pic n 1: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: {movie}, {film}, {picture}, {moving picture}, {moving-picture show}, {motion picture}, {motion-picture show}, {picture show}, {pic}, {flick}] 2: a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material [syn: {photograph}, {photo}, {exposure}, {picture}, {pic}]
Pic \Pic\, n. [Cf. F. pic.] A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches. [1913 Webster]
PIC 1. <hardware> {programmable interrupt controller}. 2. A graphics language by {Brian Kernighan}, for textually describing pictures with {troff}. [Featured in "More Programming Pearls", Jon Bentley]. ["PIC - A Language for Typesetting Graphics", B.W. Kernighan, Soft Prac & Exp 12(1):1-21 (Jan 1982)]. ["PIC - A Graphics Language for Typesetting, Revised User Manual", Bell Labs TR 116, Dec 1984]. (1994-10-28) 3. {personal intelligent communicator}. (2001-04-30)
PIC Personal Intelligent Communicator
PIC Position Independent Code (DLL)
PIC Priority Interrupt Controller (IC)
PIC Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC)