I. ˈsē noun
( plural c's or cs ˈsēz)
Usage: often capitalized, often attributive
1.
a. : the third letter of the English alphabet
b. : an instance of this letter printed, written, or otherwise represented
c. : a speech counterpart of orthographic c (as hard c in cat or soft c in cell )
2.
a. : one hundred — see number table
b. slang : a sum of $100
3.
a. : the keynote of C major or C minor
b. : the tone C
4. : a printer's type, a stamp, or some other instrument for reproducing the letter c
5. : someone or something arbitrarily or conveniently designated c especially as the third in order or class
A deeded land to B and C together
6.
a. : a grade assigned by a teacher or examiner rating a student's work as fair, average, or mediocre in quality
pass Latin with a C
b. : one graded or rated with a C
a C student
the movie was a C
your quiz papers are all C's
7. : something having the shape of the letter C
II. abbreviation
Usage: often capitalized
1. calm
2. calorie
3. Canadian
4. canceled
5. candle
6. canon
7. capacitance; capacity
8. cape
9. captain
10. caput
11. carat
12. cargo
13. case
14. castle
15. catcher
16. cathode
17. Catholic
18. caught
19. cause
20. Celsius
21. cent
22. cental
23. centavo
24. center
25. centi-
26. centigrade
27. centime
28. centimeter
29. centum
30. century
31. chairman
32. chancellor; chancery
33. chapter
34. chief
35. child
36. church
37. circa; circiter; circum
38. circuit
39. circumference
40. clearance
41. clockwise
42. cloudy
43. cobalt
44. cocaine
45. codex
46. coefficient
47. cognate
48. cold
49. college
50. color
51. colt
52. combat
53. commander
54. common meter
55. common time
56. companion
57. condemned
58. conductor
59. confessor
60. confidential
61. congius
62. congregation
63. congress
64. conservative
65. constable
66. consul
67. contact
68. continental
69. contra
70. contraction
71. contralto
72. copper
73. copy
74. copyright
75. cord
76. cordoba
77. corps
78. correct
79. cost
80. coulomb
81. count
82. coupon
83. court
84. cousin
85. created
86. crowned
87. cubic
88. cum
89. cup
90. currency
91. current
92. cycle
93. cylinder
III. symbol
1. 4/4 time — used after the clef sign on a musical staff
2. capitalized carbon
3. copyright — often enclosed in a circle
4.
a. cipher — used as a subscript
F p =T c means that the plaintext letter F has the cipher substitute T
b. capitalized the numerical value of a cipher letter when the cipher component is serially numbered from 0 to 25
P + K = C is the Vigenère keying method
5. capitalized consonant
IV. noun
Usage: capitalized
: a structured programming language designed to produce compact and efficient object code after compilation and to allow access to hardware functions of a computer
V. abbreviation
Usage: capitalized
cytosine
VI. symbol
1. capitalized charge conjugation herein
2. usually italic speed of light