| Sounds | siy' | |
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| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | Ten more than ninety. | |
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| Synonyms | hundred, one hundred, 100 | |
| Broader | cardinal | Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order |
| Spanish | 100, C, cien, ciento | |
| Catalan | 100, C, cent, centena | |
| Meaning | A degree on the centigrade scale of temperature. | |
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| Synonyms | degree centigrade, degree Celsius | |
| Narrower | standard temperature | exactly zero degrees centigrade |
| Broader | degree | A unit of temperature on a specified scale |
| Spanish | C, grado Celsius, grado centígrado | |
| Catalan | C, grau Celsius, grau centígrad | |
| Meaning | The speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second. | |
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| Synonyms | speed of light, light speed | |
| Broader | constant | A number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context |
| speed, velocity | distance travelled per unit time | |
| Spanish | velocidad de la luz | |
| Catalan | velocitat de la llum | |
| Meaning | A vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy. | |
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| Synonyms | vitamin C, ascorbic acid | |
| Broader | antioxidant | Substance that inhibits oxidation or inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen or peroxides |
| water-soluble vitamin | Any vitamin that is soluble in water | |
| Spanish | ácido ascórbico, vitamina C | |
| Catalan | àcid ascòrbic, vitamina C | |
| Meaning | One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose). | |
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| Synonym | deoxycytidine monophosphate | |
| Broader | nucleotide, base | A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside |
| Spanish | monofosfato desoxicitidina | |
| Catalan | monofosfat de desoxicitidina | |
| Meaning | A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | cytosine | |
| Broader | pyrimidine | Any of several basic compounds derived from pyrimidine |
| Substance of | deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA | (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix |
| ribonucleic acid, RNA | (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes | |
| Spanish | citosina | |
| Catalan | citosina | |
| Meaning | Ten 10s. | |
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| Synonyms | hundred, 100, century, one C | |
| Broader | large integer | An integer equal to or greater than ten |
| Spanish | 100, centenar, cien, ciento, siglo | |
| Catalan | 100, centenar, cent, cien | |
| Meaning | A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second. | |
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| Synonyms | coulomb, ampere-second | |
| Part of | abcoulomb | A unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs |
| ampere-minute | A unit of charge equal to 60 coulombs | |
| Broader | charge unit, quantity unit | A measure of the quantity of electricity (determined by the amount of an electric current and the time for which it flows) |
| Spanish | coulomb, culombio | |
| Catalan | coulomb | |
| Meaning | A general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system. | |
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| Broader | programming language, programing language | (computer science) a language designed for programming computers |
| Spanish | c, C | |
| Catalan | c | |
| Meaning | (music) the keynote of the scale of C major. | |
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| Category | music | An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
| Broader | tonic, keynote | (music) the first note of a diatonic scale |
| Meaning | The 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet. | |
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| Member of | Roman alphabet, Latin alphabet | The alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe |
| Broader | letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character | The conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech |
| Spanish | C | |
| Catalan | c | |
| Meaning | street names for cocaine. | |
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| Synonyms | coke, blow, nose candy, snow | |
| Broader | cocaine, cocain | A narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves |
| Spanish | blow, caramelo, C, coca, nieve | |
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