C-bander
A person who uses a C-band television receive-only (TVRO) system for viewing television.
Entries starting with C
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C-pillar
nounAutomotive
The vertical support dividing a car's rear window from its rear windscreen, or, if the car has an additional window and D-pillar, the support dividing the central and rear windows.
c/o
Initialism of certificate of origin, a document describing a product's country of origin.
C3PO
Initialism of Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office.
CA
Initialism of heavy cruiser, a variant of the cruiser type of warship.
CAA
nameAutomotive
Initialism of Canadian Automobile Association.
CAB
nameRail equipment
The station code of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.
cab forward
nounRail equipment
a design of steam locomotive with the cab at the front, mainly built for the Southern Pacific Railroad, which at one time had a large fleet of oil-fired articulated locomotives.
cab signal
A device in the cab of a locomotive or train which displays the status of signals along the track.
cab signalling
nounRail equipment
A rail safety system installed in the driving cab of a train, which gives information to the train driver on track status and condition.
cab unit
nounRail equipment
A diesel or electric locomotive with a full-width body for its entire length.
cabin
The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
cable
A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
cable core
Central part or the innermost part of a power cable which carries electric current and is surrounded by various layers of insulation.
cable joint
Connection between two power cables with proper insulation and mechanical protection.
cable needle
a type of knitting needle used to temporarily hold stitches, allowing them to be interchanged
cableco
A company that offers cable services (television, Internet, etc.).
cabré
adjectiveAviation maintenance
With the nose up and the tail down.
cacher box
A triangular iron trough lined with wood and used for holding worked glass pieces while they await the lehr.
CAD/CAM
nounManufacturing
The combination of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing.
CAFE
nounAutomotive
Acronym of Corporate Average Fuel Economy.
cage
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
cager
A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.
CAI
nounAutomotive
Initialism of cold air intake.
calandria
nounManufacturing
A heating element within a brew kettle.
calico
A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
California roll
A rolling stop (when a car slows down at a stop sign, but does not come to a complete stop).
caliper
nounAutomotive
The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
call
A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
call center
A communications facility where phone calls are handled; especially, a commercial one for customer service, sales and telemarketing.
call delay
The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.
call forwarding
A telephony feature which redirects a telephone call to another destination.
call history
An itemised list of the telephone numbers called from a particular account.
call tree
A hierarchical communication structure used to rapidly notify a group of people during emergencies or critical events.
callback
A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
callee
The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
caller
The person who makes a telephone call.
calligraphic projection
A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping in raster order over the entire display surface.
callow
The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.
CAM
Initialism of cockpit area microphone.
camber
nounAutomotive
The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
camber angle
nounAutomotive
One of the angles made by the wheels of a vehicle; specifically, the angle between the vertical axis of a wheel and the vertical axis of the vehicle when viewed from the front or rear.
cambox
A metal "box" that houses cams, in the same manner that a gearbox houses gears.
camera roll
The collection of images and videos taken on a smartphone.
camera-ready
adjectiveIndustrial printing
Ready to go to press; ready for publication.
camo
nounManufacturing
A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
camouflage
nounManufacturing
A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
camp
Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
CAN
nounAutomotive
Abbreviation of controller area network.
canal boat
nounManufacturing
A long, narrow boat designed to travel on canals.
canard
A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
cancel
The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
canch
An upper or lower portion of stone that is removed to form a gradient between workings.
candle
A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
candroy
A machine for spreading or winding out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
cane
A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
cannelé
nounManufacturing
A fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.
cannon box
A type of enclosure for axle bearings.
cannula
A hose or tube that connects directly from an oxygen bottle or other source to the user's nose, commonly used by aircraft pilots or others needing direct oxygen breathing apparatus.
canoe
A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.