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  • centuries-old — hundreds of years old
  • century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
  • cerumenolytic — (pharmacology) A chemical that softens or removes cerumen (earwax).
  • cetane number — a measure of the quality of a diesel fuel expressed as the percentage of cetane in a mixture of cetane and 1-methylnapthalene of the same quality as the given fuel
  • chateaubriand — François René (frɑ̃swa rəne), Vicomte de Chateaubriand. 1768–1848, French writer and statesman: a precursor of the romantic movement in France; his works include Le Génie du Christianisme (1802) and Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1849–50)
  • chrysanthemum — A chrysanthemum is a large garden flower with many long, thin petals.
  • circumambient — surrounding
  • circumstanced — simple past tense and past participle of circumstance.
  • circumstances — someone's financial situation
  • circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • circumvention — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
  • citrus canker — a disease of citrus trees caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas citri, characterized by spongy eruptions on leaves and fruit.
  • clinker-built — (of a boat or ship) having a hull constructed with each plank overlapping that below
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • coconut cream — Also called cream of coconut. a creamy white liquid skimmed from the top of coconut milk that has been made by soaking grated coconut meat in water, used in East Indian cookery, mixed drinks, etc.
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • column vector — a collection of numbers, as the components of a vector, written vertically.
  • commensurated — Simple past tense and past participle of commensurate.
  • commensurates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commensurate.
  • communautaire — supporting the principles of the European Community (now the European Union)
  • commuter line — a railway line that mainly serves commuters
  • commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
  • computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • concrete noun — a noun that refers to a material object, as for example horse
  • concurrent ml — (language)   (CML) A concurrent extension of SML/NJ written by J. Reppy at Cornell University in 1990. CML supports dynamic thread creation and synchronous message passing on typed channels. Threads are implemented using first-class continuations. First-class synchronous operations allow users to tailor their synchronisation abstractions for their application. CML also supports both stream I/O and low-level I/O in an integrated fashion. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bugs).
  • conductimetry — the science of measuring the conductivity of solutions.
  • configurative — the relative disposition or arrangement of the parts or elements of a thing.
  • congratulable — worthy of congratulation
  • congratulated — to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion: They congratulated him on his marriage.
  • congratulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of congratulate.
  • conjecturable — Able to be conjectured upon.
  • conjecturally — of, of the nature of, or involving conjecture; problematical: Theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are highly conjectural.
  • connaturalize — to make connatural
  • connumeration — the act of counting together
  • constructible — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • consumer unit — A consumer unit is a particular type of distribution board that controls and distributes electrical energy, especially in domestic premises.
  • consumeristic — characterized by consumerism
  • contour sheet — a bed sheet designed to fit snugly over a mattress or the like, often having elastic material to hold down the corners.
  • contributable — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contribute to — to have a share in bringing about (a result); be partly responsible for
  • corel ventura — (text, graphics)   (Previously "Ventura Publisher") The first full-featured desktop publishing program available for the IBM personal computer and compatibles. Ventura Publisher was originally distributed by Ventura, a wholy owned subsiduary of Xerox Corporation but was acquired by Corel Corporation in September 1993.
  • coterminously — having the same border or covering the same area.
  • cotes-du-nord — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
  • counter check — a check available at a bank for the use of depositors in making withdrawals, orig. kept in supply on a counter
  • counter image — the point or set of points in the domain of a function corresponding to a given point or set of points in the range of the function.
  • counter shaft — A counter shaft is a shaft that runs parallel to the main shaft in a gearbox, and carries the pinion wheels.
  • counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
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