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centi-; speed of light in a vacuum
C
Celsius; coulombs; cycles
c to c
center to center
C-band
conventional band
C-mount lens
A C-mount lens refers to a specific type of lens commonly used in machine vision, surveillance, microscopy, and other imaging applications. The "C-mount" designation refers to the standard interface...
C-mount
A standard lens interface initially made for 16mm movie cameras and now used primarily on closed-circuit television cameras. It is a 1-in.-diameter, 32-thread-per-inch interface with a...
C/AHARS
compass/attitude heading and reference system
cable
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fiber optic cable
A package for an optical fiber or fibers that may include cladding, buffering, strength members and an outer jacket.
cache
A portion of computer memory that is used for temporary storage of frequently accessed data. Substantially increases computer speed.
CAD
computer-aided design
CADE
computer-assisted data entry
CADF
cathode-ray tube automatic direction finding
cadmium lamp
A mercury vapor discharge lamp that has cadmium added to emit radiation in the red region as a complement to the mercury vapor's blue and green radiation.
cadmium lines
The three lines in the spectrum of cadmium that have the purest radiations and that were first used by Michelson to calculate the standard meter.
cadmium red line
The narrowest line of the cadmium spectrum; the red line has the purest radiation.
cadmium sulfide
An inorganic compound, yellow to orange in color, that fluoresces strongly enough when bombarded by a high-current-density electron beam to be used as a high-intensity light source.
cadmium sulfide cell
A photoconductive cell having cadmium sulfide as its photoconducting material for the production of a very high dark-light resistance ratio.
CAE
computer-aided engineering
CAIBE
chemical-assisted ion-beam etching
cal
calorie
calcite
A doubly refracting mineral used to produce polarizing prisms. It is uniaxial negative and in the trigonal division of the hexagonal system of crystals. Its indices are e = 1.486, w = 1.658; its...
calcite interference microscope
A microscope that allows examination of a small crystal and conveniently provides linearly polarized object and reference beams so that, by suitable orientation of an anisotropic crystal, the optical...
calcium fluoride
An optical material used in place of crown glass to produce lenses with extraordinary correction of chromatic aberrations. Its high coefficient of thermal expansion and its tendency to absorb...
calcium indicator
A calcium indicator is a molecule that is sensitive to changes in calcium ion (Ca2+) concentrations in biological systems. These indicators are commonly used in various fields, including cell...
calcium iodide
A hygroscopic powder used in the photographic process.
calcium tungstate
White, tetragonal crystals used in the production of luminous coatings.
calibrated light source
A lamp whose output can be traced to a standard light source.
calibrated wedge
An optical wedge in which transmittance or density is a function of the location of the wedge, relative to a specific optical system.
calibration reference
Any known value derived from standard analysis that serves as a reference to the accuracy of an instrument or process in determining one or more variables.
Callier coefficient
The coefficient termed by Callier as the ratio between the density of photographic negatives measured by parallel light and that measured by diffuse light, due to scattering effects. This effect is...
Callier effect
The selective scattering of light as it passes through a diffusing medium.
calligraphic imager
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stroke pattern
The pattern formed by a character generation cathode-ray tube system, in which the characters are composed of a sequence of line segments (strokes) generated by the electron beam motion with time...
calorescence
The production of visible light by infrared radiation whereby the light is produced by heat and not by any direct change in wavelength; the transformation is indirect.
calorific rays
Name originally given to the sun's infrared radiation by Sir William Herschel in his Philosophical Transactions of 1800.
calorimeter
An instrument used to measure the change of heat content of a system by measuring microwave power in terms of generated heat.
calorimetry
Calorimetry is a branch of science that involves the measurement of heat flow in physical or chemical processes. It encompasses various techniques and instruments used to quantify heat transfer,...
CALS
computer-aided acquisition and logistics support
calutron
An electromagnetic device used to separate isotopes of elements based on their respective masses.
CAM
computer-aided manufacturing
CAMAR
common-aperture multifunction array radar
camera chain
The term sometimes used to describe the sequential arrangement of components in a video system -- from transmitter to receiver.
Camera Link HS
Camera Link HS (high speed) is a standard developed for high-speed digital data transmission in machine vision and industrial imaging applications. It is an evolution of the original Camera Link...
camera lucida
A portable instrument that uses a four-sided reflecting prism or set of mirrors to create a duplicate image of an object on a horizontal sheet, on which outlines of the subject may be traced by hand.
camera memory
Primary image memory that is built into a digital camera and stores the digital images generated by the camera's image sensor. figure
camera obscura
A forerunner of the modern camera, this instrument had a focusable lens that produced a sharp image on the enclosure opposite the aperture but had no photosensitive material to record it.
camera reduction
The use of the photographic process to produce precision copies of an original image that are many times smaller in size. One of its many applications is in microcircuitry.
camera shutter
An apparatus, designed for use with a camera, that is used to rapidly open the path from lens to film, to maintain the opening throughout exposure and to close the opening in rapid succession. The...
camera tube
The electron beam tube of a television camera that converts an optical image into a pattern of electrostatic charges and then scans the pattern to produce a corresponding electronic signal for...
camera tube target
The storage surface of an electron beam tube that is scanned by an electron beam to generate an output-signal current corresponding to the charge-density pattern stored.
camera
A light-tight box that receives light from an object or scene and focuses it to form an image on a light-sensitive material or a detector. The camera generally contains a lens of variable aperture...
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