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investment | c |

As a noun investment

is the act of investing, or state of being invested.

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.

investment

English

(wikipedia investment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of investing, or state of being invested.
  • (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use.
  • * A. Hamilton
    • An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
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  • That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Whose white investments figure innocence.
  • (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
  • * Marshall
    • The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its investments .
  • A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the form used for casting, among other metals, bronze.

    • 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

    {{Letter, page=C , NATO=Charlie , Morse=–·–· , Character=C3 , Braille=? }} 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 ----