C
\sˈiː], \sˈiː], \s_ˈiː]\
Definitions of C
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
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an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
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ten 10s
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a degree on the Centigrade scale of temperature
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street names for cocaine
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the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
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a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
By Princeton University
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a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
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an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
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ten 10s
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a degree on the Centigrade scale of temperature
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The keynote of the normal or natural scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.
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The clef, a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.
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is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter.
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As a numeral, stands for Latin centum or 100, Cfor 200, etc.
By Noah Webster.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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This letter in the chemical alphabet signifies nitre. It is also sometimes used in prescriptions for calx.
By Robley Dunglison
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Abbreviation for carbon, congius (gallon), compound, centigrade, centimeter, clonus, closure, etc.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Abbreviation for centigrade, for cylinder or cylindrical lens, for closure and contraction, and for congius (gallon)
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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The third letter in the English alphabet, and the second consonant, has two sounds, one close, like K; the other a sibilant, precisely like S. The digraph ch has three sounds, the first equivalent to tsh, as in church; the second equivalent so sh, as in chaise; the third equivalent to k, as in chorus. C after the cleft is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semi-breve, corresponding to 4/4. C is also the name of a note in the scale; the key note major, and the third minor, of the natural scale.
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