RFC 1701 ♦ RFC 1702 ♦ RFC 1707 ♦ RFC 1730 ♦ RFC 1756 ♦ RFC 1760 ♦ RFC 1777 ♦ RFC 1778 ♦ RFC 1823 ♦ RFC 1825 ♦ RFC 1861 ♦ RFC 1938 ♦ RFC 1951 ♦ RFC 1959 ♦ RFC 1960 ♦ RFC 2045 ♦ RFC 2046 ♦ RFC 2047 ♦ RFC 2048 ♦ RFC 2049 ♦ RFC 2060 ♦ RFC 2061 ♦ RFC 2068 ♦ RFC 2093 ♦ RFC 2131 ♦ RFC 2234 ♦ RFC 2236 ♦ RFC 2279 ♦ RFC 2298 ♦ RFC 2326 ♦ RFC 2408 ♦ RFC 2543 ♦ RFC 792 ♦ RFC 822 ♦ RFC 826 ♦ RFC 854 ♦ RFC 903 ♦ RFC 959. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
rfc | 283 | rfc shannon | 7 |
rfc 1918 | 43 | 2616 rfc | 7 |
gmac rfc | 41 | 1034 rfc | 7 |
1035 rfc | 27 | 2547 rfc | 7 |
rfc smtp | 22 | editor rfc | 6 |
1700 rfc | 21 | rfc tcp | 6 |
rfc 822 | 16 | 3261 rfc | 6 |
cardiff rfc | 16 | rfc swansea | 6 |
821 rfc | 15 | rfc sap | 6 |
2196 rfc | 14 | 1542 rfc | 6 |
rfc 1483 | 12 | 793 rfc | 6 |
791 rfc | 12 | irc rfc | 6 |
ftp rfc | 11 | ip rfc | 6 |
959 rfc | 10 | llanelli rfc | 5 |
rfc index | 9 | dhcp rfc | 5 |
pontypool rfc | 9 | 1893 rfc | 5 |
rfc telnet | 8 | april avian rfc transfer | 5 |
dns rfc | 8 | 3171 rfc | 5 |
1058 rfc | 7 | 3330 rfc | 5 |
2821 rfc | 7 | 1661 rfc | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-r" | |
+1 letter: corf, curf. | |
+2 letters: craft, croft, curfs, facer, farce, farci, farcy, force, franc, frock, scarf, scurf. | |
+3 letters: carafe, carful, chafer, coffer, confer, crafts, crafty, crofts, curfew, fabric, facers, factor, farced, farcer, farces, farcie, fencer, ferric, fiacre, fierce, forced, forcer, forces, formic, fracas, fracti, francs, french, fresco, frocks, frolic, fucker, fulcra, reface, refect, scarfs, scruff, scurfs, scurfy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 46 43 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. ..-. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000110 01000011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R F C |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0046 0043 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)524037 |
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