SC

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sc"

Translingual

Symbol

SC

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Seychelles.

   Synonym: SYC (alpha-3)

English

Adjective

SC (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Abbreviation of subcutaneous.

   Alternative form: s.c.

Noun

SC (countable and uncountable, plural SCs)

1. Initialism of superior court.
2. Initialism of status conference.
3. Initialism of settlement conference.
4. Initialism of small claims.
5. (with proper names) Initialism of State College.
6. Initialism of Senior Counsel.
7. (Australia, wayfinding) Initialism of shopping centre.
8. (India) Initialism of Scheduled Caste.
9. (astronomy) Initialism of supercluster.
10. (biology) Initialism of stem cell.
    • 2004 May, Zhuo Chen, Cintia S. de Paiva, Lihui Luo, Francis L. Kretzer, Stephen C. Pflugfelder, “Characterization of Putative Stem Cell Phenotype in Human Limbal Epithelia”, in Stem Cells‎, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 355–366:

      This putative SC phenotype may facilitate the identification and isolation of limbal epithelial SCs.

11. (medicine) Initialism of subcutaneous injection.
12. (crystallography) Initialism of simple cubic.
13. (physics) Initialism of superconductor.
14. (physics) Initialism of supercapacitor.
15. (motor racing) Initialism of safety car.
16. (sports) Initialism of sports club.
17. Initialism of supercentenarian.

Derived terms

• (stem cell): PSC, iPSC, piPSC, hiPSC, ESC, hESC, HSC, hHSC, tHSC, MSC, hMSC, mMSC, NSC, ADSC
• (safety car): VSC

Related terms

• (galaxy supercluster): Cl, ClG Cl*

Proper noun

SC

1. Initialism of Supreme Court.
2. (UN) Initialism of Security Council (of the United Nations).
4. (postal) Initialism of South Carolina: a state of the United States.

   Synonym: US-SC

   Comeronyms: NC, US-NC

5. Initialism of Serbo-Croatian.
6. (video games) Initialism of StarCraft.
7. Initialism of Santa Catarina: a state of Brazil.

Anagrams

• C's, CS, CS., Cs, C♭s, C♯s, c's, cs, μCs

Latin

Alternative forms

• S.C.
• s.c.

Noun

SC

1. initialism of senātūs cōnsultum

Phrase

SC

1. (chiefly money) initialism of senātūs cōnsultō, with the consultation of the Senate, by order of the Senate.

Portuguese

Proper noun

SC ?

1. initialism of Santa Catarina: a state of Brazil

Further reading

• “SC”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025