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CONTROL-C

Specialty Definition: CONTROL-C

DomainDefinition

Computing

Control-C vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program. Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD Unix hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!". Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CONTROL-C

Specialty definitions using "CONTROL-C": End Of Text. (references)

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Anagrams: CONTROL-C

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-l-n-o-o-r-t"

-1 letter: control.

-2 letters: croton.

-3 letters: cloot, colon, color, conto, croon.

-4 letters: clon, clot, coco, colt, cool, coon, coot, corn, croc, loco, loon, loot, lorn, nolo, onto, root, rotl, roto, tool, toon, torc, torn, toro.

-5 letters: col, con, coo, cor, cot, loo, lot, noo, nor, not, oot, orc, ort, roc, rot, ton, too, tor.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-l-n-o-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: cyclotron.

 

+2 letters: cyclotrons.

 

+3 letters: conciliator, neocortical.

 

+4 letters: conciliators, conciliatory, concordantly, conductorial, correctional, electrotonic, enterococcal, enterocoelic, motorcycling, noncollector, recollection.

 

+5 letters: conglomeratic, contractional, electrocution, isoelectronic, noncollectors, nonelectronic, polycistronic, recollections.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CONTROL-C


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 4E 54 52 4F 4C 2D 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001100 00101101 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#76 &#45 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004E 0054 0052 004F 004C 002D 0043

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374948545249461537

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