Congridae Congridae is the family of conger and garden eels. Congers are valuable and often large food fishes, while garden eels live in colonies, all protruding from the sea floor after the manner of plants in a garden. The family includes about 150 species in 32 genera. The European conger Conger conger is the largest of the family; it has been recorded at up to three meters in length and weighing 350lb .
	Conic section In mathematics, a conic section is a curve that can be formed by intersecting a cone with a plane . The conic sections were named and studied as long ago as 200 BC, when Apollonius of Perga undertook a systematic study of their properties.
	Conidium Conidia, or conidiospores, are asexual, non-motile spores of a fungus; they are also called mitospores due to the way they are generated through the cellular process of mitosis. They are haploid cells genetically identical to the haploid parent, can develop into a new organism if conditions are favorable, and serve in biological dispersal.
	Conium Conium is a genus of two species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region, and to southern Africa. By far the most familiar species is Conium maculatum, the most common of several species of hemlock noted for their toxicity.
	Conjoined twins Conjoined twins are twins whose bodies are joined together at birth. This happens where the zygote of identical twins fails to completely separate. Conjoined twins occur in an estimated one in 200,000 births, with approximately half being stillborn. The overall survival rate for conjoined twins is between 5% and 25%.
	Conker Conker is the name used in Britain, Ireland and some former British colonies for the Nut of the Common Horse-chestnut tree, when used in a game traditionally played by children, Conkers. The name comes from the nineteenth-century dialectal word conker meaning snail-shell, as the game was originally played using snail shells.
	Connecticut Connecticut is a U.S. state in the New England region of the United States, located in the northeastern United States part of the country. In terms of per capita income, it is the wealthiest state in the country, while it ranks 4th for Household income in the United States.
	Connecticut River The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont, through Western Massachusetts and central Connecticut into Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
	Connecting rod In a reciprocating piston engine, the connecting rod or con rod connects the piston to the crank or crankshaft.
	Conning tower A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armored, from which an officer can con the vessel; i.e., give directions to the helmsman. It is usually located as high on the ship as practical, to give the conning team good visibility.
	Connotation This word has distinct meanings in other fields: see connotation and connotation and denotation. For the opposite of Connotation see Denotation.
	Conodont The word conodont can mean:- *A type of extinct worm-like animal with distinctive conical or multi-denticulate teeth made of apatite . *The teeth of these animals, which are almost always the only parts preserved as fossils. The second defininition is the most common one, but sometimes when it is necessary to speak of the animal itself, they are called conodontophora , 'Conodonta', the "conodont animal", or simply conodonts.
	Conquistador Conquistador is the term used to refer to the soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas and Asia Pacific under Spain colonial rule between the 15th century and 17th century centuries, starting with the 1492 settlement established in modern-day Cuba by Christopher Columbus.
	Conscientious objector A conscientious objector is an individual following the religious, moral or ethical dictates of his or her conscience that are incompatible with being a combatant in military service, or being part of the armed forces as a combatant organization. In the first case, conscientious objectors may be willing to accept non-combatant roles during conscription or military service.
	Consciousness Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perception the relationship between personal identity and one's natural environment.
	Conscription Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require citizens to serve in their military. It is known by various namesfor example, the most recent conscription program in the United States was known colloquially as "Conscription in the United States".
	Conservation of energy Conservation of energy states that the total energy in an isolated system remains constant. In other words, energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed. In modern physics, all forms of energy exhibit mass and all mass is a form of energy.
	Conservatism Conservatism is a political philosophy that necessitates a defense of established values or the status quo. The term derives from to conserve; from Latin conservare, "to keep, guard, observe". While not in itself an ideology, it is a political philosophy that is determined almost entirely by its context.
	Consolida Consolida is a genus of about 40 species of annual flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native from western Europe through the Mediterranean region east to central Asia. The common name, shared with the closely related genus Delphinium, is Larkspur.
	Consommé In cooking, a consomm is a type of soup that is similar to a very rich clarified Bouillon.
	Conspicuous consumption Conspicuous consumption is a term used to describe the lavish spending on goods and services that are acquired mainly for the purpose of displaying income or wealth rather than to satisfy a real need of the consumer. In the mind of a conspicuous consumer, such display serves as a means of attaining or maintaining social status.
	Constable A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in law enforcement. However, the office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions. Originally, in some Europe countries during the Middle Ages, a constable was a person in charge of keeping the horses of his lord.
	Constantin Brancusi Constantin Brancusi , was a Romanian sculpture, born in Hobita, Gorj, near Trgu Jiu, where he placed his Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brancusi from Trgu Jiu with The Table of Silence, The Gate of the Kiss and The Endless Column.
	Constantine I Gaius Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinusantine is best remembered in modern times for the Edict of Milan in 313, which fully legalized Christianity in the Empire, for the first time, and the First Council of Nicaea in 325; these actions are considered major factors in the spreading of the Christian religion.
	Constantinople Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and following its fall in 1453, of the Ottoman Empire until 1930, when it was renamed Istanbul as part of Mustafa Kemal Atatrk's Turkish national reforms. Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Constantinople was extremely important as the successor to ancient Ancient Rome and the largest and wealthiest city in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; it was know
	Constellation A constellation is any one of the 88 areas into which the sky - or the celestial sphere - is divided. The term is also often used less formally to denote a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration or pattern. Some well-known constellations contain striking and familiar patterns of bright stars.
	Constitution A constitution is a system, often codified as a written document, which establishes the rules and principles by which an organization, or political entity, is governed. In the case of countries this term refers specifically to a national constitution, which defines the fundamental politics principles and establishes the power and duty of each government.
	Construction In project architecture and civil engineering, construction is the building or assembly of any infrastructure on a site. Although this may be thought of as a single activity, in fact construction is a feat of multitasking. Normally the job is managed by the construction manager, supervised by the project manager, design engineer or project architect.
	Construction paper Construction paper or sugar paper, is a type of coarse colored paper typically available in large sheets. The texture is slightly rough, and the surface is unfinished. Due to the nature of the source material that the paper is manufactured from, small particles are visible on the papers surface.
	Construction worker Construction workers are employed in the construction industry and work predominately on construction sites as opposed to being office based and are typically engaged in aspects of the industry other than design or finance. The term includes general construction workers, also referred to as labourers and members of specialist trades such as electricians, carpenters and plumbers.
	Consumer price index In economics, a consumer price index is a statistical time-series measure of a weighted mean of prices of a specified set of goods and services purchased by consumers. It is a price index that tracks the prices of a specified basket of consumer goods and services, providing a measure of inflation.
	Contact Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with. Contact may also refer to: * Contact lens, a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens * Contact, in Family Law, deals with the right of parents or other significant persons to meet with and relate to a child * the active component of an electric switch or electrical connector
	Contact lens A contact lens is a corrective lens, cosmetics, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. Contact lenses usually serve the same corrective purpose as conventional glasses, but are lightweight and virtually invisible — many commercial lenses are tinted a faint blue to make them more visible when immersed in cleaning and storage solutions.
	Contact print A contact print is a photographic image produced from a film, usually a negative, occasionally from a film positive. The defining characteristic of a contact print is that the photographic result is made by exposing through the film original onto a light sensitive material pressed tightly to the film.
	Contact sport A contact sport is a sport which includes significant physical contact between the athletes involved. Examples of contacts sports are: American football, Lacrosse and Amateur wrestling. Examples of non-contact sports are: Table Tennis and Badminton.
	Container ship Container ships are a common means of commercial ocean transportation.
	Content Content can mean: As an adjective: *Satisfaction As a noun: * Information as distinct from its mode or channel of presentation. ** Open content ** Free content ** In narrative art such as many novels and movies, content is often the subject of the plot or the events and fictional character contained within.
	ConTEXT ConTEXT is a freeware text editor aimed for software developers. It can theoretically open and edit files with no size limits. It has built in syntax highlighting support for C programming language/C++, Delphi programming language/Pascal programming language, 80x86 assembler, Java programming language, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Perl/Common Gateway Interface, HTML, SQL, Python programming language, PHP, Tcl/Tk, and i
	Continent A continent is a large continuous landmass.
	Continental Army The Continental Army was the unified command structure of the Thirteen Colonies fighting Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. The Army was created by a resolution of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. Most of the Continental Army was disbanded on November 3, 1783, after the Treaty of Paris.
	Continental Divide The Continental Divide or Great Divide is a ridge of mountains in North America and Central America which separates the major drainage basin that flows west into the Pacific Ocean from the ones that flow north into the Arctic Ocean Ocean and south-east into the Gulf of Mexico.
	Continental divide A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two drainage basins such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of the continent.
	Continental shelf The continental shelf is the extended perimeter of each continent, which is covered during Ice age such as the current epoch by relatively shallow seas and gulfs. The shelf usually ends at a point of increasing slope. The sea floor below the break is the continental slope.
	Continue Continue is the common term in Computer and video games for the option to continue the game after all of the player's 1-up have been lost, rather than ending the game and restarting from the very beginning. In video game console games, continues are not typically available at the player's leisure.
	Continuity Continuity may mean: * In mathematics: ** Geometric continuity ** continuous function with real or complex values ** continuous function between topological spaces ** A continuous functor is one that preserves limit in category theory. * The condition of similarity to a continuum
	Continuity Irish Republican Army The Continuity Irish Republican Army is an Irish Republicanism paramilitary organisation that split from the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1986.
	Contortion Contortion is an unusual form of acrobatics display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body. Contortion is often part of a Circus act. In general, contortionists have unusual natural flexibility, which is then enhanced through gymnastic training.
	CONTOUR The Comet Nucleus Tour was a NASA Discovery Program space probe that failed shortly after launch. It had as its primary objective close fly-bys of two comet nuclei with the possibility of a fly-by of a third known comet or an as-yet-undiscovered comet. The two comets scheduled to be visited were Comet Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3, and the third target was d'Arrest.
	Contour line A contour line for a function of two variables is a curve connecting points where the function has a same particular value. A contour map is a map illustrated with contour lines. The prefix iso-, the Greek language prefix for "equal", refers to maps with lines that join points of equal value.
	Contrabassoon The contrabassoon, also contrafagotto or double bassoon, is a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower. Its technique is similar to its smaller cousin, with a few notable differences.
	Contract bridge Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking game card game of game of skill and game of chance . Bridge is played by four players who form two partnerships ; the partners sit opposite each other at a table. The game consists of the auction and play, after which the hand is scored.
	Contrail Contrails are condensation trails : artificial cirrus clouds made by the exhaust of aircraft engines or wingtip vortices which precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air. Contrary to appearances, they are not pollution as such.
	Contrition Contrition is sincere and complete remorse for sins one has committed. The remorseful person is said to be contrite. It is a key concept to many Christians, especially Catholics, who can then seek divine forgiveness through the sacrament of Confession, nowadays rather called Penance.
	Control key In computing, a Control key is a key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, will perform a special operation. The Control key is a modifier key; it is used in the same fashion as the Shift key. Like the Shift Key, it is unusual for the control key to do anything when pressed by itself.
	Control rod A control rod is a rod made of chemical elements capable of absorbing many neutrons without fissioning themselves. They are used in nuclear reactors to control the rate of fission of uranium and plutonium. Chemical elements with a sufficiently high capture cross section for neutrons include silver, indium and cadmium.
	Control Room Control Room is a 2004 documentary film about Al Jazeera and its relations with the US Central Command, as well as the other news organizations that covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Made by Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, the film was distributed by Magnolia Pictures.
	Control tower A control tower is the name of the air traffic control unit responsible for movements around an airport, and is also the name of the building from which the unit operates. Most of the world's airports are non-towered airport or mandatory frequency airport — only a small minority of the busiest airports have enough traffic to justify a control tower, though some airports may open temporary tower units during special events like the Oshkosh Airshow.
	Convalesce The comic book character Convalesce, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Convalesce #1.
	Convallaria Convallaria majalis, commonly known as the Lily of the Valley or Prolificans Lily-of-the-Valley, is the sole member of the genus Convallaria in the flowering plant family Ruscaceae. It is a woodland plant that is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia, Europe and North America.
	Convection Convection is the transfer of potential energy, for example heat, by currents within liquids and gases. When a portion of a fluid is less dense, it rises due to gravity. By rising, it displaces an equal volume of the same fluid which flows to occupy the space left unoccupied by the less-dense portion of fluid which is rising.
	Convenience store A convenience store is a small store or shop, generally accessible or local. They are often located alongside busy roads, or at Gas station. This can take the form of gas stations supplementing their income with retail outlets, or convenience stores adding gas to the list of goods that they offer.
	Convent A convent is a community of priests, religious brothers or religious sisters, or the building used by the community, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church and, to a lesser degree, in the Anglican Communion. The term comes from the Latin convenire, to come together. It originally connoted an assembly of Roman citizens in the provinces for purposes of administration and justice.
	Converse Converse,, is an United States shoe company which has been making shoes since the early 20th century.
	Convertible A convertible is a car body style with a folding or retracting Hood. The collapsible roof section is typically made from flexible canvas or vinyl, although plastic, aluminium and steel have occasionally been used in elaborate folding designs. When the top is made of a rigid material such as steel it is often referred to as a "retractable hardtop" instead of a convertible.
	Convex polygon In geometry, a convex polygon is a simple polygon whose interior is a convex set. The following properties of a simple polygon are all equivalent to convexity: * Every internal angle is at most 180 Degree. * Every line segment between two vertex of the polygon does not go exterior to the polygon.
	Conveyor belt A conveyor belt or belt conveyor consists of two end pulleys, with a continuous loop of material that rotates about them. The pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward. Conveyor belts are extensively used to transport industrial and agricultural materials, such as grain, coal, ores, etc.
	Convolvulus Convolvulus is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include bindweed and morning glory, both names shared with other closely related genera. They are Annual plant or perennial plant herbaceous vines and woody shrubs, growing to 0.3-3 m tall.
	Convolvulus arvensis Convolvulus arvensis is a species of bindweed, native to Europe and Asia. It is a climbing or creeping herbaceous perennial plant growing to 0.5-2 m high. The leaf are spirally arranged, linear to arrowhead-shaped, 2-5 cm long, with a 1-3 cm petiole. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, 1-2.5 cm diameter, white or pale pink, with five slightly darker pink radial stripes.
	Convoy A convoy is a group of vehicles traveling together for mutual support. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support. In effect, it is a modification of a camel train. For example, driving by car through a desert is safer in a convoy. If one vehicle breaks down, the passengers from the others can help with repairs.
	Conyza Conyza is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to tropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, and also north into cool temperate regions in North America and eastern Asia. The genus is closely related to Erigeron.