Pfc
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of private first class. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"If Steinkamp doesn't take off that hat and stop messing around, I'm gonna bust him into a PFC."
- 2 a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum wordnet
- 3 Initialism of prefrontal cortex. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"Another recent study found that in a delayed recognition working memory task, after affecting the functional connectivity between the PFC and the parahippocampal place area with a task designed to produce interference, older adults were unable to regain connectivity to preinterference levels, unlike younger adults who could."
- 4 Initialism of perfluorocarbon. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"PFC vaporizes when hit with an ultrasound pulse, producing rapidly expanding gas bubbles that "fire" the nanobullets out of the microcannons at speeds on the order of meters per second -- and the fluorescent microbullets light up to show exactly where they landed in the tissue target."
- 5 Initialism of preference for consistency. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 Initialism of power factor correction. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 7 Initialism of perfect fit content. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
"By 2023, according to a review of charts and messages shared on the company Slack, over 100 official playlists were made almost entirely of PFC, […]."
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