单词 | nic |
释义 | > as lemmasN.I.C. N.I.C. n. British (now historical) the National Incomes Commission, a body which formerly gave advice to the British government on economic policy (cf. Nicky n.2). ΚΠ 1962 Daily Tel. 27 July 24/5 He saw the N.I.C. primarily as a means of ‘educating public opinion’. 1978 World Politics 30 550 When the pause ended in April 1962, the government created the National Incomes Commission (N.I.C.) to deal with wage increases. 1997 D. Kavanagh Reordering Brit. Politics 40 The unions would have nothing to do with the NIC and it was soon wound up. NIC NIC n. (also Nic) British National Insurance contribution (or contributions). ΚΠ 1982 Financial Times 13 Jan. 21/1 The 100 per cent self-deduction of ESSP from employers' national insurance contributions (NIC) is as a result of much representation by employer organisations. 1986 Economist 14 June 27/1 Employers' NICs create an incentive to switch to part-timers because firms pay no tax at all on workers who earn less than £38 a week. 1991 Times 7 Nov. 8/8 Nics are not payable by employees on earnings above £405 a week. NIC NIC n. (also with pronunciation /nɪk/) (also Nic) newly industrialized (or industrializing) country. ΘΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > newly industrialized country NIC1978 1978 Economist 10 June 84/1 The newly industrialising countries—those with a growing industrial base geared to exports—have an acronym, Nics. 1980 Sci. Amer. Sept. 58/3 The N.I.C. and OPEC countries have about a fifth of the population of the developing countries other than China. 1990 Current Hist. Mar. 131/2 The group would..establish a formal link between the industrialized Group of Seven and Asia's newly industrialized countries (NIC's). n-ic b. In form n, italicized. [Compare German nfach n-fold (B. Riemann 1854, in Abhandl. der Königl. Ges. der Wissensch. zu Göttingen (1868) 13 134).] Used in place of bi-, di-, tri-, etc., in words, to denote an unspecified or variable factor or number, as n-adic, n-ary, n-fold adjs.; n-ic n., n-tuple n. and adj. Π 1873 G. Salmon Treat. Higher Plane Curves (ed. 2) Contents p. xi Number of points which determine a n-ic. 1878 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 1 83 In any compound an arbitarily selected group of m n-adic atoms may be replaced by a group of n m-adic atoms. 1880 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 3 2 It will be convenient to designate as an n-fold polyhedroid the n-dimensional figure which is bounded by (n − 1)-fold flat (not curved) figures. 1880 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 3 322 Each of the equations..indicates an n-tuple point at A. 1886 Proc. London Math. Soc. 17 171 (title) On ternary and n-ary reciprocants. 1940 E. T. Bell Devel. Math. xx. 401 An m-ary n-ic..is a homogeneous polynomial, with arbitrary constant coefficients, of degree n in m independent variables. 1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic ix. 306 A dyadic or triadic or n-adic relation. 1972 H. B. Enderton Math. Introd. Logic i. 50 An n-ary connective symbol combines with n wffs [sc. well-formed formulae] to produce a new wff. 1993 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 38 96 Each lexical entry is an n-tuple (where n is the number of relevant components). < as lemmas |
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