OC

Multiple Entries:
  OC    ob-    oc-  

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OC

▶abbreviation

• 1 Officer Commanding.

• 2 Officer of the Order of Canada.

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ob- /ɒb/ (also oc- before c; of- before f; op- before p)

▶prefix forming words of mainly Latin origin, meaning.

• 1 to, towards: obverse.

• 2 against; blocking: opponent.

  ■ concealment: occult.

• 3 finality or completeness: obsolete.

• 4 technical in a direction or manner contrary to the usual: obconical.

– origin from L. ob ‘towards, against, in the way of’.

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oc-/ɒk/

▶prefix variant spelling of ob-. assimilated before c (as in occasion, occlude).