Appendix Acronyms C

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Acronyms - C

c centi- (metric 1/100)

C programming language (successor to B, which was based on BCPL)

CA California

CA Chartered Accountant

CA Chief Accountant

CA Chronological Age

CA Collision Avoidance (as in CSMA/CA (q.v.))

CAB Civil Aeronautics Board

CACM Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery

CAD Computer Aided Design (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)

CAD Computer Aided Dispatching

CAE Common Applications Environment

CAE Computer Aided Engineering

CAI Computer Aided Instruction

CAIS Common Apse Interface Specification

CALS Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support

CAM Computer Aided Management

CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing (sometimes seen as CAD/CAM)

CAM Content Addressable Memory

CAMA Centralised Automatic Message Accounting [Telephony]

CAMP Campaign Against Marijuana Planting

CAP Civil Air Patrol

CAP Columbia Appletalk Package

CAR Contents of the Address part of the Register (LISP)

CARE Committee on American Relief in Europe

CARP California Air Resources Board

CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering

CASSIS Classification and Search Support Information System

CAT Computer-Aided Tomography

CATIS Common Applications and Tools Integration Services

CATV Common Antenna TeleVision

CATV Community Antenna TeleVision

CAVU Ceiling And Visibility Unlimited

CB Citizens Band radio

CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

CBD Cash Before Delivery

CBD Commerce Business Daily

CBEMA Computer & Business Equipment Manufacturers Association

CBR Chemical, Biological, Radiological warfare

CBS Columbia Broadcasting System [Corporate name]

CBW Chemical and Biological Warfare

CC C (language) Compiler

CC Carbon Copy

CCA Computer Corporation of America [Corporate name]

CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station [Space]

CCC Canadian Committee on Cataloging

CCC Civil(ian) Conservation Corps

CCC Command, Control, and Communications (sometimes C^3)

CCC Concourse Computer Center [MIT]

CCCCM CCC CounterMeasures (sometimes C^3CM)

CCCI Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence

CCD Charge Coupled Device (see CID)

CCD Charge-Coupled Device [Space]

CCDS Centers for the Commercial Development of Space [Space]

CCF Hundred Cubic Feet

CCI Computer Carrier Interrupt

CCI Computer Consoles, Incorporated

CCIP Continuously Computed Impact Point

CCIRN Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking

CCIS Common Channel Interoffice Signaling [Telephony]

CCITT Comite' Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique

CCITT Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy

CCITT International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee

CCR Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery

CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival [Music]

CCRI Community College of Rhode Island [Corporate name]

CCRP Continuously Computed Release Point

CCS Hundred Call Seconds [Telephony]

CCS7 Common Channel Signalling (version #7) [Telephony, AT&T]

CCSA Common Control Switching Arrangement [Telephony]

CCTA Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency

CCTV Closed Circuit TeleVision

CD Carrier Detect (properly DCD (q.v.)) (EIA RS-232-C)

CD Certificate of Deposit

CD Civil Defense

CD Collision Detection (as in CSMA/CD (q.v.))

CD Compact Disk

CDA Call Data Accumulator

CDA Compound Documents Architecture

CDC Centers for Disease Control

CDC Control Data Corporation, Inc. [Corporate name]

CDEV Control panel DEVice

CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center

CDO Community Dial Office

CDR CommanDeR

CDR Contents of the Decrement part of the Register (LISP)

CD-ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory [Space]

CDSF Commercially Developed Space Facility

CDT Central Daylight Time

CDU Control Display Unit

CE Chemical Engineer

CE Civil Engineer

CE Common Era (substitute for AD)

CE Corps of Engineers

CE Customer Engineer (see also FE, SE)

CEA Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (Frenc Atomic Energy Commision)

CEA Council of Economic Advisors

CEA County Education Authority

CEC Commission of the European Communities

CED Committee for Economic Development

CELSS Controlled Ecological Life Support System [Space]

CENS center d'Etudes Nucleaires de Seclay

CENTO CENtral Treaty Organization

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CERFnet California Education and Research Federation Network

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research

CERN organisation (formerly Conseil) Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaires

CERT Computer Emergency Response Team

CEVI Common Equipment Voltage Indicator

CF Carry Forward

CF Coin First (payphone) [Telephony]

CF Cystic Fibrosis [Disease]

CFA Center For Astrophysics [Space]

CFC Chloro-FluoroCarbon [Chemical]

CFC Combined Federal Campaign

CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics

CFHT Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope [Space]

CFI Cost, Freight, and Insurance

CFL Canadian Football League

CFO Chief Financial Officer

CG Coast Guard

CG Commanding General

CGA Colour Graphics Adapter

CGCT Compagnie Generale de Constructions Telephoniques

CG&E Cincinnati Gas & Electric

CGE Compagnie Generale d'Electricite

CH Cardboard Heroes

CH ClearingHouse

CH CourtHouse

CH Customs House

CHA Champions

CHAP CHAnnel Processor

CHARA Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy [Space]

CHOTS Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System

CHP California Highway Patrol

CI Cubic Inches

CIA Central Intelligence Agency [US Government]

CIA Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY)

CIC Carrier Identification Codes [Telephony] (10XXX codes)

CIC Committee on Institutional Cooperation

CIC Coordination and Information Center [CSNet]

CICA Competition in Contracting Act

CICS Customer Information Control System [IBM]

CID Caller ID [Telephony] (see also: CLID, ANI)

CID Central Institute for the Deaf

CID Charge Injection Device (see CCD)

CID Computer Integrated Design

CIDIN Common Icao Data Interchange Network

CIM Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CIO Chief Information Officer

CIRRIS Cryogenic InfraRed Radiance Instrument for Shuttle [Space]

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computer

Cislunar The space between the Earth and the Moon

CIT California Institute of Technology

CIT Case Institute of Technology (part of CWRU, Cleveland, OH)

CIT Circumstellar Imaging Telescope [Space]

CLASP Comprehensive Logistics Automated Support Program

CLASS Custom Local Area Signaling Service [Telephony]

CLI Command Line Interpreter

CLID Calling Line ID [Telephony] (see also: CID, ANI)

CLNP Connectionless-mode Network Protocol

CLNS Connectionless-mode Network Service

CLR Combined Line and Recording

CLRC Circuit Layout Record Card

CLU Chartered Life Underwriter

CLUT Colour LookUp Table

cm centimeters

CM Command Module (Apollo spacecraft) [Space]

CM Congregation of the Mission

CMC Communication Machinery Corp

CMD Centralised Message Distribution

CMIP Common Management Information Protocol

CMIS Common Management Information Services

CML Current Model Logic

CMMU Cache/Memory Management Unit

CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (see MOS)

CMOT Common Management Information Services and Protocol Over TCP/IP

CMRR Common Mode Rejection Ratio

CMS Circuit Maintenance System

CMSgt Chief Master Sergeant

CMU Carnegie-Mellon University

CMYK Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK

CN Canadian National [Corporate name, Railroading]

CN/A Customer Name / Address [Telephony]

CNI Common Network Interface [Telephony, AT&T] (Department of AT&T)

CNN Cable News Network

CNO Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen [Space]

CNO Chief of Naval Operations

CNR Canadian National Railways

CNR Carrier to Noise Ratio

CNRI Corporation for National Research Initiatives

CNRS center National de la Recherche Scientifique (French National Center for Scientific Research)

CNS Central Nervous System

CNSR Comet Nucleus Sample Return [Space]

CO Cash Order

CO Central Office [Telephony]

CO Colorado

CO Commanding Officer

CO Conscientious Objector

C/O in Care Of

COB Close Of Business

COBE COsmic Background Explorer [Space]

COBOL COmmon Business Oriented Language

COC Call of Cthulhu

COCOT Customer Owned, Coin Operated Telephone [Telephony]

COD Collect On Delivery; Cash On Delivery

CODEC COder-DECoder

COER Central Office Equipment Report

COLA Cost-Of-Living Allowance

COM Computer Output (on) Microfiche

COM Computer Output (on) Microfilm

OMAS Central Office Maintenance and Administration System

COMM Communications

COMPACT COMmercial Product ACquisition Team

COMPTEL COMPton TELescope (on GRO) [Space]

COMSAT Communications Satellite [Space]

CONACYT Consejo Nacional de Cienca Y Tecnologia (Mexican National Council of Science and Technology)

CONS Connection-Oriented Networking Service

CONS Connection-Oriented Networking Session

CONS CONStruct (LISP)

CORE COntrolled Requirement Expression

CORN COmputer Resource Nucleus

COS Corporation for Open Systems

COSINE Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe

COSMIC COmmon System Main InterConnecting frame

COSMIC COmputer Software Management and Information Center

COSMOS COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS

COSTAR Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement [Space]

COT Card Or Tape (NCR)

CP Campus Police (MIT, others probably too)

CP Canadian Pacific

CP Chemically Pure

CP Command Post

CP Command Processor

CP CoPy

CP the Canadian Press

CPA Certified Public Accountant

CPE Customer Premises Equipment

CPE Customer Provided Equipment

CPFF Cost Plus Fixed Fee

CPI Characters Per Inch

CPI Common Programming Interface

CPL Combined Programming Language

CPM Control Program for Microcomputers (sometimes CP/M)

CPM Control Program Monitor (sometimes CP/M)

CPO Chief Petty Officer

CPO Chief Post Office

CPR Canadian Pacific Railway

CPS Characters Per Second

CPSR Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

CPT CaPTain

CPU Central Processing Unit

CPW Certified Public Weigher

CQ Change of Quarters

CR Carriage Return (ASCII 15 octal)

CRA Cambridge Redevelopment Authority

CRAF Comet Rendezvous / Asteroid Flyby [Space]

CRAM Card Random Access Memory (NCR, but maybe others)

CRC Chemical Rubber Company

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check

CREG Concentrated Range Extension with Gain

CREN The Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (merge of BITNET and CSNet)

CRRES Combined Release / Radiation Effects Satellite [Space]

CRRES Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite [NASA]

CRT Cathode Ray Tube (also generic reference to a terminal)

CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

C&S Chivalry & Sorcery

CS Civil Servant

CS Computer Science; Computing Science

CS County Seat

CSA Confederate States of America

CSAB Computing Sciences Accreditation Board

CSACS Centralised Status, Alarm and Control System

CSC Computer Sciences Corporation

CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability

CSF Critical Success Factor

CSI Commercial Systems Integration

CSIS Canadian Security and Intelligence Service

CSL Coin Supervising Link

SM Command and Service Module (Apollo spacecraft) [Space]

CSM Command Sergeant Major

CSMA Carrier Sense Multiple Access

CSMA/CA Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance

CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection

CSNET Computer + Science Network (merged with BITNET to make CREN)

CSO Central Services Organization

CSOC Consolidated Space Operations Center (at Colorado Springs)

CSP Control Switching Point

CSR Control and Status Register

CSR Customer Service Representative [Telephony]

CSRG Computer Systems Research Group

CSRS civil Service Retirement System

CSS Customer Switching System

CST Central Standard Time

CSU Channel Service Unit

CT Central Time

C&T Communications & Tracking [Space]

CT Connecticut

CTC Canadian Transport Commission

CTC Centralised Traffic Control [Railroading]

CTD Computing and Telecommunications Division

CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-american Observatory

CTIO Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory [Space]

CTNE Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana

CTS Clear To Send (EIA RS-232-C)

CTS Compatible Timesharing System

CTV Canadian TeleVision network

CU Close-Up

CUA Common User Access

CUL See You Later [Net jargon]

CV Curriculum Vitae

CW Car Wars

CW Chemical Warfare

CW Child Welfare

CW Churchwarden

CW Churdwarden

CW Continuous Wave

CWO Cash With Order

CWO Chief Warrant Officer

CWRU Case Western Reserve University

CXI Common X-windows Interface

CY Calendar Year

CYO Catholic Youth Organization

CZ Canal Zone