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  • center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
  • centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • chandrasekhar — Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
  • characterised — to mark or distinguish as a characteristic; be a characteristic of: Rich metaphors characterize his poetry.
  • chasse gardee — a private hunting preserve.
  • cheese spread — a processed cheese of smooth and spreadable consistency.
  • chesterfields — Plural form of chesterfield.
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child version — (system management)   In change management, a configuration item derived by altering another item (its parent version).
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • christmastide — the festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • circumscribed — to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clear-sighted — If you describe someone as clear-sighted, you admire them because they are able to understand situations well and to make sensible judgments and decisions about them.
  • close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
  • close-grained — (of wood) dense or compact in texture
  • closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • co-respondent — a person cited in divorce proceedings, who is alleged to have committed adultery with the respondent
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coarsegrained — having a coarse texture
  • coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
  • cold shoulder — If one person gives another the cold shoulder, they behave towards them in an unfriendly way, to show them that they do not care about them or that they want them to go away.
  • cold-shoulder — to snub; show indifference to.
  • colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • comorbidities — Plural form of comorbidity.
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • comradeliness — the quality of being comradely
  • concertedness — the state of being concerted
  • confederacies — Plural form of confederacy.
  • confirmedness — The quality of being confirmed.
  • conidiophores — Plural form of conidiophore.
  • conservatized — Simple past tense and past participle of conservatize.
  • considerately — showing kindly awareness or regard for another's feelings, circumstances, etc.: a very considerate critic.
  • consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
  • considerative — considerate
  • consideringly — in a considering manner
  • constrainedly — forced, compelled, or obliged: a constrained confession.
  • containerised — Simple past tense and past participle of containerise.
  • contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
  • cordocentesis — the extraction of a sample of blood from the umbilical cord during pregnancy
  • coresidential — relating to joint residency
  • corespondents — Plural form of corespondent.
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