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  • clermont-ferrand — a city in S central France: capital of Puy-de-Dôme department; industrial centre. Pop: 140 957 (2011)
  • clitoridectomies — Plural form of clitoridectomy.
  • cloak-and-suiter — a manufacturer or seller of clothing.
  • cloakroom ticket — a ticket given to someone who checks a coat or other personal item into a cloakroom and which is used to redeem that item at a later period
  • cloistered vault — a vault having the form of a number of intersecting coves.
  • closing argument — In a court case, a lawyer's closing argument is their final speech, in which they give a summary of their case.
  • co-determination — a system of industrial management in which workers share responsibility for the operation of a company, as through elected representation on a corporate supervisory board
  • coadministration — Joint administration.
  • cochlear implant — a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease
  • cock-of-the-rock — either of two tropical South American birds, Rupicola rupicola or R. peruviana, having an erectile crest and (in the male) a brilliant red or orange plumage: family Cotingidae (cotingas)
  • code of practice — A code of practice is a set of written rules which explains how people working in a particular profession should behave.
  • cogito, ergo sum — I think, therefore I am; the basis of Descartes' philosophy
  • coherence theory — the theory of truth that every true statement, insofar as it is true, describes its subject in the totality of its relationship with all other things.
  • coherent control — the use of nonrandom radiation, especially a laser beam, to change an atomic, electronic, or molecular system's behavior.
  • coleridge-taylor — Samuel. 1875–1912, British composer, best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha (1898–1900)
  • collaborationism — The act of collaborating, especially with an enemy.
  • collaborationist — A collaborationist government or individual is one that helps or gives support to the enemy during the war.
  • collective fruit — multiple fruit
  • collector's item — A collector's item is an object which is highly valued by collectors because it is rare or beautiful.
  • college graduate — a student who has recently graduated from college
  • colles' fracture — a fracture of the radius just above the wrist, with backward and outward displacement of the hand
  • color television — tv set showing images in colour
  • colorado plateau — a plateau in the SW United States, in N Arizona, NW New Mexico, S Utah, and SW Colorado: location of the Grand Canyon.
  • colorimetrically — (analytical chemistry) By means of colorimetry or by using a colorimeter.
  • column extractor — A column extractor is a tall vessel in which one liquid removes something from another liquid using physical contact.
  • combination door — an outside door having a frame into which different types of panels can be inserted, as a screen for summer or storm sash for winter.
  • combination drug — a medication comprised of set dosages of two or more separate drugs.
  • combination room — (at Cambridge University) a common room
  • commensurability — The quality of being commensurable or commensurate.
  • commensurateness — The state or quality of being commensurate.
  • commercial pilot — an airplane pilot licensed to transport passengers, goods, etc.
  • commit to memory — to learn by heart; memorize
  • committee member — a member of a committee
  • commodity dollar — the unit of a proposed system of currency, that would have a fluctuating gold value determined at regular intervals on the basis of an official index of the prices of key commodities
  • common logarithm — a logarithm to the base ten. Usually written log or log10
  • common partridge — a small Old World gallinaceous game bird, Perdix perdix
  • communitarianism — A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities.
  • community center — A community center is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community centre — A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.
  • community charge — (formerly in Britain) a flat-rate charge paid by each adult in a community to his or her local authority in place of rates
  • community church — an independent or denominational church in a particular community.
  • community leader — a leading figure in a community
  • community spirit — willingness and desire to participate in activities that promote a community
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • commutator group — the subgroup of a given group, which consists of all the commutators in the group.
  • comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
  • compartmentalise — to divide into categories or compartments.
  • compartmentalize — To compartmentalize something means to divide it into separate sections.
  • compartmentation — subdivision of a hull into spaces enclosed by watertight bulkheads and sometimes by watertight decks.
  • complex fraction — a fraction in which the numerator or denominator or both contain fractions
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