c meaning

Noun: c  see

1. 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
   - speed of light, light speed 
2. The 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
   - C

Adjective: c  see

1. Being ten more than ninety
   - hundred, one hundred, 100

Noun: C  see

1. A degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
   - degree centigrade, degree Celsius 
2. Street names for cocaine
   - coke, blow, nose candy, snow 
3. (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 
4. A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
   - coulomb, ampere-second 
5. A vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
   - vitamin C, ascorbic acid 
6. One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
   - deoxycytidine monophosphate 
7. Ten 10s
   - hundred, 100, century, one C 
8. A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
   - cytosine 
9. An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
   - carbon, atomic number 6 
10. A general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 
11. Temperature measurement on the Celsius scale (where water freezes at zero degrees and boils at 100 degrees; unit divisions are equal to the kelvin, with zero kelvin being -273.15 C)
    - centigrade, Celsius

Derived forms: Cs, cs

See also: cardinal

Type of: alphabetic character, antioxidant, base, charge unit, chemical element, cocain, cocaine, constant, degree, element, keynote, large integer, letter, letter of the alphabet, nucleotide, programing language [US], programming language, pyrimidine, quantity unit, speed, tonic, velocity, water-soluble vitamin

Part of: abcoulomb, ampere-minute, black gold, coal, crude, crude oil, deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, fossil oil, Latin alphabet, limestone, oil, petroleum, ribonucleic acid, RNA, rock oil, Roman alphabet

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[Architecture]
1.

On drawings, abbr. for course.

2.

Abbr. for centigrade or “Celsius.”

[Defence]
centigrade; clock; compromise band; coverage factor; creeping line pattern

[Electronics]
1. Abbreviation of CAPACITANCE.
2. Symbol for COLLECTOR of a transistor.
3. Symbol for CARBON.
4. Abbreviation of CELSIUS.
5. Symbol for COULOMB.
6. Abbreviation of CALORIE.

[Finance]
Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock descriptor specifying that issue is exempt from Nasdaq listing requirements for a temporary period.

[Law]
See COMMAND PAPERS.

[Medicine]
abbr
1 calorie
2 canine
3 cathode
4 centimeter
5 clonus
6 closure
7 cobalt
8 coefficient
9 contact
10 contraction
11 coulomb
12 curie
13 cylinder
14 or ò

Latin cum

with —used in writing prescriptions
C
abbr
1 Celsius
2 centigrade
3 cervical —used esp. with a number from 1 to 7 to indicate a vertebra or segment of the spinal cord
4 cocaine
5 complement
6 congius
7 cytosine
C
symbol carbon

[Oil and gas]
Compressibility

[Thermodynamics]
See calorie

[Computer]
<language> A programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie at AT&T Bell Labs ca. 1972 for systems programming on the PDP-11 and immediately used to reimplement Unix.

It was called "C" because many features derived from an earlier compiler named "B". In fact, C was briefly named "NB". B was itself strongly influenced by BCPL. Before Bjarne Stroustrup settled the question by designing C++, there was a humorous debate over whether C's successor should be named "D" or "P" (following B and C in "BCPL").

C is terse, low-level and permissive. It has a macro preprocessor, cpp.

Partly due to its distribution with Unix, C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. It has grown popular due to its simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility. C programs are often easily adapted to new environments.

C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".

Ritchie's original C, known as K&R C after Kernighan and Ritchie's book, has been standardised (and simultaneously modified) as ANSI C.

See also ACCU, ae, c68, c386, C-Interp, cxref, dbx, dsp56k-gcc, dsp56165-gcc, gc, GCT, GNU C, GNU superoptimiser, Harvest C, malloc, mpl, Pthreads, ups.

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1. vitamin c is destroyed when overheated.
2. it contains vitamin a and vitamin c.
3. c is the set of contracted ideas in a.
4. the thermometer registered 32 c.
5. c is a positive constant, the spring constant.