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noun

1.

A degree on the centigrade scale of temperature. Synonyms: degree Celsius, degree centigrade.

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.

3.

A vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy. Synonyms: ascorbic acid, vitamin C.

4.

One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose). Synonym: deoxycytidine monophosphate.

5.

A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine. Synonym: cytosine.

6.

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.

7.

Ten 10s. Synonyms: 100, century, hundred, one C.

8.

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.

9.

A general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system.

10.

(music) the keynote of the scale of C major.

11.

The 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet.

12.

Street names for cocaine. Synonyms: blow, coke, nose candy, snow.

adjective

1.

Being ten more than ninety. Synonyms: 100, hundred, one hundred.

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... bore a striking likeness to an "elliptical ring" descried in the same latitude by Mr. Gledhill in 1869-70. This, indeed, might be called the preliminary sketch for the famous object brought to perfection ten years later, but which Mr. H. C. Russell of Sydney saw and drew still unfinished in June, 1876,[1076] before it had separated from its matrix, the dusky south tropical belt. In earlier times, too, a marking "at once fixed and transient" had been repeatedly perceived attached to the southernmost of the central ...

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... country suffering from the destroying footsteps of the Western Kelts. There had been long before an overflow of a tribe in Northern Gaul (the Kymrians), which had hewed and plundered its way south and eastward; until at the time of Alexander (B.C. 340) it was knocking ...

— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele

... no sooner had Paul mastered subject A than he was immediately provided with subject B, from which we passed to C, and even D. Often he felt giddy and confused, and drowsy ...

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... that island in 1506, and explored its coasts in the following years, could not have Ion. remained in ignorance of De Gonneville's voyage. The cross erected by his companion was, perhaps, not destroyed; but, so short a period having c-lapsed between their discoveries and the Norman captain's voyage, the natives could scarcely have forgotten so important an event. The only alternative theory would be that, in their explorations along the coast of the island, the Portuguese were so unfortunate as to ...

— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... appearance of being a very ordinary butcher's knife. There were some faint initials burnt upon the hilt, but these had been so worn by constant handling that there was only the faintest trace of what they had originally been. He could see an "M" and two other letters that looked like "C" and "A." ...

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