carbon
Definitions
General English
- noun a substance found in charcoal, soot or diamonds
- noun the third letter of the alphabet, between B and D
Astronomy
- One of the commonest elements in the universe, carbon is found in stars, meteorites and planets as well as interstellar material. It is of special interest to us because its unusual chemistry, which allows it to form very large complex molecules, is the basis of all Earthly biology.
Cars & Driving
- noun a black material with good electrical properties of conductivity
- noun a deposit which forms in the combustion chamber, on the piston crown and to a lesser extent in the inlet and exhaust ports, resulting from incomplete combustion especially of oil
Electronics
- A nonmetallic chemical element whose atomic number is 6. It has the highest melting point of any known element, and occurs in several allotropic forms, including diamond, graphite, charcoal, and fullerene. It is present in all known life forms on this planet, and there are more carbon compounds than those of all other chemical elements combined. It has over a dozen known isotopes, of which 2 are stable. Its applications in electronics include its use in electrodes, resistors, lamps, and microphones. Its chemical symbol is C.
- A high-level computer programming language which is highly flexible and mostly machine-independent because of its closeness to assembly language. Also called C programming language.
- An object oriented version of C (7).
Food
- noun one of the common non-metallic elements, an essential component of living matter and organic chemical compounds
- Fish: the following word indicates the type or state of the fish
General Science
- chemical symbolC (written as Carbon)
Computing
- noun a high level programming language developed mainly for writing structured systems programs
- noun a high-level programming language based on its predecessor, C, but providing object-oriented programming functions
- symbol the hexadecimal number equivalent to decimal 12
Cricket
- abbreviation caught; used in the scorebook, following the name of a batsman and preceding the name of a fielder, to indicate the manner of the batsman’s dismissal and the player responsible for it. In earlier times dismissals by catching were credited to the catcher alone; thus, in the Kent v All England match of 1744,.Citation ‘Lord J. Sackville C by Waymark 5’ (Nyren 1833 in HM)See also c and b
Origin & History of “carbon”
The notion underlying carbon is probably that of ‘burning’; it has been tentatively traced back to a base *kar- ‘fire’. The word’s immediate source was French carbone, coined in the 1780s on the basis of Latin carbō ‘coal, charcoal’ (supplementing an earlier borrowing charbon ‘coal, charcoal’). It is not certain whether char and charcoal are related to it.
