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attestation | c |

As a noun attestation

is a thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, authenticate, validation, verification, documentation.

As a letter c is

the third letter of the.

As a numeral c is

cardinal number one hundred (100).

As a symbol c is

carbon.

attestation

English

Noun

(Attested language) (en noun)
  • A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, authenticate, validation, verification, documentation.
  • A confirmation or authentication.
  • (business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization.
  • (linguistics, of a language or word) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
  • * 1997 , Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change , page 23,
  • So something must have been developing over long periods empty of attestation ; and whatever it was, it must (by principles to be discussed in the next section) have been a language of the usual kind.
  • * 2009 , Ingo Plag, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe, Mareile Schramm, Introduction to English Linguistics , page 110,
  • For each word, the date of its first attestation in the English language, as documented in the Oxford English Dictionary'', and its frequency of occurrence in the ''British National Corpus are given.
  • * 2010 , Kathryn Allan, Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: MATERIAL FOR OBJECT mappings in the OED'', Margaret E. Winters, Heli Tissari, Kathryn Allan (editors), ''Historical Cognitive Linguistics , page 176,
  • Furthermore, the first attestations' given in the ''OED'' are not always the earliest '''attestations''' in print; since the first edition was finished in 1928, many earlier and later examples have been identified, and these will be incorporated into the third edition, currently underway (see Durkin 2002 for a discussion of how much this is likely to change the dates of '''attestation in the ''OED as a whole).

    c

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Modification of upper case letter C, from Etruscan .

    Letter

  • The third letter of the .
  • Usage notes
    * Not to be confused with (the lunate sigma). * In many languages, the letter c represents both a “hard” ), based on the following letter. * In a number of languages, it is used only for the sound. * In many languages, it occurs frequently in the digraph with ch. * In some romanization systems of non-Latin scripts, it represents .
    See also
    (Latn-script) * Other scripts: , * Letters and symbols with similar shapes: (open O), * For more variations, see . * * (wikipedia "c")

    Symbol

    (Voiceless palatal plosive) (head)
  • voiceless palatal plosive.
  • Etymology 2

    Lower case form of upper case roman numeral C, a standardization of ), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.

    Alternative forms

    * C,

    Numeral

  • cardinal number one hundred (100).
  • Usage notes
    With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as c, it represents one hundred thousand.
    Derived terms
    * English: c-note
    See also
    * Lesser roman numeral symbol: * Greater roman numeral symbol: *

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Symbol

    (head)
  • (label) The speed of light, 2.99792458 × 108 m/s.
  • (label) The space of convergent sequences
  • See also

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