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c | po |
The third letter of the .
voiceless palatal plosive.
cardinal number one hundred (100).
(label) The speed of light, 2.99792458 × 108 m/s.
(label) The space of convergent sequences
Image:Latin C.png, Capital and lowercase versions of C , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter C.png, Uppercase and lowercase C in Fraktur
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(UK, Australia, NZ, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.
* 1988 , (Richard Hoggart), A Local Habitation, 1918-40 , Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0-7011-3305-8,
* 1989 , (Leonard Woolf), Frederic Spotts (editor), Letters of Leonard Woolf ,
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.As a verb po is
.As an interjection po is
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Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=b, next=d, image= (wikipedia c)Etymology 1
Modification of upper case letter C, from Etruscan .Letter
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)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
Usage notes
With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as c, it represents one hundred thousand.Derived terms
* English: c-noteSee also
* Lesser roman numeral symbol: * Greater roman numeral symbol: *Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Symbol
(head)See also
{{Letter, page=C , NATO=Charlie , Morse=–·–· , Character=C3 , Braille=? }}po
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)page 67,
- ‘Pos ’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.
page 86,
- There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.