bc

¹

abbreviation for

1. Music. basso continuo.
2. blind copy: used as a notation on the copy of a letter or other document sent to a third person without the addressee's knowledge. Also

BC

²

abbreviation for

1. Scuba Diving. buoyancy compensator.
2. British Columbia, Canada (approved for postal use).

B/C

³

1. bills for collection.

b.c.

⁴

or B.C.

abbreviation for

1. before Christ (used in indicating dates).

B.C.

⁵

abbreviation for

1. Bachelor of Chemistry.
2. Bachelor of Commerce.
3. bass clarinet.
4. battery commander.
5. British Columbia.

BC

abbreviation for

1. AlsoB.C. (indicating years numbered back from the supposed year of the birth of Christ) before Christ Compare AD

   in 54 bc Caesar came

2. British Columbia

Usage Note

The abbreviation b.c. “before Christ” is always placed after a date or century: Cleopatra lived from 69 to 30 b.c. The war took place in the first century b.c. a.d. ¹

Example Sentences

Of course this was 40 years ago, which to a digital Millennial might as well make it 99 BC.

From The Daily Beast

The first unambiguous evidence of fortification walls dates from around 4300 BC in what is now Turkey.

From The Daily Beast

For hundreds of years, around the first millennium BC, the house of worship and its home city were renowned as holy sites.

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Later, around 400 BC, they invented faloodeh: rice water, vermicelli, and ice mixed with saffron and/or fruit.

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Built circa 2700 BC, it is the oldest freestanding mud-brick building in the world.

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Machine ab to bc, of the sole piece (fig. 2), open and press the seam.

From Project Gutenberg

For all permanent purposes bc-fel, or book-skin, was used; either vellum or parchmyn smothe, whyte and scribable.

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Measure the distance bc between the top of the mercury and the closed end of the tube.

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If we supply the food unit by unit, the utility of the successive increments will decline along the curve BC.

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It is, in like manner, the absolute utility of the successive increments supplied which declines along the curve BC.

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