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c¹ Definition

c (sē)

noun pl. C's, c's

  1. the third letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek gamma, a borrowing from the Phoenician
  2. any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (s) of cell or (k) of call
  3. a type or impression of c or C
  4. the third in a sequence or group
  5. an object shaped like

adjective

  1. of c or C
  2. third in a sequence or group
  3. shaped like

c² Definition

c

centi-

c³ Definition

c

the speed of light in a vacuum

C¹ Definition

C (sē)

noun

  1. a Roman numeral for 100: with a superior bar (), 100,000
  2. ☆ Educ. a grade indicating average work a C in biology
  3. Music
    1. the first tone or note in the scale of C major
    2. a key, string, etc. producing this tone
    3. the scale having this tone as the keynote
    4. the sign for 4/4 time
  4. a high-level computer programming language

adjective

average in quality

C² Definition

C

  1. candle
  2. Elec. capacitance
  3. Cape
  4. carat(s)
  5. Baseball catcher
  6. cathode
  7. Catholic
  8. Celsius (or centigrade)
  9. cent(s)
  10. centavo(s)
  11. Sports center
  12. centesimo(s)
  13. centime(s)
  14. centimeter(s)
  15. centimo(s)
  16. Central
  17. century
  18. chapter
  19. child; children
  20. circa
  21. cold (on water faucets)
  22. College
  23. Congress
  24. Conservative
  25. Math. constant
  26. contralto
  27. copyright
  28. coulomb
  29. cup(s)
  30. curie
  31. cycle(s)
  32. cytosine
  33. Physics heat capacity

  34. Etymology: L centum

    hundredweight

C³ Definition

C

carbon

C Hacker Definition
In the 1970s, Dennis Ritchie invented a new computer language called C that, as with UNIX in the operating system world, was designed to be nonconstraining and flexible. Though operating systems had typically been written in tight assembler language to extract the highest efficiency from their host machines, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie realized that both hardware and compiler technology had advanced enough that a whole C operating system could be written. By 1978, the entire environment was ported to computers of varying types.

See Also: Programming Languages C, C++, Perl, and Java; Thompson, Ken; UNIX.

c Telecom Definition
  1. Symbol for the velocity of light in a vacuum, which is exactly 299,792.458 kilometers per second, or 186,282.397 miles per second.The nominal figures, used for ease of reference and approximate calculations, are 300,000 km/s and 186,000 miles per second. The velocity of propagation (Vp) is sensitive to the medium. See also Vp.
  2. In 1900 the Ladies Home Journal magazine predicted that by the year 2000 the letters c, x, and q would be banished from the English alphabet.The expectation was that spelling would be phonetic and that those letters would be unnecessary. It was a perfectly logical prediction, but no more correct than the predictions that the use of jetpacks, teleportation, videophones, and smell-o-vision would be widespread. (Note: I make no predictions in this dictionary.) See also Smell-O-Vision, teleportation, and videophone.
C Telecom Definition
  1. The symbol for capacitance, or capacity. See capacitance.
  2. The symbol for coulomb. See coulomb.
c Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • ..: But new evidence from a Finnish doctor shows that statins don't lower cholesterol which, in any c...
  • subroutine: These are added to the return value from the c subroutine discussed earlier which results in the squares in the current grid being selected.
  • command: The signal that caused the program to stop is reactivated with the C command and ignored with the c command.
  • silvanus: Series of a c silvanus thompson before the physical then a professor.
  • thompson: Series of a c silvanus thompson before the physical then a professor.