Acronyms and abbreviations in English.

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There are currently 482 terms in this directory beginning with the letter C.

c (as c 1700)

circa, 'about'

C-DAC

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (India)

c. (as 19th c.)

century

c.a.d.

cash against documents (Zahlung gegen Dokumente)

c.b.d.

1. cash before delivery.
2. cash before documents.

C.F.S.

Container Freight Station (Container-Packstation)

C.G.C.

Conspicuous Gallantry Cross

C.I.

Consular Invoice (Konsulatsfaktura)

c.l.

car load (Waggonladung)

C.N.M.I.

Common wealth of Northern Mariana Islands

C.O.D.

cash on delivery (Zahlung bei Lieferung) (=Nachnahme)

C.O.S.

cash on shipment (Zahlung bei Verschiffung)

C.R.

Company's Risk (auf Gefahr der Firma)

C.T.

1. cable transfer
2. ( c.t. ) - conference terms

C.Y.

Container Yard (Containerdepot)

C/C

clean credit ( (ungesicherter) Bankkredit)

c/i

certificate of insurance (Versicherungszertifikat)

C/O

1. Care Of (for sending mail)
2. ( c/o ) - care of (on letters: at the address of)
3. ( c/o ) - cash order (Sichtanweisung)

C/P

Charter Party (Charter-Partie)

C/R

Company's Risk (auf Gefahr der Firma)

c/s

cases (Kisten, Kartons)

c/w

commercial weight (Handelsgewicht)

C&B

Crash & Burn

C&F

cost and freight

C&I

Commercial and Idustrial (waste)

C&U

1. Construction & Use Regulations.
2. Construction and Use.

1. Competent Authority.
2. Compromise Amendment.
3. Administrative Board Cen.
4. Civic Amenity (Site,now household waste recycling centre).
5. Countryside Agency.
6. Canada.

CAA

1. Civil Aviation Authority.
2. Clean Air Act (1990).

CAAM

China Association of Automobile Manufacturers

CAC

1. Consumer Affairs Committee.
2. Channel Amplitude Class.
3. Call (or Connection) Admission Control.

CAD

1. Capital Adequacy Directive CBOE - Chicago Board Options Exchange (US).
2. Computer Aided Design.

CADET

Cant Add, Doesnt Even Try

CAE

Computer Aided Engineering

CAESAR

Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource

CAFE

1. Clean Air for Europe.
2. Corporate Average Fuel Economy.

CAGR

Compound Annual Growth Rate

Cal

calendar

Cal.

(in titles) Calendar

Calc

calculus

Calend

calendar

Calif

California

Calligr

calligraphy

CAM

1. Computer Aided Manufacturing.
2. Computer Aided Machining.

Camb

Cambridge

Cambr

Cambridge

Cambr.

(in titles) Cambridge

Campanol

campanology

Canad

Canadian

Canad.

Canadian

Canterb

Canterbury

CAP

Catabolic gene activator proteins

CAPEX

Capital Expenditure (Investitionsauszahlung)

CAQ

Computer Aided Quality assurance

CARB

Californian Air Resources Board

CARE

Consortium For Automotive Recycling

CARS

CASCADE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

CARS 21

Competitive Automotive Regulatory System for the 21-st Century

Cartogr

cartography, cartographic(al)

CAS

Centre for Auto Safety (USA)

CASE

Computer Aided Software Engineering

CAT

1. Convention Against Torture.
2. Customer Acceptance Testing.

Cat.

Catalan

catachr.

catachrestically

Catal

catalogue

Catal.

(in titles) Catalogue

CATCH

Come Again? That Cant Help!

Catech

catechism

Cath

Catholic

CATI

computer assisted telephone interview

CATP

Committee for Adaption to Technical Progress

CATs

Corrective Action Teams

Call Back

CBA

Cost Benefit Analysis

CBCP

Center Beam Candle Power

CBI

1. Confederation of British Industry.
2. Confidential Business Information.

CBM

Condition Bases Maintenance

CBOT

Chicago Board of Trade (US)

CBR

California Bearing Ratio

CBT

computer-based testing

CCA

1. Climate Change Agreement.
2. Compliance Cost Assessment (now RIA).

CCC

1. Canadian Computing Competition.
2. Commodity Credit Corporation (US).
3. Camping & Caravan Club.

CCK

chole cystokinin

CCL

1. Climate Change Levy.
2. Compacted Clay Liner.

CCP

Commercial Customer Programme

CCR

Californian Code of Regulations

CCSS

Common Core State Standards

CCT

Compulsory Competitive Tendering [now best value]

CCTV

Close Circuit Television

1. Compact Disc.
2. Congo (Democratic Republic).
3. Cluster of differentiation.
4. certificate of deposit.
5. Consolidated Document.

CD-ROM

Compact Disc-Read Only Memory

CDG

Carriage of Dangerous Goods

CDG/CPL

Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road & Rail (classification, packaging & labelling) regs 1994 and 1996

CDGRail

Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail

CDGRoad

Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road

CDI

1. compact disc interactive.
2. Common-rail Diesel Injection.

CDL

Commercial Drivers Licence

CDM

Clean Development Mechanism (withing kyoto protocol art 12)

CDR

Critical Design Review

1. Creative Editing.
2. customer edge.
3. customer equipment.

CEA

1. Commodity Exchange Authority (US, replaced by CFTC in 1975).
2. Combustion Engineering Association.

CEC

1. European Coordinating Council for the Development of Performance Tests for Lubricants and Engine Fuels.
2. Commission of the European Communities.

CED

Common European Demonstrators

CEEFC

Centre of Excellence in Engineered Fibre Composites (Australia)

CEFIC

European Chemical Industry Council

CEFR

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

CEHLM

Centre of Expertise on Leardership in Health Management

CEI (IEC)

International Electro Technical Commission

CELS

Center for Legal and Social studies

Celt.

Celtic

CEMA

European Committee of Associations of Manufacturers of Agricultural Machinery

CENELEC

European Committee for Electrical / Electrotechnical Standardisation

Cent

1. central.
2. century.
3. ( cent ) - century

Cent.

(in titles) Century, Central

Cent. Dict.

Century Dictionary

CEO

chief executive officer

CEOF

Campus Electron Optics Facility (OSU)

CEPE

European Council of the Paint, Printing, Ink and Artists Colours Industry

CEPI

Confederation of European Paper Industries

Ceram

ceramics

CERD

Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Cert

certificate

Certif

certificate

CEST

Centre for Exploitation of Science & Technology

cf.

confere (lat.)

Cf., cf.

confer, 'compare'

CFA

1. confirmatory factor analysis.
2. Consumer Federation of America.

CFBAC

Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council

CFC

Channel Frequency Class

CFD

1. Call For Discussion.
2. Computational Fluid Dynamics.

CFEIS

Certification and Fuel Economy Information System

CFERs

Consolidated Funds Extra Receipts

CFF

Clean Fuel Fleet

CfiT

Commission for Integrated Transport

CFP

Call For Papers

CFPP

Cold Filter Plugging Point (diesel)

CFR

1. Code of Federal Regulations.
2. Cooperative Fuel Research.
3. Cost and Freight

CFT

1. Charge Flow Transistor.
2. Conformal Field Theory.
3. Conformal Fuel Tank.
4. Cross File Transfer.

CFV

1. Clean Fuel Vehicle.
2. Critical Flow Venturi.
3. Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles Division.
4. Call For Votes.

1. Centre of Gravity.
2.Congo (Republic).

CGEG

Center on Global Economic Governance

CGF

Core Grammatical Function

CGI

Compact Graphite Iron

CGP

1. Cumulative Grade Point.
2. Cumulative Grading Pattern.

CGR

Centre de Gestion des Radiocommunications

CGU

Cash Generating Unit (Zahlungsmittelgenerierende Einheit)

Ch.

Church

ch. ppd.

charges prepaid (Kosten vorausbezahlt)

Ch.Hist

Church history

CHA

Cliff Hanger Antenna

Chamb

chamber

Char

character

Charac

character

Chas

Charles

Chem.

(as label) in Chemistry; (in titles) Chemistry, - ical

Chem.Engin

chemical engineering

Chesh

Cheshire

CHIEF

Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight

CHMR

Center for Health Management Research (University of Washington at Seattle)

CHMSL

Central High Mounted Stop Light

CHOM

Center for the History of Medicine

CHOWUR

see (C) HOW you are

CHP

1. California Highway Patrol.
2. Combined Heat & Power.

CHPA

Combined Heat & Power Association

Chq.

cheque (Scheck)

Chr

1. Christian.
2. (in the Bible) Chronicles.

Chr.

(in titles) Christian

Chron

1. chronology, chronicle.
2. (in the Bible) Chronicles

Chron.

(in titles) Chronicle

Chronol

chronology

Chronol.

(in titles) Chronology, -ical

Chrons

chronicles

CHSP

1. College in High School Program (University of Pittsburgh).
2. Community Health Scholars Program (University of Michigan).

CHUR

see (C) How you are

CIA

1. Chemical Industries Association.
2. Central Intelligence Agency.

CIAO

Goodbye

CIASS

Center for Intercultural Advancement & Student Success

CIC

Christ, Im Confused

CIDADEC

International Confederation of Experts and Consultants

CIDI

Compression Ignition Direct Injection

CIE

International Committee of Illumination

CIEF

Construction Industry Environmental Forum

CIF

cost, insurance, freight (Kosten, Versicherung und Fracht)

CIFAS

Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study

CIG

Canadian Institute of Geomatics

CIGGT

Canadian Institute of Guided Ground Transport

CILG

Component Industry Liaison Group

CIM

1. Computer Integrated Machining.
2. Computer Integrated Manufacturing.
3. Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.

CIMAH

Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards Regs 1984 (as amended)

CIME

Creativity and Innovation in Micro Enterprise

Cinemat., Cinematogr.

in Cinematography

Cinematogr

cinematography, cinematographic(al)

CIO

Cut It Out

CIOMS

Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences

CIP

1. Cataloging-in-Publication.
2. Construction In Process.

CIPFA

Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting

Circ

circle

CIRIA

Construction Industry Research & Information Association

CIRR

Commercial Interest Referenca Rate (Handels-Referenzzinssatz)

CIS

1. Compuserve Information Service.
2. Commonwealth of Independent States (Former USSR).

CITA

International Motor Vehicle Inspection Committee

CITB

Construction Industry Training Board

CITES

Conventionon International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

CITs

Continous Improvement Teams

Civ.Law

civil law

Civil Engin

civil engineering

CIWEM

Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Management

CIWM

Chartered Institute of Wastes Management

CIXS

Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer

Cook Islands

CKWRI

Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute

1. Chile.
2. Comfort Luxe.
3. ( cl ) - clause
4. ( Cl ) - club

cl. L.

classical Latin

CLAB

Crying Like A Baby

Class

classical

Class.Antiq

classical antiquities

Classif

classification

CLAW

Control of Lead at Work regs 1990 & ACoP

CLC

Commercial Letter of Credit (Kreditbrief)

CLC-C

Cell line cross contamination

CLCVTC

Car and Light Commercial Vehicle Technical Commtittee

CLEAR

Campaign for Lead-Free Air

CLEDIPA

Liaison Committee of EEC Automobile Parts Wholesalers

CLEE

1. Center for Law, Energy & the Environment.
2. Center for Lifelong Engineering Education.

CLEPA

Liaison Committee for the Manufacture of Automobile Equipment & Spare Parts

CLER

Classification & Labelling of Explosive Regulations 1983

CLEUD

Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use or Development

Climatol

climatology

Clin

clinical

Clin.

(in titles) Clinical

CLIP

ClassicalI PandARP over ATM

CLL

College Station Easterwood Airport code.Texas,USA.

CLNA

Cours de Langue de Niveau Avance

CLOAKA

Canonical List Of All Known Acronyms

CLP

Cell Loss Priority

CLRTAP

Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution

CLV

Customer Lifetime Value

1. Cameroon.
2. Configuration Management.
3. ( cm ) - centimetre

CMBS

Collision Mitigation Braking Systems

CMC

Car Multimedia Committee

CMEA

Council for Mutual Economic Aid

CMF

Capital Modernisation Fund

CMHC

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

CMI

1. Cell mediated Immunity.
2. Champaign Airport code. Willard Airport. Illinois,USA.

CMIIW

Correct Me If Im Wrong

CMMI

Capability Maturity Model Integration

CMP

Configuration Management Plan

CMPS

Centre for Management and Policy Studies

CMR

Carcinogenic Mutagenic Reprotoxic

CMV

Commercial Motor Vehicle

CMVSA

Commerical Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (USA)

CMVSS

Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

CMWS

1. Cambridge Medical Writing Services.
2. Center for Marine and Wetland Studies (Coastal Carolina University).

CNA

copy number alteration

CNAPS

Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

CNC

Computerised Numerical Control

CNG

Compressed Naturale Gas

CNMI

Common wealth of Northern Mariana Islands

CNN

CableNewsNetwork

1. Conference.
2. Colombia.
3. ( Co ) - company

COCOMO

COnstructive COst MOdel

COD

1. Chemical Oxygen Demand.
2. Cash On Delivery.
3. Certificate of Destruction (for vehicles).

CODES

Crash Outcome Data Evaluation Systems (USA)

COE

Center of Excellence

COER

Control of Explosives Regulations

COGENT

CO-Develepment Re Generations Tools

cogn. w.

cognate with

cogn.w

cognate with

COIF

Certificate of Initial Fitness

Col

1. colonel.
2. (in the Bible) Colossians.

Col.

(in titles) Colonel, Colony

Coll

1. collected, collection.
2. college.

Coll.

(in titles) Collection

collect

1. collective(ly).
2. collection.

collect.

collective, -ly

colloq

1. colloquial(ly).
2. colloquies.

colloq.

colloquial, -ly

Coloss

(in the Bible) Colossians

COMAH

Control of Major Accident Hazards

Comb

combination(s)

comb.

combined, -ing

comb.form

combining form

Combs

combinations

COMEAP

Committee of the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants

Comm

1. commerce, in commercial usage.
2. common.
3. commentary.
4. commission.
5. committee.

Comm.

in Commercial usage

Comm.Law

commercial law

Commandm

commandment

Commend

commendation

Commerc

commercial

COMMET

Council of Mechanical & Metal Trade Association

Commiss

commission

Commonw

commonwealth

Communic

communication(s)

Communic.

in Communications

Comp

1. companion.
2. company.
3. ( comp ) - comparative.
4. ( comp ) - compound
5. ( comp ) - composition.

comp.

compound, composition

Comp.Anat

comparative anatomy

Compan

companion(s)

Compan.

(in titles) Companion

compar

comparative

compar.

comparative

Compend

compendium, compendious

Compl

1. complete
2. ( compl ) - complement

compl.

complement

Compos

composition

Conc

1. concise
2. ( conc ) - concerning

Conc.

(in titles) Concise

CONCAWE

Conservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe (oil companies)

Conch

conchology

Conch.

in Conchology

Concl

conclusion

concr

concrete(ly)

concr.

concrete, -ly

Conf

1. conference
2. confession

Conf.

(in titles) Conference

Confid

confidential

Confl

conflict

Confut

confutation

Congr

congress

Congr.

(in titles) Congress

Congreg

congregation

Congress

congressional

conj

1. conjugation.
2. conjunction.

conj.

conjunction

Conn

1. Connaussement.
2. Connecticut.

cons

consonant

cons.

consonant

Consc

conscience

Consecr

consecrated, consecration

Consid

consideration(s)

Consol

consolation

const

construction, construed with

const.

construction, construed with

Constit

constitution(al)

Constit.Hist

constitutional history

Constr

construction

Contemp

contemporary

Contempl

contemplation

contempt

contemptuous(ly)

Contend

contending(s)

Content

contention

Contin

continuation

contr

1. contracted, contraction.
2. contrasted (with).

contr.

contrast (with)

Contradict

contradiction

Contrib

contribution

Contrib.

(in titles) Contribution

Controv

1. controversial.
2. controversy.

Conv

convention

Convent

convention

Conversat

conversation

Convoc

convocation

COP

Conformity of Production

CoPA 1974

Control of Pollution Act

CORA

Chemical & Oil Recovery Association

Cornw

Cornwall

Coron

coronation

Corr

correspondence

Corr.

(in titles) Correspondence

corresp.

corresponding (to)

COSHH

Control of Substances Hazardours to Health Regulations 1994 (UK)

COSINE

Coordinated Survey Information Network Exchange (Ontario, CA)

CoSL

Council of Student Leaders

COSVAM

Coalition of Small Volume Automonile Manufacturers (USA)

COTFLG

Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out and Having A Heart Attack

COTFLGOHAHA

Crawling on the Floor Laughing Guts Outand Having a Heart Attack

Cotgr.

R. Cotgrave, Dictionarie of the French and English tongues

COTR

Contracting Officers Technical Representative

Counc

council

Courtsh

courtship

Cloud Point

CPA

1. Cost Per Action.
2. Cost Per Acquisition.
3. Crime Prevention Agency.

CPC

1. Coordinated Pollution Control.
2. Certificate of Professional Competence.
3. Cost per click.

CPCS

Common Part Convergence Sublayer

cpd.

compound

CPDS

Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

CPE

Customer premises (orprovided) equipment

CPF

Can Pigs Fly?

CPHI

Center for Public Health Initiatives

CPI

Cost Per Impression

CPM

Cost Per Mile

CPNP

College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists

CPO

Certified Prosthetist-Orthotist

CPOS

Formerly Country Planning Officers Society (now planning officers society)

CPP

critical process parameter

CPPA

Center for Public Policy & Administration (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

CPS

1. Certified Prevention Specialist.
2. Cycles Per Second, Archaic expression SeeHertz per second.

CPSC

Consumer Product Safety Commission (USA)

CPT

1. Confederation Of Passenger Transport UK (formerly bus and coach council).
2. carriage paid to.

CQD

Come Quick Danger

CQO

Chief Quality Officer.

1. Costa Rica.
2. Change Request.

CR-LDP

Constraint-based Routing Label Distribution Protocol

CRA

Central Registration Administrator

CRABI

Child Restraint & Airbag Interaction (task force)

CRADA

cooperative research and development agreement

CRAFT

Cant Remember A****ing Thing

Craniol

craniology

Craniom

craniometry

CRASH

Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (USA)

CRC

1. clinical research coordinator.
2. Committee on the Rights of Child.

CRDF

Coarse refuse derived fuel (as opposed to densified rdf)

CREED

Collaborative research in the economics of environment & development

CREST

1. Citizens Radio Emergency Service Teams.
2. Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology.

CRF

1. case report form.
2. corticotrophin-releasing factor.
3. Child Restraint Fixture.

CRH

Adrenocorticotropic hormone releasing hormone

CRI

Capital Receipts Initiative

Crim

criminal

Crim.Law

criminal law

Crit

1. critical.
2. criticism.

Crit.

(in titles) criticism, critical

CRM

1. Customer Relationship Management.
2. Customer Relationship Model.

CRN

Crime Reference Number

CRNR

Center for Really Neat Research

CROSS

Comprehensive Road Surrounding Simulation

CRP

1. Conservation Reserve Program.
2. Corpus Christi Airport Code. Texas,USA.
3. Co-operative Research Program.

CRPG

Character (or computer) Role Playing Game

CRRI

1. Central Road Research Institute (India).
2. Complimentary Rotary regular internship.

CRS

Child Restraint System

Crts

courts

Cryptogr

cryptography

Cryst.

in Crystallography

Crystallogr

crystallography

1. Cop Shop (policestation).
2. Customer Service.
3. Central Secretariat (ISO).

CSA

1. Canadian Standards Association.
2. Chemical Safety Assessment.

CSC

Complex Stative Construction

CSCE

Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe

CSCM

Collaborative Supply Chain Management

CSDD

Road Traffic Safety Directorate (Latvia)

CSDI

1. Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior.
2. Comparative Survey Design and Implementation.

CSE

1. Comparison Shopping Engine.
2. Custom Search Engine (Google).

CSERGE

Centre for Social & Economic Research on the Global Environment

CSFTE

Civil Service Full Time Equivalent

CSHS

1. Canadian Society for Horticultural Science.
2. Canadian Society for Hydrological Sciences.

CSIS

Centre for Strategic and International Studies

CSISS

Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems

CSNI

Czech Standards Institute

CSO

Car Seat Only (child restraints)

CSR

1. cell switching router.
2. Corporate Social Responsibility.
3. Chemical Safety Report (under reach).

CSRS

Child Safety Restraints System

CSS

Cascading Style Sheet

CSY

Cant Stop Yawning

1. Computed Tomography.
2. Current Transformer.
3. ( ct ) - Cent
4. ( Ct ) - count.
2. ( Ct ) - court

CTA

1. Commercial Trailers Association.
2. Community Transport Association.

CTP

Composite Test Procedure

CTR

Click Through Rate

CTRL

Channel Tunnel Rail Link

CTSN

Center for Translational Social Neuroscience

CTTD

Cute Things They Do

CTTS

Cute Things They Say

1. see you.
2. Cracking Up.
3. Cuba.

CUDO

Common University Data Ontario

CUL

1. see you Later.
2. Catch You Later (Goodbye).

CUL8R

see(C) yoU LateR (L8R)

CUL8TR

see(C) yoU LaTeR (L8TR)

Cumb

Cumberland

Cumberld

Cumberland

Cumbld

Cumberland

CUNA

Italian Standards Organisation

CURB

Communities Using Resources Better

CURS

Computerised Vehicle and Routing Scheduling Systems

CUSA

Connection and Use of System Agreement

CutS

Cutting Simulation

1. Cape Verde.
2. Compressed Video.
3. Calorific Value.
4. Commercial Vehicle.

CVBB

Commercial Vehicle Bodybuilders Section

CVMS

Commercial Vehicle Manufacturers Section

CVP

Canada VigilanceProgram

CVRA

Commercial Vehicle Racking Association

CVSA

Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (USA)

1. Working Capital.
2. Curb Weight.
3. continuous wave signal mode.

CWA

Cen Workshop Agreement

CWRC

1. Center for Womens Reproductive Care (Columbia University).
2. Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre (London).

CWWG

Crashworthiness Working Group

CWYL

Chat With You Later

Christmas Island

Cyprus

Cycl

cyclopaedia

Cycl.

(in titles) Cyclopaedia, -ic

CYL

see(C) You Later

Cytol

cytology, cytological

Cytol.

(in titles) Cytology, -ical

Czech Republic

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