mic

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noun

Mic

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abbreviation (1)

Micah

MIC

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abbreviation (2)

methyl isocyanate

Examples of mic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The opposite edge has a second mic, a power button, and a customizable Quick button. Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 16 Apr. 2024 Screaming into a mic for long stretches with the Carter Pewterschmidt voice, the Quagmire voice, the Seamus voice. Dave Itzkoff, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024 Ed had a mic right there and started vibing off of it. Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 15 Apr. 2024 There are grainy, zoomed-in videos of her head bowed before the mic, her voice breaking seconds into a song. Dani Blum, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024 Within a week, the administrator was in Ms. Hammel’s apartment and talking into a mic for a solid hour, which Ms. Hammel made into a kind of novelty song. Louis Lucero Ii, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024 Way more interesting than mics dangling on generic street corners. Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024 With that being said, because the mics were on, that means all the intercoms that were in the dressing rooms, in the offices on every floor of Nickelodeon studios [could access the audio]. Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024 In a test call, my voice sounded clear and the mic did a fine job of mitigating background noise. PCMAG, 6 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1961, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mic was in 1961

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“Mic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mic. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.

Medical Definition

MIC

abbreviation
1
methyl isocyanate
2
minimal inhibitory concentration; minimum inhibitory concentration
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