CT
Encyclopedia
Medicine
- X-ray computed tomography, often referred to as a CT or CAT scan, a medical imaging method
- Cognitive therapyCognitive therapyCognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic approach: a talking therapy. CBT aims to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure in the present...
- Cardiothoracic surgeryCardiothoracic SurgeryCardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax —generally treatment of conditions of the heart and lungs .-Cardiac / Thoracic:...
, the field of medicine specializing in chest surgery - Connective tissueConnective tissue"Connective tissue" is a fibrous tissue. It is one of the four traditional classes of tissues . Connective Tissue is found throughout the body.In fact the whole framework of the skeleton and the different specialized connective tissues from the crown of the head to the toes determine the form of...
, a type of biological tissue - Carpal tunnelCarpal tunnelIn the human body, the carpal tunnel or carpal canal is the passageway on the palmar side of the wrist that connects the forearm to the middle compartment of the deep plane of the palm. The tunnel consists of bones and connective tissue...
- Chlamydia trachomatisChlamydia trachomatisChlamydia trachomatis, an obligate intracellular human pathogen, is one of three bacterial species in the genus Chlamydia. C. trachomatis is a Gram-negative bacteria, therefore its cell wall components retain the counter-stain safranin and appear pink under a light microscope.The inclusion bodies...
Time and units of measure
- Central Time Zone (Americas), a time zone in Canada, the United States, and Mexico
- Carat (purity)Carat (purity)The karat or carat is a unit of purity for gold alloys.- Measure :Karat purity is measured as 24 times the purity by mass:where...
(ct), a measure of the purity of gold and platinum alloys - Carat (mass)Carat (mass)The carat is a unit of mass equal to 200 mg and is used for measuring gemstones and pearls.The current definition, sometimes known as the metric carat, was adopted in 1907 at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures, and soon afterward in many countries around the world...
(ct), a unit of mass used for measuring gems and pearls - CentimeCentimeCentime is French for "cent", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries ....
(ct), the French for "cent", used in English in several Francophone countries - Stotinki (ст), the currency of Bulgaria
Places
- CanterburyCanterburyCanterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
, Kent, UK, via UK postcodes - ConnecticutConnecticutConnecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
, via United States postal abbreviation - Cape TownCape TownCape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
, the legislative capital of South Africa - CataniaCataniaCatania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
, the capital city of the province of Catania, in Sicily, Italy - Central African RepublicCentral African RepublicThe Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the north east, South Sudan in the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west. The CAR covers a land area of about ,...
(via FIPS Pub 10-4 code and obsolete NATO diagram) - Canton and Enderbury IslandsCanton and Enderbury IslandsThe Canton and Enderbury Islands consist of the coral atolls of Canton and Enderbury in the northeastern part of the Phoenix Islands, about 1,850 miles south of Hawaii in the central Pacific Ocean...
(via obsolete ISO 3166 country code), part of the Phoenix Islands in the Pacific Ocean - ChinatownChinatownA Chinatown is an ethnic enclave of overseas Chinese people, although it is often generalized to include various Southeast Asian people. Chinatowns exist throughout the world, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas, Australasia, and Europe. Binondo's Chinatown located in Manila,...
, neighborhood
Organizations
- CT (company)CT (company)CT is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer, a multi-national information services company based in the Netherlands with operations in 26 countries. CT is the umbrella brand for two businesses: and . CT Corporation is the largest registered agent service firm in the world representing...
, a registered agent firm - Canadian TireCanadian TireCanadian Tire Corporation, Limited is one of Canada's 60 largest publicly traded companies. The firm operates an inter-related network of businesses engaged in retailing hardgoods, apparel and petroleum as well as financial and automotive services, employing more than 58,000 people across Canada...
, a Canadian company engaged in retailing, financial services and petroleum - Calgary TransitCalgary TransitCalgary Transit is the public transit service which is owned and operated by the city of Calgary, Alberta. In 2008, an estimated 95.3 million passengers boarded approximately 960 Calgary Transit vehicles , which thus provided 2.31 million hours of service .-History:What would eventually become...
, the public transit service in Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Central TrainsCentral TrainsCentral Trains was one of the original 25 train operating companies to emerge from the break-up of British Rail between 1994 and 1997. The company operated local, urban and secondary express services across central England and Mid Wales.-Overview:...
, a former train operating company in the United Kingdom - Česká televizeCeská televizeČeská televize is the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting four channels.- Czechoslovak Television :Television in Czechoslovakia started to take its first steps before World War II. However, before visible results could be achieved, all activities were interrupted by...
(CT), the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic - Malayan Races Liberation ArmyMalayan Races Liberation ArmyThe Malayan Races Liberation Army was the name given by British security forces to a combatant in the Malayan Emergency, an insurrection and guerrilla war against the British and Malayan administration from 1948-1960 in what is now Malaysia....
, which was referred to as "Communist Terrorists" or "Charlie Tango" by the British during the Malayan Emergency - ConisterConisterManx Financial Group PLC is the holding company of a financial services group which includes Conister Bank Limited, Transsend Holdings Limited and their respective subsidiaries...
or sometimes "Conister Trust, an Isle of Man-based financial institution.
Sports, entertainment, and media programs
- Champions Trophy (disambiguation), the name of some trophies awarded in different sports
- Cryme TymeCryme TymeFor animated series named Crime Time, visit Crime TimeCryme Tyme was a professional wrestling tag team that was signed to WWE.The team consisted of JTG and Shad , an over-the-top parody of stereotypical street thugs.-Early lives:Of Haitian and...
, a professional wrestling stable working for WWE's RAW brand - Chrono TriggerChrono Triggeris a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. Chrono Triggers development team included three designers that Square dubbed the "Dream Team": Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Square's Final Fantasy series; Yuji Horii, a...
, a video game for the Super Nintendo and Nintendo DS - Celebrity TimeCelebrity TimeCelebrity Time was an American game and audience participation television series which aired originally aired on CBS and ABC from November 1948 to September 1952...
, an American quiz and audience participation television series - Central TonightCentral TonightCentral Tonight is a regional television news and current affairs programme, produced by ITV Central, serving the English Midlands.-History:...
, a British regional news programme - Cowboy TrapCowboy TrapCowboy Trap, now known as Cowboy Builders is a daytime British television show on BBC One presented by Clive Holland. It follows homeowners who have had cowboy builders who in some cases have rendered their homes uninhabitable...
, a daytime British television show - Crime TravellerCrime TravellerCrime Traveller is a 1997 science fiction detective television series produced by Carnival Films for the BBC based on the premise of using time travel for the purpose of solving crimes....
, a science fiction detective television series
Other uses
- Continuous-time signalContinuous signalA continuous signal or a continuous-time signal is a varying quantity whose domain, which is often time, is a continuum . That is, the function's domain is an uncountable set. The function itself need not be continuous...
, a varying quantity (a signal) whose domain is a continuum - CourtyardCourtyardA court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. These areas in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court....
(Ct.) - ChemotypeChemotypeIntroduced by Pierre Franchomme in 1975 and formalized in the European Union in 2006 with the adoption of the regulation REACH, a chemotype is a chemically distinct entity in a plant or microorganism, with differences in the composition of the secondary metabolites...
(ct.) - Intel CtIntel CtIntel Ct is a programming model developed by Intel to ease the exploitation of its future multicore chips, as demonstrated by the Tera-Scale research program.It is based on the exploitation of SIMD to produce automatically parallelized programs....
, a SIMD multithreading programming model developed by Intel - Honda CT seriesHonda CT seriesThe CT-series designation is a slight exception in Honda nomenclature in that 'CT' does not indicate a series of mechanically related bikes, but rather a group of different bikes that are all for casual off-road use.-Overview:...
, a series of Honda bikes - Center tapCenter tapIn electronics, a center tap is a connection made to a point half way along a winding of a transformer or inductor, or along the element of a resistor or a potentiometer....
, a wire that is connected halfway along one of the windings of a transformer, inductor or a resistor - Current transformerCurrent transformerIn electrical engineering, a current transformer is used for measurement of electric currents. Current transformers, together with voltage transformers , are known as instrument transformers...
, a special kind of transformer used in the electrical power industry - Convective temperatureConvective temperatureThe convective temperature is the approximate temperature that air near the surface must reach for cloud formation without mechanical lift. In such case, cloud base begins at the convective condensation level , whilst with mechanical lifting, condensation begins at the lifted condensation level...
- Crawler-transporterCrawler-TransporterThe crawler-transporters are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. They were originally used to transport the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs....
, a tracked vehicle used to transport the Space Shuttle from Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39 - Cryptologic technicianCryptologic technicianCryptologic Technician is a United States Navy enlisted rating or job specialty. The CT community performs a wide range of tasks in support of the national intelligence effort, with an emphasis on cryptology and signal intelligence related products....
, a United States Navy enlisted rating or job specialty - Gas turbineGas turbineA gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of internal combustion engine. It has an upstream rotating compressor coupled to a downstream turbine, and a combustion chamber in-between....
, of which "combustion turbine" is a type of, a rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gas - Compliant TowerCompliant TowerA compliant tower is a fixed rig structure normally used for the offshore production of oil or gas. The rig consists of narrow, flexible towers and a piled foundation supporting a conventional deck for drilling and production operations...
, a deepwater offshore oil platform - Counter-terrorismCounter-terrorismCounter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...
, the practices, tactics, and strategies used by governments and militaries to fight terrorism - c'tC'tc't – Magazin für Computertechnik is a German computer magazine, published by the Heinz Heise publishing house. Originally a special section of the electronics magazine elrad, the magazine has been published monthly since December 1983 and biweekly since October 1997...
, a German computer magazine, standing for "Computer Technik" - AntimatterAntimatterIn particle physics, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the antiparticle to matter, where antimatter is composed of antiparticles in the same way that normal matter is composed of particles...
, which "contra-terrene" is another name of - Civil Air TransportCivil Air TransportCivil Air Transport was a Chinese airline, later owned by the CIA, that supported United States covert operations throughout East and Southeast Asia...
IATA code - The ct ligature
- Creation theory, a body of theory sympathetic to creationism.
- Conspiracy theoryConspiracy theoryA conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.-Usage:The term "conspiracy...
- Christianity TodayChristianity TodayChristianity Today is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Carol Stream, Illinois. It is the flagship publication of its parent company Christianity Today International, claiming circulation figures of 140,000 and readership of 290,000...
, magazine