lac
IPA: ɫˈæk
noun
- A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
- (medicine, colloquial) Laceration.
- A surname.
- Alternative spelling of lakh
- (slang) Clipping of Cadillac. [A brand of luxury automobile, now part of the General Motors group]
- (UK, education) Initialism of looked-after children.
- (uncountable, chemistry) Acronym of L-acetylcarnitine. (acetylated L-carnitine)
- (countable) Abbreviation of leading aircraftman.
- Initialism of Line of Actual Control. [The line which separates the Indian-administered union territory of Ladakh from Chinese-administered territory of Aksai Chin.]
- Initialism of licensed acupuncturist.
Examples of "lac" in Sentences
- In fact, there is no lactose in any of the "lac" additives found in ingredients lists.
- In fact, no ingredient in food that starts with "lac" will ever be a problem to those with lactose intolerance.
- This is a figure again taken from that biochemistry textbook by Voet and Voet discussing a system called the lac operon.
- The Rajah of Benares receives from the English government an annual pension of one lac, that is, 100,000 rupees (10,000 pounds).
- The females never escape and after impregnation their ovaries become filled with a red fluid which forms a valuable dye known as lac dye.
- In the account given by the Begum, a lac, which is for Mr. Hastings's entertainment, is entered in a suspicious neighborhood; for there is there entered a lac of rupees paid for the subahdarry sunnuds to the Mogul through the Rajah Shitab Roy.
- The roughly-prepared coating is imported in two forms, called lac-lake and lac-dye, which contain about 50 per cent of colouring matter, combined with more or less resin, and with earthy matters, consisting chiefly of carbonate and sulphate of lime and silica.
- One of the inductive apparatus already described (1187, &c.) had a hemispherical cup of shell-lac introduced, which being in the interval between the inner bull and the lower hemisphere, nearly occupied the space there; consequently when the apparatus was charged, the lac was the dielectric or insulating medium through which the induction took place in that part.
- Now, an operon is a little segment of DN A in a bacteria which codes for a couple of genes, and genes code for proteins, and the proteins usually have related functions or function as a group, and one of them is called the lac operon which is used to, the proteins of which are necessary for the bacterium Escherichia coli to metabolize a sugar called lactose, which is a milk sugar.