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Encyclopedia > C (disambiguation)

Look up C, c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Look up C, c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ...


C may also refer to:


In computing

  • C (programming language), invented at Bell Labs in 1972
  • C++, a computer programming language evolved from C
  • Objective-C (more commonly "ObjC"), a reflective, object-oriented programming language evolved from C
  • C Sharp (C#), an object-oriented programming language.
  • Microsoft Visual C Sharp is Microsoft's implementation of the C# specification
  • Control-C, a keyboard control code that performs a variety of functions, including copying selected text to the clipboard.
  • C (magazine), a defunct Finnish computer magazine

In science C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose programming language with high-level and low-level capabilities. ... Objective-C, often referred to as ObjC or more seldomly as Objective C or Obj-C, is an object oriented programming language implemented as an extension to C. It is used primarily on Mac OS X and GNUstep, two environments based on the OpenStep standard, and is the primary language... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Microsoft Visual C# is Microsofts ultimate IDE for the C# programming language exact specification. ... In computing, control-C is a control character in ASCII code. ... C (sometimes written as C=) was a Finnish computer magazine targeted specifically at Commodore computers. ...

  • °C, the symbol for degrees Celsius
  • Cervical vertebrae (C1 to C7) or cervical spinal nerve (C1 - C8).

In music and entertainment This article is about the nutrient. ... The degree Celsius (°C) is a unit of temperature named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who first proposed a similar system in 1742. ... C1 or C-1 may refer to: In vehicles BMW C1, a security scooter with a roof Citroën C1, a small car Ford C1 platform, the Ford Motor Companys global compact car automobile platform Hawker-Siddeley C1 Andover transport aircraft Kawasaki C-1, an indigeneous transport aircraft of... C7 or C-7 may refer to: The Diemaco C7, a rifle. ...

Other uses In Western music, the expression middle C refers to the note C or Do located exactly between the two staves of the grand staff, quoted as C4 in note-octave notation (also known as scientific pitch notation). ...

  • C-clamp, a type of fastener, so called because its shape resembles the capital C.
  • C band in radio, ranges from 4 to 6 GHz.
  • Cent (currency), c or ¢ (c with a vertical or slanted bar through it)
  • Circa, a term meaning an approximate date
  • 0-6-0, the UIC classification "C" for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation; a locomotive with three powered axles (and thus six wheels) in which the axles are linked by gearing or side rods.
  • 100 (number) is a C in Roman Numerals (centum in Latin)
  • On the serial numbers of United States dollars, C identifies the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
  • "C" may refer to Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT), a centre-right political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
  • "C" may refer to Chiang Kai-shek, a Chinese military and political leader.

As a size or identifier The C-clamp or G-cramp is a type of clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal workpiece. ... C band (compromise band) is a portion of electromagnetic spectrum in the microwave range of frequencies ranging from 4 to 6 GHz. ... ¢ c A United States cent, or 1¢ or a penny In currency, the cent is a monetary unit that equals 1/100 of various countries basic monetary units. ... Look up Circa on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Latin word circa, literally meaning about, is often used to describe various dates (often birth and death dates) that are uncertain. ... 0-6-0 is also the emergency telephone number in Mexico, similar to the United Statess 9-1-1. ... 100 (one hundred) (the Roman numeral is C for centum) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. ... The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is responsible for the Third District of the Federal Reserve, which covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. ... The Kuomintang (KMT) or Nationalist Party of China (Traditional Chinese: 中國國民黨; Simplified Chinese: 中国国民党; pinyin: Zhōngguó Guómíndǎng; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguo Guomindang; literally the National Peoples Party of China... Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was the Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. ...

As a symbol or abbreviation, C may refer to: Comparison of the most common paper sizes. ... Front of an envelope mailed in the U.S. in 1906 contains postage stamp and address. ... A 36D black and white striped Victoria Secret brassiere. ... Symbols representing a single Cell (top) and Battery (bottom), used in circuit diagrams. ... Centi (symbol c) is a SI prefix in the SI system of units denoting a factor of 10-2, or 1/100. ... The cup is a unit of measurement for volume, used in cooking to measure bulk foods, such as chopped vegetables (dry measurement), and liquids (fluid measurement). ... In human genetics, Haplogroup C is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. ... In human genetics, Haplogroup C (RPS4Y=M130, M216) is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. ... C class loco 132 on the Silver Stream Railway, 6 March 2002. ... The C class consisted of twenty-four steam locomotives built to perform shunting duties on New Zealands national rail network. ...

  • c can also be used for the speed of sound in dry (0% humidity) air at sea level pressure.
  • C is the usual symbol for heat capacity.
  • C represents the circumference of a circle
  • C is the symbol for coulomb, the SI derived unit for electric charge
  • C is often used as a numerical digit meaning twelve in hexadecimal
  • Blackboard bold (double-struck capital C) mathbb{C} (Unicode U+2102 "ℂ") denotes the set of all complex numbers.
  • C with indices denotes the number of combinations, a binomial coefficient.
  • Blackletter mathfrak c (Unicode U+212D "ℭ") denotes the first beth number: the cardinality of the continuum (the set of real numbers), or of the power set of natural numbers
  • Cn and C are notions of smooth functions, meaning "continuously differentiable n times" and "infinitely differentiable", respectively.

  Results from FactBites:
 
C (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (202 words)
Look up C and c in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
C-4 - definition of C-4 in Encyclopedia (252 words)
C-4 is a development of a World War 2 material that mixed RDX with mineral oil and lecithin to achieve roughly the characteristics of plastic explosive but with certain disadvantages.
C-4 is part of a group of explosives along with C, C-2 and C-3, each containing different amounts of RDX developed in the 1960s.
The C is sometimes said to stand for composition and the name is an abbreviation of Composition 4.
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