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  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • colour palette — (graphics, hardware)   (colour look-up table, CLUT) A device which converts the logical colour numbers stored in each pixel of video memory into physical colours, normally represented as RGB triplets, that can be displayed on the monitor. The palette is simply a block of fast RAM which is addressed by the logical colour and whose output is split into the red, green and blue levels which drive the actual display (e.g. CRT). The number of entries (logical colours) in the palette is the total number of colours which can appear on screen simultaneously. The width of each entry determines the number of colours which the palette can be set to produce. A common example would be a palette of 256 colours (i.e. addressed by eight-bit pixel values) where each colour can be chosen from a total of 16.7 million colours (i.e. eight bits output for each of red, green and blue). Changes to the palette affect the whole screen at once and can be used to produce special effects which would be much slower to produce by updating pixels.
  • columbia river — a river in SW Canada and the NW United States, flowing S and W from SE British Columbia through Washington along the boundary between Washington and Oregon and into the Pacific. 1214 miles (1955 km) long.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • communion rail — (in a Christian church) the rail in front of the altar at which people kneel when taking communion
  • computerizable — able to be computerized
  • conceptual art — art in which the idea behind a particular work, and the means of producing it, are more important than the finished work
  • conceptualizer — a person who conceptualizes
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • conglomerateur — a person who forms or leads a business conglomerate
  • congratulating — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulation — the act of congratulating
  • congratulatory — A congratulatory message expresses congratulations.
  • connaturalness — connaturality
  • conquerability — the state or quality of being surmountable
  • constabularies — Plural form of constabulary.
  • constabulatory — (obsolete) A constabulary.
  • constructional — the act or art of constructing.
  • consul general — a consul of the highest grade, usually stationed in a city of considerable commercial importance
  • consular agent — a consul of one of the lower grades
  • contractualism — any of various theories that justify moral principles and political choices because they depend on a social contract involving certain ideal conditions, as lack of ignorance or uncertainty.
  • contrapuntally — of or relating to counterpoint.
  • contributional — the act of contributing.
  • copper sulfate — a blue, crystalline substance, CuSO4·5H2O, that effloresces and turns white when heated; blue vitriol: used in making pigments, germicides, batteries, etc.
  • cornucopia leg — a leg used on pieces in the Directoire and Empire styles, curving downward from the piece and curving upward again to a point and having a foot or caster at the lowest part of the curve.
  • coronal suture — the serrated line across the skull between the frontal bone and the parietal bones
  • corpuscularian — an adherent of corpuscular theory
  • corpuscularism — (philosophy) Ideology that discusses reality and change in terms of particles (corpuscles) and their motion.
  • corpuscularity — the state of being corpuscular
  • corticonuclear — Of or pertaining to the cerebral cortex and the motor nuclei in the brainstem.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • counterassault — a counterattack
  • counterbalance — To counterbalance something means to balance or correct it with something that has an equal but opposite effect.
  • counterclaimed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterclaim.
  • counterexample — an example or fact that is inconsistent with a hypothesis and may be used in argument against it
  • counterfactual — expressing what has not happened but could, would, or might under differing conditions
  • countervailing — A countervailing force, power, or opinion is one which is of equal strength to another one but is its opposite or opposes it.
  • court circular — (in countries having a monarchy) a daily report of the activities, engagements, etc, of the sovereign, published in a national newspaper
  • court martials — military courts that try people subject to military law
  • cream-coloured — cream in colour
  • criminal court — A criminal court is a law court that deals with criminal offences.
  • croquet mallet — the wooden mallet used by a croquet player
  • cross-cultural — Cross-cultural means involving two or more different cultures.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • culture factor — culture as a causative agent, especially in contrast to biological factors.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • dental surgeon — dentist who carries out surgery
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • dihedral group — the group of reflections, rotations, and symmetries of a regular n -sided polygon.
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