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c [a]
 
1)being ten more than ninety
    Synonyms :100 a_hundred hundred one_hundred 
    See Also: cardinal 
 
c [n]
 
1)a degree on the Centigrade scale of temperature
    Synonyms :degree_celsius degree_centigrade 
    See Also: degree  standard_temperature 
 
2)the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second
    Synonyms :light_speed speed_of_light 
    See Also: speed  constant 
 
3)one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)
    Synonyms :deoxycytidine_monophosphate 
    See Also: nucleotide 
 
4)a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
    Synonyms :cytosine 
    See Also: pyrimidine  deoxyribonucleic_acid  ribonucleic_acid 
 
5)an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
    Synonyms :atomic_number_6 carbon 
    See Also: chemical_element  coal  crude  limestone  carbonate  carbonise  carbonise  fullerene  carbon_14  char  charcoal  carbon_black  activated_carbon  black_lead  adamant 
 
6)ten 10s
    Synonyms :100 centred century hundred one_c 
    See Also: large_integer 
 
7)a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
    Synonyms :ampere-second coulomb 
    See Also: charge_unit  abcoulomb  ampere-minute 
 
8)a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
    Synonyms :
    See Also: programing_language 
 
9)the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet
    Synonyms :
    See Also: alphabetic_character  latin_alphabet 
 
10)street names for cocaine
    Synonyms :blow coke nose_candy snow 
    See Also: cocain 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

A programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie at {AT&T} Bell Labs ca. 1972 for systems programming on the PDP-11 and immediately used to reimplement Unix.

It was called "C" because many features derived from an earlier compiler named "B". In fact, C was briefly named "NB". B was itself strongly influenced by BCPL. Before Bjarne Stroustrup settled the question by designing C++, there was a humorous debate over whether C's successor should be named "D" or "P" (following B and C in "BCPL").

C is terse, low-level and permissive. It has a macro preprocessor, cpp.

Partly due to its distribution with Unix, C became immensely popular outside Bell Labs after about 1980 and is now the dominant language in systems and microcomputer applications programming. It has grown popular due to its simplicity, efficiency, and flexibility. C programs are often easily adapted to new environments.

C is often described, with a mixture of fondness and disdain, as "a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language".

Ritchie's original C, known as {K&R C} after Kernighan and Ritchie's book, has been standardised (and simultaneously modified) as ANSI C.

See also ACCU, ae, c68, c386, C-Interp, cxref, dbx, dsp56k-gcc, dsp56165-gcc, gc, GCT, GNU C, GNU superoptimiser, Harvest C, malloc, mpl, Pthreads, ups.

[Jargon File]

(1996-06-01)



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