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C. P. Sharp
C. or c. may refer to: * Century, sometimes abbreviated as ''c.'' or ''C.'', a period of 100 years * Letter C, the third letter in the alphabet. * Cent (currency), abbreviated ''c.'' or ''¢'', a monetary unit that equals of the basic unit of many currencies * Caius or Gaius, abbreviated as ''C.'', a common Latin praenomen *Circa, abbreviated as c. (or ca., circ., cca, and cc.) a Latin word meaning "about" or "around" * Abbreviation ''c.'' meaning "chapter" in legal citation * Prefix ''c''/''c.'' (and ''cc''/''cc.'') meaning "column(s)" as in-source-locator in old citations (example: "c130") See also * C (other) * * C, third letter of the English and Latin alphabets * Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), who sometimes used pen-name ''C.'', an English poet and philosopher {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Century
A century is a period of 100 years or 10 decades. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word ''century'' comes from the Latin ''centum'', meaning ''one hundred''. ''Century'' is sometimes abbreviated as c. A centennial or centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier. Start and end of centuries Although a century can mean any arbitrary period of 100 years, there are two viewpoints on the nature of standard centuries. One is based on strict construction, while the other is based on popular perception. According to the strict construction, the 1st century AD, which began with AD 1, ended with AD 100, and the 2nd century with AD 200; in this model, the ''n''-th century starts with a year that follows a year with a multiple of 100 (except the first century as it began after the year 1 BC) and ends with the next coming year with a multiple o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |