Technology terms starting with C

2,021 terms

  1. CBO Congressional Budget Office.
  2. CBR (1) Chemical, Biological, Radiological. (2) Concurrent Budget Resolution.
  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/SOIF OBSOLETE. Command Center/System Operation and Integration Functions. (See C2E and SOIF.)
  9. CCA See Capital consumption allowance (CCA), (private)
  10. CCA (ICE) Component Cost Assessment (Independent Cost Estimate).
  11. CCB (1) Community Counter terrorism Board. (2) Configuration Control Board. 45
  12. CCC (1) CINC Command Complex. (2) Component Command Center. (3) Consolidated Command Center (NMD BMC3 term)
  13. CCC (BMD) Consolidated Command Center (CCC) (BMD).
  14. CCCI Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence.
  15. CCCS Common Communications Component Set.
  16. CCD (1) Charge-Coupled Device. (2) Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception.
  17. CCE OBSOLETE. Command Center Element. Now called Command and Control Element (C2E).
  18. CCEB Combined Communications-Electronics Board (NATO term).
  19. CCEP Commercial COMSEC Endorsement Program
  20. CCEV Command Center Experimental Version.
  21. CCH Abbreviation for connections per circuit hour.
  22. CCI Controlled Cryptographic Item
  23. CCIP Abbreviation for Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. See Critical Infrastructure.
  24. CCIR Abbreviation for International Radio Consultative Committee, a predecessor organization of the ITU-R.
  25. CCIS Command and Control Information System.
  26. CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephone & Telegraphy. Sets standards for phones, faxes, modems etc.
  27. CCL Convective Condensation Level- The level in the atmosphere to which an air parcel, if heated from below, will rise dry adiabatically, without becoming…
  28. CCL (Common Communication Layer) The communication infrastructure that unites the various components (controller, parser, crawler, indexer) of WebSphere® Information Integrator…
  29. CCM Counter-Countermeasures.
  30. CCMPS Counter-Countermeasure Parametric Study.
  31. CCN (1) Contract Change Notice. (2) Configuration Change Notice.
  32. 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.
  33. CCP Contract Change Proposal (Contracting term).
  34. CCP002 Contract Change Proposal (and number) (Contract Administration term).
  35. 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…
  36. CCS Combat Control System (AEGIS).
  37. CCSA Abbreviation for common control switching arrangement.
  38. CCTV Closed Circuit Television
  39. CD a type of form designation such as Form CD435, meaning a Commerce Department form
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. CD-i Abbreviation for compact disc-interactive. A compact disc format that provides audio, digital data, still graphics, and limited motion video, and that…
  43. 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.
  44. CD/V Concept Demonstration/Validation (DD 5000 term).
  45. CDA Central Design Activity (USAF term for Software Engineering Center).
  46. 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…
  47. CDB Computing Development Branch (NCEP)
  48. CDC (Connected Device Configuration) The Connected Device Configuration (CDC) is a specification for a Java ME configuration.
  49. CDCC Classified Document Control Center.
  50. CDD Cooling Degree Days- A form of degree day used to estimate energy requirements for air conditioning or refrigeration.
  51. CDDI Copper Distributed Data Interface. A version of FDDI that uses UTP wires rather than optical fiber.
  52. CDE Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. 46
  53. CDF Abbreviation for combined distribution frame.
  54. CDI (1) Conventional Defense Initiative. (2) Compressed Data Interface. (3) Classification, Discrimination, and Identification (PATRIOT).
  55. 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…
  56. CDMA Code Division Multiple Access [Receiver].
  57. 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…
  58. CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) Code-Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is a cellular technology widely used in North America.
  59. CDMA One Also know as IS-95, CDMAOne is a 2nd generation wireless technology. Supports speeds from 14.4Kbps to 115K bps.
  60. CDMA2000 Also known as IS-136, CDMA2000 is a 3rd generation wireless technology. Supports speeds ranging from 144Kbps to 2Mbps.
  61. 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…
  62. CDO Contingency Deployment Option.
  63. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) An Application Programming Interface that is a superset of CDO for Windows 2000.
  64. CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) for Windows 2000 CDO for Windows 2000 is defined in the Windows 2000 section earlier in this document. [Exchange 2000]
  65. 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]
  66. 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.
  67. CDP Contingency Deployment Planning.
  68. CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A data communication standard utilizing the unused capacity of cellular voice providers to transfer data.
  69. CDPSK Abbreviation for coherent differential phase-shift keying.
  70. CDR Abbreviation for complementarity-determining regions.
  71. CDRL Contract Data Requirements List.
  72. CDS Congressional Descriptive Summary.
  73. CDS (Control Data Set) an SMS VSAM linear data set containing configurational, operational, or communication information. See SMS.
  74. CDSSI Common Data Sharing System Infrastructure.
  75. CDT&E Contractor Development Test and Evaluation.
  76. CDV Concept Definition Vehicle.
  77. CE (1) Concurrent Engineering. (2) Communications Enhancements (PATRIOT). (3) Corps of Engineers/Civil Engineers. (4) Current Estimate.
  78. CE&T Common Environments & Tools
  79. CE/D Concept Exploration/Definition Phase.
  80. Cease Engagement In air defense, a fire control order used to direct units to stop the firing sequence against a designated target.
  81. Cease Fire A command given to refrain from firing on, but to continue to track objects. Missiles already in flight will be permitted to continue to intercept.
  82. CEATM Cost Effectiveness At The Margin.
  83. CEC Cooperative Engagement Capability.
  84. CECOM U.S. Army Communications Electronics Command, Ft. Monmouth, NJ.
  85. CED Concept Exploration and Development.
  86. CEEM Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation Model.
  87. CEI Abbreviation for comparably efficient interconnection.
  88. CEIP A Microsoft program that invites customers to provide Microsoft with more detailed information about how the software is used including the type and…
  89. Cell The fundamental level of structural organization in complex organisms. Eukaryotic cells contain a nucleus (with chromosome s) and cytoplasm with the…
  90. cell delay variation A quantification of variability in cell delay for an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) layer connection. [T1.630-1999]
  91. cell delineation The identification of the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell boundaries within a cell stream. [T1.646-1995]
  92. cell header Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) layer protocol control information that precedes user data. [After T1.627-1993]
  93. cell loss ratio 1. In a network, the ratio (1- x/y), where: y is the number of cells that arrive in an interval at the ingress of the network; and x is the number of…
  94. cell relay A statistically multiplexed interface protocol for packet switched data communications that uses fixed-length packets, i.e., cells, to transport data.
  95. cellular Refers to communications systems, especially the Advance Mobile Phone Service (AMPS), that divide a geographic region into sections, called cells.
  96. cellular mobile A mobile communications system that uses a combination of radio transmission and conventional telephone switching to permit telephone communication to and…
  97. cellular phone Synonym cellular mobile.
  98. cellular radio Synonym cellular mobile.
  99. cellular technology In telephony, a generic term for all wireless phones, regardless of the technology they use; the term derives from cellular base stations that receive and…
  100. cellular telephone Synonym cellular mobile.