Thesaurus: c

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1. 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.
2. 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 /.
3. The "C clef," a modification of the letter C, placed on any line of the staff, shows that line to be middle C.
4. As a numeral, C stands for Latin centum or 100, CC for 200, etc.
5. n. a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
6. n. a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
7. n. nucleotide derived from cytosine with a deoxyribose sugar and a phosphate group
8. n. a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine
9. n. an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds
10. n. a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second
11. n. a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system
12. n. (music) the keynote of the scale of C major