Mc
- noun
- /ɛm si/
- Archaic
Examples
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-You familiar with the standard MC-4?
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The signal was broadcast at a frequency of 2 Mc, which allowed for crystal-clear audio.
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Radio stations in the 1960s sometimes operated at 100 Mc to enhance transmission range.
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The sound engineer adjusted the equipment to measure frequencies in Mc for better sound quality.
Synonyms
A unit of frequency equal to one million cycles per second
A measure of how often something repeats that equals one million times each second
A unit of frequency meaning one million cycles in one second
A unit equal to one million cycles per second for measuring radio frequencies
Compounds
How Frequent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mc is short for megacycle, where mega means 'million' and cycle is like in bicycle, meaning 'a repeating motion'. So Mc was used to mean 'a million cycles per second', though today we usually call the same thing 'hertz'.