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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
nswc is a noun meaning "the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare". It carries one recorded sense.
the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nswc come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.