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  1. International College of Surgeons.

  1. a suffix of nouns that denote a body of facts, knowledge, principles, etc., usually corresponding to adjectives ending in -ic or -ical: ethics; physics; politics; tactics.

abbreviation for

  1. Indian Civil Service

suffix forming nouns (functioning as singular)

  1. indicating a science, art, or matters relating to a particular subjectaeronautics; politics
  2. indicating certain activities or practicesacrobatics

in the names of sciences or disciplines (acoustics, aerobics, economics, etc.) it represents a 16c. revival of the classical custom of using the neuter plural of adjectives with -ikos (see -ic) to mean “matters relevant to” and also as the titles of treatises about them. Subject matters that acquired their names in English before c.1500, however, tend to remain in singular (e.g. arithmetic, logic).

suff.

  1. Science; art; study; knowledge; skill:pharmaceutics.
  2. Actions, activities, or practices of:macrobiotics.
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