the gene that is mutated in cystic fibrosis
<noun.body>

CFTR

cystic fibrosis transport regulator

an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council
<noun.group>

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world
<noun.group>

CID

Criminal Investigation Command

the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies
<noun.group>

CIM

Central Intelligence Machinery

a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955
<noun.group>

CIO

Congress of Industrial Organizations

a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein
<noun.group>

CIRA

Continuity Army Council

Continuity Irish Republican Army

an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
<noun.group>

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
<noun.attribute>

CISC

complex instruction set computer

complex instruction set computing

an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
<noun.group>

CISC

Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada

rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
<noun.state>

CJD

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon
<noun.communication>

CLI

command line interface

(cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
<noun.phenomenon>

CBR

CMB

CMBR

cosmic background radiation

cosmic microwave background

cosmic microwave background radiation

(cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
<noun.phenomenon>

CBR

CMB

CMBR

cosmic background radiation

cosmic microwave background

cosmic microwave background radiation

any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems
<noun.animal>

CMV

cytomegalovirus

a tower in Toronto; 1815 feet tall for broadcasting widely
<noun.artifact>

CN Tower

a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer
<noun.substance>

CN gas

chloroacetophenone

a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s
<noun.group>

CNPZ

ELN

National Liberation Army

Nestor Paz Zamora Commission

the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
<noun.body>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

CNS

central nervous system

systema nervosum centrale

a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
<noun.location>

CO

Centennial State

Colo.

Colorado

one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience
<noun.person>   freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3

CO

conscientious objector

an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
<noun.substance>

CO

carbon monoxide

carbon monoxide gas

a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis
<noun.substance>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

CO2

carbon dioxide

carbonic acid gas

common business-oriented language
<noun.communication>

COBOL

collecting the charges upon delivery
<adv.all>

C.O.D.

COD

cash on delivery

sample sentences

"mail a package C.O.D."

technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients
<noun.act>

COMINT

communications intelligence

an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
<noun.group>

CORE

Congress of Racial Equality

an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state
<noun.person>

CPA

certified public accountant

sample sentences

"in addition to accounting and auditing, CPAs also prepare tax returns for individuals and corporations"

a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.
<noun.communication>

CPI

California Personality Inventory

an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
<noun.communication>

CPI

consumer price index

cost-of-living index

an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
<noun.act>

CPR

cardiac resuscitation

cardiopulmonary resuscitation

kiss of life

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

(computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
<noun.artifact>

C.P.U.

CPU

central processing unit

central processor

mainframe

processor

sample sentences

"the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached"

the main circuit board for a computer
<noun.artifact>

CPU board

mother board

electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
<noun.artifact>

CRO

cathode-ray oscilloscope

oscilloscope

scope

a byproduct of inflammation; a globulin that is found in the blood in some cases of acute inflammation
<noun.substance>

C-reactive protein

CRP