3C may refer to:
In astronomy:
* 3C, the ''
Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
The Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (3C) is an astronomical catalogue of celestial radio sources detected originally at 159 MHz, and subsequently at 178 MHz.
History
3C
The catalogue was published in 1959 by members of the ...
'', an astronomical reference series
In business:
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Long March 3C
The Long March 3C (), also known as the Changzheng 3C, CZ-3C and LM-3C, is a Chinese orbital launch vehicle. It is launched from Launch Complex 2 and 3 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC). A three-stage rocket with two strapon liquid ...
, a 2008 Chinese orbital rocket
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3C Records, a record label
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3C (radio), a defunct digital radio station
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Team 3C Casalinghi Jet Androni Giocattoli, a defunct Italian professional cycling team
* 3C, the IATA code for defunct American airline
RegionsAir
RegionsAir was a 14 CFR Part 121 regional airline based out of the Smyrna Airport in Smyrna, Tennessee, USA. The hub airports for RegionsAir were Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL) and Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE). ...
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Three-cent piece
The United States three cent piece was a unit of currency equaling of a United States dollar. The mint produced two different three-cent coins for circulation: the three-cent silver and the three-cent nickel. Additionally, a three-cent bronze ...
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3C (trade association) is an American trade association.
In computing:
* Three Cs (Compulsory, Capacity, and Conflict), three categories of
CPU cache misses
* 3C, or
Computer Control Company, Inc., a pioneering minicomputer company (1953–1966)
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Agile model: 3C (Card, Conversation, Confirmation)
* 3C, an abbreviation often used in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
for "computer, communication, and consumer electronics"
In genetics:
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Alpha-tubulin 3C
Tubulin alpha-3C/D chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''TUBA3C'' gene.
Function
Microtubules of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton perform essential and diverse functions and are composed of a heterodimer of alpha and beta tubulin. T ...
, a human gene
* 3C, or
Chromosome conformation capture
Chromosome conformation capture techniques (often abbreviated to 3C technologies or 3C-based methods) are a set of molecular biology methods used to analyze the spatial organization of chromatin in a cell. These methods quantify the number of int ...
, a technique used in molecular biology
Substituted amphetamines
Substituted amphetamines are a class of compounds based upon the amphetamine structure; it includes all derivative compounds which are formed by replacing, or substituting, one or more hydrogen atoms in the amphetamine core structure with sub ...
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2C family analogues):
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3C-G (Ganesha) with homologues
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3C-BZ
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3C-P
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3C-E
In places:
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Stalag III-C
Stalag III-C was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp for Allied soldiers. It was located on a plain near the village of Alt Drewitz bei Küstrin then located in the Neumark of the province of Brandenburg (now Drzewice, Kostrzyn nad O ...
, a German Army World War II POW camp for Allied soldiers near Alt-Drewitz
See also
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C3 (disambiguation)
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List of pages with prefix 3C
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