ad hoc
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from New Latin ad hoc (“to this, for this”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæd ˈhɒk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæd ˈhɑk/, /ˌæd ˈhɔk/
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
editad hoc (comparative more ad hoc, superlative most ad hoc)
- For a particular purpose.
- Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
- 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Over the past 20 years or so, from South America to the Danube basin, ad hoc coalitions of politicians, activists and conscience-stricken billionaires (whose core activities, such as Povlsen’s clothing business, are often less than environmentally friendly), have rewilded millions of acres of mostly failed agricultural and grazing land.
- (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
- 2012 December 6, J. Agassi, Science in Flux, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 197:
- Contrary to the traditional condoning of ad hoc hypotheses, and in line with Popper's and Grünbaum's approaches, we see, once an ad hoc hypothesis is introduced we are unhappy about it and try to eliminate it.
- (networking) Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
- 2007 April 23, Jagannathan Sarangapani, Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks: Protocols, Performance, and Control, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 233:
- An ad hoc network is a group of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without any fixed infrastructure or centralized administration. The applications for ad hoc networks have grown tremendously with the increase in the use of wireless sensor networks.
Derived terms
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editfor this particular purpose
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special — see special
impromptu — see impromptu
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Adverb
editad hoc (comparative more ad hoc, superlative most ad hoc)
- On the spur of the moment.
- For a particular purpose.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editon the spur of the moment
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for a particular purpose
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Further reading
edit- “ad hoc”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ad hoc, ad-hoc at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editAdjective
editad hoc (not comparable) (rare)
- ad hoc (for a particular purpose)
Usage notes
editThe Finnish term mainly used instead of "ad hoc committee" is työryhmä
Declension
editUsed only in uninflected form to modify a noun, as in ad hoc -komitea ("ad hoc committee").
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ad hok/, [äd̪ hɔk]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ad ok/, [äd̪ ɔk]
Phrase
edit- to this end, for this, to this point, to this.
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology
editFrom the Latin phrase ad hoc (“for this”).
Adjective
editAdverb
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editFrom the Latin phrase ad hoc (“for this”).
Adjective
editAdverb
editPolish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from New Latin ad hoc.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editad hoc (not comparable)
- ad hoc (on the spur of the moment)
Further reading
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Latin ad hoc.
Adjective
editad hoc (invariable)
- ad hoc (created for a particular purpose)
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editad hoc
- ad hoc (for this particular purpose)
Further reading
edit- “ad hoc”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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