cc (pluralccsorcc's)
- Initialism ofcarbon copy.
- Alternative form:CC
I had meant tocc you on this earlier. Please reply by next Thursday. Thanks.
- Initialism ofcourtesy copy.
- Alternative form:CC
- Initialism ofclosed caption orclosed captioning.
- Alternative form:CC
- Initialism ofcubic centimeter.
- Alternative forms:cc.,c.c.
- Synonyms:(preferred)cm³,mL
This plastic syringe delivers onecc of medicine to the mouth of the animal. The medicine is peanut-flavored.
2025 August, “The International System of Units (SI)”, inBureau International des Poids et Mesures[1], archived fromthe original on17 September 2025, page147:It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm2 or square millimetre),cc (for either cm3 or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).
- cc for "cubic centimeter" is language-dependent, and is not approved by theBIPM. It is alsodeprecated by several standards organizations in the health care profession. The symbolscm³ ormL should be used instead.
cc pl (plural only)
- Abbreviation ofchapters.
cc (third-person singular simple presentcc's,present participlecc'ing,simple past and past participlecc'dorcc'edorcc:d)
- (Internet, transitive)Initialism ofcarbon copy(“to add an additional recipient to the CC line of an e-mail message”).
- Synonyms:carbon copy,copy
2012, Doug Fine, quoting Colleen Brand,Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution[2], Penguin,→ISBN:Pleasecc me so I stay on top of any situations that might come up & I can be sure we get you answers right away.
2014, Alexandra Samuel,Work Smarter, Rule Your Email[3], Harvard Business Review Press,→ISBN:For messages I'mcc'd on by people within my company, with the exception of a handful of senior execs (including my direct supervisor), whose cc's continue to go to my primary inbox.
- (video games, transitive)Initialism ofcrowd control.
Justcc him, bro.
cc
- (text messaging, Internet)abbreviation ofcoucou
cc (upper caseCc)
- A letter of the practicalHadza alphabet.
FromProto-Berber*ăččəʔ, from Pre-Proto-Berber*ătyəʔ.
CompareCentral Atlas Tamazightⵞⵞ(čč,“to eat”),Tashelhitcc(“to eat”),Kabyleečč(“to eat”),Northern Saharan Berberecc(“to eat”),Ghadamesăšš(“to eat”),Zenagaätʸši(“to eat”).
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cc (Tifinagh spellingⵛⵛ)
- (transitive) toeat
- (transitive) toconsume
- (transitive) todevour, togorge
- (transitive) toconfiscate, tousurp
- (transitive) tospend, tosquander
- (transitive) toprick(insect)
- (transitive) toitch(part of body)
- (transitive) toburn, toravage(fire)
- (transitive) tocorrode
- (transitive) to behairy, to beshaggy
FromProto-Berber*ăččəʔ(“to eat”), from earlier*ătyəʔ(“to eat”), ultimately fromProto-Afroasiatic*tVʔ(“to eat”).
CompareZenagaätʸši(“to eat”),Central Atlas Tamazightⵛⵛ(cc,“to eat”),Tarifitcc(“to eat”),Kabyleečč(“to eat”),Northern Saharan Berberecc(“to eat”),Ghadamesăšš(“to eat”),Fogahaékk,ékjkj(“to eat”),Tetserretetš(“to eat”),Tuaregekc(“to eat”),Proto-Semitic :Akkadian𒋫𒀪𒌑(ta-ʾu-u₂/taʾu/,“to eat”), andSoqotri[script needed](teʔ,“to eat”).
cc (intensive aoristctta,preteritecciorcca,verbal nounamtcuortimtcit,Tifinagh spellingⵛⵛ,Arabic spellingشّ)
- toeat
- Stroomer, Harry (2025),Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik;188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill,→DOI,→ISBN, page2168b
