Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The third letter of the modern English alphabet.
  • noun Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter c.
  • noun The third in a series.
  • noun Something shaped like the letter C.
  • noun The third best or third highest in quality or rank.
  • noun The first tone in the scale of C major or the third tone in the relative minor scale.
  • noun A key or scale in which the tone of C is the tonic.
  • noun A written or printed note representing this tone.
  • noun A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.
  • abbreviation Physics candle
  • abbreviation carat
  • abbreviation charm quark
  • abbreviation circumference
  • abbreviation Mathematics constant
  • abbreviation cubic

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of Companion of the Bath. See bath.
  • noun An abbreviation of County Commissioner and of County Court.
  • noun An abbreviation of Civil Engineer.
  • noun An abbreviation of chief accountant, of controller of accounts, and in Great Britain of chartered accountant.
  • noun An abbreviation
  • noun of commissary-general, and
  • noun of consul-general.
  • noun An abbreviation
  • noun of court-house, very common in the southern United States, and as far north as southern Pennsylvania, as a part of town-names: as, Spottsylvania C. H.; and
  • noun of custom-house.
  • An abbreviation of chief justice.
  • noun An abbreviation of the Latin (New Latin) Chirurgiæ Magister, Master in Surgery.
  • noun An abbreviation of care of, common in addressing letters, etc. Often written c/o
  • The third letter and second consonant in the English, as in general in the other alphabets derived from the Phenician.
  • As a numeral, in the Roman system, C stands for 100, and is repeated up to CCCC, 400 (followed by D, 500).
  • As a symbol:
  • As an abbreviation, c. or C. stands, in dental formulas of zoölogy (c.), for canine tooth; in United States money (c.), for cent; in thermometer-readings (c.), for centigrade; in French money (c.), for centime; in references (c.), for chapter (or Latin capitulum); in dates, before the number (c.), for Latin circa, about: in meteorology (c.), for cirrus; in a ship's log-book (c.), for cloudy; and in measures of volume (c.), for cubic.
  • noun An abbreviation of Common Pleas and of Court of Probate.
  • noun An abbreviation of Court of Session;
  • noun Clerk of the Signet;
  • noun Custos Sigilli, Keeper of the Seal;
  • noun con sordini (which see).
  • An abbreviation of Court and [lowercase] of centimeter.
  • An abbreviation of Court of Appeal;
  • of Court of Arches;
  • of Chancery Appeals;
  • of commercial agent;
  • of Confederate army;
  • of county alderman.
  • An abbreviation of the French compte courante (account current);
  • of cubic centimeter.
  • An abbreviation of Cape Breton;
  • of Chief Baron (of the Exchequer) (see baron, 2);

Etymologies

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Modification of upper case letter C, from Etruscan 𐌂 (C), from Greek Γ (G, "Gamma"), from Phoenician 𐤂 (G, "gimmel").

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Lower case form of upper case roman numeral C, a standardization of Ɔ and C because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of Latin centum ("hundred"), from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternate form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling Ж (a superimposed X and I), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.

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Various abbreviations

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From Latin celeritās ("speed").

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From the symbol c, which is from Latin celeritās ("speed").

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Examples

  • NOTE: This warning detects symbols that have been used only once so $c, @c, \% c, * c, &c, sub c {}, c (), and c (the filehandle or format) are considered the same; if a program uses $c only once but also uses any of the others it will not trigger this warning.

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  • The probability seems to be that this yoke, like the others, was for two horses, on whose necks it rested at the points marked _b b_, the apertures (_c c c c_) lying thus on either side of the animals 'necks, and furnishing the means whereby the he was fastened to the collar.

    The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. George Rawlinson 1857

  • NÕu c « ng viÖc liª n q ua n ®Õn nh iÒu vÊ n ®Ò riª ng t­ vµ b ¶o m Ë t th × c òng nª n c ©n nh ¾c ®Õn c ¸c tïy c h ä n c ã s ½n nµy.

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  • NÕu c « ng viÖc liª n q ua n ®Õn nh iÒu vÊ n ®Ò riª ng t­ vµ b ¶o m Ë t th × c òng nª n c ©n nh ¾c ®Õn c ¸c tïy c h ä n c ã s ½n nµy.

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  • ®i qu¸ chi tiÕ t vµo V O IP (v× sè l­îng kiÕ n thø c cã h¹n, vµ kh« ng muèn ®i qu¸ môc ®Ý ch cña mét bµi tiÓ u luË n) nªn t« i chØ giíi thiÖ u, tr×nh bµy c¸ ch thø c hoÆ t ®éng vµ ø ng dông thùc tiÔ n cña nã trong m« i tr­êng c« ng nghÖ th« ng tin ngµy nay.

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  • ®i qu¸ chi tiÕ t vµo V O IP (v× sè l­îng kiÕ n thø c cã h¹n, vµ kh« ng muèn ®i qu¸ môc ®Ý ch cña mét bµi tiÓ u luË n) nªn t« i chØ giíi thiÖ u, tr×nh bµy c¸ ch thø c hoÆ t ®éng vµ ø ng dông thùc tiÔ n cña nã trong m« i tr­êng c« ng nghÖ th« ng tin ngµy nay.

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  • o a″_, in consequence of the motion of the mirror, or the angle of deviation will be _a o a″ + c o c′_; or _a o a″ + c o c′ = d_.

    Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis Albert A. Michelson 1891

  • So the sentence ˜I am female™ is false at context c and true at context c*.

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  • It is simply stipulated on the basis of contextual considerations that c* and e* are intended to act as contrasts to c and e.

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  • Suppose that w is the world of contexts c and c* above, in which Fred and Wilma are the agents, respectively.

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  • C. Chemical element symbol for Carbon.

    December 16, 2007