C-bander
A person who uses a C-band television receive-only (TVRO) system for viewing television.
Terms starting with C
486 terms.
C-pillar
nounAutomotive
The vertical support dividing a car's rear window from its rear windscreen, or, if the car has an additional window and D-pillar, the support dividing the central and rear windows.
cab forward
nounRail equipment
a design of steam locomotive with the cab at the front, mainly built for the Southern Pacific Railroad, which at one time had a large fleet of oil-fired articulated locomotives.
cab signal
A device in the cab of a locomotive or train which displays the status of signals along the track.
cab signalling
nounRail equipment
A rail safety system installed in the driving cab of a train, which gives information to the train driver on track status and condition.
cab unit
nounRail equipment
A diesel or electric locomotive with a full-width body for its entire length.
cable
A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
cable core
Central part or the innermost part of a power cable which carries electric current and is surrounded by various layers of insulation.
cable joint
Connection between two power cables with proper insulation and mechanical protection.
cable needle
a type of knitting needle used to temporarily hold stitches, allowing them to be interchanged
CAD/CAM
nounManufacturing
The combination of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing.
CAFE
nounAutomotive
Acronym of Corporate Average Fuel Economy.
cage
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
cager
A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.
calandria
nounManufacturing
A heating element within a brew kettle.
calico
A kind of rough cloth made from unbleached and not fully processed cotton, often printed with a bright pattern.
California roll
A rolling stop (when a car slows down at a stop sign, but does not come to a complete stop).
caliper
nounAutomotive
The part of a disc brake that holds the brake pads.
call center
A communications facility where phone calls are handled; especially, a commercial one for customer service, sales and telemarketing.
call delay
The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.
call forwarding
A telephony feature which redirects a telephone call to another destination.
call history
An itemised list of the telephone numbers called from a particular account.
call tree
A hierarchical communication structure used to rapidly notify a group of people during emergencies or critical events.
calligraphic projection
A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping in raster order over the entire display surface.
camber angle
nounAutomotive
One of the angles made by the wheels of a vehicle; specifically, the angle between the vertical axis of a wheel and the vertical axis of the vehicle when viewed from the front or rear.
cambox
A metal "box" that houses cams, in the same manner that a gearbox houses gears.
camera roll
The collection of images and videos taken on a smartphone.
camo
nounManufacturing
A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
camouflage
nounManufacturing
A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
CAN
nounAutomotive
Abbreviation of controller area network.
canal boat
nounManufacturing
A long, narrow boat designed to travel on canals.
cancel
The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.
canch
An upper or lower portion of stone that is removed to form a gradient between workings.
candroy
A machine for spreading or winding out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
cannelé
nounManufacturing
A fabric woven so as to have this effect; a rep.
cannon box
A type of enclosure for axle bearings.
canon
A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
cant strip
nounConstruction
a beveled strip used under flashings to modify the angle at the point where the roofing or waterproofing membrane meets any vertical element.
cantilever
nounConstruction
A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
cap flashing
Flashing, usually composed of metal, used to cover or shield the upper edges of the membrane base flashing; wall flashing can also be used to cover the top of various building components, such as parapets or columns.
cap sheet
nounConstruction
A sheet, often granule-surfaced, used as the top ply of some roof membranes and/or flashings.
capacitor
An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by a dielectric.
capacitor plague
Premature failure of an electrolytic capacitor, especially when several are beginning to fail at the same time in a piece of equipment (due, for example, to high demands imposed by the circuit design, such as in a switchmode power supply), necessitating "re-capping" (i.e. replacing many capacitors after disconnecting the power and waiting for lethal charge to dissipate).
capel
A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
capstan
A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.
car
nounRail equipment
Any vehicle designed to run on rails, especially an unpowered one towed by being connected to others.
car battery
A 12-volt battery used to run the electric starter motor in order to ignite the internal combustion engine of an automobile, and power accessories when the engine is off and the alternator is not turning.
car body
nounRail equipment
The body of a rail vehicle called a car.
car door
nounRail equipment
A door designed for use on a car (whether a railway carriage or an automobile).
car glass
nounAutomotive
A windscreen, a side or rear window or glass panel roof on a vehicle.
car mile
nounRail equipment
A mile travelled by a single railway car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.
car mileage
nounRail equipment
The amount paid by one railroad for the use of cars of another railroad.
car part
nounAutomotive
A part that can be fitted to a car, often as a replacement for a worn-out or damaged part.
car platform
nounAutomotive
The shared structural and mechanical foundation on which multiple different car models are built.
car shed
nounRail equipment
A large building provided for the housing and maintenance of passenger cars or carriages (or coupled trains thereof).
car show
nounAutomotive
A typically annual or semiannual public event for exhibition of privately owned automobiles, especially classic cars.
car-sleeper
nounRail equipment
A sleeping car train which also includes vehicles for carrying passengers' motor cars.
card
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
card clash
The situation where two or more contactless payment cards are simultaneously detected by a card reader, possibly resulting in the incorrect card, or more than one card, being charged.
cardan shaft
A driveshaft with a universal joint at one or both ends.