Usually means: Elemental building block of life.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. carbon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. carbon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carbon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carbon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carbon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carbon, carbon: Wordnik
  7. carbon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Carbon, carbon: Wiktionary
  9. carbon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carbon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carbon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. carbon: Dictionary.com
  13. carbon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. carbon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Carbon (API), Carbon (Halo team), Carbon (company), Carbon (computing), Carbon (disambiguation), Carbon (element), Carbon (fiber), Carbon (fibre), Carbon (film), Carbon (journal), Carbon (short film), Carbon (video game developer), Carbon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Carbon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. carbon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. carbon: Rhymezone
  19. carbon, carbn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. carbon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. carbon: Free Dictionary
  22. carbon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. carbon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. carbon, carbon-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. carbon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Carbon (element), carbon: Legal dictionary
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  4. carbon: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Carbon: CCI Computer
  2. Carbon (element), carbon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Carbon (element), carbon, carbon-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. carbon: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Carbon: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. carbon: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carbon: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carbon: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
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  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Carbon: Fiberglass Glossary
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(Note: See carbons as well.)

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noun:  (uncountable) The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
noun:  (countable) An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
noun:  (countable, informal) A sheet of carbon paper.
noun:  (countable, informal) A carbon copy.
noun:  A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
noun:  (ecology, uncountable) carbon dioxide, in the context of climate change.
noun:  A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
noun:  A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
verb:  (Internet, transitive, uncommon) To cause (someone) to receive a carbon copy of an email message.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A village in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Van Buren Township, Clay County, Indiana.
noun:  A minor city and coal town in Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa.
noun:  An unincorporated community and coal town in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A town in Eastland County, Texas.
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer). [A very strong filament made by the pyrolysis of a synthetic fiber such as rayon.]


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