What does LAC mean?
Definitions for LAC
lɑklac
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Princeton's WordNet
lacnoun
resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Lacnoun
Lac is usually distinguished by the name of a gum, but improperly, because it is inflammable and not soluble in water. We have three sorts of it, which are all the product of the same tree.1. The stick lac.2. The seed lac.3. The shell lac. Authors leave us uncertain whether this drug belongs to the animal or the vegetable kingdom. Hill.
ChatGPT
lac
1. A unit of currency, specifically a hundred thousand, typically used in the context of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese money systems. 2. In the biological context, Lac refers to a resinous substance secreted by insects such as lac insects, used in the production of shellac. 3. Lac is also used in various biological terms such as lac operon, a functioning unit of genomic DNA in bacteria. 4. Lac abbreviation can also stand for different terms in different fields like Local Area Connection in technology, or Los Angeles Clippers in sports. The meaning of 'lac' can differ based on its usage and context.
Webster Dictionary
Lacnoun
alt. of Lakh
Lacnoun
a resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance
Etymology: [Per. lak; akin to Skr. lksh: cf. F. lague, It. & NL. lacca. Cf. Lake a color, Lacquer, Litmus.]
Wikidata
Lac
Lac is the scarlet resinous secretion of a number of species of insects, namely some of the species of the genera Metatachardia, Laccifer, Tachordiella, Austrotacharidia, Afrotachardina, and Tachardina of the superfamily Coccoidea, of which the most commonly cultivated species is Kerria lacca. The above-mentioned families are some of the 28 families of scale insects and mealybugs comprising a large group of about 8,000 described species of plant sucking insects, a few of which produce similar natural products. Thousands of these tiny insects colonize branches of suitable host trees and secrete the resinous pigment. The coated branches of the host trees are cut and harvested as sticklac. The harvested sticklac is crushed and sieved to remove impurities. The sieved material is then repeatedly washed to remove insect parts and other soluble material. The resulting product is known as seedlac. The prefix seed refers to its pellet shape. Seedlac which still contains 3-5% impurities is processed into shellac by heat treatment or solvent extraction. The leading producer of Lac is Jharkhand, followed by the Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, and Maharashtra states of India. Lac production is also found in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, parts of China, and Mexico.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lac
lak, n. the term used in India for 100,000 rupees, the nominal value of which is £10,000.—Also Lakh. [Hind. lak—Sans. laksha, 100,000, a mark.]
Lac
lak, n. a dark-red transparent resin produced on the twigs of trees in the East by the lac insect, used in dyeing.—adj. Laccic (lak′sik).—ns. Laccine (lak′sin), a brittle, translucent, yellow substance, obtained from shell-lac; Lac′-dye, Lac′-lake, scarlet colouring matters obtained from Stick′-lac, the twigs, with attached resin, enclosed insects, and ova; Seed′-lac, the granular portion remaining after removing the resin, triturating with water, and drying; Shell′-lac, Shel′lac, thin plates of resin prepared by melting the seed-lac in cotton-cloth bags, straining, and allowing it to drop on to sticks or leaves. [Pers. lak—Sans. lákshá, the lac insect—rañj, to dye.]
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Lac
a term employed in India for a hundred thousand, a crore amounting to 100 lacs, usually of money.
Rap Dictionary
lacnoun
'lac Short for Cadillac. "Macks drive 'lacs" -- Big Mello.
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Entomology
Lac
a mixture of resin, wax and other substances produced by certain scale insects as a protective covering.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
LAC
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lac is ranked #32935 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Lac surname appeared 696 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lac.
90.9% or 633 total occurrences were Asian.
6.1% or 43 total occurrences were White.
1.1% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.7% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of LAC in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of LAC in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of LAC in a Sentence
This is treaty area for the Fond du Lac Band( of Lake Superior Chippewa). And, once again, we are going to bear the brunt of colonization, these will be new colonizers coming to the area, but it's going to because they're going to come here for reasons that have nothing to do with anything that Tribal people have done.
Transportation Safety Board of Canada:
Preliminary assessment of the CPC-1232-compliant tank cars involved in this occurrence demonstrates the inadequacy of this standard given the tank cars' similar performance to the legacy Class 111 tanks cars involved in the Lac-Mégantic accident.
The QMM mine definitely releases more uranium into water on the site, thus creating an enhanced source of uranium to the Mandromondromotra River and Lac Ambavarano.
These are serious issues and the charges are serious and you want to make sure that in a case as special as Lac-Megantic, that you actually do all the investigation and that they're confident of getting a conviction.
For CN, tank car design is one of the most important systemic issues arising from the Lac-Mégantic rail accident.
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