| C |
Carbon; Capacitance/Capacitor |
| C-band | 4-6 GHz (3.7-4.2 downlink, 5.925-6.425 uplink) |
| C/N | Carrier to Noise ratio |
| C3 | Command, Control and Communicate |
| C4 | Controlled Collapse Component Connection |
| Ca | Calcium |
| CA | CIM Architecture |
| CAA | CIM Applications Architecture |
| CAB | Competitive Analysis Benchmarking |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design |
| CADT | Control Application Development tool |
| CAE | Computer-Aided Engineering |
| CAF | Controlled Ambient Facility; Cathotic Annodic Filaments |
| CAFM | Computer Aided Facilities Management |
| CAG | Competitive Analysis Group |
| CAGE | Commercial And Government Entity |
| CAI | Computer-Assisted Instruction |
| CAIBE | Chemically-Assisted Ion Beam Etching |
| CALS | Computer-Aided Logistics Support (Air Force Program) |
| CAM | Computer-Aided Manufacturing; Content Addressable Memory |
| CAPP | Computer Aided Process Planning |
| CAPS | Computer-Assisted Problem Solving |
| CAR | Computer-Aided Research; Computer-Aided Repair |
| CARRI | Computerized Assessment of Relative Risk Impacts |
| CASE | Computer-Aided Software Engineering; Computer-Aided Systems Engineering |
| CAT | Computer-Aided Testing; Conditional Access Table |
| CATV | Cable TV |
| CAW | Construction Analysis Workgroup |
| CAWC | Cryogenic Aerosol Wafer Cleaning |
| CB | Carbon Black; Conduction Band; Common Base configuration |
| CBA | Cell-Based Architecture |
| CBD | Convergent Beam Diffraction |
| CBE | Chemical Beam Epitaxy, aka MOMBE |
| CBED | Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction |
| CBGA | Ceramic Ball Grid Array |
| CBM | Conduction Band Minimum |
| CBS | Chemical Bottle Storage Area |
| CBT | Computer-Based Training |
| CC | Chip Carrier; Cluster Controller; Common Collector; Composite Capabilities |
| CCAPS | Circuit Assembly and Processing System |
| CCC | Ceramic Chip Carrier |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device; Configuration Coordinate Diagram |
| CCSA | China Communications Standards Association |
| CCSL | Compatible Current-Sinking Logic |
| CCW | Counter ClockWise |
| Cd | Cadmium |
| CD | Critical Dimension; Compact Disc |
| CDA | Copper Development Association; Clean Dry Air |
| CDB | Cell Delineation Block device |
| CDE | Chemical Downstream Etch |
| CDEM | Customer Delivery Enterprise Model |
| CDI | Collector-Diffusion Isolation |
| CDM | Common Device Model for SAB |
| CDMA | Code Division Multiple Access (handsets) |
| CDO | Controlled Decomposition/Oxidation |
| CD/OL | Critical Dimension Overlay |
| CDR | Chemical Distribution Room; Compact Disc Rewriteable/Recordable; CorelDraw image format; Clock and Data Recovery |
