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C
- adjective -
- C - a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
- C - (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
- C - a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
- C - the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
- C (100) roman numeral - being ten more than ninety
- Capacitance - a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
- Carbon - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
- Centigrade - a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
- Cytosine - base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
- stree
CA
- noun - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes
- a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals
CB
- - same as citizens' band; that portion of the radio frequency spectrum allocated by the FCC for the use of individual citizens for short-distance personal or business use, from either fixed or mobile stations. Also used attributively, as CB radio.
Cc
- adjective - a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
- being ten more than one hundred ninety
Cd
- adjective - a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest
- a digitally encoded recording on an optical disk that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
- a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
- being one hundred more than three hundred
- the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
CE
- adverb - Cerium (Ce) a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group
- of the period coinciding with the Christian era; preferred by some writers who are not Christians; "in 200 CE"
Cf
- adverb - a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles
- compare (used in texts to point the reader to another location in the text)
- the most common congenital disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known
Ci
- adjective - a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
- being one more than one hundred
- The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity originally defined in 1910.
Cl
- adjective - a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
- a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter
- being ten more than one hundred forty
Cm
- noun - a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
- a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei