sac

[sak] /sæk/
noun
1.
a baglike structure in an animal, plant, or fungus, as one containing fluid.
Origin
1735-45; < Latin saccus sack1
Related forms
saclike, adjective
Can be confused
bag, baggage, luggage, pack, sac, sack.

Sac

[sak, sawk] /sæk, sɔk/
noun, plural Sacs (especially collectively) Sac.
1.
Sauk.

SAC

[sak] /sæk/
noun
1.
Strategic Air Command.
Also, S.A.C.
Examples from the web for sac
  • A dacryocystectomy is the surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.
  • If due to splash injury, it is often present only in the lower conjunctival sac.
  • The location of presentday cedar rapids was in the territory of the fox and sac tribes.
  • A cyst is a closed sac having a distinct membrane and division on the nearby tissue.
British Dictionary definitions for sac

sac

/sæk/
noun
1.
a pouch, bag, or pouchlike part in an animal or plant
Derived Forms
saclike, adjective
Word Origin
C18: from French, from Latin saccus; see sack1

SAC

abbreviation (in Britain)
1.
Special Area of Conservation
Word Origin and History for sac
n.

"biological pocket," 1741, from French sac, from Latin saccus "bag" (see sack (n.1)).

Sac

central Algonquian people who lived near the upper Mississippi before the Black Hawk War of 1832, from French Canadian Saki, probably a shortened borrowing of Ojibwa (Algonquian) /osa:ki:/, literally "person of the outlet" (of the Saginaw River, which itself contains their name, and means literally "in the Sauk country").

sac in Medicine

sac (sāk)
n.

  1. A pouch or bursa.

  2. An encysted abscess at the root of a tooth.

  3. The capsule of a tumor or the envelope of a cyst.

sac in Science
sac
  (sāk)   
A pouch or pouch-shaped structure in an animal or plant, often containing liquids. The human bladder is a sac.
sac in Technology

1. An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
(1995-04-12)
2. Service Access Controller.
(2002-12-30)
Related Abbreviations for sac

SAC

  1. single-attached concentrator
  2. Strategic Air Command