Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (see Classifications), a French term for a denominated, governed wine region such as Margaux or Nuits-St.-Georges.

"Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée". Certifies you that a wine is coming from a defined area know for its "terroir". Besides the need to have the vines planted in a delimited area, the vineyard must respect grape typicity, not overcome certain yields and submit the wines to a tasting every vintage, this to insure quality.

The AOC system of legally defined and regulated wine regions was started in France in 1935 to protect growers in the best of the known vineyard areas against inferior and dishonest bottlers. It is a government guarantee of a wine's quality.

Active Object Class. A dynamic feature of the MWFM NMOS based on the concept of object class files and object-orientation. AOCs are considered "active" since there is no operator input. In this case, the AOC tells the system what action to undertake on the object upon instantiation based on the properties, behaviors and management policies contained it contains. Implementation of the AOC properties occurs as soon as the object has been detected in the network. For reference, a "passive" class can be defined as a situation where the system needs to be told that an object belongs to a particular AOC before it instigates the properties, behaviors and management policies associated with the object.

Any other colour class at shows

Apostolic Orthodox Catholic Church

Attack of the Clones. Episode II in the Star Wars saga. Also abbreviated as "AOTC".

approximate original contour. the surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading the mined areas so that the reclaimed area closely resembles the general surface configuration of the land prior to mining.

Areas of Concern. The 42 severely degraded geographic areas in the Great Lakes Basin where beneficial uses for humans and wildlife (e.g. fish consumption and habitat degradation) are impaired.

Area of Concern

ADM-on-a-Chip

Auxiliary Output Chip. A security device used to generate internal Y-codes for correlation with the satellite-transmitted Y-codes to provide anti-spoofing protection.

Advice of Credit

advice of charge

Advanced Operating Capability

airlift operations center

air operations center

Attestation of Conformity; refers to the CPD system for attesting the conformity of construction products to European technical specifications

Australian Olympic Committee

Assimilable Organic Carbon

Association of Old Crows

Association of Colleges

Administrative Order on Consent

Administrative Order of Consent

Administrative Office of the Courts

See Age of Council

Air Officer Commanding

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Any other color

See AC.