C

C

Copyright (shown as (C) or ©)

CA

Computer Associates

CA

Certification Authority

CAA

Constant Angular Acceleration (a LD recording method - often confused with CLV)

CAD

Computer Aided Design

CAE

Computer Aided Engineering

CAM

Computer Aided Manufacturing

CANT

;-) Career Aptitude Normalize Test (The Simpsons)

CAPI

Common ISDN API

CART

Championship Auto Racing Teams

CASE

Computer Aided System Engineering

CATV

CAble [distributed] TV

CAV

Constant Angular Velocity [variable rotation speed] (a LD recording method - facilitates freeze frame)

CBM

Commodore Business Machines

CC

Carbon Copy

CC

Compact Cassette

CCD

Charge-Coupled Device

CCITT

Comité Consultatif International de Télégraphique et Téléphonique [International Consulting Committee for Telegraphy and Telephony] (Organ of ITU dealing with international coordination of telephone and data communication systems)

CD

Compact Disc

CD

Corps Diplomatique

CD ROM

CD - Read Only [Memory]

CD-DA

CD - Digital Audio (usually just CD)

CD-I

CD Interactive (Philips)

CDC

Control Data Corporation, USA

CDT

Central (USA) DST (GMT-5)

CE (1)

Consumer Electronics

CE (2)

Collector's Edition

CE (3)

Common Era (equivalent to AD)

CEA

CE (1) Association

CEMA

CE (1) Manufacturers Association

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CERN

European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Schwitzerland

CERT

Computer Emergency Response Team

CET

Central European Time (GMT+1)

CFV

Call For Votes

CGDD

Commisioner's Grave-Digging Detail (The Commish #9)

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CGI

Computer Generated Image

CHRP

Common Hardware Reference Platform (now PPCP)

CIC

Cinema International Corp. (Joint venture between Universal and Viacom)

CICS

Customer Information Control System

CIM

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CISC

Complex Instruction Set Computing

CIT

Center for IT [Centre for IT] (from HLN)

CLUT

Color LookUp Table

CLV

Constant Linear Velocity [constant rotation speed] (a LD recording method - does not facilitate freeze frame on players without digital memory. Though the term is still used widely, the actual recording method is almost always CAA these days)

CMOS

Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor

CNN

Cable News Network, USA/MN

COBOL

COmmon Business-Oriented Language

COD

Cash On Delivery

CODEC

COmpression/DECompression

COM

Component Object Model

COO

Chief Operating Officer

CORBA

Common ORB Architecture (OMG)

COT

Center for Objekt Teknologi [Centre for Object Technology] (from HLN)

CP/M

Control Program for Microcomputers

CPA

Certified Public Accountant

CPC

Collaborative Product Commerce

CPU

Central Processing Unit

CR

Carriage Return

CRAP

Commandos de Recherche et d'Action en Profondeur [Long-Range Search and Action Commandos]

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

CRM

Central-Registret for Motorkøretøjer [Danish Central Register for Motorized Vehicles]

CRM

Customer Relations Management

CRT

Cathode Ray Tube

CSC

Computer Science Corporation, USA/MN

CSI

Crime Scene Investigation

CSMA/CD

Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detect

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

CSS

Content Scrambling System

CST

Central (USA) Standard Time (GMT-6)

CTI

Computer Telephony Integration (from HLN)

CTO

Chief Technological Officer

CV

Curriculum Vitae