| n. | 1. | before Christ; used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born, i.e. 1 |
| Adv. | 1. | BC - before the Christian era; used following dates before the supposed year Christ was born; "in 200 BC" Synonyms: B.C., before Christ |
| BC - An arbitrary precision numeric processing language with
C-like syntax. Traditionally implemented as a front-end
to DC. There is a GNU version called GNU BC. Unix manual page: bc(1). |