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spillover | c |

As a noun spillover

is that which overflows; the excess or side effect.

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.

spillover

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
    • The spillover from the dam due to the heavy rains will run down this channel and harmlessly dump into that river, we hope.
    The spillover from this war will be many little massacres of civilians by civilians.
  • The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.

    • See also

    * zoonosis

    Anagrams

    *

    c

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=b, next=d, image= (wikipedia c)

    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 ----