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CC or cc may refer to:
  • Cubic centimetre
    Cubic centimetre
    A cubic centimetre is a commonly used unit of volume extending the derived SI-unit cubic metre, and corresponds to the volume of a cube measuring 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm...

    , a unit of volume often associated with engine displacement
    Engine displacement
    Engine displacement is the volume swept by all the pistons inside the cylinders of an internal combustion engine in a single movement from top dead centre to bottom dead centre . It is commonly specified in cubic centimeters , litres , or cubic inches...


Organizations and companies

  • Creative Commons
    Creative Commons
    Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...

    , a non-profit organization in the field of copyright licensing
  • Comedy Central
    Comedy Central
    Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....

    , a TV channel with comedy TV shows like South Park, and Tosh.0
  • CC Media Holdings, holding company of Clear Channel Communications, an American media company
  • Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad
    Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad
    The Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad was a Class II railroad operating on the former Illinois Central Railroad mainline between Chicago, Illinois, Albert Lea, Minnesota, Omaha, Nebraska, and Sioux City, Iowa. The railroad was formed as a spinoff from the IC, with operations beginning on...

    , a railroad with reporting mark CC
  • Circuit City, an American electronics retailer whose former NYSE ticker symbol was CC
  • Coburger Convent
    Coburger Convent
    The Coburger Convent der akademischen Landsmannschaften und Turnerschaften is an association of 100 German and Austrian Studentenverbindungen, all of which are based on the principle of tolerance...

    , a German and Austrian student organization
  • Command and control, the exercise of authority by a commanding officer over military forces in the accomplishment of a mission
  • Current Contents
    Current Contents
    Current Contents is a rapid alerting service database from the Institute for Scientific Information, now part of Thomson Reuters, that is published online and in several different printed subject sections.-History:...

    , a rapid alerting service database from the Institute of Scientific Information
  • Air Atlanta Icelandic
    Air Atlanta Icelandic
    Air Atlanta Icelandic is a charter and cargo airline based in Kópavogur, Iceland. It specialises in leasing aircraft on an ACMI /wet lease basis to airlines worldwide needing extra passenger and cargo capacity. It also operates charter services for Icelandic tour operators...

    , an Icelandic airline with IATA airline designator CC
  • MacAir Airlines
    Macair Airlines
    MacAir Airlines Pty Ltd was a regional airline based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It operated scheduled passenger services throughout Queensland from major regional locations, as well as regular and ad hoc charters for the minerals industry in Queensland...

    , an Australian airline with IATA airline designator CC
  • Cablecom
    Cablecom
    UPC Cablecom Holdings GmbH, trading exclusively under the brand name upc cablecom, is the largest broadband cable operator in Switzerland. Founded 1994 through multiple mergers between smaller companies, it is part of Liberty Global Europe's UPC Broadband division since the end of 2005.Cablecom...

    , the largest broadband cable operator in Switzerland
  • Casual Collective, a browser-based gaming website
  • College Confidential (company), a college admissions counseling company
  • Companions of the Cross
    Companions of the Cross
    The Companions of the Cross is a Society of Apostolic Life based in Ottawa, Ontario. It is a community of Roman Catholic priests, which is Eucharistic, Charismatic, Marian and Magisterial...

    , a community of Catholic priests
  • Catholic Church
  • Central Catholic
    Central Catholic High School (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
    Central Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic college preparatory school for boys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a part of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and is administrated and partially staffed by the Brothers of the Christian Schools....

    , a high school
    High school
    High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

     in Pittsburgh, PA
  • Canada Council
    Canada Council
    The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...


Music groups

  • Cannibal Corpse
    Cannibal Corpse
    Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released eleven studio albums, one box set, and one live album...

    , an American death metal band from Buffalo, abbreviated as CC
  • Ceremonial Castings
    Ceremonial Castings
    Ceremonial Castings are an American black metal band from Washington. They describe themselves as "American Deathphonic Black metal", but predominantly play symphonic black metal with prominent use of keyboards and some death metal influences. To date, their most notable live performance has been...

    , an American black metal band from Washington, abbreviated as CC
  • Cephalic Carnage
    Cephalic Carnage
    Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos...

    , an American heavy metal band from New York, abbreviated as CC
  • Cavalera Conspiracy
    Cavalera Conspiracy
    Cavalera Conspiracy is a Brazilian heavy metal band founded by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera , along with American guitarist and bassist Marc Rizzo and Johny Chow. The band originally formed in 2007 as Inflikted but changed its name for legal reasons...

    , a Brazilian-American heavy metal supergroup
  • Coal Chamber
    Coal Chamber
    Coal Chamber is an American alternative metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1993. Prior to Coal Chamber, Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascón formed the band She's In Pain in 1992. The two decided to create Coal Chamber. They disbanded in 2003 after ten years together, but announced a reunion in...

    , an American heavy metal band
  • Counting Crows
    Counting Crows
    Counting Crows is an American rock band originating from Berkeley, California. Formed in 1991, the group gained popularity following the release of its debut album in 1993, August and Everything After, which featured the hit single "Mr. Jones"...

    , an American rock band
  • Crystal Castles
    Crystal Castles (band)
    Crystal Castles are an experimental electronic band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, consisting of producer Ethan Kath and lyricist and vocalist Alice Glass. Crystal Castles are known for their chaotic live shows and their lo-fi home productions. The duo released many limited EPs between 2006 and...

    , a Canadian electronic duo
  • Denise Ho
    Denise Ho
    Denise Ho Wan-See, also known as HOCC, is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer.-1996-2001:Denise Ho was born in Hong Kong and received her education in Canada and Diocesan Girls' Junior School, Hong Kong. She emigrated with her family to Montreal, Quebec at the age of 11. She studied and graduated High...

     Wan-See, also known as HOCC, CC and Goo, is a Hong Kong cantopop singer

Songs

  • "Complete Control
    Complete Control
    "Complete Control" is a song by The Clash, released as a 7" single and featured on the U.S. release of their debut album.The song is often cited as one of punk's greatest singles, and is a fiery polemic on record companies, managers and the state of punk music itself, the motivation for the song...

    ", a song by English punk band The Clash
  • "Chasing Cars
    Chasing Cars
    "Chasing Cars" is the second single from Snow Patrol's fourth album, Eyes Open. It was recorded in 2005 and released on 6 June 2006 in the US and 24 July 2006 in the UK as the album's second single....

    ", a song by the Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol

Sports

  • Chicago Cubs
    Chicago Cubs
    The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...

  • Cleveland Cavaliers
    Cleveland Cavaliers
    The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expansion team...

  • Cross country running
    Cross country running
    Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

    , a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain

People

  • C.C. DeVille, American rock musician
  • CC Sabathia, American professional baseball player
  • Charles Cavilla
    Charles Cavilla
    Charles Cavilla, of Lethbridge, Alberta, was leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada from the convention at Ottawa in October 1991 until March 1993. A difference of vision on leadership between Cavilla and the party board resulted in the transfer of leadership on an interim basis to...

    , a retired Canadian politician
  • Carl Crawford
    Carl Crawford
    Carl Demonte Crawford is an American professional baseball outfielder who plays for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed...

    , American professional baseball player
  • Mirko Cro Cop, Croatian Mixed Martial Arts Fighter and Kick Boxer

Technology

  • .cc
    .cc
    .cc is the Internet country code top-level domain for Cocos Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by VeriSign through a subsidiary company eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com"; .cc was originally assigned in October 1997 to eNIC Corporation of...

    , the Internet country code top-level domain for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory
  • Carbon copy
    Carbon copy
    Carbon copying, abbreviated cc or c.c., is the technique of using carbon paper to produce one or more copies simultaneously during the creation of paper documents...

    , or courtesy copy, in the context of letter or email-writing
  • Common Criteria
    Common Criteria
    The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation is an international standard for computer security certification...

    , an international standard (ISO 15408) for computer security
  • Compiler-compiler
    Compiler-compiler
    A compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of formal description of a language and machine...

    , or parser generator, on Unix based operating systems
  • Country code
    Country code
    Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...

    , in data processing and communications
  • Compact Cassette
    Compact Cassette
    The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

    , an audio tape format popular in the 70s through 90s
  • Cloud computing
    Cloud computing
    Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

    , a network concept
  • Controller commands, data sent in a MIDI
    Musical Instrument Digital Interface
    MIDI is an industry-standard protocol, first defined in 1982 by Gordon Hall, that enables electronic musical instruments , computers and other electronic equipment to communicate and synchronize with each other...

     stream to the MIDI controller
  • cc, or C
    C (programming language)
    C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

     compiler
  • 0xCC, the opcode
    Opcode
    In computer science engineering, an opcode is the portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed. Their specification and format are laid out in the instruction set architecture of the processor in question...

     for the INT 3 instruction used by debugger
    Debugger
    A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program that is used to test and debug other programs . The code to be examined might alternatively be running on an instruction set simulator , a technique that allows great power in its ability to halt when specific conditions are encountered but which...

    s to temporarily replace an instruction in a running program to set a breakpoint

Products

  • CC's
    CC's
    CC's is a brand of flavored tortilla chips created by Snack Foods Limited and produced since the early 1980s by the Australian food company Snack Brands Australia . CC's are predominantly sold in Australia and come in assorted flavors...

    , a tortilla chip brand in Australia
  • C.C. Lemon
    C.C. Lemon
    C.C. Lemon is a Japanese soft drink created by Suntory. It is known for its lemon flavor and for its advertisements featuring characters from the popular American cartoon The Simpsons.-Sizes:...

    , a Japanese soft drink
  • Canadian Club
    Canadian Club
    Canadian Club is a brand of whisky from Canada. Popularly known as C.C., Canadian Club began production in 1858. It was established by Hiram Walker, and was known as Walker’s Club Whiskey. The brand is now produced by Beam Inc..-History:...

    , a brand of whisky
  • Clean & Clear
    Clean & Clear
    Clean & Clear is a line of dermatology products owned by Johnson & Johnson.The brand was originally developed by Revlon as a line of sensitive skin personal care items in 1957. The "Clean & Clear" name was based on products that contained no fragrance or dyes, and left no residue after rinsing. The...

    , line of dermatology products
  • Coupé cabriolet, or coupé convertible, a type of car with a retractable rigid roof
  • Volkswagen CC, a Volkswagen model

Video games

  • Castle Crashers
    Castle Crashers
    Castle Crashers is a beat 'em up console video game independently developed by The Behemoth and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It features music created by members of Newgrounds. The Xbox 360 version was released on August 27, 2008 via Xbox Live Arcade as part of the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade...

    , a 2008 action-RPG downloadable title on the Xbox Live Arcade
  • Casual Collective, a gaming website
  • Chip's Challenge
    Chip's Challenge
    Chip's Challenge is a tile-based, puzzle video game for several systems, including the hand-held Atari Lynx, Amiga, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, DOS, and Windows . It has also been ported to the TI-84+ calculator and the TI-89 Titanium...

    , a 1989 multiplatform puzzle game
  • Chrono Cross
    Chrono Cross
    is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console. It is the sequel to Chrono Trigger, which was released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System...

    , a video game in the Chrono series
  • Cloning Clyde
    Cloning Clyde
    Cloning Clyde is a side-scroller platform computer game developed by NinjaBee. Cloning Clyde was released on July 19, 2006 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade and March 15, 2011 for Microsoft Windows...

    , a 2006 side-scrolling platformer title on the Xbox Live Arcade
  • Command & Conquer
    Command & Conquer
    Command & Conquer, abbreviated to C&C and also known as Tiberian Dawn, is a 1995 real-time strategy computer game developed by Westwood Studios for MS-DOS and published by Virgin Interactive. It was the first of twelve games to date to be released under the Command & Conquer label, including a...

    , a series of real-time strategy games and the first game in the series

Places

  • Cape Canaveral
    Cape Canaveral
    Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a headland in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast. Known as Cape Kennedy from 1963 to 1973, it lies east of Merritt Island, separated from it by the Banana River.It is part of a region known as the...

    , Florida airforce base where space shuttles are launched
  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    Cocos (Keeling) Islands
    The Territory of the Cocos Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka....

    , an Australian territory, ISO 3166 code CC
  • Columbia College, Columbia University, an Ivy League university in the city of New York.

Other uses

  • Cubic centimetre
    Cubic centimetre
    A cubic centimetre is a commonly used unit of volume extending the derived SI-unit cubic metre, and corresponds to the volume of a cube measuring 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm...

    , a commonly used unit of volume
  • Credit Card
    Credit card
    A credit card is a small plastic card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services...

    , Credit card
  • Companion of the Order of Canada, a Canadian honour
  • Central Committee
    Central Committee
    Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the twentieth century and of the surviving, mostly Trotskyist, states in the early twenty first. In such party organizations the...

    , the central executive unit of a Communist party
  • CC (cat)
    CC (cat)
    CC, for "CopyCat" or "Carbon Copy" , is a brown tabby and white domestic shorthair and the first cloned pet. CC's surrogate mother was a tabby, but her genetic donor, Rainbow, was a calico domestic shorthair...

    , also known as CopyCat, the first genetically cloned pet
  • C.C. (Code Geass)
    C.C. (Code Geass)
    is a fictional character and the tritagonist in the Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion anime series by Sunrise. C.C. is not her real name; she involuntarily reveals her real name to Lelouch in her sleep, but it is muted so the viewer cannot hear it. Her seiyū is Yukana while she is voiced by...

    , a character in the Code Geass anime series
  • C-C, a locomotive classification; see AAR wheel arrangement
    AAR wheel arrangement
    The AAR wheel arrangement system is a method of classifying locomotive wheel arrangements that was developed by the Association of American Railroads. It is essentially a simplification of the European UIC classification, and it is widely used in North America to describe diesel and electric...

  • Capsule Corporation, a fictional technology company in the Dragonball franchise
  • Carson City Mint
    Carson City Mint
    The Carson City Mint was a branch of the United States Mint in Carson City, Nevada. Built at the peak of the silver boom, 50 issues of silver coins and 57 issues of gold coins minted here between 1870 and 1893 bore the "CC" mint mark...

    , a branch of the United States mint, mint mark CC
  • Closed captioning
    Closed captioning
    Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it...

    , a system to optionally display text on television screens
  • Colon classification
    Colon classification
    Colon classification is a system of library classification developed by S. R. Ranganathan. It was the first ever faceted classification. The first edition was published in 1933. Since then six more editions have been published...

    , a library classification scheme
  • Community of Christ
    Community of Christ
    The Community of Christ, known from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , is an American-based international Christian church established in April 1830 that claims as its mission "to proclaim Jesus Christ and promote communities of joy, hope, love, and peace"...

    , a religious denomination
  • Cover charge
    Cover charge
    At bars and nightclubs, or restaurants with live entertainment a flat fee for entry, sometimes known as a cover charge, is made, in addition to payment for food and drink...

    , fee for entry to nightclubs/bars
  • Consular corps
    Consular corps
    Consular corps is a concept analogous to diplomatic corps, but concerning the staff, estates and work of a consulate....

    , the staff of a consulate
  • Coupled cluster
    Coupled cluster
    Coupled cluster is a numerical technique used for describing many-body systems. Its most common use is as one of several quantum chemical post-Hartree–Fock ab initio quantum chemistry methods in the field of computational chemistry...

    , a numerical technique in computational chemistry
  • Chief complaint
    Chief complaint
    The Chief Complaint formally known as CC in the medical field, or termed Presenting Complaint in the UK, is a concise statement describing the symptom, problem, condition, diagnosis, physician recommended return, or other factor that is the reason for a medicalencounter...

    , a reference to a medical patient's condition
  • Credit card
    Credit card
    A credit card is a small plastic card issued to users as a system of payment. It allows its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services...

    , used for Credit Card
  • Criminal Code
    Criminal Code
    A criminal code is a document which compiles all, or a significant amount of, a particular jurisdiction's criminal law...

    , law code
  • Crowd control (MMORPG)
    Crowd control (MMORPG)
    Crowd control is a term used in massive multiplayer online role-playing games s to refer to the ability to limit the number of mobs actively fighting during an encounter. It can also refer to abilities that influence or prevent the abilities or actions of other character...

    , often used in MMORPGs to define controlling or altering opponents' movements
  • C.C. Celeste Cunningham, a minor character in 30 Rock
  • International Conference on Compiler Construction, an academic conference
  • Community currency, a currency not backed by a national government that is intended to trade only in a small area
  • Detroit Catholic Central High School
    Detroit Catholic Central High School
    Detroit Catholic Central High School is a private, Catholic, all-male, college preparatory high school in Novi, Michigan. Founded in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan by the Archdiocese of Detroit, the school is operated by the Congregation of St. Basil...

    , a private all-male high school in Novi, Michigan
  • Click Click, a reference to a pilot's acknowledgement of a transmission by keying his mike twice, as he is otherwise occupied.
  • Congestion Charge, charge levied on traffic entering a city, e.g. London UK

See also

  • CCC (disambiguation)
  • CeCe (disambiguation)
  • Corpus Christi (disambiguation)
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