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C Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

If you were looking for the C, C++, or C# programming languages then see C programming language, C plus plus, or C Sharp programming language

C is the third letter of the Roman alphabet.

In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no distinctive voicing, so they took over Greek Γ (Gamma) to write their /k/. In the beginning, the Romans used C for both /k/ and /g/, only later adding a horizontal bar at right-center to produce G. It is possible but uncertain that C represented only /g/ at an even earlier time, while K might have been used for /k/.

Some scholars claim that the Semitic ג (gîmel) pictured a camel. /k/ developed palatal and velar allophones in Latin, probably due to Etruscan influence. Therefore, C has many different sound values today, among them /k/ and /s/ in French, /k/ and /θ/ (like English TH in THIN) in European Castilian, /θ/ in Fijian, /k/ and /ʧ/ (like English CH) in Italian, /ʤ/ in Turkish, Tatar, Azeri; /ʦ/ in Czech, Esperanto and so on.

As a phonetic symbol, lowercase [c] is the International Phonetic Alphabet and X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless palatal plosive, and capital [C] is the X-SAMPA symbol for the voiceless palatal fricative.

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1.1 Computing

2 Meanings for C
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Alternate representations

Charlie represents the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

In international Morse code the letter C is DahDitDahDit: - ˇ - ˇ

In Braille the letter C is represented as ⠉ (in Unicode), the dot pattern,

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In Unicode the capital C is codepoint U+0043 and the lowercase c is U+0063.

The ASCII code for capital C is 67 and for lowercase c is 99; or in binary 01000011 and 01100011, respectively.

The EBCDIC code for capital C is 195 and for lowercase c is 131.

The numeric character references in HTML and XML are "C" and "c" for upper and lower case respectively.

Meanings for C

In baseball, C is the abbreviation for the position of catcher.
In biochemistry, C is the symbol for cysteine and cytosine.
In business, C is a "creation" initial. It is used for the company name etc. in many Japanese companies.
In chemistry, C is the symbol for carbon.
In the CMYK color model, C stands for the color cyan.
In communication, c is an abbreviation for the word "see" in SMS or instant message.
In computing, C denotes the C programming language. Several of its derivatives have names including the letter C, for example C++, Objective-C, and C#.
In currency, c with a vertical bar through it (˘), is the symbol for cent.
In education, C is an average grade.
In electrical engineering,
- C is the control grid bias power supply (originally a battery) of vacuum tube circuitry.
- C is the variable for capacitance, and is used to label capacitors on schematics.
- C is a standard size of dry-cell battery.
In espionage, C is the head of MI6.
In financial securities, C is the stock symbol for Citigroup.
In geometry, c is the length of a hypotenuse on a right-angled triangle when using the formula a² + b² = c².
In hardware, a C-clamp is a type of fastener, so called because its shape resembles the capital C.
In history, c is an abbreviation for circa. When used with years, it means about (e.g., "c. 1500" means around the year 1500).
In international licence plate codes, C stands for Cuba.
In international paper sizes, C is a series of sizes with an aspect ratio of roughly 70% width to height. This series is primarily used for envelopes.
In mathematics,
- C is often used as a digit meaning twelve in hexadecimal and other positional numeral systems with a radix of 13 or greater.
- Blackboard bold denotes the set of complex numbers
- C with indices denotes the number of combinations, a binomial coefficient.
In the Metric system,
- c, centi, is an SI prefix meaning 1/100.
- C is the symbol for coulomb, the SI derived unit for electric charge.
In music, C is a note; see also Middle C
In nutrition, C is a vitamin; see Vitamin C
In physics,
- c is the speed of light in vacuum.
- c is the symbol of the charm quark.
In publishing, c with an enclosing circle, Š, denotes copyright
In rail transport, C is the UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement known as 0-6-0 in the Whyte notation; a locomotive with three powered axles (and thus six wheels) in which the axles are linked by gearing or side rods.
In Roman numerals, C denotes one hundred (centum in Latin).
In temperature, °C is the symbol for degrees Celsius.
As a timezone, C is the military designation for UTC+3, also known as MSK or Moscow Time.

C Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Alternate representations

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Meanings for C

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