ExpertGlossary terms starting with C

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  1. CIE (Commission International de lEclairage) The international commission on color matching and illumination systems.
  2. CIEL Certification and INFOSEC Engineering Laboratory.
  3. Cienega A perennially wet area supported by a spring or other water source; also called wetland, marsh, or swamp.
  4. CIF CINC Initiative Fund.
  5. CIFMS Center for Integrated Mission support (JIEO term).
  6. CIFS Common Internet File System. Microsoft's file-sharing protocol that evolved from SMB.
  7. CIFS authentication mode The method used for authentication of CIFS users.
  8. CIFS cred The credential used to validate requests for files with NT-style security.
  9. CIFS share A directory or directory structure that has been made available to network users and can be mapped to a drive letter on a CIFS client.
  10. CIG Ceiling- The height of the lowest layer of clouds, when the sky is broken or overcast.
  11. CIL Critical Items List.
  12. cilengitide A substance that is being studied as an anticancer and antiangiogenesis drug. Also called EMD 121974.
  13. ciliary body (SIH-lee-ayr-ee ...) A part of the middle layer of the wall of the eye. The ciliary body includes the ring-shaped muscle that changes the size of the…
  14. ciliate (adj.) See cilium.
  15. cilium (pl.: cilia) Hairlike locomotor structure on certain cells; a locomotor structure on a ciliate protozoan.
  16. CIM Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.
  17. cimetidine A drug usually used to treat stomach ulcers and heartburn. It is also commonly used in a regimen to prevent allergic reactions.
  18. CIN Growth of abnormal cells on the surface of the cervix. Numbers from 1 to 3 may be used to describe how abnormal the cells are and how much of the cervical…
  19. CIN 1 A condition in which slightly abnormal cells grow on the thin layer of tissue that covers the cervix.
  20. CIN 2 A condition in which moderately abnormal cells grow on the thin layer of tissue that covers the cervix.
  21. CIN 2/3 A condition in which abnormal cells grow on the thin layer of tissue that covers the cervix (the lower, narrow end of the uterus).
  22. CIN 3 Abnormal cells are found in the cervical epithelium (the innermost lining of the cervix).
  23. CINC (1) Commander-in-Chief, used when referring to the President of the United States.
  24. CINC Decision Set A group of decisions available to control forces, including determining operational state, DEFCON, hostile intent, authorizing engagement, selecting…
  25. Cinchonism Side effects from quinine or quinidine. Includes tinnitus, headache, nausea, diarrhea, altered auditory acuity, and blurred vision.
  26. CINCNORAD Commander-in-Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command.
  27. CINCSAC Commander-in-Chief, US Strategic Air Command (Now see CINCSTRAT).
  28. CINCSTRAT Commander-in-Chief, US Strategic Command.
  29. Cinder cone A conical hill formed around a volcanic vent by the accumulation of loose cinders and other pyroclastics ejected during a volcanic eruption, normally…
  30. Cine-Mode Data recorded on a film strip such that it can be read by a human when held vertically.
  31. Cinepak A compression algorithm; see MPEG.
  32. CIO Chief Information Officer
  33. CIOTE Commanders Integrated Open System Technology Evaluator.
  34. CIP Continuation-in-Part an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the…
  35. Cipher Series of transformations that converts plaintext to ciphertext using the Cipher Key.
  36. Cipher Block Chaining-Message Authentication Code (CBC-MAC) A secret-key block-cipher algorithm used to encrypt data and to generate a Message Authentication Code (MAC) to provide assurance that the payload and the…
  37. Cipher Key Secret, cryptographic key that is used by the Key Expansion routine to generate a set of Round Keys; can be pictured as a rectangular array of bytes…
  38. Cipher Suite Negotiated algorithm identifiers. Cipher suites are identified in human readable form using a pneumonic code.
  39. Cipher System A cryptographic system in which cryptography is applied to plain text elements of equal length.
  40. cipher text 1. Enciphered information. [INFOSEC-99] Note: Cipher text is the result obtained from enciphering plain or encoded text. 2.
  41. cipher text auto-key Cryptographic logic that uses previous cipher text to generate a key stream. [INFOSEC-99]
  42. Ciphertext Unintelligible text or signals produced through the use of cipher systems.
  43. ciphertext string In cryptography, ciphertext that is formed by encrypting concatenated encryption elements. [After X9.23]
  44. ciphertext substring In cryptography, a segment of a ciphertext string. [After X9.23]
  45. ciphony The process of enciphering audio information, resulting in encrypted speech. [INFOSEC-99] Note: "Ciphony" is a contraction of "ciphered telephony ."
  46. Cipolletti weir (trapezoidal weir) A contracted weir of trapezoidal shape in which the sides of the notch are given a slope of 1 horizontal to 4 vertical.
  47. Cipro A drug that is used to treat infections caused by bacteria and is being studied in the treatment of bladder cancer. Cipro is a type of fluoroquinolone.
  48. ciprofloxacin (sip-roe-FLOX-a-sin) A drug that is used to treat infections caused by bacteria and is being studied in the treatment of bladder cancer.
  49. CIPT Cost As an Independent Variable (CAIV) IPT.
  50. Circa About; concerning; in the area of.
  51. circadian Of physiological activity, etc.: recurring at approximately 24-hour intervals.
  52. Circle of influence The circular outer edge of a depression produced in the water table by the pumping of water from a well. See cone of influence.
  53. Circuit A device, or system of devices, that allows electrical current to flow through it and allows voltage to occur across positive and negative terminals.
  54. Circuit breaker After the stock market crash of 1987, stock and commodities exchanges established a system of trigger-point rules known as circuit breakers.
  55. circuit identification code Information identifying a circuit between a pair of exchanges, for which signaling is being performed (14 bits in the ISDN user part). [T1.110-1987]
  56. circuit kilometers The route kilometers of revenue producing circuits in service, determined by measuring the length in terms of kilometers, of the actual path followed by…
  57. Circuit Lag As time increases from zero at the terminals of an inductor, the voltage comes to a particular value on the sine function curve ahead of the current.
  58. Circuit mile For single circuit electric power transmission lines, circuit miles are equal to geographic miles or pole miles.
  59. circuit noise level At any point in a transmission system, the ratio of the circuit noise at that point to an arbitrary level chosen as a reference.
  60. circuit reliability (CiR) The percentage of time a circuit was available for use in a specified period of scheduled availability.
  61. circuit restoration The process by which a communications circuit is established between two users after disruption or loss of the original circuit.
  62. circuit routing : In open systems architecture, the logical path of a message in a communications network based on a series of gates at the physical network layer in the…
  63. circuit switching A method of routing traffic through a switching center, from local users or from other switching centers, whereby a connection is established between the…
  64. circuit switching center See circuit switching, switching center.
  65. circuit switching unit (CSU) Equipment used for routing messages over common-user circuits that interconnect a source data terminal equipment (DTE) to a sink DTE for information…
  66. circuit transfer mode In ISDN applications, a transfer mode by means of permanent allocation of channels or bandwidth between connections.
  67. circuit-switched data transmission service A data transmission service requiring the establishment of a circuit-switched connection before data can be transferred from source data terminal…
  68. Circular Error Probable (CEP) An indicator of the delivery accuracy of a weapon system, used as a factor in determining probable damage to a target.
  69. circular polarization In electromagnetic wave propagation, polarization such that the tip of the electric field vector describes a helix.
  70. circularization The self-ligation of a linear DNA fragment having complementary ends, generally generated by digestion with a restriction endonuclease.
  71. Circulating Fluidized Bed A type of furnace or reactor in which the emission of sulfur compounds is lowered by the addition of crushed limestone in the fluidized bed thus obviating…
  72. Circulation (ser-kyoo-LAY-shun) In the body, the flow of blood through the heart and blood vessels, and the flow of lymph through the lymph vessels.
  73. circulator A passive junction of three or more ports in which the ports can be accessed in such an order that when power is fed into any port it is transferred to…
  74. circulatory system (SER-kyoo-lah-tor-ee SIS-tem) The system that contains the heart and the blood vessels and moves blood throughout the body.
  75. circumcision (SUR-kum-SIH-zhun) Surgery to remove part or all of the foreskin (loose skin that covers the head of the penis).
  76. circumfix operator An "operator" that surrounds its "operand", like the angle operator, or parentheses, or a hug.
  77. Circumpolar vortex Circumpolar vortex The large-scale cyclonic circulation in the middle and upper troposphere centered generally in the polar region.
  78. Circumstantial evidence All evidence except eyewitness testimony. One example is physical evidence, such as fingerprints, from which an inference can be drawn.
  79. CIRIS Completely Integrated Reference Instrumentation System
  80. Cirque Bowl-like depression carved into a mountaintop by ice at the head of a glacier.
  81. cirrhosis A type of chronic, progressive liver disease in which liver cells are replaced by scar tissue.
  82. Cirriform High altitude ice clouds with a very thin wispy appearance.
  83. CIRRIS Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrumentation for Shuttle.
  84. Cirrocumulus A cirriform cloud characterized by thin, white patches, each of which is composed of very small granules or ripples.
  85. Cirrostratus A cloud of a class characterized by a composition of ice crystals and often by the production of halo phenomena and appearing as a whitish and usually…
  86. Cirrus (abbrev. CI) High-level clouds (16,000 feet or higher), composed of ice crystals and appearing in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or mostly…
  87. CIS The CIS is the National Cancer Institute's link to the public, interpreting and explaining research findings in a clear and understandable manner, and…
  88. cis configuration See: coupling.
  89. cis heterozygote A double heterozygote that contains two mutations arranged in a cis configuration (e.g. a+ b+ / a b).
  90. cis-acting protein A protein with the particular property of acting only on the molecule of DNA from which it was expressed.
  91. cis-acting sequence A nucleotide sequence that only affects the expression of genes located on the same chromosome.
  92. CISF Centralized Integration Support Facility.
  93. cisplatin (sis-PLA-tin) A drug used to treat many types of cancer. Cisplatin contains the metal platinum.
  94. CISS Center for Information Systems Security (JIEO term).
  95. Cistern A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rain water.
  96. Cistron A DNA sequence that codes for a specific polypeptide; a gene. See DNA, Gene.
  97. Cita, referencia Un conjunto de números y letras usados para localizar un juicio anteriormente decidido en un libro de casos. Ejemplo: 15 N.Y.
  98. Citación para aportar pruebas, Orden de comparezca con documentation Proceso mediante el cual se obliga a una persona a presentar documentación u otros elementos probatorios.
  99. Citación, orden de comparecencia Proceso mediante el cual se obliga a un testigo a comparecer y dar testimonio ante un tribunal.
  100. citalopram (sy-TAL-oh-pram) A drug used to treat depression. It belongs to the families of drugs called antidepressant agents and selective serotonin reuptake…