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  • chemical dependency — addiction to drugs or alcohol.
  • chemical processing — Chemical processing is a way of making changes to chemical compounds.
  • chemical weathering — any of the various weathering processes that cause exposed rock to undergo chemical decomposition, changing the chemical and mineralogical composition of the rock: Oxygen and acids are agents in chemical weathering.
  • chemolithoautotroph — (biology) A chemoautotroph or lithoautotroph.
  • chinese chippendale — a branch of Chippendale style in which Chinese styles and motifs are used
  • chinese sacred lily — a Chinese amaryllidaceous plant, Narcissus tazetta orientalis, widely grown as a house plant for its fragrant yellow and white flowers
  • chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
  • chlorobromide paper — a relatively fast printing paper coated with an emulsion of silver chloride and silver bromide.
  • chloroplatinic acid — a red-brown, crystalline, water-soluble solid, H 2 PtCl 6 ⋅6H 2 O, used chiefly in platinizing glass, metals, and ceramic ware.
  • chlorosulfonic acid — a colorless or yellowish, highly corrosive, pungent liquid, HClO 3 S, usually produced by treating sulfur trioxide with hydrogen chloride: used in organic synthesis to introduce the sulfonyl chloride group, =SO 2 Cl.
  • cholecystolithiasis — The presence of a gallstone specifically in the gall bladder.
  • choledocholithiasis — The presence of gallstones in the common bile duct.
  • christian socialist — a member of any of certain European political parties advocating a form of social organization based on Christian and socialistic principles.
  • chromatographically — With regard to, or by by using chromatography.
  • chromoblastomycosis — Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue.
  • chronological order — the arrangement of things following one after another in time: Put these documents in chronological order.
  • cinematographically — a motion-picture projector.
  • circle of curvature — the circle with its center on the normal to the concave side of a curve at a given point on the curve and with its radius equal to the radius of curvature at the point.
  • circular definition — a definition in which the definiendum (the expression being defined) or a variant of it appears in the definiens (the expression that defines it).
  • circulating capital — the non-permanent raw materials and operating expenses that are used up to produce other goods or services
  • circulating decimal — repeating decimal
  • circulating library — a small library circulated in turn to a group of schools or other institutions
  • circulation manager — the senior manager responsible for the distribution of a newspaper
  • claims investigator — A claims investigator is a person who is employed by an insurance company to obtain information necessary to evaluate a claim.
  • claims notification — Claims notification is the process of informing an insurance company that a loss has occurred and that the policyholder intends to ask for money as a result.
  • clandestine entrant — a person who hides in or on a vehicle as it enters the United Kingdom with the aim of avoiding immigration controls
  • class action (suit) — a legal action brought by one or more persons on behalf of themselves and a much larger group, all of whom have the same grounds for action
  • class consciousness — awareness of belonging to a particular social rank or grade
  • classical economics — a system or school of economic thought developed by Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, advocating minimum governmental intervention, free enterprise, and free trade, considering labor the source of wealth and dealing with problems concerning overpopulation.
  • classical mechanics — the study of mechanics using Newton's laws rather than quantum theory and relativity
  • classroom assistant — a person whose job is to help a schoolteacher in the classroom
  • clemastine fumarate — an antihistamine, C 25 H 30 ClNO 5 , that has drying and some sedative effects, used for symptomatic relief of allergy.
  • clinical depression — depression in a patient that meets defined criteria and that is deemed to merit treatment
  • clinical governance — a systematic approach to raising standards of health care and tackling poor performance in hospitals
  • clinical psychology — the branch of psychology that studies and treats mental illness and mental retardation
  • clinicopathological — of or relating to the combined study of disease symptoms and pathology.
  • cobalt violet light — a pigment used in painting consisting mainly of arsenate of cobalt, characterized chiefly by its violet color, permanence, and poisonous properties.
  • cobaltous hydroxide — a rose-red, amorphous, water-insoluble powder, Co 2 O 3 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in the preparation of cobalt salts and in the manufacture of paint and varnish driers.
  • coca colonization's — to bring (a foreign country) under the influence of U.S. trade, popular culture, and attitudes.
  • collective behavior — the spontaneous, unstructured, and temporary behavior of a group of people in response to the same event, situation, etc.
  • collision insurance — insurance protecting an automobile owner against loss or damage to the automobile resulting from a collision or other accident.
  • colonial experience — experience of farming, etc, gained by a young Englishman in colonial Australia
  • colorado tick fever — a usually mild viral disease occurring in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States, carried by a tick, Dermacentor andersoni, and characterized by fever, sensitivity to light, headache, and leg and back pain.
  • columnar epithelium — epithelium consisting of one or more layers of elongated cells of cylindrical or prismatic shape.
  • command line option — (software)   (Or "option", "flag", "switch", "option switch") An argument to a command that modifies its function rather than providing data. Options generally start with "-" in Unix or "/" in MS-DOS. This is usually followed by a single letter or occasionally a digit. More recently, GNU software adopted the --longoptionname style, usually in addition to traditional, single-character, -x style equivalents. Some commands require each option to be a separate argument, introduced by a new "-" or "/", others allow multiple option letters to be concatenated into a single argument with a single "-" or "/", e.g. "ls -al". A few Unix commands (e.g. ar, tar) allow the "-" to be omitted. Some options may or must be followed by a value, e.g. "cc prog.c -o prog", sometimes with and sometimes without an intervening space.
  • commercial software — (software)   (Or "commercial off-the-shelf software", COTS) Software that is produced for sale. This contrasts with free software, which is produced for free distribution, meaning without charge and/or without restriction on further distribution. Some companies that sell software distribute some (versions) of products free of charge (but usually with restricted distribution rights), this would probably still be called commercial software. Conversely, software that an individual distributes for free, but for which he accepts donations, would still be called free software.
  • commercial traveler — a traveling salesman
  • commercially-minded — knowledgeable about business; interested in making money
  • common iliac artery — iliac artery (def 1).
  • common-iliac-artery — Also called common iliac artery. either of two large arteries that conduct blood to the pelvis and the legs.
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