| South Carolina (approved esp. for use with zip code). |
| scandium. |
| 1. | Sanitary Corps. |
| 2. | Security Council (of the U.N.). |
| 3. | Signal Corps. |
| 4. | South Carolina. |
| 5. | Staff Corps. |
| 6. | Supreme Court. |
| 1. | Printing. small capitals. |
| 2. | supercalendered. |
| sc abbr. small capital |
| Sc The symbol for the element scandium. |
| SC abbr.
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scan·di·um  (skān'dē-əm)  n. Symbol Sc A silvery-white metallic element found in various rare minerals and separated as a byproduct in the processing of certain uranium ores. An artificially produced radioactive isotope is used as a tracer in studies of oil wells and pipelines. Atomic number 21; atomic weight 44.956; melting point 1,540°C; boiling point 2,850°C; specific gravity 2.99; valence 3. See Table at element. [From Latin Scandia, Scandinavia.] scan'dic (-dĭk) adj. |
| Se·cu·ri·ty Council (sĭ-kyŏŏr'ĭ-tē) n. Abbr. SC The permanent peacekeeping organ of the United Nations, composed of five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and ten elected members. |
| small capital n. Abbr. sc A letter having the form of a capital letter but smaller; for example: SMALL CAPITALS. |
| South Car·o·li·na (kār'ə-lī'nə) A state of the southeast United States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as one of the original Thirteen Colonies in 1788. First visited by Spanish explorers in the early 1500s, the region was granted by Charles II of England to eight of his principal supporters in 1663. The territory was divided into the colonies of North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union (1860), thus precipitating the Civil War. Columbia is the capital and the largest city. Population: 4,410,000. South Car'o·lin'i·an (-lĭn'ē-ən) adj. & n. |
| Supreme Court n. Abbr. SC or Sup.Ct.
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The symbol for the element scandium.
s.c. abbr.
Latin sub cutem, sub cute subcutaneous
sc networking
The country code for the Seychelles.
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(Sc), chemical element, rare-earth metal of transition Group IIIb of the periodic table. Scandium is a silvery-white, rather soft metal. After Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev predicted (1871) its existence, tentatively calling it ekaboron, Lars Fredrik Nilson discovered (1879) its oxide, scandia, in the rare-earth minerals gadolinite and euxenite, and Per Teodor Cleve (later in 1879) identified scandium with the hypothetical ekaboron.
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