ExpertGlossary terms starting with C

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  1. CBR (1) Chemical, Biological, Radiological. (2) Concurrent Budget Resolution.
  2. cBR96-doxorubicin immunoconjugate (... DOK-soh-ROO-bih-sin IH-myoo-noh-KON-juh-gayt) A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.
  3. CBS Corps Battle Simulation (US Army term).
  4. CBTDEV Combat Developer (US Army term).
  5. CBU (1) Cluster Bomb Unit. (2) Conference Bridge Unit.
  6. CBW Chemical Biological Warfare.
  7. CC Cloud-to-Cloud Lightning
  8. CC-1088 A drug that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It is similar but not identical to thalidomide.
  9. CC-4047 A substance being studied in the treatment of prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, and other types of cancer. CC-4047 is a form of the drug thalidomide.
  10. CC-49 A type of monoclonal antibody used in cancer detection or therapy. Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-produced substances that can locate and bind to…
  11. CC-5013 A drug that is similar to thalidomide, and is used to treat multiple myeloma and certain types of anemia.
  12. CC-8490 A substance that is being studied in the treatment of brain cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called benzopyrans.
  13. CC/SOIF OBSOLETE. Command Center/System Operation and Integration Functions. (See C2E and SOIF.)
  14. CC49-streptavidin A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It is made by combining the monoclonal antibody CC49 with a chemical called streptavidin.
  15. CCA See Capital consumption allowance (CCA), (private)
  16. CCA (ICE) Component Cost Assessment (Independent Cost Estimate).
  17. CCAdj See Capital consumption adjustment (CCAdj), (private)
  18. CCB (1) Community Counter terrorism Board. (2) Configuration Control Board. 45
  19. CCC (1) CINC Command Complex. (2) Component Command Center. (3) Consolidated Command Center (NMD BMC3 term)
  20. CCC (BMD) Consolidated Command Center (CCC) (BMD).
  21. ccc DNA Abbreviation for covalently-closed circle DNA . See: circularization.
  22. CCCI Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence.
  23. CCCS Common Communications Component Set.
  24. CCD (1) Charge-Coupled Device. (2) Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception.
  25. CCD (Charge Coupled Device) A computer chip the output of which correlates with the light or color passed by it.
  26. CCE OBSOLETE. Command Center Element. Now called Command and Control Element (C2E).
  27. CCEB Combined Communications-Electronics Board (NATO term).
  28. CCEP Commercial COMSEC Endorsement Program
  29. CCEV Command Center Experimental Version.
  30. CCH Abbreviation for connections per circuit hour.
  31. CCI Controlled Cryptographic Item
  32. CCI-779 A drug used to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma (a type of kidney cancer). It is also being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.
  33. CCIP Abbreviation for Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. See Critical Infrastructure.
  34. CCIR Abbreviation for International Radio Consultative Committee, a predecessor organization of the ITU-R.
  35. CCIS Command and Control Information System.
  36. CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephone & Telegraphy. Sets standards for phones, faxes, modems etc.
  37. CCITT Group 4 A lossless compression technique/format that reduces the size of a file, generally about 5:1 over RLE and 40:1 over bitmap.
  38. CCL Convective Condensation Level- The level in the atmosphere to which an air parcel, if heated from below, will rise dry adiabatically, without becoming…
  39. CCL (Common Communication Layer) The communication infrastructure that unites the various components (controller, parser, crawler, indexer) of WebSphere® Information Integrator…
  40. cCLB8 A chimeric (made from human and mouse proteins) monoclonal antibody being studied in the treatment of advanced kidney cancer and other types of cancer.
  41. CCM Counter-Countermeasures.
  42. CCMPS Counter-Countermeasure Parametric Study.
  43. CCN (1) Contract Change Notice. (2) Configuration Change Notice.
  44. ccNUMA (cache coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access) describes a NUMA architecture in which the system ensures that data stored in processor caches is coherent across all nodes.
  45. CCP Contract Change Proposal (Contracting term).
  46. CCP002 Contract Change Proposal (and number) (Contract Administration term).
  47. CCPA See Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
  48. CCR (cluster continuous replication) A clustered Exchange deployment that combines the asynchronous log shipping and replay features in Exchange 2007 with the failover and management features…
  49. CCS Combat Control System (AEGIS).
  50. CCSA Abbreviation for common control switching arrangement.
  51. CCTV Closed Circuit Television
  52. CD a type of form designation such as Form CD435, meaning a Commerce Department form
  53. CD (compact disk) An optical disk that can store up to 700 MB of data Note: It is available in read-only (CD-ROM), write-once (CD-R), and rewritable (CD-RW) technologies.
  54. CD molecules Abbreviation for: cluster of differentiation molecules . Any group of surface antigens associated with a specific sub-population of T cells.
  55. CD ROM XA Abbreviation for compact disc read only memory eXtended architecture. An extension of the CD-ROM standard, billed as a hybrid of CD ROM and CD-IS formats.
  56. CD-i Abbreviation for compact disc-interactive. A compact disc format that provides audio, digital data, still graphics, and limited motion video, and that…
  57. CD-R (Compact Disc Recordable) A CD-ROM on which a user may permanently record data once using a CD Burner.
  58. CD-ROM See Compact Disc. (Compact Disk - Read Only Memory) Data storage medium that uses compact discs to store about 1,500 floppy discs worth of data.
  59. CD/V Concept Demonstration/Validation (DD 5000 term).
  60. CD134 A protein being studied in the treatment of cancer. Substances that attach to CD134 on the surface of T cells (a type of white blood cell) may help the T…
  61. CD34 antigen A protein found on the surface of some bone marrow and blood cells.
  62. CD40-ligand A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It binds to certain immune cells and may suppress cancer growth.
  63. CDA Central Design Activity (USAF term for Software Engineering Center).
  64. CDATA A predefined XML tag for character data that means "don't interpret these characters," as opposed to parsed character data (PCDATA), in which the normal…
  65. CDB Computing Development Branch (NCEP)
  66. CDC Climate Diagnostic Center, the mission of the Climate Diagnostics Center (CDC) is to advance national capabilities to interpret the causes of observed…
  67. CDC (Connected Device Configuration) The Connected Device Configuration (CDC) is a specification for a Java ME configuration.
  68. CDCC Classified Document Control Center.
  69. CDD Cooling Degree Days- A form of degree day used to estimate energy requirements for air conditioning or refrigeration.
  70. CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface. A version of FDDI that uses UTP wires rather than optical fiber.
  71. CDDO A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer. CDDO may block enzymes involved in inflammation and cancer growth.
  72. CDE Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. 46
  73. CDF Abbreviation for combined distribution frame.
  74. CDFNT Cold Front
  75. CDI (1) Conventional Defense Initiative. (2) Compressed Data Interface. (3) Classification, Discrimination, and Identification (PATRIOT).
  76. CDIA+ Vendor-neutral certification that validates a professional's level of expertise in the technologies and best practices used to plan, design, and specify a…
  77. CDK inhibitor AT7519M (... in-HIH-bih-ter ...) A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.
  78. CDMA Code Division Multiple Access [Receiver].
  79. CDMA (Code-division multiple access access) a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum techniques. Unlike competing systems, such as GSM, that use TDMA, CDMA does not assign a specific…
  80. CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is a cellular technology widely used in North America.
  81. CDMA One Also know as IS-95, CDMAOne is a 2nd generation wireless technology. Supports speeds from 14.4Kbps to 115K bps.
  82. CDMA2000 Also known as IS-136, CDMA2000 is a 3rd generation wireless technology. Supports speeds ranging from 144Kbps to 2Mbps.
  83. CDN Content Delivery Network. A network, or that portion of a network, built specifically to speed the delivery of Web-based content across the public…
  84. cDNA DNA synthesized from an RNA template using reverse transcriptase.
  85. cDNA clone A double-stranded cDNA molecule propagated in a vector, and used as a probe in RFLP analyses, as template for the production of EST sequences, and for…
  86. cDNA cloning A method of cloning the coding sequence of a gene, starting with its mRNA transcript.
  87. cDNA library A library composed of complementary copies of cellular mRNAs. (See Library.)
  88. CDO Contingency Deployment Option.
  89. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) An Application Programming Interface that is a superset of CDO for Windows 2000.
  90. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) for Windows 2000 CDO for Windows 2000 is defined in the Windows 2000 section earlier in this document. [Exchange 2000]
  91. CDO for Exchange 2000 CDO for Exchange 2000 is included with Exchange 2000 and its services are supplied from the CDOEX.DLL file. [Exchange 2000]
  92. CDO for System Management (fka Exchange Management Objects - EMO) An API that allows administrators to programmatically access management information on an Exchange 2000 server, including databases and mailboxes.
  93. CDP Contingency Deployment Planning.
  94. CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A data communication standard utilizing the unused capacity of cellular voice providers to transfer data.
  95. CDPSK Abbreviation for coherent differential phase-shift keying.
  96. CDR Abbreviation for complementarity-determining regions.
  97. CDRL Contract Data Requirements List.
  98. CDS Congressional Descriptive Summary.
  99. CDs (Certificates of Deposit) A debt instrument issued by banks, usually paying interest, with maturities ranging from seven days to several years.
  100. CDS (Control Data Set) an SMS VSAM linear data set containing configurational, operational, or communication information. See SMS.