List of acronyms and initialisms
(Starting with "C")
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This list contains acronyms,
initialisms, and pseudo-blends.
For the purposes of this list:
- acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g.,
SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome
- initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc
- pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or
portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
- (a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- (i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc
- (p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
- (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)
WPA Wyoming Pipeline Authority, http://www.wyopipeline.com/
C
C0-9
- C2 or C² - (i) Command and Control
- c2c - (s) the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
- C2C - (p) Consumer-To-Consumer electronic commerce - Cam-To-Cam internet chat
- C2D or C²D - (i) Intel Core 2 Duo - CERDEC Command and Control Directorate
- C2IEDM or C²IEDM - (i) Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model
- C2IS or C²IS - (i) Command and Control Information System
- C2PC or C²PC - (i) Command and Control Personal Computer
- C2V or C²V - (i) Command and Control Vehicle
- C2W or C²W - (i) Command and Control Warfare
- C3 or C³ - (i) Colorectal Cancer Condition - Command, Control, and Communications
- C3I or C³I - (i) Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
- C4 or C⁴ - (i) Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
- C4I or C⁴I - (i) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
- C4ISR or C⁴ISR - (i) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
CA
- ca - (s) Catalan language (ISO 639-1 code)
- Ca - (s) Calcium
- CA - (s) California (postal symbol) - Canada (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) - Catalonia - (i) Civil Affairs - Close Armour - Cocaine Anonymous - Computer Associates - Counter-Air
- CAA - (i) Canadian Automobile Association - (NORAD) Center for Aerospace Analysis - (U.S.) Center for Army Analysis - (U.S.) Clean Air Act - (U.S. Army) Concepts Analysis Agency - Civil Aviation Authority - Colonial Athletic Association
- CAAT - (i) or (a) Campaign Against Arms Trade - Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
- CAC - (i) California Association of Criminalists - Chronic Asymptomatic [Disease] Carrier
- CACM (i) Central American Common Market
- CACM - (i) Communications of the ACM
- CAD - (s) Canadian dollar (ISO 4217 currency code) - (a) Computer-Aided Design - Computer-Aided Dispatch
- CADCAM - (a) Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing
- CADPAT - (p) CAnadian Disruptive PATtern
- CADMID - (a) Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In service, Disposal (life cycle mnemonic)
- CAE - (i) Canadian Aviation Electronics (originally) - Certificate in Advanced English
- CAEn - (i/a) Close Action Engagement (constructive simulation)
- CAF - (s) Central African Republic (ISO 3166 trigram) - (i) Confederation of African Football (or French Confédération Africaine de Football)
- CAFAD - (a) Combined Arms For Air Defence
- CAFDE - (a) Canadian Association of Film Distributors and Exporters - Computer Aided Federation Development Environment
- CAFE - (a) Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard
- CAI - (i) Computer Assisted Instruction
- CAIR - (i) Council on American-Islamic Relations
- CALABARZON - (p) A region in the Philippines: CAvite, LAguna, BAtangas, Rizal, queZON
- CALL - (a) (U.S.) Center for Army Lessons Learned
- CALM - (p) Communications, Air-interface, Long and Medium range
- CalPERS – (p) California Public Employees' Retirement System
- CAM - (a) Chemical Agent Monitor - Computer-Aided Manufacturing
- CAMRA - (p) CAMpaign for Real Ale
- CAN - (s) Canada (ISO 3166 trigram)
- CANA - (a) Convulsive Antidote, Nerve Agent
- CANDU - (p) CANada Deuterium Uranium (nuclear reactor design)
- Canola - (p) Canadian oil, low acid (referring to a specific cultivar of rapeseed bred to have a low erucic acid content)
- CAP - (i) Combat Air Patrol - Civil Air Patrol - Common [Operating/Operational] Air Picture - Crisis Action Procedures - Common Agricultural Policy
- CAPES - (p) CAPability Evaluation System - (a) Combined Arms Planning and Execution System
- CARE - (p) Community database on Accidents on the Roads in Europe - (a) Cooperative for Aid and Relief Everywhere (originally Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe)
- CARMONETTE - (p) Computerized Monte Carlo Simulation
- CARP - (a) Computed Air Release Point
- CART - (a) Championship Auto Racing Teams (now defunct)
- CAS - (i) Chemical Abstracts Service - Chief of the Air Staff - Close Air Support
- CASE - (a) Cellular ammunition storage equipment - Computer-Aided Software Engineering
- CASS - (a) Command Activated Sonobuoy System
- CASTFOREM - (p) Combined Arms and Support Task FORce Evaluation Model
- CASTOR - (a) Canadian Automatic Small Telescopes for Orbital Research
- cat - (s) Catalan language (ISO 639-2 code)
- CAT - (a) Community Acceptance Testing - Computer-Assisted (or Axial) Tomography
- CATK - (p) Counterattack
- CATS - (a) Computer Active Technology Suspension
- CATT - (a/i) Combined Arms Tactical Trainer
- CAV - (p) Cavalry
- CAVOK - (p) Ceiling And Visibility OK ("Kav-okay")
- CAW - (i) Canadian Auto Workers trade union
CB
CC
- CC - many, including carbon copy; see entry
- CCA - (i) Counter Command Activity
- CCC - (i) Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- CCCP - (i) Central Committee of the Communist Party - Cyrillic for SSSR (Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, Russian Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
- CCD - (i) Charge-Coupled Device - Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (Catechism)
- CCF - (i) Cartoon Cartoon Fridays
- CCG - (i) Canadian Coast Guard - Collectible Card Game
- CCH - (i) Computer-Controlled Hostile
- CCIF - (p) Comité consultatif international des communications téléphoniques à grande distance (French for International Telephone Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIT in 1956 to form the CCITT)
- CCII - (i) Command and Control Information Infrastructure - Community Capital Investment Initiative
- CCIR - (i) Comité consultatif international pour la radio (French for Consultative Committee on International Radio, became the ITU Radiocommunication Sector, ITU-R, in 1992) - Commander's Critical Information Requirements
- CCIT - (p) Comité consultatif international télégraphique (French for International Telegraph Consultative Committee, merged with the CCIF in 1956 to form the CCITT)
- CCITT - (p) Comité consultatif international téléphonique et télégraphique (French for International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, became the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, ITU-T, in 1992)
- CCK - (p) Cholecystokinin - (s) Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 trigram)
- CCM – (i) Canada Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd. (now split into two separate companies bearing the CCM name, one manufacturing bicycles and the other ice hockey equipment)
- CCOC - Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, Crosley Car Owners Club
- CCOP - (i) Coalition Common Operating/Operational Picture
- CCP - (i) Casualty Collection Point - Communications Checkpoint - Contingency Communications Package
- CCPA - (i) Consumer Credit Protection Act
- CCRAp - (p) Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance party
- CCRP - (i) Command and Control Research Program
- CCRTS - (i) Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium
- CCSCS - (a) Coordinadora de Centrales Sindicales del Cono Sur
- CCSCS - (i) Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
- CCSIL - (i) Command and Control Simulation Interface Language ("cecil")
- CCSK - (i) Cyclic Code Shift Keying
- CCT - (i) Current Commitments Team
- CCTT - (i) Close Combat Tactical Trainer
CD
CE
- ce - (s) Chechen language (ISO 639-1 code)
- Ce - (s) Cerium
- CE - many, including Christian/Common Era (cf. AD); see entry
- CEA - (i) Campaign Effectiveness Analysis
- CECOM - (p) U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command
- CEDEX – (p) Courrier d'Entreprise à Distribution EXceptionnelle (French, "Company Mail with Exceptional Distribution"; "exceptional" refers to the volume of mail)
- CEGEP - (i) Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel (French, "College of General and Vocational Education")
- CEI - (i) Competitive Enterprise Institute
- CENTCOM - (p) United States Central Command
- CENTO - (a) Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
- CENZUB - (p) Centre d'entraînement aux actions en zone urbaine (French, "Urban Operations Training Centre")
- CEO - (i) Chief Executive Officer
- CEP - (i) Circular Error Probable
- CEPT - (a/i) Conférence européenne des administrations des postes et des télécommunications (French, "European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations")
- CERCLA - (a) U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund)
- CERDEC - U.S. Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
- CERGA - (a) Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie (French, "Astrometry and Geodynamics Research Centre")
- CERN - (a) Centre européen pour la recherche nucléaire (French, "European Organization for Nuclear Research")
- CERT - (a) Computer Emergency Response Team
- ces - (s) Czech language (ISO 639-2 code)
- CESS - (i) Centre for Earth Science Studies (India)
- CEV - (i) Combat Engineer Vehicle - Crew Exploration Vehicle
- CEWC - (a/i) Council for Education in World Citizenship
CF
CG
CH
CI
CJ
CK
CL
CM
CN
- Cn - (i) Canadian National (railway) - (s) China (ISO 3166 digram) - Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- CNA - (i) Center for Naval Analyses - Certified Network Administrator - Computer Network Attack
- CND - (i) Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Computer Network Defence
- CNE - (i) Canadian National Exhibition - Computer Network Exploitation - Certified Network Engineer
- CNI - (i) Communications, Navigation and Identification
- CNI - (a) Clinical Nursing Intern
- CNN - (i) Cable News Network - Cellular Nonlinear Network
- CNO - (i) Computer Network Operations
- CNR - (i) Canadian National Railway - Combat Net Radio
- CNV - (i) Copy-Number Variable (genetics)
- CNY - (s) Chinese yuan renminbi (ISO 4217 currency code)
CO
CP
CQ
CR
CS
CT
CU
CV
CW
CX
CY
CZ
Published - December 2008
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