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  • closed source — intellectual property, esp computer source code, that is not made available to the general public by its creators
  • closed stance — a batting stance in which the front foot is positioned closer to the inside of the batter's box than the back foot.
  • closed system — a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it.
  • closed-minded — having a mind firmly unreceptive to new ideas or arguments: It's hard to argue with, much less convince, a closed-minded person.
  • closing error — the amount by which a closed traverse fails to satisfy the requirements of a true mathematical figure, as the length of line joining the true and computed position of the same point.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
  • clothes horse — A clothes horse is a folding frame used inside someone's house to hang washing on while it dries.
  • clothes-horse — Informal. a person whose chief interest and pleasure is dressing fashionably.
  • clothes-press — a piece of furniture for storing clothes, usually containing wide drawers and a cabinet
  • clothesbasket — a basket for holding and carrying laundry.
  • clotheshorses — Plural form of clotheshorse.
  • cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
  • cloudlessness — Absence of clouds.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • coachbuilders — Plural form of coachbuilder.
  • coal measures — a series of coal-bearing rocks formed in the upper Carboniferous period; the uppermost series of the Carboniferous system
  • coalesced sum — (theory)   (Or "smash sum") In domain theory, the coalesced sum of domains A and B, A (+) B, contains all the non-bottom elements of both domains, tagged to show which part of the sum they come from, and a new bottom element. D (+) E = { bottom(D(+)E) } U { (0,d) | d in D, d /= bottom(D) } U { (1,e) | e in E, e /= bottom(E) } The bottoms of the constituent domains are coalesced into a single bottom in the sum. This may be generalised to any number of domains. The ordering is bottom(D(+)E) <= v For all v in D(+)E (i,v1) <= (j,v2) iff i = j & v1 <= v2 "<=" is usually written as LaTeX \sqsubseteq and "(+)" as LaTeX \oplus - a "+" in a circle.
  • coasting lead — a lead used in sounding depths of from 20 to 60 fathoms.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • cocarboxylase — thiamine pyrophosphate
  • coelenterates — Plural form of coelenterate.
  • coextensively — To the same extent.
  • cohesive soil — sticky soil such as clay or clayey silt whose strength depends on the surface tension of capillary water
  • 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.
  • coleman stove — a portable kerosene camp stove
  • collateralise — Alternative spelling of collateralize.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collectedness — The state or quality of being collected.
  • collectivised — Simple past tense and past participle of collectivise.
  • collectivizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collectivize.
  • collectorates — Plural form of collectorate.
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • collieshangie — a quarrel
  • colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
  • colored stone — any gemstone, colored or colorless, other than a diamond.
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
  • colorlessness — The state of being colorless.
  • colour scheme — In a room or house, the colour scheme is the way in which colours have been used to decorate it.
  • column inches — the amount of coverage given to a story in a newspaper
  • come to blows — to fight
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commeasurable — having the same measure or extent; commensurate.
  • commensalisms — a companion at table.
  • commensurable — having a common factor
  • commensurably — In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.
  • commercialese — business jargon
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