Found 2 items, similar to Cest.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: C C n 1: a degree on the Centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree Centigrade , degree Celsius] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed] 3: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate] 4: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine] 5: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, atomic number 6 ] 6: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, century, one C, centred] 7: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, ampere-second] 8: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 9: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet 10: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Cest Cest \Cest\ (s[e^]st), n. [L. cestus: cf. OF. ceste.] A woman's girdle; a cestus. [R.] --Collins. [1913 Webster]