C

[C]

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

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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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a degree on the Centigrade scale of temperature

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ten 10s

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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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a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine

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one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)

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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

Adjective S.
being ten more than ninety



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.


C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /.


The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.


As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.


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