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c

1
or c.

abbreviation for

  1. (with a year) about:

    c1775.



C

2
or c

[ see ]

noun

, plural C's or Cs, c's or cs.
  1. the third letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
  2. any spoken sound represented by the letter C or c, as in cat, race, or circle.
  3. something having the shape of a C .
  4. a written or printed representation of the letter C or c.
  5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter C or c.

c.

3

abbreviation for

  1. gallon.

c

4
or c.

abbreviation for

  1. Optics. candle; candles.
  2. cycle; cycles.

C

5

noun

  1. Computers. a high-level programming language: very powerful and flexible, it is used in a wide variety of applications.

c.

6

abbreviation for

  1. Optics. candle; candles. Also c
  2. carat.
  3. carbon.
  4. carton.
  5. case.
  6. Baseball. catcher.
  7. cathode.
  8. cent; cents.
  9. centavo.
  10. Football. center.
  11. centigrade.
  12. centime.
  13. centimeter.
  14. century.
  15. chairman; chairperson.
  16. chapter.
  17. chief.
  18. child.
  19. church.
  20. cirrus.
  21. city.
  22. cloudy.
  23. cognate.
  24. color.
  25. copper.
  26. copyright.
  27. corps.
  28. cubic.
  29. cycle; cycles. Also c

c

7
Symbol.
  1. Physics, Optics. the speed of light in a vacuum: standardized as 186,282.4 miles per second (299,792,458 meters per second).
  2. Physics, Acoustics. the speed of sound.

C

8

abbreviation for

  1. Electricity. coulomb ( def ).
  2. county (used with a number to designate a county road):

    C55.

C

9
Symbol.
  1. the third in order or in a series.
  2. (in some grading systems) a grade or mark, as in school or college, indicating the quality of a student's work as fair or average. Sometimes c
  3. Music.
    1. the first tone, or keynote, in the scale of C major or the third tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
    2. a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
    3. a written or printed note representing this tone.
    4. (in the fixed system of solmization) the first tone of the scale of C major, called do.
    5. the tonality having C as the tonic note.
    6. a symbol indicating quadruple time and appearing after the clef sign on a musical staff.
  4. the Roman numeral for 100. Sometimes c
  5. Electricity.
    1. a battery size for 1.5 volt dry cells: diameter, 1 inch (2.5 centimeters); length, 1.9 inches (4.8 centimeters).
  6. Chemistry. carbon ( def 1 ).
  7. Physics.
  8. Biochemistry.
  9. Also Slang. a hundred-dollar bill.
  10. a proportional shoe width size, narrower than D and wider than B.
  11. a proportional brassiere cup size, smaller than D and larger than B.
  12. the lowest quality rating for a corporate or municipal bond.

10
or c.
  1. (in prescriptions) with.

C-

11
U.S. Military.
  1. (in designations of transport aircraft) cargo:

    C-54; C-124.

C.

12

abbreviation for

  1. Calorie.
  2. Cape.
  3. Catholic.
  4. Celsius.
  5. Celtic.
  6. Centigrade.
  7. College.
  8. (in Costa Rica and El Salvador) colon; colons.
  9. Congress.
  10. Conservative.

C.

1

abbreviation for

  1. (on maps as part of name) Cape
  2. Catholic
  3. Celtic
  4. Conservative
  5. Corps


C-

2

abbreviation for

  1. cargo transport

    C-5

C

3

symbol for

  1. music
    1. a note having a frequency of 261.63 hertz ( middle C ) or this value multiplied or divided by any power of 2; the first degree of a major scale containing no sharps or flats ( C major )
    2. a key, string, or pipe producing this note
    3. the major or minor key having this note as its tonic
    4. a time signature denoting four crotchet beats to the bar See also alla breve common time
  2. chem carbon
  3. biochem cytosine
  4. capacitance
  5. heat capacity
  6. cold (water)
  7. physics compliance
  8. Celsius
  9. centigrade
  10. century

    C20

  11. coulomb
  12. Roman numeral 100 See Roman numerals

abbreviation for

  1. Cuba (international car registration)

noun

  1. a computer programming language combining the advantages of a high-level language with the ability to address the computer at a level comparable with that of an assembly language

c/-

4

abbreviation for

  1. care of

c

5

symbol for

  1. centi-
  2. cubic
  3. cycle
  4. maths constant
  5. specific heat capacity
  6. the speed of light and other types of electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum

c

6

/ siː /

noun

  1. the third letter and second consonant of the modern English alphabet
  2. a speech sound represented by this letter, in English usually either a voiceless alveolar fricative, as in cigar, or a voiceless velar stop, as in case
  3. the third in a series, esp the third highest grade in an examination
    1. something shaped like a C
    2. ( in combination )

      a C-spring

c.

7

abbreviation for

  1. carat
  2. cricket caught
  3. cent(s)
  4. century or centuries
  5. (used esp preceding a date) circa

    c. 1800

c

  1. The symbol for the speed of light in a vacuum.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of c1

From Latin circā, circiter, circum

Origin of c2

From the Latin word congius

Origin of c3

From the Latin word cum

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Word History and Origins

Origin of c1

(for sense 5) Latin: about

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Example Sentences

The search query report metrics in column C are lower because of Google’s search term filtering.

The cases followed a blockbuster 2017 state Supreme Court ruling that inspired the Measure C campaign to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a signature-gathering effort to facilitate such a challenge.

These all involve adding some sort of error to data—like a classic code where you shift the alphabet over two letters so that A is encoded as C and B as D, and so on.

From Fortune

Founded in 2004, it went public in 2015, but not before raising four venture rounds first, including from FirstMark and Jani, who was there at the A round, B round and the company’s last private funding event, its C round.

For example, the pitch of the note A above middle C needs to be 440 hertz.

Rule 16(c) was a proposed change in the rules at the 1976 Republican Convention.

“I just got my nails done,” gushes Michael C. Hall, extending his manicured, silver digits towards me.

Right off the bat, papyrologist Brice C. Jones noted that something was awry.

Some were silent from shock, others giddy and smiling as they boarded the U.S. Air Force C-130s.

“Chick Chick,” the latest tune by C-Pop sensation Wang Rong, is like “Gangnam Style” on MDMA.

The 1980s series followed in that tradition with episodes from Harlan Ellison, Arthur C. Clarke, and Anne Collins.

A personal favorite is “C Is For Cookie” for guiding me through a 1994 playground debate over how to spell the word.

The 1950s, observed C. Vann Woodward, resembled the era of Reconstruction in many ways.

He contracted Hepatitis C from drug use, which was a contributory factor in his death.

C-list TV star Adam Baldwin threw her GamerGate conspiracy video a much appreciated tweet.

According to the Montgomery Police Department, transmitting a sexually transmitted disease is a class C misdemeanor.

As I stepped into the main building that housed Unit C, an earsplitting siren blared suddenly and a dozen strobes flashed.

The door to Unit C was made of reinforced steel and had a small double-paned window.

John C. Beck, now 54 years old and the owner of a consulting firm, then was 23 years old, fresh out of Harvard.

He joked about the deafening noise levels in the old C-130 transport planes and sex at his age, then approaching 60.

Watching you and John C. Reilly together was like a watching a Never Been Kissed reunion.

You play a sweet, soft-hearted mom in the film and John C. Reilly is the strict rule-enforcer.

The airdrop mission consisted of a C-17 and two C-130 aircraft that were escorted by two F-18 fighters.

That's tame compared to the C-word and racism other Republicans have thrown on the social network.

“They were C-team fighters,” says a Lebanese military intelligence officer.

C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.

He was a bookseller, but better known as a translator of the German contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, &c.

(c) Decomposition of exudates anywhere in the body, as in empyema, bronchiectasis, and large tuberculous cavities.

En effet un soir, sa femme et enfans l'abandonnerent entierement, et s'en allerent cabaner ailleurs, pensant que c'en estoit vuid.

The usual forms are: (a) Ammoniomagnesium phosphate crystals; (b) acid calcium phosphate crystals; and (c) amorphous phosphates.

But I have some more foul way to trot through still, in your Epistles and Satyrs, &c.

It applies only to an ill-used man whose date (birth or death, &c.) was in 1506.

Further questions respecting her family, &c., were answered with equal directness and propriety, and with manifest truth.

(c) They are decreased in chronic lymphatic leukemia, and greatly increased in the myelogenous form.

Here the “c” is hard and represents 7, and as the steamboat could easily outrun the “scow,” the phrase is easily remembered.

Thomas Smith died; a learned English writer on the manners and religion of the Turks, &c.

Samuel Clarke, a famous English divine, died; celebrated also for his writings on mathematics, &c.

About 350 tons of the acid, which is used in some dying processes, &c., is sent out annually.

Dederat ipse in mdatis, vt antiquo in monumto c demortua prius familia (qu scieb paganic obijsse) sepeliretur.

It has been stated that many articles of furniture, &c., made by him are still in use.

Wire Nails, Staples, &c., are made at Nettlefold's by machinery much in advance of what can ba seen elsewhere.

This Method can be readily applied to events in ancient or modern times, or to an accumulation of facts in the sciences, &c.

An octave coupler without such extension is incomplete and is no more honest than a stop which only goes down to Tenor C.

Samuel Pepys, a learned Englishman, died; celebrated for his collection of valuable documents, &c.

They will be further lost in the chamber C, and practically none will remain by the time the chamber D is reached.

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