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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026C, c /si/USA pronunciation
n. [countable], pl. Cs or C's, cs or c's.
- Linguisticsthe third letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
C,
Symbol.
- Education[sometimes: c] (in some grading systems) a grade or mark indicating fair or average quality.
- Music and Dance
- the tonic note of the C major scale.
- a written or printed note representing this tone.
- [sometimes: c] the Roman numeral for 100.
- PhysicsCelsius:The temperature is 10°C (said as "10 degrees Celsius'').
- Physicscentigrade.
- Chemistrycarbon.
- Also, C-note. Slang. a hundred-dollar bill.
c,
an abbreviation of: circa
- (used with a year):c1775.
c, [Symbol.]
- Optics, Physicsthe velocity of light in a vacuum: approximately 186,000 miles per second or 299,793 kilometers per second.
- Physicsthe velocity of sound.
C.,
an abbreviation of:
- ThermodynamicsCalorie.
- EducationCollege.
- Conservative.
c.,
an abbreviation of:
- Thermodynamicscalorie.
- Jewelrycarat.
- Physicscentigrade.
- Weights and Measurescentimeter.
- chapter.
- circa (used with a year):c. 1775.
- copyright.
- Weights and Measurescubic.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026C, c
(sē),USA pronunciation n., pl. C's or Cs, c's or cs.
- the third letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
- any spoken sound represented by the letter C or c, as in cat, race, or circle.
- something having the shape of a
- a written or printed representation of the letter C or c.
- a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter C or c.
C,
- Drugscocaine.
- Education, Grammar[Gram.]complement.
- Music and Danceconsonant.
- Physicscoulomb.
- county (used with a number to designate a county road):C55.
C, Symbol.
- the third in order or in a series.
- (sometimes l.c.) (in some grading systems) a grade or mark, as in school or college, indicating the quality of a student's work as fair or average.
- [Music.]
- Phoneticsthe first tone, or keynote, in the scale of C major or the third tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
- Music and Dancea string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
- Phoneticsa written or printed note representing this tone.
- (in the fixed system of solmization) the first tone of the scale of C major, called do.
- the tonality having C as the tonic note.
- a symbol indicating quadruple time and appearing after the clef sign on a musical staff.
- (sometimes l.c.) the Roman numeral for 100.
- Celsius.
- centigrade.
- [Elect.]
- capacitance.
- a battery size for 1.5 volt dry cells: diameter, 1 in. (2.5 cm);
length, 1.9 in. (4.8 cm).
- Chemistrycarbon.
- [Physics.]
- charge conjugation.
- charm1 (def. 9).
- [Biochem.]
- Also, C-note. [Slang.]a hundred-dollar bill.
- Clothinga proportional shoe width size, narrower than D and wider than B.
- Clothinga proportional brassiere cup size, smaller than D and larger than B.
- Stock Exchange, Businessthe lowest quality rating for a corporate or municipal bond.
- Computinga high-level programming language: very powerful and flexible, it is used in a wide variety of applications.
c,
- Drugscalorie.
- [Optics.]candle;
candles.
- (with a year) about:c1775.
- [Physics, Chem.]curie;
curies.
- cycle;
cycles.
c, Symbol.
- [Optics, Physics.]the velocity of light in a vacuum: approximately 186,000 miles per second or 299,793 kilometers per second.
- Physics[Acoustics, Physics.]the velocity of sound.
c̄, - (in prescriptions) with.
C.,
- Calorie.
- Place NamesCape.
- ReligionCatholic.
- PhysicsCelsius.
- Celtic.
- PhysicsCentigrade.
- EducationCollege.
- Currency(in Costa Rica and El Salvador) colon;
colons.
- GovernmentCongress.
- GovernmentConservative.
C-, [U.S. Mil.]
- Military(in designations of transport aircraft) cargo:C-54; C-124.
c.,
- calorie.
- Opticscandle;
candles.
- Jewelrycarat.
- Chemistrycarbon.
- carton.
- case.
- [Baseball.]catcher.
- Electricitycathode.
- Currencycent;
cents.
- Currencycentavo.
- [Football.]center.
- Physicscentigrade.
- Currencycentime.
- Weights and Measurescentimeter.
- century.
- chairman;
chairperson.
- chapter.
- chief.
- child.
- church.
- (with a year) about:c. 1775.
- Meteorologycirrus.
- city.
- cloudy.
- Linguisticscognate.
- color.
- Weights and Measuresgallon.
- Chemistrycopper.
- copyright.
- corps.
- Weights and Measurescubic.
- (in prescriptions) with.
- cycle;
cycles.
C++, n.
- Computinga high-level programming language, a descendant of C, with the ability to manipulate object-oriented features.
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(R.E. V.C.)
[articles] - at <a/the> heating rate of 10°C/min
[The categories / In the categories] are A, B, C, and D.
[the] Washington D.C.
& c
±0.5°c
15Five, D. H. C. O.
1920 - 1690 b.c.e: How to say it.
1st half of the 1st millennium B.C.
21st C: what does it stand for?
3 C's or 3Cs [three / letter plural]
36.5˚ C [reading out or saying]
42 u.s.c. § 10607 ?
a loaf of farmhouse bread nestled within an embroidered c
a : b = c : d
a 34 C
a A, B, and C
A and B and C
A and B of C
A and B or C
A and B share something and so does C
a and b the c of d
A as over against B, is as the proportion of C over against D?
A causes B causes C
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