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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation centiliter

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The chemical symbol of chlorin.
  • An abbreviation of centiliter
  • of clause
  • of clerk
  • of cloth (in bookbinding)
  • of clergyman.

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  • noun metrology Symbol for the centiliter (centilitre), an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10−2 liters (litres).
  • noun A Roman numeral representing one hundred and fifty (150).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
  • adjective being ten more than one hundred forty
  • noun a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter

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Examples

  • I know that 1 cl is 100mL .. and please don't shoot me but any Aussies know where we can get/what is fresh yeast?

    savoury filled zopf with goats cheese myriam 2008

  • Clápham London = cláp 'em clap them cláptrap one word cláret cf. Clãre clāssroom one word clåuse words = clåws claw = Clåus

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Clápham London = cláp 'em clap them cláptrap one word clāssroom one word clåuse words = clåws claw = Clåus Santa claustrophôbia clós clêan cléanliness cléanse clërk AmE; BrE = Clàrk = Clàrke persons clìchè * clêeshây clîmb up = clîme weather clìque * clêek, cf. clíck clóckwörk one word clôse shut

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Clápham London = cláp 'em clap them cláptrap one word clāssroom one word clåuse words = clåws claw = Clåus Santa claustrophôbia clós clêan cléanliness cléanse clërk AmE; BrE = Clàrk = Clàrke persons clìchè * clêeshây clîmb up = clîme weather clìque * clêek, cf. clíck clóckwörk one word clôse shut

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Clàrk = Clàrke persons clìchè * clêeshây clìque * clêek, cf. clíck clóckwörk one word clôse shut = clôze test clôser end - z - clôser more - s clôse-up near, - ss -, cf. clôse up shut, - z - clóth unvoiced th clôthe voiced th clôthes voiced th côach transport, trainer côalésce cŏarse rough = cŏurse sport, eduation côal mine = Côle person côalman coal = Côleman person cŏarse crude = cŏurse route, study côast cf. cóst côastguard one word côax cóbra or côbra cóchineal

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "There's a little more class on the Giants side and some Jets fans take the 'cl' out of class."

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories 2010

  • "There's a little more class on the Giants side and some Jets fans take the 'cl' out of class."

    Top 5 Sports Stories 2010

  • "There's a little more class on the Giants side and some Jets fans take the 'cl' out of class."

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories 2009

  • Oh never mind -- in my pop-up window, there was a break after the "cl" in the "classof2k7".

    Bar 9 Summation fusenumber8 2007

  • How we was kep 'cl'ar of the rocks was a miracle, _out_ an' out.

    Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

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  • Cl. Chemical element symbol for Chlorine.

    December 16, 2007

  • Morse code abbreviation (-·-··-··) for "Clear" ("Going off the air", "I am closing my station").

    January 20, 2009