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- DictionaryC/sē/
noun
- 1. the third letter of the alphabet.
- ▪ denoting the third in a set of items, categories, sizes, etc.
- ▪ denoting the third of three or more hypothetical people or things.
- ▪ the third highest class of academic grades: "he scraped along with C's and D's in most subjects"
- ▪ denoting the third file from the left of a chessboard, as viewed from White's side of the board.
- ▪ the third fixed constant to appear in an algebraic expression, or a known constant.
- ▪ denoting the lowest soil horizon, comprising parent materials.
- 2. a shape like that of a letter C: "C-springs"
- 3. the first note of the diatonic scale of C major, the major scale having no sharps or flats.
- ▪ a key based on a scale with C as its keynote.
- 4. the Roman numeral for 100.
- 5. a high-level computer programming language originally developed for implementing the UNIX operating system.
Scrabble Points: 3
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