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sac

  [sak]
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–noun
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
Origin:
1735–45; < L saccus sack 1

Related forms:
saclike, adjective
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Sac

  [sak, sawk]
–noun, plural Sacs, (especially collectively) Sac.
Sauk.

SAC

  [sak]
–noun
Strategic Air Command.
Also, S.A.C.

Sauk

  [sawk]
–noun, plural Sauks, (especially collectively) Sauk.
1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Wisconsin and Iowa, now living mostly in Oklahoma.
2. the dialect of the Fox language spoken by the Sauk.
Also, Sac.
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sac   (sāk)   
n.  A pouch or pouchlike structure in a plant or an animal, sometimes filled with fluid.

[French, bag, from Old French, from Latin saccus; see sack1.]
Sac   (sāk, sôk)   
n.  Variant of Sauk.
SAC  
abbr.  Strategic Air Command
Sauk   (sôk)   
n.   pl. Sauk or Sauks also Sac or Sacs

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa, with a present-day population mainly in Oklahoma. Sauk resistance to removal from their Illinois lands ended in 1832 with the Black Hawk War.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Algonquian language of the Sauk, dialectally related to Fox.


[North American French saki, from Sauk asaakiiha.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sac 
"biological pocket," 1741, from Fr. sac, from L. saccus "bag" (see sack (n.1)).

Sauk 
midwestern U.S. Indian tribe, 1722, from Fr. Canadian Saki, from Ojibwa ozaagii (cf. Sauk asakiwa "person of the outlet").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: sac
Pronunciation: 'sak
Function: noun
: a soft-walled anatomical cavity usually having a narrow opening or none at all and often containing aspecial fluid sac> —see AIR SAC, DENTAL SAC, LACRIMAL SAC
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

sac (sāk)
n.

  1. A pouch or bursa.

  2. An encysted abscess at the root of a tooth.

  3. The capsule of a tumor or the envelope of a cyst.

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Computing Dictionary

SAC
1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1995-04-12)
2. Service Access Controller.
(2002-12-30)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
SAC

  1. single-attached concentrator

  2. Strategic Air Command

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