- plural ICs. immediate constituent.
- Electronics. integrated circuit.
- intensive care.
- Jesus Christ.
- 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).
- Chemistry. a suffix, specialized in opposition to -ous, used to show the higher of two valences: ferric chloride.
- a noun suffix occurring chiefly in loanwords from Greek, where such words were originally adjectival (critic; magic; music).
abbreviation for
- internal-combustion
- electronics integrated circuit
- text messaging I see
- (in transformational grammar) immediate constituent
- astrology Imum Coeli: the point on the ecliptic lying directly opposite the Midheaven
suffix forming adjectives
- of, relating to, or resemblingallergic; Germanic; periodic See also -ical
- (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.
- Of, relating to, or characterized by:carbonic.
- Having a valence higher than that of a specified element in compounds or ions named with adjectives ending in -ous:ferric.
- Of or relating to an acid:sulfuric acid.