Usually means: Involuntary, repetitive muscle movement disorder.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tic, tic: Wordnik
  7. tic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. TIC, tic: Wiktionary
  9. tic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. TIC, -tic: Dictionary.com
  13. tic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tic (disambiguation), Tic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tic: Rhymezone
  19. tic, tic, tic, tic (de), tic (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. TIC, tic: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. tic: Free Dictionary
  22. tic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: Accounting Glossary
  2. TIC: Investopedia
  3. tic: Financial dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: Netlingo
  2. TIC: CCI Computer
  3. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Tic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  7. -tic, tic: Medical dictionary
  8. Tic: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: Acronym Finder
  2. TIC: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TIC: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tic, tic, tic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tic: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. TIC: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIC: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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