Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation cell phone number
  • abbreviation Celsius
  • abbreviation Sports center
  • abbreviation centigrade
  • abbreviation Physics charm
  • abbreviation cold
  • abbreviation consonant
  • abbreviation coulomb
  • abbreviation cytosine
  • noun A widely used programming language.
  • The symbol for the Roman numeral one hundred.
  • The symbol for the speed of light in a vacuum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
  • noun The ordinal number third, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
  • noun chemistry Carbon.
  • noun metrology Symbol for the coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge.
  • noun slang Cocaine.
  • noun computing The digit for 12.
  • noun genetics IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any cytosine
  • noun biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for cysteine
  • noun stock symbol Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc on the NYSE
  • noun mathematics differentiable class
  • noun mathematics denotes the constant of integration
  • noun A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.
  • noun music Guitar chord – C – Played 0 1 0 2 3 0.
  • noun slang $100; a c-note.
  • noun music The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
  • noun An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
  • proper noun A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
  • proper noun UK Head of the Secret Intelligence Service.
  • noun The third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  • noun mathematics cardinal number one hundred (100).

Etymologies

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From Etruscan 𐌂 (C), from Greek Γ (G, "Gamma"), from Phoenician 𐤂 (G, "gimmel").

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A standardization of Ɔ and C because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of Latin centum ("hundred"), from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternate form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling Ж (a superimposed X and I), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.

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Examples

  • Though Eclipse platform supported development of C and C++ based applications through C Development Toolkit (CDT), but that toolkit couldn't be used for C# development.

    unknown title 2009

  • You can develop in the widest variety of languages for this platform - C, C++, C#, Java, ARM assembly, Pocket C, and Visual Basic (just to name some off the top of my head).

    Slashdot: IT 2008

  • C influenced the design of many languages (including C++), and C++ in turn has influenced the design of many other languages (including C# and Java), but that doesn't mean you have to learn C or C++ first -- there's nothing particularly "basic" about these languages.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2008

  • You can develop in the widest variety of languages for this platform - C, C++, C#, Java, ARM assembly, Pocket C, and Visual Basic (just to name some off the top of my head).

    Slashdot: Developers 2008

  • "FHHMMOO55557799@@ > > > BBBGGIIKK" [b] -64; C = "C@ =:: C@@ = = @ =: C@ =: C@ =: C5" "31 / 513 / 5131 /"

    doggdot.us 2008

  • You can develop in the widest variety of languages for this platform - C, C++, C#, Java, ARM assembly, Pocket C, and Visual Basic (just to name some off the top of my head).

    Slashdot: Ask Slashdot 2008

  • Section 3.3.1 of the document stipulates that "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++ and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the documented APIs (eg, applications that link to documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited)."

    Apple's iPad war on Adobe and Flash 2010

  • The Linux IDE package makes it easier for Eclipse developers to use a tool chain for building C/C++ applications for Linux, Eclipse said.

    Eclipse Helios technologies arrive on the release train 2010

  • People may recall that things like UNIX, C, C++, S came from there.

    CRU Inquiry Report submissions EliRabett 2010

  • Topping the list of the top 10 technology skills in demand for Wall Street firms are programming expertise in the C, C++ and C# languages.

    Wall Street wants these tech skills 2010

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