court of law
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~ a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws
course of lectures
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~ a series of lectures dealing with a subject
court of appeals
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~ a court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies
course of action
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~ a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place"
coefficient of expansion
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~ the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure
coefficient of drag
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~ the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body
code of behavior
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~ a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group
coat of arms
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~ the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
coefficient of concordance
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~ a coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things
coefficient of absorption
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~ a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber; "absorptance equals 1 minus transmittance"
code of conduct
— Navneord
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~ a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group
coefficient of mutual induction
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~ a measure of the induction between two circuits; the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of current in a neighboring circuit; usually measured in henries
coefficient of correlation
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~ a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation); "what is the correlation between those two variables?"
coefficient of elasticity
— Navneord
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~ (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body
coat of mail
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~ armor that protects the wearer's whole body
coefficient of friction
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~ the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surface
community of interests
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~ agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
Commonwealth of Nations
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~ an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown
Commonwealth of Australia
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~ a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony