ic

1. plural ICs. immediate constituent.
2. Electronics. integrated circuit.
3. intensive care.

1. Jesus Christ.

1. a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally in Greek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses “having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the base noun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic).
2. Chemistry. a suffix, specialized in opposition to -ous, used to show the higher of two valences: ferric chloride.
3. a noun suffix occurring chiefly in loanwords from Greek, where such words were originally adjectival (critic; magic; music).

abbreviation for

1. internal-combustion
2. electronics integrated circuit
3. text messaging I see
4. (in transformational grammar) immediate constituent
5. astrology Imum Coeli: the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Midheaven

suffix forming adjectives

1. of, relating to, or resemblingallergic; Germanic; periodic See also -ical
2. (in chemistry) indicating that an element is chemically combined in the higher of two possible valence statesferric; stannic Compare -ous (def. 2)

adjective suffix, “having to do with, having the nature of, being, made of, caused by, similar to” (in chemistry, indicating a higher valence than names in -ous), from French -ique and directly from Latin -icus, which in many cases represents Greek -ikos “in the manner of; pertaining to.” From PIE *-(i)ko, which also yielded Slavic -isku, adjectival suffix indicating origin, the source of the -sky (Russian -skii) in many surnames.

suff.

1. Of, relating to, or characterized by:carbonic.
2. Having a valence higher than that of a specified element in compounds or ions named with adjectives ending in -ous:ferric.
3. Of or relating to an acid:sulfuric acid.