CC, cc, or C-C may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* C.C. (''Code Geass''), a character in the ''Code Geass'' anime series, pronounced "C-two" * C.C. Babcock, a character in the American sitcom ''The Nanny'' * Comedy Chimp, a character in '' Sonic Boom'', called "CC" by Doctor Eggman

Gaming

* '' Command & Conquer'' (''C&C''), a series of real-time strategy games and the first game in the series *

Crowd control (video gaming) Crowd control (also called CC) is a term used in MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) and MOBAs (Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas) to refer to the ability to partially or completely disable one or more players or mobs, hence l ...

, the ability to limit the number of mobs actively fighting during an encounter

Other arts, music, entertainment, and media

Cannibal Corpse Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988, now based out of Tampa, Florida. The band has released fifteen studio albums, two box sets, four video albums, and two live albums. The band has had little radi ...

, an American death metal band. *

CC Media Holdings iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company fou ...

, the former name of iHeartMedia * Closed captioning, a process of displaying text on a visual display, such as a TV screen * Comedy Central, an American television network (URL is cc.com)

Brands and enterprises

Food and drink

* Canadian Club, a brand of whisky *

CC's CC's (pronounced ''sea-seas'' and short for “corn chips”) is an Australian brand of flavoured tortilla chips produced since the early 1980s, originally by The Smith's Snackfood Company, and currently by Snack Brands Australia. CC's are predo ...

, a tortilla chip brand in Australia

Other companies

* Stylized interlocking CC, the monogram of Coco Chanel, and brand logo for the House of Chanel * Chemours (former NYSE stock symbol CC) *

Circuit City Circuit City is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered the electronics superstore format in the 1970s. After m ...

(former NYSE stock symbol CC), a former American electronics retailer *

College Confidential (company) CollegeConfidential.com (CC) is a college admissions website and online community founded in 2001. It hosts popular college admissions forums on topics such as admissions chances, financial aid, standardized testing, and school life. History Colle ...

, a college admissions counseling company

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

CC (complexity) In computational complexity theory, CC (Comparator Circuits) is the complexity class containing decision problems which can be solved by comparator circuits of polynomial size. Comparator circuits are sorting networks in which each comparator gate ...

, a complexity class in computational complexity theory * Adobe Creative Cloud, a series of subscription-based software developed and sold by Adobe Inc. * C compiler, the original/legacy C language compilation system * C++, a programming language *

Common Criteria The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (referred to as Common Criteria or CC) is an international standard (ISO/IEC 15408) for computer security certification. It is currently in version 3.1 revision 5. Common Criteria ...

, an international standard (ISO 15408) for computer security * Cyclomatic complexity, a source-code metric *

International Conference on Compiler Construction International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * International (Kevin Michael album), ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * International (New Order album), ' ...

, an academic conference *

Cryptocurrency A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It i ...

Other uses in mathematics, science, and technology

Capacity credit Capacity credit (CC, also capacity value) is the fraction of the installed capacity of a power plant which can be relied upon at a given time (typically during system stress), frequently expressed as a percentage of the nameplate capacity. A conve ...

, a fraction of the installed capacity of a power plant which can be relied upon during the system stress *

Carbonaceous chondrite Carbonaceous chondrites or C chondrites are a class of chondritic meteorites comprising at least 8 known groups and many ungrouped meteorites. They include some of the most primitive known meteorites. The C chondrites represent only a small prop ...

, a type of meteorite *

CC (cat) CC, for "CopyCat" ''or'' "Carbon Copy" (December 22, 2001 – March 3, 2020), was a brown tabby and white domestic shorthair and the first cloned pet. She was cloned by scientists at Texas A&M University in conjunction with Genetic Savings ...

, the first genetically cloned pet * C-C, a locomotive classification; see AAR wheel arrangement *

Chief complaint The chief complaint, formally known as CC in the medical field, or termed presenting complaint (PC) in Europe and Canada, forms the second step of medical history taking. It is sometimes also referred to as reason for encounter (RFE), presenting pro ...

, a medical patient's primary reported symptom *

Classification of Types of Construction The Classification of types of construction (CC), is a nomenclature for the classification of constructions (i.e. buildings) according to their type. It is based on the CPC that was published by the United Nations in 1991. Its final version was app ...

, for buildings * Clausius–Clapeyron relation, an equation used in climatology * Climate control, various technologies to control the temperature and humidity * Combustion chamber, or for instance in a turbojet engine the combustor *

Complex conductivity (measurement method) Spectral induced polarization (SIP), or complex resistivity (CR) and also complex conductivity (CC), is a geophysical survey technique and an extension of the induced polarization (IP) method, being itself an extension of measuring the Earth's res ...

, a measurement method in geophysics * Complex conjugate, an operation on complex numbers, commonly abbreviated as ''c. c.'' * Coupled cluster, a numerical technique in computational chemistry * Cubic centimetre (cc), a unit of volume ** Engine displacement, where cc is used as shorthand for the cylinder volume in cubic centimetres

Organizations

* Canarian Coalition, a Spanish political party based in the Canary Islands * Caribbean Community, an international organization with fifteen members * CC, mint mark of Carson City Mint, a former branch of the United States mint *

Coburger Convent The Coburger Convent der akademischen Landsmannschaften und Turnerschaften (abbreviation: CC) is an association of 100 German and Austrian Studentenverbindungen, all of which are based on the principle of tolerance. Its full name is ''Coburger Con ...

, a German and Austrian student organization *

Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has release ...

, a non-profit organization in the field of copyright licensing ** Creative Commons license, a copyright license

Places

Carson City, Nevada Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,639, making it the sixth largest city in Nevada. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the ...

, United States, commonly abbreviated as CC * Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ISO 3166 code), an Australian territory **

.cc .cc is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by a United States company, VeriSign, through a subsidiary company, eNIC, which promotes it for internat ...

, the Internet country code top-level domain for Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory

Schools

* Colorado College, a liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, US * Detroit Catholic Central High School, a private all-male high school in Novi, Michigan, US

Sports

* CC Sabathia, a retired American baseball pitcher * Champion Carnival, a professional wrestling tournament * Conference Carolinas, an NCAA Division II athletic conference

Transportation

Automobiles

Changan Raeton CC The Changan Raeton Plus (锐程 Plus) and the previous Changan Raeton CC (睿骋 CC) is a mid-size sedan produced by Changan Automobile Chang'an Automobile Co., Ltd. is a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Jiangbei ...

, a Chinese mid-size sedan *

Senova CC The Senova D60 is a mid-size sedan produced by the Chinese car manufacturer BAIC Motor under the Senova brand. Overview The final production version of the Senova D60 debuted in August 2014 on the 2014 Chengdu Auto Show. The Senova D60 is based ...

, a Chinese mid-size sports sedan * Volkswagen CC, a German mid-size sedan **

Volkswagen Arteon The Volkswagen Arteon is a car manufactured by German car manufacturer Volkswagen. Described as a large family car or a mid-size car, it is available in five-door liftback or estate body styles. The Arteon was unveiled on 6 March 2017, at the ...

, sold in China as Volkswagen CC

Transportation companies

Air Atlanta Icelandic Air Atlanta Icelandic is a charter and ACMI airline based in Kópavogur, Iceland. It specialises in leasing aircraft on an ACMI (Aircraft, Crews, Maintenance, Insurance) and wet lease basis to airlines worldwide needing extra passenger and ca ...

(IATA airline designator), an Icelandic airline *

Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad The Chicago Central and Pacific Railroad (Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad) is part of the Illinois Central Railroad (IC), which is owned by the Canadian National Railway (CN) through the Grand Trunk Corporation. Operationally, the Chicago Cent ...

(reporting mark CC) *

MacAir Airlines MacAir Airlines Pty Ltd was a regional airline based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It operated scheduled passenger services throughout Queensland from major regional locations, as well as regular and ad hoc charters for the minerals indu ...

(former IATA airline designator), a defunct Australian airline

Other in transportation

* C-C, a wheel configuration for diesel and electric locomotives

Other uses

* Prefix "cc", to specify

column number In typography, a column is one or more vertical blocks of content positioned on a page, separated by gutters (vertical whitespace) or rules (thin lines, in this case vertical). Columns are most commonly used to break up large bodies of text that ...

s as in-source-locator in old citations *

CC cream CC cream is a marketing term coined in the wake of the marketing term Blemish Balm cream or Beauty Balm. "CC cream" is used by some brands to mean Color Control cream, or Color Correcting cream, and some brands claim to reduce the appearance o ...

, a cosmetic marketing term * CC, post-nominal letters for Companion of the Order of Canada, a Canadian honour *

200 (number) 200 (two hundred) is the natural number following 199 and preceding 201. 200 is an abundant number, as 265, the sum of its proper divisors, is greater than itself. The number appears in the Padovan sequence, preceded by 86, 114, 151 (it is the ...

in Roman numerals *

Carbon copy Before the development of photographic copiers, a carbon copy was the under-copy of a typed or written document placed over carbon paper and the under-copy sheet itself (not to be confused with the carbon print family of photographic reproduc ...

, or courtesy copy, in the context of letter or email-writing * Colon classification, a library classification scheme * Component city, a legal class of cities in the Philippines *

Consular corps Consular corps (from french: Corps consulaire and commonly abbreviated ''CC'') is a concept analogous to diplomatic corps, but concerning the staff, estates and work of a consulate. "While ambassadors and diplomatic staff are devoted to bette ...

, the staff of a consulate * Credit card