ExpertGlossary terms starting with C

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  1. Consumer Assistance Program The consumer assistance program for Maryland Health Connection consists of a consumer support center (call center), the website MarylandHealthConnection.
  2. Consumer Assistance Workers This is a broad term that refers to all who assist with education, applications and enrollment, for example, case workers, navigators and assisters.
  3. Consumer bankruptcy A proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code filed by an individual (or husband and wife) who is not in business.
  4. consumer collection agency Consumer collection agency means any person engaged in the business of collecting or receiving for payment for others of any account, bill or other…
  5. Consumer confidence index The consumer confidence index is released each month by the Conference Board, an independent business research organization.
  6. Consumer Credit Counseling Service A service which specializes in working with consumers who are overextended with debts and need to make arrangements with creditors.
  7. Consumer Credit Protection Act, (CCPA) Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA) 15 U.S.C. 1673, and the regulations of the Secretary pursuant to that Act, 29 C.F.R.
  8. consumer debt Debt incurred by an individual primarily for a personal, family or household purpose.
  9. consumer debtor A debtor whose debts are primarily consumer debts.
  10. consumer debts Debts incurred for personal, as opposed to business, needs.
  11. consumer handbook on adjustable rate mortgages (C.H.A.R.M.) A disclosure required by the federal government to be given to any borrower applying for an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM).
  12. Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans A qualified non-profit health insurance company that must use profit to lower premiums, increase benefits and increase the quality of health care to be…
  13. consumer price index A statistic that is a measure of the change in the cost of living for consumers.
  14. Consumer price index (CPI) The consumer price index (CPI) is compiled monthly by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and is a gauge of inflation that measures changes in the prices of…
  15. Consumer Reporting Agency An agency that regularly collects or evaluates individual consumer credit information or other information about consumers and sells consumer reports for…
  16. Consumer show A product showcase for the general public. Differs from a “trade show” as a trade show generally targets industry professionals.
  17. Consumer Support Center The consumer support center (CSC) provides live personal help with finding, applying for and enrolling in health plans.
  18. Consumer surplus The value of a commodity, good, or opportunity above the cost to the consumer; measured using willingness to pay, as specified in Federal guidelines for…
  19. Consummation The point in time when the contractual relationship between borrower and lender begins.
  20. Consumption Charge The part of a power provider's charge based on actual energy consumed by the customer; the product of the kilowatt-hour rate and the total kilowatt-hours…
  21. Consumption of fixed capital See Consumption of fixed capital (CFC)
  22. Consumption of fixed capital (CFC) The charge for the using up of private and government fixed capital located in the United States.
  23. Consumptive use (1) Any use of water that permanently removes water from the natural stream system.
  24. Consumptive water use Total amount of water used by vegetation, man's activities, and evaporation of surface water.
  25. CONT Continue/Continuously
  26. contact An Active Directory object that represents a user who is outside of the Exchange organization.
  27. Contact Fuse Device used to detonate warhead on physical contact with another object.
  28. Contact grouting Filling, with cement grout, any voids existing at the contact of two zones of different materials, e.g.
  29. Contact Isolation Designed to prevent transmission of highly transmissible or epidemiologically important infections that do not warrant strict isolation.
  30. Contact load Sediment particles that roll or slide along in almost continuous contact with the streambed.
  31. Contact patch The portion of the tire that makes contact with the racing surface. The size of each tire's contact patch changes as the car is driven.
  32. Contact Resistance The resistance between metallic contacts and the semiconductor.
  33. Contact wound a skin injury produced by a weapon in contact with or a fraction of an inch from the skin when discharged.
  34. Contacts The Lotus Notes feature that provides a repository for information about people and groups, and that provides a way to create mailing lists.
  35. Contagious Easily spread from one person to another or from one part of the body to another; able to be spread from person to person or living object to nonliving…
  36. contained use See: containment.
  37. Container In the Exchange Administrator program, an object that contains other objects. For example, the Recipients container is composed of recipient objects.
  38. container-managed persistence The mechanism whereby data transfer between an entity bean's variables and a resource manager is managed by the entity bean's container.
  39. container-managed sign-on The mechanism whereby security information needed for signing on to a resource is supplied by the container.
  40. container-managed transaction A transaction whose boundaries are defined by an EJB container. An entity bean must use container-managed transactions.
  41. containment Measures and protocols applied to limit contact of genetically modified organisms or pathogens with the external environment. Synonym: contained use.
  42. Containment levee A dike or embankment to contain stream flow.
  43. Contaminant 1. An undesired chemical present in a compound or mixture of compounds. 2. Any micro-organism accidentally introduced into a culture or culture medium.
  44. Contaminated To make dirty or impure.
  45. Contamination To make impure, infected, corrupt, etc, by contact with or addition of something; to pollute something.
  46. Contango The price of a futures contract tends to reflect the cost of storage, insurance, financing, and other expenses incurred by the producer as the commodity…
  47. Contemporaneously witnessed Observed or read and understood by a witness who is not one of the inventors at the time the event occurred.
  48. Contempt Contempt is failure to follow a court order.
  49. Contempt of court Willful disobedience of a judge's command or of an official court order.
  50. content In an XML document, the part that occurs after the prolog, including the root element and everything it contains.
  51. content (of documentary material) The information conveyed by documentary material.
  52. Content aggregation The bringing together of content from multiple source repositories for retrieval at a later time.
  53. Content Comparison A method of de-duplication that compares file content or output (to image or paper) and ignores metadata. See De-Duplication.
  54. Content Connector A content connector extracts content from an external content repository (file systems, content management systems, databases, collaboration applications)…
  55. content conversion The process of transforming e-mail messages from one format to another for the purpose of mail flow or storage, such as MAPI to MIME, or uuencode to…
  56. content database The Microsoft SQL Server, MSDE, or WMSDE database that contains the content for one or more SharePoint sites.
  57. content delivery network (CDN) A network, or that portion of a network, built specifically to speed the delivery of Web-based content across the public Internet or private intranets.
  58. Content Distribution Network (CDN) A large distributed system of servers deployed in data centers all across the internet.
  59. Content Filtering This filter allows a user to search incoming messages for certain words or string of words to either delete, so it never reaches its final destination, or…
  60. content hierarchy levels The nested units of information into which a media stream can be decomposed. [T1.801.04-1997]
  61. content hosting (hosting) Storage and management of databases by a content provider. [2382-pt.35]
  62. Content Integration Advertising woven into editorial content or placed in a special context on the page, typically appearing on portals and large destination sites.
  63. content label A rating provided by a rating service that defines or categorizes the contents of a Web site. [Bahorsky]
  64. Content management system (CMS) A software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation and publishing of documents and other content.
  65. content provider Any company in the business of aggregating or producing content for delivery via the Internet.
  66. Content routing In a large search system the index is split into multiple columns/partitions. It is often desired to choose different algorithms for routing of content to…
  67. content source The starting point for crawling a file system, database, or Web site in order to include content in an index. See also: build, crawl
  68. Content Standards for Spatial Metadata (CSSM) A document produced by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) that describes spatial metadata.
  69. content-addressable storage Synonym associative storage.
  70. contention A condition that arises when two or more data stations attempt to transmit at the same time over a shared channel, or when two data stations attempt to…
  71. Contents The volume of water in a reservoir. Unless otherwise indicated reservoir content is computed on the basis of a level pool and does not include bank…
  72. Contestability An individual health insurance policy may have a defined contestability period, so if the insured person becomes seriously ill during that time the health…
  73. Contestación a una demanda o acusación La contestación de un acusado penal a los cargos en su contra, o sea, culpable, no culpable o no culpable por causa de demencia.
  74. Contestación de demanda Presentación de la defensa hecha por un demandado o acusado como respuesta a los alegatos del demandante o apelante.
  75. contested matter Those matters, other than objections to claims, that are disputed but are not within the definition of adversary proceeding contained in Rule 7001.
  76. context The surroundings, or environment. The context given by the surrounding code determines what kind of data a particular "expression" is expected to return.
  77. context (of documentary material) The organizational, functional, and operational circumstances in which documentary material is created and/or received and used.
  78. context attribute An object bound into the context associated with a servlet.
  79. Context relevancy One dimension of search relevancy. The importance of a term/phrase/entity match depends on the matching context.
  80. context root A name that gets mapped to the document root of a Web application.
  81. Context Sensitive Design (CSD) A collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that involves all stakeholders to develop a facility that fits its physical setting and preserves scenic…
  82. Contextual Advertising Advertising programs which generate relevant advertisements based on the content of a webpage.
  83. Contextual entity extraction Extracted entities (see Entity extraction) can be automatically annotated to semantic structures in the text, such as paragraphs or sentences.
  84. contextual information Data about the creation, receipt, storage, or use of a document and its relationship to other records See also metadata.
  85. Contextual Insight Next generation search intelligence that dynamically identifies relationships so that the users can quickly find facts and answers to questions like…
  86. Contextual Search The process of returning electronic evidence to its true context when created, by whom, for what purpose, etc.
  87. contig A set of overlapping cloned DNA fragments that can be assembled to represent a defined region of the chromosome or genome from which they were obtained.
  88. Contig map A map depicting the relative order of a linked library of overlapping clones representing a complete chromosomal segment.
  89. contiguity The topological identification of adjacent polygons by recording the left and right polygons of each arc. See also polygon-arc topology.
  90. Contiguous Touching or very close together.
  91. Contiguous (contig) map The alignment of sequence data from large, adjacent regions of the genome to produce a continuous nucleotide sequence across a chromosomal region.
  92. contiguous lymphoma (kun-TIG-yoo-us lim-FOH-muh) Lymphoma in which the lymph nodes containing cancer are next to each other.
  93. contiguous namespace A domain namespace in which all computers use the Active Directory domain name as their primary Domain Name System (DNS) suffix.
  94. continent reservoir (KAHN-tih-nent RES-er-vwar) A pouch formed from a piece of small intestine to hold urine after the bladder has been removed.
  95. Continental Air Mass A dry air mass originating over a large land area. Contrast with tropical air mass.
  96. continental cluster A group of clusters that use routed networks and/or common carrier networks for data replication and cluster communication to support package failover…
  97. Continental Shelf The zone bordering a continent and extending to a depth, usually around 100 FM, from which there is a steep descent toward greater depth.
  98. Contingencies Used in appraisal and feasibility estimates to estimate overruns on quantities, changed site conditions, change orders, etc.
  99. Contingency A condition that must be met before a contract is legally binding. For example, home purchasers often include a home inspection contingency; the sales…
  100. Contingency Deployment Plan (CDP) An executable plan designed to deploy an early missile defense capability and reduce deployment time.