C, cnoun
uk/siː/us/siː/plural Cs, C's or c'sC, c noun (LETTER)
[ C or U ] the third letter of the English alphabet
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Letters of alphabets
- A, a
- alphabetic
- B, b
- chi
- D, d
- iota
- J, j
- K, k
- kappa
- L, l
- psi
- Q, q
- R, r
- rho
- S, s
- Y, y
- Z, z
- zed
- zee
- zeta
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C, c noun (MUSIC)
[ C or U ] a note in Western music:
This song is in (the key of) C.
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Notes of the musical scale
- A, a
- B, b
- D, d
- doh
- E, e
- F, f
- flat
- lah
- lah 1
- major
- mi
- middle C
- minor
- natural
- register
- soh
- sol
- sol-fa
- te
- ti
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C, c noun (MARK)
[ C or U ] a mark in an exam or for a piece of work that shows that your work is average:
Rachel got (a) C for her French exam.
C, c noun (NUMBER)
[ C ] also c the sign used in the Roman system for the number 100
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Numbers generally
- antilogarithm
- Arabic numeral
- D, d
- digit
- I, i
- infinity
- L, l
- log
- logarithm
- M, m
- mode
- nos
- number
- ordinal
- ordinate
- quantitative
- Roman numeral
- serial number
- variable
- whole number
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C, c noun (TEMPERATURE)
[ after noun ] abbreviation for Celsius :
The temperature today reached 25°C.
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Measurements of temperature
- absolute zero
- Celsius
- dewpoint
- eighties
- F, f
- Fahrenheit
- fifties
- forties
- K, k
- kelvin
- mark
- nineties
- point
- seventies
- sixties
- temperature
- thermo-
- thirties
- zero
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C, c noun (COMPUTER LANGUAGE)
a computer programming language
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Computer programming & software
- abandonware
- ad-blocker
- ad-blocking
- adware
- alpha
- analytics
- CD-RW
- compile
- killer app
- LMS
- low-level language
- macro
- mashup
- MS-DOS
- os
- patch
- procedure
- shortcut
- systems analyst
- worm
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