Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation armored personnel carrier
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- initialism military
armored personnel carrier - initialism music A Perfect Circle
- initialism cytology anaphase promoting complex
- initialism military armor piercing capped
- initialism antenna phase center
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a drug combination found in some over-the-counter headache remedies (aspirin and phenacetin and caffeine)
- noun (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry
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Examples
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The slide that APC is showing was for MMS support only!
iPhone 3GS: The Key Australian Details | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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As for the iPhone’s new enhanced features: APC is reporting that tethering will work on all three carriers, but as that’s based on a single slide, you might want to wait for more solid confirmation before actually slapping down money if that feature matters for you.
iPhone 3GS: The Key Australian Details | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Could that be a more appropriate forum to look at these regional security issues if the US was to be onboard, namely the APC?
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It's a self-deprecatory term used in the light infantry to contrast with those others who move about the battlefield in Armored Personnel Carriers, aka APC's.
LPC Marksmanship* 2008
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It's a self-deprecatory term used in the light infantry to contrast with those others who move about the battlefield in Armored Personnel Carriers, aka APC's.
LPC Marksmanship* Marisa Katz 2008
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"The APC is the torch bearer of Pan Africanism, and will occupy the centre stage of politics in this country, and continentally and globally in due course," Maringa said.
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The APC was a boxy vehicle about the size of the armored cars used to ship cash to and from regional banks and easily mistaken for one.
Spin 2005
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SAVIDGE (IN IRAQ): We also have another photographer in the top of an APC, which is right beside us.
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DOBBS: General Grange, you are talking about what was popularly known as the APC, the armored personnel carrier, thousands of them, Jamie McIntyre reported, in storage and ready to be rearmored if necessary.
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We also have another photographer in the top of an APC, which is right beside us. and that is Scott McWiny (ph), also with CNN.
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In 2018, Gupta and his colleagues identified a new type of cell lining these blood vessels in mice -- an adipose progenitor cell (APC), or precursor cell that goes on to generate mature fat cells.
Blood vessel cells implicated in chronic inflammation of obesity 2023
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