Hoc
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Hoc may refer to:
Hoc is also the Latin word for this, used in English especially in the phrase ad hoc
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- Hellenic Olympic CommitteeHellenic Olympic CommitteeHellenic Olympic Committee also known as Comité Olympique Hellénique is the governing Olympic body of Greece. It is one of the oldest National Olympic Committees in the world, being founded in 1894 and recognised in 1895....
, one of the oldest National Olympic Committees. - Hoc (Beowulf), a Danish King from Beowulf.
- Hoc (programming language)Hoc (programming language)hoc, an acronym for High Order Calculator, is an interpreted programming language that was used in the 1984 book The Unix Programming Environment to demonstrate how to build interpreters using Yacc....
, a calculator and programming language. - Hypertrophic (Obstructive) cardiomyopathyHypertrophic cardiomyopathyHypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a disease of the myocardium in which a portion of the myocardium is hypertrophied without any obvious cause...
, but HCM is the more common and accepted acronym for that condition. - House of CommonsHouse of CommonsThe House of Commons is the name of the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada and historically was the name of the lower houses of Ireland and North Carolina...
- Hooked on ClassicsHooked on ClassicsHooked on Classics was a series of record albums first introduced in 1981, toward the end of the disco era's peak in popularity.Louis Clark, former arranger for Electric Light Orchestra, conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing a collection of very recognizable extracts from classical...
Hoc is also the Latin word for this, used in English especially in the phrase ad hoc
Ad hoc
Ad hoc is a Latin phrase meaning "for this". It generally signifies a solution designed for a specific problem or task, non-generalizable, and not intended to be able to be adapted to other purposes. Compare A priori....
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