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  • clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
  • clavierist — a person who plays the clavier
  • clay eater — (in the South Atlantic States) a term used to refer to a poor, uneducated person from a rural area.
  • clearstory — clerestory
  • clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
  • clerestory — a row of windows in the upper part of the wall of a church that divides the nave from the aisle, set above the aisle roof
  • climateric — (obsolete) climatic.
  • clinometer — an instrument used in surveying for measuring an angle of inclination
  • cliometric — Of or pertaining to cliometrics.
  • clitorises — the erectile organ of the vulva, homologous to the penis of the male.
  • clock rate — (processor, benchmark)   The fundamental rate in cycles per second at which a computer performs its most basic operations such as adding two numbers or transfering a value from one register to another. The clock rate of a computer is normally determined by the frequency of a crystal. The original IBM PC, circa 1981, had a clock rate of 4.77 MHz (almost five million cycles/second). As of 1995, Intel's Pentium chip runs at 100 MHz (100 million cycles/second). The clock rate of a computer is only useful for providing comparisons between computer chips in the same processor family. An IBM PC with an Intel 486 CPU running at 50 MHz will be about twice as fast as one with the same CPU, memory and display running at 25 MHz. However, there are many other factors to consider when comparing different computers. Clock rate should not be used when comparing different computers or different processor families. Rather, some benchmark should be used. Clock rate can be very misleading, since the amount of work different computer chips can do in one cycle varies. For example, RISC CPUs tend to have simpler instructions than CISC CPUs (but higher clock rates) and pipelined processors execute more than one instruction per cycle.
  • clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
  • cloistered — If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you.
  • cloisterer — a person who lives in a cloister
  • cloistress — a nun
  • cloth ears — a deaf person
  • clubmaster — the manager of a gentlemen's club
  • cluster 86 — (language)   A distributed object-oriented language by L. Shang <[email protected]> of Nanjing University, ca. 1986. A cluster is a metatype. There are versions for MS-DOS and Unix.
  • clustering — cluster
  • cluttering — A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like stuttering.
  • co-operate — If you co-operate with someone, you work with them or help them for a particular purpose. You can also say that two people co-operate.
  • co-partner — a partner or associate, as in a business.
  • co-routine — a section of a computer program similar to but differing from a subroutine in that it can be left and re-entered at any point
  • co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
  • coacervate — either of two liquid phases that may separate from a hydrophilic sol, each containing a different concentration of a dispersed solid
  • coalmaster — the owner of a colliery
  • coarctated — Simple past tense and past participle of coarctate.
  • coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
  • coat dress — a lightweight button-through garment that can be worn either as a dress or as a coat
  • coatbridge — an industrial town in central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire. Pop: 41 170 (2001)
  • coathanger — Alternative spelling of coat hanger.
  • coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
  • cockatrice — a legendary monster, part snake and part cock, that could kill with a glance
  • cockteaser — a girl or woman who purposely excites or arouses a male sexually but then refuses to have intercourse.
  • cocreation — Joint creation.
  • codecenter — (programming)   (Formerly Saber-C) A proprietary software development environment for C programs, offering an integrated toolkit for developing, testing, debugging and maintainance.
  • codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
  • codirector — a fellow director
  • coercitive — Obsolete form of coercive.
  • coercivity — the magnetic-field strength necessary to demagnetize a ferromagnetic material that is magnetized to saturation. It is measured in amperes per metre
  • coeternity — existence for, from, or in eternity with another being
  • coexecutor — a person acting jointly with another or others as executor
  • cofavorite — a joint favourite
  • cogenerate — To generate two forms of energy simultaneously.
  • coherently — logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
  • coimbatore — an industrial city in SW India, in W Tamil Nadu. Pop: 923 085 (2001)
  • coinventor — a fellow inventor
  • coinvestor — a fellow investor
  • colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
  • cold store — A cold store is a building or room which is artificially cooled so that food can be preserved in it.
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