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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter C.

An acronym is an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters; an initialism is an abbreviation whose pronunciation is wholly or partly the names of constituent letters; and a pseudo-blend is an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot be considered a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).

(a) = acronym in the example: SARS - (a) Severe acute respiratory syndrome
(i) = initialism in the example: CD - (i) Compact disc
(p) = pseudo-blend in the example: UNIFEM - (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women
(s) = symbol (none of the above, stands for and is read as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)

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  • C2 or C² - (i) Command and Control
  • c2c - (s) the British rail company formerly known as LTS Rail
  • C2C - (i) consumer-to-consumer electronic commerce - cam-to-cam internet chat
  • C2D or C²D - (i) CERDEC Command and Control Directorate
  • C2IEDM or C²IEDM - (i) Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model
  • C2IS or C²IS - (i) Command and Control Information System
  • C2PC or C²PC - (i) Command and Control Personal Computer
  • C2V or C²V - (i) Command and Control Vehicle
  • C2W or C²W - (i) Command and Control Warfare
  • C3 or C³ - (i) Command, Control, and Communications
  • C3I or C³I - (i) Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
  • C4 or C⁴ - (i) Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
  • C4I or C⁴I - (i) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence
  • C4ISR or C⁴ISR - (i) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance

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CM

  • Cm - (s) Curium
  • CM - (s) Cameroun (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) - (i) Cruise Missile
  • CMA - (i) U.S. Chemical Materials Agency
  • CMHC - (i) Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
  • CMJ - (i) Christopher Martin-Jenkins (BBC sports commentator)
  • CML - (p) Chemical - (i) Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (formerly Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
  • CMM - (i) Capability Maturity Model
  • CMMC - (i) Corps Materiel Management Centre
  • CMML - (i) Chronic MyeloMonocytic Leukemia
  • CMO - (i) Civil-Military Operations
  • CMOC - (i) Civil-Military Operations Centre
  • CMOS - (i) Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society - Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor
  • CMP - (i) Common [Operating/Operational] Maritime Picture
  • CMPD - (i) Chronic Myeloproliferative Disease
  • CMR - (s) Cameroon (ISO 3166 trigram) - (i) Coaxial Main Rotors (helicopter type)
  • CMYK - (i) Cyan Magenta Yellow Key/blacK (colour model)

CN

  • CN - (i) Canadian National (railway) - (s) China (ISO 3166 digram) - Comoros (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • CNA - (i) Center for Naval Analyses - Certified Network Administrator - Computer Network Attack
  • CND - (i) Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Computer Network Defence
  • CNE - (i) Canadian National Exhibition - Computer Network Exploitation - Certified Network Engineer
  • CNI - (i) Communications, Navigation and Identification
  • CNN - (i) Cable News Network - Cellular Nonlinear Network
  • CNO - (i) Computer Network Operations
  • CNR - (i) Canadian National Railway - Combat Net Radio

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