C
C 1. Symbol for capacitor, capacitance, carbon, coulomb, centigrade or Celsius, transistor collector, and (when lowercase) velocity of light. 2. A general-purpose programming language developed in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie of AT&T, Bell Labs. Its generality, machine independence, and efficiency have made C popular for many application areas. The UNIX operating system is written in C, and the close linking of UNIX and C has made C the de facto standard language in engineering software development.
C − (C minus) The negative terminal of a C battery, or the negative polarity of other sources of grid-bias voltage. Used to denote the terminal to which the negative side of a grid-bias voltage source should be connected.
C+ (C plus) Positive ...
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