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(Canada) Companion of the Order of Canada.

(US, military, historical) The US Navy hull classification symbol for a battlecruiser; the only such ships authorized by Congress were of the Lexington-class, which were cancelled under the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty with two being converted to aircraft carriers.

Initialism of carbon copy. [A copy produced in an alternated stack of ordinary sheets of paper and carbon papers. The pressure applied on the top sheet (by a pen or typewriter) causes every carbon paper to release its carbon cover, thus reproducing the writing on the subjacent layers of paper.]

Initialism of credit card. [(banking) A plastic card, usually with a magnetic strip or an embedded microchip, connected to a credit account and used to buy goods or services.]

Initialism of courtesy copy. [(originally) A carbon copy.]

Initialism of community college. [(US) An educational institution providing college education granting certificates, diplomas, and associate's degrees, but not higher level degrees; junior college.]

Initialism of cricket club.

Initialism of Circuit Court.

(television) Initialism of closed caption. [(television) Text which can be displayed on a television or other video screen with suitable equipment, usually a transcription or description of audio material.]

Initialism of cryptocurrency. [A digital currency based on a cryptographic system, usually having no central issuing or regulating authority.]

(SI) Initialism of cubic centimetre. [A unit of volume equal to that of a cube having sides each one centimetre in length, equal to 10⁻⁶ cubic metres and 1 millilitre. Commonly used in fluid measure and for engine sizes.]

Initialism of cross country. [(sports) A running sport popular in US high schools, colleges, etc., where participants race over varying terrain (e.g. golf courses, roads, etc.) in approximately 5- to 10-kilometre races.]

Initialism of constructive criticism. [Any type of criticism that is intended to provide suggestions for improvement without offending or insulting the recipient.]

(military) Initialism of company commander.

(medicine) Initialism of cervical cancer. [(pathology, oncology) A type of cancer of the cervix of the uterus which can afflict some female mammals including humans. The term usually does not refer to cancer of the neck or other parts of the anatomy which use the term cervix.]

Initialism of carbon capture. [(climate change) A set of technologies designed to capture emissions of carbon dioxide from sources like power plants and industrial facilities before they enter the atmosphere.]

(law) Initialism of Creative Commons. [A set of licenses intended to offer the consumer more freedoms than traditional copyright.]

(cosmology) Initialism of cosmological constant. [(physics) A term added by Albert Einstein to his equations of general relativity in order to account for a supposed static universe, since used to describe vacuum energy as a form of dark energy.]

(weather) Initialism of cirrocumulus. [(physics, meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type appearing as a thin, white patch of cloud without shadows, composed of very small droplets in the form of grains or ripples. The elements may be merged or separate, and more or less regularly arranged; they subtend an angle of less than 1° when observed at an angle of more than 30° above the horizon. Holes or rifts often occur in a sheet of cirrocumulus. Abbreviated Cc.]

(sound engineering, technology) Initialism of compact cassette. [(sound engineering) The standard cassette tape format introduced in 1963 by Philips; an audio cassette.]

(music, MIDI) Initialism of control change.

(video games) Initialism of crowd control. [The supervision and control of a crowd of people, to keep the crowd orderly.]

Initialism of cycling club.

(military) Abbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship. [(nautical, in the days of sail) A frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships.]

Initialism of City College.

(politics) Initialism of Central Committee.

(knitting) Initialism of contrasting colour.

(medicine) Initialism of chief complaint.

Initialism of closed caption or closed captioning.

Initialism of cubic centimeter.

Abbreviation of chapters.

(fasteners) Initialism of cement-coated.

(psychology, social work) Initialism of client-centered.

(Internet, transitive) Initialism of carbon copy. [(transitive) To create a carbon copy of.]

(Internet, transitive) Initialism of carbon copy (“to add an additional recipient to the CC line of an e-mail message”). [(transitive) To create a carbon copy of.]

(video games, transitive) Initialism of crowd control. [(video games) To impair or disable multiple targets, often through the use of abilities or effects.]