"c" Definition

Definitions for the word "c" from multiple English dictionaries.

1.
C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Etymologically C is related to g, h, k, q, s (and other sibilant sounds). Examples of these relations are in L. acutus, E. acute, ague; E. acrid, eager, vinegar; L. cornu, E. horn; E. cat, kitten; E. coy, quiet; L. circare, OF. cerchier, E. search.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2.
The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3.
C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written /.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4.
The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5.
As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
(pl. Cs or c''s) 1 (also c) third letter of the alphabet. 2 mus. First note of the diatonic scale of c major. 3 third hypothetical person or example. 4 third highest category etc. 5 algebra (usu. C) third known quantity. 6 (as a roman numeral) 100. 7 (also ©) copyright.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
7. symb.
Carbon.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
8. abbr.
(also c.) 1 celsius, centigrade. 2 coulomb(s), capacitance.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. v.
(-ting; past wrote; past part. Written) 1 mark paper or some other surface with symbols, letters, or words. 2 form or mark (such symbols etc.).
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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