C
WordNet
adjective
(1) Being ten more than ninety
noun
(2) Street names for cocaine
(3) The 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
(4) (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
(5) A general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
(6) A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
(7) A degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
(8) Ten 10s
(9) An abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
(10) A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
(11) One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
(12) 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
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From Etruscan , from Greek , from Phoenician .
Letter
- The third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
See also
Ƈ ₡ ₵ ₢
- Other scripts: ,
- For more variations, see Appendix:Variations of "c".
Etymology 2
A standardization of and because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of , from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternate form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling (a superimposed and ), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.
Numeral
- cardinal number one hundred (100).
Usage notes
With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as C, it represents one hundred thousand.
See also
- Lesser roman numeral symbol:
- Greater roman numeral symbol:
- Roman numerals
Etymology 3
abbreviation abbreviation From its position as the twelfth element of the series {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}Symbol
C
- carbon.
- Symbol for the coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge.
- The digit for 12.
- 0x0000000C
- IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any cytosine
- IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for cysteine
- Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc on the NYSE