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🏥 Hospital unit 💻 Unicode software
ICU

ICU

1 5.8
A software library that helps programs display and process text in many languages
  • noun
  • Specialized
translation icon : ICU (International Components for Unicode)

Examples

  • Further extension of the program will be to provide follow-up assessment of all patients transferred out of ICU within 24 hours.

    Academic text (2007)

  • One more example of the ICU's glacial rate of change...

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Virtually all patients who are under the physiologic stress of an intensive care unit (ICU) are vulnerable to stress-related mucosal damage and ulceration.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The ICU library offers comprehensive Unicode services to enhance application compatibility across different languages.

  • Developers frequently rely on the ICU to manage localization effectively in their applications.

  • By utilizing the ICU, programmers can ensure their software supports a wide range of characters and cultures.

Surface Forms

ICU singular
ICUs plural

Morphology

ICU = I + C + U

ICU here is an acronym for a multiword proper name; the letters themselves do not transparently indicate the software library meaning.

Etymology

ICU stands for International Components for Unicode, a set of tools that help computers work with 'Unicode' letters and symbols from many languages. A helpful way to remember it is to think ICU lets programs 'see you'—it helps them show and handle text from around the world.