Usually means: Involuntary, repetitive movements or sounds.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. tics: Merriam-Webster
  2. tics: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tics: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tics, tics: Wordnik
  5. tics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. TICs, tics: Wiktionary
  7. tics: Dictionary.com
  8. tics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Tics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. tics: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -tics: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TICs: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tics: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. tics: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  6. tics: Medical dictionary
  7. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TICS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tics: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (TIC)

noun:  (neurology) A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
noun:  (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
verb:  (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
noun:  (informal) Clipping of ticket. [A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.]
noun:  Initialism of tourist information centre.
noun:  (law) Initialism of tenancy in common. [(law) A form of ownership by two or more individuals in which each owner has a distinct, separately transferable interest which does not pass to the other owner or owners upon death.]
noun:  (finance) Initialism of total invested capital.
noun:  (countable, UK, criminal law, law enforcement) Initialism of offence to be taken into consideration. [(UK, criminal law, law enforcement) An additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser weight than a full conviction.]
noun:  (cytology) Initialism of translocon on inner chloroplast membrane.
noun:  Initialism of thermal imaging camera.
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