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  • churchill falls — a waterfall in E Canada, in SW Labrador on the Churchill River: site of one of the largest hydroelectric power projects in the world. Height: 75 m (245 ft)
  • churrigueresque — of or relating to a style of baroque architecture of Spain in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
  • cigarette smoke — the acrid smoke produced by cigarettes being smoked
  • ciliary process — one of the folds on the ciliary body, connected with the suspensory ligament of the crystalline lens.
  • circularisation — Alternative spelling of circularization.
  • circumambagious — in a round-about manner
  • circumambulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumambulate.
  • circumforaneous — moving around or abroad; roaming from place to place
  • circumincession — the reciprocal existence within the three members of the Trinity
  • circumlocutions — Plural form of circumlocution.
  • circumlocutious — Circumlocutional.
  • circumnavigates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumnavigate.
  • circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
  • circumscriptive — That circumscribes or outlines.
  • circumspectness — the quality of being circumspect
  • circumstantials — incidentals; details
  • circumstantiate — to support by giving particulars
  • circumvolutions — Plural form of circumvolution.
  • citizen science — scientific research, data collection, etc., that involves the participation of nonscientists (often used attributively): Bird watchers report their bird observations to citizen-science projects.
  • citrus red mite — a large mite, Panonychus citri, that is an important pest of citrus.
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
  • city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
  • civil liberties — A person's civil liberties are the rights they have to say, think, and do what they want as long as they respect other people's rights.
  • claims adjuster — A claims adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money a person making a claim should receive.
  • clandestineness — The state or quality of being clandestine.
  • clare of assisi — Saint. 1194–1253, Italian nun; founder of the Franciscan Order of Poor Clares. Feast day: Aug 11
  • class hierarchy — (programming)   In object-oriented programming, a set of classes related by inheritance. Each class is a "subclass" of another class - its "superclass". The subclass contains all the features of its superclass, but may add new features or redefine existing features. The features of a class are the set of attributes (or "properties") that an object of that class has and the methods that can be invoked on it. If each class has a just one superclass, this is called single inheritance. The opposite is multiple inheritance, under which a class may have multiple superclasses. Single inheritance gives the class hierarchy a tree structure whereas multiple inheritance gives a directed graph. Typically there is one class at the top of the hierarchy which is the "object" class, the most general class that is an ancestor of all others and which has no superclass. In computing, as in genealogy, trees grow downwards, which is why subclasses are considered to be "below" their superclasses. When invoking a method on an object, the method is first looked for in the object's class, then the superclass of that class, and so on up the hierarchy until it is found. Thus a class need only define those methods which are specific to it and it will inherit all other methods from all its superclasses. An object of the subclass can do everything that an object of the superclass can and possible more.
  • class inclusion — the relation between two classes in which all members of one class are included in the other, as in the proposition “All humans are animals.”.
  • class president — the student president of a school or college class
  • class-conscious — Someone who is class-conscious is very aware of the differences between the various classes of people in society, and often has a strong feeling of belonging to a particular class.
  • classical greek — the form of Greek used in classical literature, especially the literary Attic Greek of the 5th and 4th centuries b.c.
  • classical latin — the form of Latin used in classical literature, especially the literary Latin of the 1st century b.c. and the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d.
  • classical logic — (logic)   Non-intuitionistic logic.
  • classical music — a style of music composed, esp at Vienna, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This period is marked by the establishment, esp by Haydn and Mozart, of sonata form
  • classifications — Plural form of classification.
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • cleistogamously — in a cleistogamous manner
  • cleptoparasites — Plural form of cleptoparasite.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • close communion — a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
  • closed interval — an interval on the real line including its end points, as [0, 1], the set of reals between and including 0 and 1
  • closed position — (in ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance) any position in which the feet touch each other.
  • closed universe — (in cosmology) a hypothetical expanding universe that contains sufficient matter to reverse the observed expansion through its gravitational contraction.
  • clumber spaniel — a type of thickset spaniel having a broad heavy head
  • cmu common lisp — (language)   (CMU CL) A public domain "industrial strength" Common Lisp programming environment. Many of the X3J13 changes have been incorporated into CMU CL. Wherever possible, this has been done so as to transparently allow use of either CLtL1 or proposed ANSI CL. Probably the new features most interesting to users are SETF functions, LOOP and the WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT macro. The new CMU CL compiler is called Python. Version 17c includes an incremental compiler, profiler, run-time support, documentation, an editor and a debugger. It runs under Mach on SPARC, MIPS and IBM PC RT and under SunOS on SPARC. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • coaling station — a port at which vessels can take on coal
  • coast artillery — artillery used for defending coastal areas.
  • coast mountains — a mountain range in Canada, on the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Waddington, 4043 m (13 266 ft)
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