Technology terms starting with C

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Chronic Trunk Trunk: A trunk experiencing a much higher then normal rate of failure or switching irregularities, over a period of time, with resulting high incidence of…
chronological file Records filed in date sequence Also referred to as CHRON and chron file.
CHS Common Hardware and Software.
cHTML (Compact HTML) Compact HTML (cHTML) is a subset of HTML which is designed for small devices. The major features of HTML that are excluded from cHTML are: JPEG image…
CI Cirrus clouds- High-level clouds (16,000 feet or higher), composed of ice crystals and appearing in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or…
CI (n) Capability Increment (Number), e.g., CI-2, (NMD BMC3 term).
CIA Central Intelligence Agency (US).
CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability.
CIC (1) NORAD/USSPACECOM Combined Intelligence Center. (2) Combat Information Center. (U.S. Navy). (3) Content Indicator Code.
CIDR Configuration Item Design Review.
CIDR (Classless Interdomain Routing) An IP address and routing management method that allocates IP addresses in a way that reduces the number of routes stored on any individual router, while…
CIDS (1) Control, Instrumentation and Diagnostic Systems (2) Critical Item Development Specification.
CIDSE Consolidated Integrated Development support Environment.
CIE Abbreviation for Commission International de l'Eclairage (International Commission on Illumination).
CIEL Certification and INFOSEC Engineering Laboratory.
CIF CINC Initiative Fund.
CIFMS Center for Integrated Mission support (JIEO term).
CIFS Common Internet File System. Microsoft's file-sharing protocol that evolved from SMB.
CIFS authentication mode The method used for authentication of CIFS users.
CIFS cred The credential used to validate requests for files with NT-style security.
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.
CIL Critical Items List.
CIM Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.
CINC (1) Commander-in-Chief, used when referring to the President of the United States.
CINC Decision Set A group of decisions available to control forces, including determining operational state, DEFCON, hostile intent, authorizing engagement, selecting…
CINCNORAD Commander-in-Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command.
CINCSAC Commander-in-Chief, US Strategic Air Command (Now see CINCSTRAT).
CINCSTRAT Commander-in-Chief, US Strategic Command.
Cinepak A compression algorithm; see MPEG.
CIOTE Commanders Integrated Open System Technology Evaluator.
Cipher Series of transformations that converts plaintext to ciphertext using the Cipher Key.
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…
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…
Cipher Suite Negotiated algorithm identifiers. Cipher suites are identified in human readable form using a pneumonic code.
Cipher System A cryptographic system in which cryptography is applied to plain text elements of equal length.
cipher text 1. Enciphered information. [INFOSEC-99] Note: Cipher text is the result obtained from enciphering plain or encoded text. 2.
cipher text auto-key Cryptographic logic that uses previous cipher text to generate a key stream. [INFOSEC-99]
Ciphertext Unintelligible text or signals produced through the use of cipher systems.
ciphertext string In cryptography, ciphertext that is formed by encrypting concatenated encryption elements. [After X9.23]
ciphertext substring In cryptography, a segment of a ciphertext string. [After X9.23]
ciphony The process of enciphering audio information, resulting in encrypted speech. [INFOSEC-99] Note: "Ciphony" is a contraction of "ciphered telephony ."
CIPT Cost As an Independent Variable (CAIV) IPT.
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.
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]
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…
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.
circuit reliability (CiR) The percentage of time a circuit was available for use in a specified period of scheduled availability.
circuit restoration The process by which a communications circuit is established between two users after disruption or loss of the original circuit.
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…
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…
circuit switching center See circuit switching, switching center.
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…
circuit transfer mode In ISDN applications, a transfer mode by means of permanent allocation of channels or bandwidth between connections.
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…
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.
circular polarization In electromagnetic wave propagation, polarization such that the tip of the electric field vector describes a helix.
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…
circumfix operator An "operator" that surrounds its "operand", like the angle operator, or parentheses, or a hug.
CIRIS Completely Integrated Reference Instrumentation System
CIRRIS Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrumentation for Shuttle.
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…
CISF Centralized Integration Support Facility.
CISS Center for Information Systems Security (JIEO term).
CITE Common Integrated Tactics Execution (USAF term).
CITIS Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service.
Citrix The server system that allows District employees to use applications such as ArcGIS and Pictometry software via the Intranet.
civision The application of cryptography to television signals. 2. Television signals that have been enciphered to preserve the confidentiality of the transmitted…
CIWS Close-In Weapon System.
CJ Cobra Judy, name of a surveillance radar.
CJCS Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
CJTF (1) Commander, Joint Task Force. (2) Combined Joint Task Force.
CL An abbreviation used on climate outlook maps issued by CPC to indicate areas where equal chances of experiencing below-normal, normal, and above-normal…
cladding Of an optical fiber, one or more layers of material of lower refractive index, in intimate contact with a core material of higher refractive index. 2.
cladding diameter In the cross section of a realizable optical fiber, ideally circular, but in practice assumed to a first approximation to be elliptical, the average of…
cladding eccentricity See ovality.
cladding mode An undesired mode that is confined to the cladding of an optical fiber by virtue of the fact that the cladding has a higher refractive index than the…
cladding mode stripper In an optical fiber, anything used to convert cladding modes to radiation modes, thus removing them from the fiber.
cladding noncircularity See ovality.
cladding ovality Synonym cladding noncircularity. See ovality.
cladding ray See cladding mode.
Claim Your request for the insurance company to pay you an amount under the terms of your policy.
claim authentication information (claim AI) left
claim mapping The act of mapping, removing or filtering, or passing claims between various claim sets.
Claim of identity A statement that a person is or is not the source of a reference in a database.
Claimant A person who makes an insurance claim.
claims-aware application A Microsoft ASP .NET application that performs authorization based on the claims that are present in an Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)…
class Article I, section 3 of the Constitution requires the Senate to be divided into three classes for purposes of elections.
class body The body of a class definition. The body groups the definitions of a class's members - fields, methods and nested classes.
class constant A variable defined as both final and static.
class d address Synonym (in Internet protocol) multicast address.
class header The header of a class definition. The header gives a name to the class and defines its access.
class inheritance When a super class is extended by a sub class, a class inheritance relationship exists between them.
class method A synonym for static method.
class of emission The set of characteristics of an emission, designated by standard symbols, e.g.
class of office A ranking, assigned to each switching center in a communications network, determined by the center switching functions, interrelationships with other…
class of service A designation assigned to describe the service treatment and privileges given to a particular terminal. 2.
class scope Private variables defined outside the methods within a class have class scope. They are accessible from all methods within the class, regardless of the…
class variable A synonym for static variable.
class-of-service mark Synonym classmark.
Classes Component defining object types within Active Directory.