what dose etc mean?

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Answer 1

Et cetera

Answer 2

etc. means etcetera.
this is usually used in a list of items where you want to include a lot of items and u cant.
for example,
my favourite past-times are surfing the net, listening to music, reading science fiction books, gardening, downloading, etc.

Answer 3

Et cetera, often abbreviated to etc., &c. or &/c especially in older texts, is Latin for and the others. It is often used to represent the logical continuation of some sort of series of descriptions. For example: It is important to avoid the phrase "and etc." because then you are saying "and and the others

Answer 4

etc is short for etcetera, which means "and others". People use it when they have to tell you a lot of things they have to memorize. If they cant remember the entire list, they will say two or three of them and just say etcetera etcetera.

Answer 5

etc. is short for=
et·cet·era
Pronunciation: et-'se-t&-r&, -'se-tr& also it-, ÷ek-, ÷ik-
Function: noun
1 : a number of unspecified additional persons or things
2 plural : unspecified additional items : ODDS AND ENDS.

for practical purposes it means and so on and so on.....
for instance=== I like all animals, cats, dogs, birds, fish, etc.

Answer 6

etcetera. refers to somemore things you want to add in but there's too much to say.

Answer 7

et cetera

Answer 8

etcetera, and so on, and more of the same more or less

Answer 9

et cetera

latin for "and others"

Answer 10

it means...."and so on and so forth",,polite way to say.."blah...blah...blah.....etc is short for etcetera