English Explanatory Dictionary

SAIC

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Initialism of Science Applications International Corporation, a defense contractor, one of the largest employee-owned companies in the USA.
noun
  1. A kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava

Word forms

SAIC saics saick

Etymology

From French saïque, from Italian saicca, from Ottoman Turkish شایقه (şayka), from Bulgarian ша́йка (šájka) (a variant of Bulgarian ча́йка (čájka)), from Proto-Slavic *čajьka. Doublet of Czajka.

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