ExpertGlossary terms starting with C

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CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) A codification of rules, including those relating to recordkeeping, published in the Federal Register by the executive and other branches of the federal…
CFS core financial system
Cfs-Day The volume of water discharged in twenty four hours, with a flow of one cubic foot per second is widely used; 1 cfs-day is 24 x 60 x 60 = 86,000 cubic…
CFSR Contractor Funds Status Report.
CG Cloud-to-Ground Lightning
CGA Color Graphics Adapter (Telecomm/Computer term).
CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) See Video Graphics Adapter (VGA).
CGI Abbreviation for common gateway interface. A means for allowing programs or scripts (usually written in C++ or Perl) to add functionality to the World…
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) Abbreviation for Common Gateway Interface (CGI). CGI is a standard that connects external programs with information servers such as Web servers or HTTP…
CGI Program Strictly, any program which handles its input and output data according to the CGI standard.
Cgi-bin a "virtual" directory contained in URLs indicates a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script is in use.
cgm Abbreviation for computer graphics metafile. A digital file format (standard) used for the storage or transmission of digital representations of graphics…
CGP 48664 A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase inhibitors.
CGS (1) Common Ground Station (Part of Joint STARS). (2) Continental Ground Station.
Chaff (1) Radar confusion reflectors, which consist of thin, narrow metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses, used to create false echoes for…
Chaff Puff Volume of space containing a relatively high density of chaff.
Chaff/winnowing Advanced encryption technique involving data dispersal and mixing
Chain dollar See Chained-dollar estimate
chain index A hierarchy of terms in a classification scheme that progresses from general to specific terms (e.g.
chain letter Synonym (in cryptosystems) bacterium.
Chain of Custody A process used to maintain and document the chronological history of electronic evidence.
Chain of Title The history of all of the documents that have transferred title to a parcel of real property, starting with the earliest existing document and ending with…
chain server topology Connects servers one-to-one, end-to-end. Information travels along the chain and then back.
chain terminator 1. See: stop codon. 2. In the Sanger method of DNA sequencing, refers to the labelled di-deoxynucleotide triphosphates which are added to disrupt DNA…
Chain-ratio method A method for forecasting market demand by multiplying a base market figure by a series of consumption constraints.
Chained-dollar estimate A measure used to approximate the chained-type index level and is calculated by taking the current-dollar level of a series in the base period and…
Chained-type index Index that is based on the linking (chaining) of indexes to create a time series.
chairman The presiding officer of a committee or subcommittee. In the Senate, chairmanship is based on seniority of committee tenure, but a Senator may not chair…
Chairmans Program Assessment (CPA) Summarizes the views of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the balance and capabilities of the Program Objective Memorandum (POM) force and the…
Chakrabarty decision A landmark legal case in the U.S.A., in which it was held that the inventor of a new micro-organism whose invention otherwise met the legal requirements…
Challenge An objection, such as when an attorney objects at a hearing to the seating of a particular person on a civil or criminal jury.
challenge and reply authentication [A] prearranged procedure in which a subject requests authentication of another, and the latter establishes validity with a correct reply. [INFOSEC-99]
Challenge for cause A request from a party to a judge that a prospective juror not be allowed to be a member of a jury because of specified causes or reasons.
Challenge Response A method used to confirm the presence of a person by eliciting direct responses from the individual. Responses can be either voluntary or involuntary.
Challenge-Response Protocol An authentication protocol where the verifier sends the claimant a challenge (usually a random value or a nonce) that the claimant combines with a shared…
Chamber of commerce A DMO that operates at the local level and is comprised of businesses that are not necessarily associated with the tourism industry.
Chamberlain procedure (CHAYM-ber-len proh-SEE-jer) A procedure in which a tube is inserted into the chest to view the tissues and organs in the area between the lungs and…
chambers A judge's private office. A hearing in chambers takes place in the judge's office outside of the presence of the jury and the public.
Chameleon Strategy Looking for players who have been winning and then mimicking their betting patterns in the hope that they will continue to be lucky, have found biased…
Chamfer To bevel or slope an edge or corner.
chamomile (KA-muh-mile) A family of plants with daisy-like flowers. Two types are German chamomile and Roman or English chamomile.
CHAMP Composite High Altitude Maneuvering PBV
Chance A National Weather Service precipitation descriptor for 30, 40, or 50 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch).
change back The procedure of transferring signaling traffic from alternative signaling link(s) to the signaling link which has become available as a result of having…
Change in private inventories The change in the physical volume of inventories owned by private business, valued at the average prices of the period.
change log The log where the quorum resource stores data. This data is maintained by the clustering software.
change of life The time of life when a woman no longer has menstrual periods. Change of life is reached when she hasn't had a period for 12 months in a row.
change of name Sometimes, owners of trademark applications and registrations change their names, even though the actual ownership of the application or registration has…
Change of Operational Control (CHOP) The date and time at which the responsibility for operational control of a force or unit passes from one operational control authority to another.
Change of venue Moving the case from the jurisdiction of one bankruptcy court to another.
Change Order Unilateral written order to a contractor to modify a contractual requirement within the scope of the contract, pursuant to the changes clause contained in…
Change Orders A change in the original construction plans ordered by the property owner or general contractor.
Change Status Changing from one nonimmigrant visa status to another nonimmigrant visa status while a person is in the United Staets is permitted for some nonimmigrant…
Change-out The routine replacement of chemicals contained in process equipment, in accordance with schedules established by the manufacturer, or as a result of…
changeover The procedure of transferring signaling traffic from one signaling link to one or more different signaling links, when the link in use fails or is…
Channel The bed of a stream or river. This can also refer to a submerged stream or river channel in a reservoir.
Channel (watercourse) An open conduit either naturally or artificially created which periodically, or continuously contains moving water, or forms a connecting link between two…
channel bank The part of a carrier-multiplex terminal that performs the first step of modulation by multiplexing a group of channels into a higher bandwidth analog…
channel bits Binary data transmitted over a communications link. Note: Channel bits are derived from user information by FEC (forward error correction) coding and…
channel capacity 1. The maximum possible information transfer rate through a channel, subject to specified constraints. 2.
channel gate A device for connecting a channel to a highway, or a highway to a channel, at specified times.
Channel incision The process of downcutting into a stream channel leading to a decrease in the channel bed elevation.
Channel Inflow Water, which at any instant, is flowing into the channel system form surface flow, subsurface flow, base flow, and rainfall that has directly fallen onto…
Channel Lead An elongated opening in the ice cover caused by a water current.
Channel margin deposits Narrow sand deposits which line channel banks.
channel noise level The ratio of the channel noise at any point in a transmission system to an arbitrary level chosen as a reference.
channel offset The constant frequency difference between a channel frequency and a reference frequency which may frequency hop.
channel packing Maximizing the use of voice frequency channels for data transmission by multiplexing a number of channels of lower data rate into a single voice frequency…
channel reliability (ChR) The percentage of time a channel was available for use in a specified period of scheduled availability.
Channel Routing The process of determining progressively timing and shape of the flood wave at successive points along a river.
channel service unit (CSU) A line bridging device that (a) is used to perform loop-back testing, (b) may perform bit stuffing, (c) may also provide a framing and formatting pattern…
channel supergroup See group.
channel time slot A time slot that starts at a particular instant in a frame and is allocated to a channel for transmitting data, such as a character or an in-slot signal.
channel-associated signaling Signaling in which the signals necessary to switch a given circuit are transmitted via the circuit itself or via a signaling channel permanently…
Channeled High Winds In mountainous areas or in cities with tall buildings, air may be channeled through constricted passages producing high winds.
channeling An application of push technology that allows users to automatically receive specific kinds of content. [Bahorsky]
Channelization The modification of a natural river channel; may include deepening, widening, or straightening.
Channels, Channel listings Lists of links to selected (and usually popular) web sites. The links are maintained by search engines and directories and are sorted into categories or…
Chantix (CHAN-tix) A drug used to help people stop smoking by acting the same way nicotine acts in the brain. It is a type of nicotine receptor partial agonist.
chaotic impossible to predict.
Chaparral A plant community of shrubs and low trees adapted to annual drought and often extreme summer heat and also highly adapted to fires recurring every 5 to 20…
chaperone A family of proteins that ensure the correct assembly and conformation of other polypeptides in vivo as they emerge from the ribosome, but are not…
chaperonin See: chaperone.
chaplain (CHA-plin) A member of the clergy in charge of a chapel or who works with the military or with an institution, such as a hospital.
chapter 11 The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing (generally) for reorganization, usually involving a corporation or partnership.
chapter 12 The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for adjustment of debts of a "family farmer," or a "family fisherman" as those terms are defined in the…
chapter 13 The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for adjustment of debts of an individual with regular income.
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy this type of bankruptcy sets a payment plan between the homeowner and the creditor monitored by the bankruptcy court.
chapter 15 The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code dealing with cases of cross-border insolvency.
chapter 7 The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for "liquidation,"(
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy a bankruptcy that requires assets be liquidated in exchange for the cancellation of debt.
chapter 9 The chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for reorganization of municipalities (which includes cities and towns, as well as villages, counties, taxing…
Chapter I the first, mandatory phase under the Patent Cooperation Treaty that includes performance of an international-type search, issuance of an International…
Chapter II the second, optional phase under the Patent Cooperation Treaty that includes examination of the international application and issuance of an International…
Char A byproduct of low-temperature carbonization of a solid fuel.
character See: trait.
character check A method of error detection using the preset rules for the formulation of characters.
character class A square-bracketed list of characters used in a "regular expression" to indicate that any character of the set may occur at a given point.
character filter Software that is capable of selectively removing characters from a data stream, e.g.
character generator A functional unit that converts the coded representation of a character into the graphic representation of the character for display.