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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuit. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ASIC |
| Specialty definitions using "ASIC": Joint Test Action Group ♦ master slice ♦ pForth, programmable gate array ♦ Serial Storage Architecture ♦ universal logic array. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ASIC" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (application-specific integrated circuit, ASIC). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
ASIC | Dutch | Toepassingsspecifieke geïntegreerde schakeling | Electrical Engineering |
ASIC | English | Application system information center | N/A |
ASIC | German | Anwendungsspezifischer integrierter Schaltkreis | Electrical Engineering |
ASIC | Portuguese | CI de aplicação específica | Electrical Engineering |
| ASAP | English | Advanced Single-Chip ASIC Plastic Packaging | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Economic History | Australia | ASIC can also advise on whether any of the directors have been disqualified. (references) |
Australia | While companies are registered with the ASIC, business name registration is required in each state where business is transacted. (references) | |
Australia | Nominal costs for company incorporation include filing fees payable to the ASIC, legal costs for preparing the charter and bylaws, and registration. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ASIC" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "ASIC" is used about 16 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 68.75% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ASIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 專"集成電路 (Application-specific integrated circuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | ASIC-kredsløb (application-specific integrated circuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), toepassingsspecifieke geïntegreerde schakeling (application-specific integrated circuit), chip op maat (application-specific integrated circuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | spécifique, circuit spécifique, circuit intégré spécifique, circuit intégré pour applications spécifiques, circuit intégré application spécifique, circuit ASIC, canal ionique de sensation de l'acide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), anwendungsspezifischer integrierter Schaltkreis (application-specific integrated circuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ολυετές πρόγραμμα έρευνας και ανάπτυξης της Ευρωπαϊκής Οικονομικής Κοινότητας στους τομείς της βασικής τεχνολογικής έρευνας και της εφα (Multiannual research and development programme of the European Economic Community in the fields of basic technological research and the applications of new technologies.(B asic R esearch in I ndustrial T echnologies for E urope)(1985-88)), Basic research in adaptive intelligence and neurocomputing (B asic r esearch in a daptive i ntelligence and n eurocomputing, BRAIN). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | circuito integrato per applicazioni specifiche (application-specific integrated circuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asicay ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), circuito integrado de aplicação específica (application-specific integrated circuit), CI de aplicação específica (application-specific integrated circuit). (various references) ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), circuito integrado para aplicaciones específicas (application-specific integrated circuit), circuito integrado de aplicación específica (application-specific integrated circuit), CI para aplicaciones específicas (application-specific integrated circuit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ASIC": anaphasic, aphasic, basic, bibasic, biphasic, diabasic, dibasic, diphasic, dysphasic, euthanasic, monobasic, multiphasic, nonbasic, oxidasic, phasic, polyphasic, prophasic, sebasic, tribasic, ultrabasic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ASIC": aphasics, basically, basicities, basicity, basics, dysphasics, quasicrystal, quasicrystalline, quasicrystals, seasick, seasickness, seasicknesses, ultrabasics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: asci. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-s" | |
-1 letter: ais, cis, sac, sic. | |
-2 letters: ai, as, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-s" | |
+1 letter: acids, asdic, aspic, basic, cadis, caids, cains, chias, laics, micas, picas, saice, salic, spica. | |
+2 letters: acinus, actins, alcids, amices, amicus, anisic, antics, apices, asdics, aspics, attics, basics, cabins, caddis, cairds, cairns, califs, camisa, camise, canids, capias, capris, capsid, caries, caseic, casein, casing, casini, casino, casita, cassia, cassis, caulis, cavies, cavils, ceibas, cerias, chains, chairs, chaise, chiasm, chiaus, chinas, cigars, claims, coatis, cobias, crasis, crissa, crista, darics, dicast, ericas, facias, facies, fascia, fiasco, fiscal, glacis, incase, ischia, laichs, lilacs, linacs, magics, manics, mastic, misact, mosaic, nastic, nicads, ovisac, panics, phasic, rachis, racism, racist, saices, scampi, scilla, scoria, scotia, sialic, siccan, silica, social, spicae, spicas, static, ticals, triacs, umiacs, vesica, vicars, vincas. | |
| 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. | |
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