| community property |
property acquired by a husband, wife, or both together that is legally regarded as being owned by them jointly. |
| community spread |
the spread of an infectious disease within a community, especially the spread within a community where there are infected individuals who cannot trace the source of their infection and have not traveled to areas where there are known cases of the disease. |
| communize |
to make (property) subject to public or community ownership or control. [2 definitions] |
| commutate |
to reverse the direction of (alternating current) to create direct current. |
| commutation |
a substitution of a milder for a more severe criminal sentence. [3 definitions] |
| commutation ticket |
a ticket for a specified number of trips to and from the same destinations that is issued, at a reduced rate, to commuters, esp. for railroad or toll road travel. |
| commutative |
of or pertaining to substitution or exchange. [2 definitions] |
| commutator |
a device for changing the direction of an electric current. |
| commute |
to reduce the severity of (a prison sentence). [7 definitions] |
| commuter |
one who travels regularly between two points, usu. home and workplace. |
| comorbid |
of or pertaining to co-existing medical conditions in a patient. |
| comorbidity |
the presence of co-exisiting medical conditions in a patient. |
| Comoro Islands |
a group of islands between the coast of northern Mozambique and northern Madagascar. (See Comoros.) |
| Comoros |
an African country comprising three of the Comoro Islands; Federal and Islamic Republic of Comoros. |
| comp1 |
to play an accompaniment to jazz music, as on a piano or guitar, often of syncopated chords. |
| comp2 |
(informal) a comprehensive examination, as at the end of an academic year, covering all work included in a course during that period of time. |
| comp. |
abbreviation of "compensation." [3 definitions] |
| compact1 |
solidly joined or packed together; dense. [9 definitions] |
| compact2 |
an agreement or contract; pact. |
| compact cassette |
a type of magnetic-tape cartridge, first released in 1963, that is used for audio recording and playback. |
| compact disk |
a palm-sized disk on which music, data, or the like has been digitally encoded, that is read by laser and transmitted to a playback device. |