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carbon

noun
/ˈkɑɹ.bən/US/ˈkɑːbən/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”). By surface analysis, carbo- + -on.

  1. derived from *kerh₃-✻ — “to burn”
  2. derived from carbō — “charcoal, coal”
  3. borrowed from carbone

Definitions

  1. The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form…

    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.

    • All life as we know it has carbon as the backbone of many of its molecules; carbon’s tetravalence gives it special importance in biochemical molecular bonds.
    • Carbon is the most common element in our bodies—indeed, in all living things on earth.
    • Fans will pump air through the alkaline stream, which causes carbon dioxide to form solid calcium carbonate, the material from which seashells are formed, which will look like a fine sand, as well as dissolved bicarbonate.

  2. An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.

    • A methane molecule is made up of a single carbon with four hydrogens.

  3. A sheet of carbon paper.

    • He stepped back and opened his bag and took out a printed pad of D.O.A. forms and began to write over a carbon.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A carbon copy.

      • Please provide me with a carbon of your form.
      • Press firmly: you are making a carbon.

    2. A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.

    3. Soot.

      • Every morning she cleaned the carbon from the lamp chimneys.

    4. Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.

      • carbon neutral
      • carbon capture
      • If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.

    5. A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.

      • To trim an arc lamp, first remove the old carbons and carefully and thoroughly wipe the carbon rods, holders, &c. with a clean, dry rag.

    6. A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.

    7. Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).

      • carbon bike frame

    8. To send a carbon copy of an email message to.

      • When I send it, I’ll carbon Julia so she’s aware.

    9. A surname.

    10. A place name

      A place name:

The neighborhood

Derived

anticarbon, benzyloxycarbonyl, biocarbon, carbapenem, carbazotic acid, carb-, carbo-, carbinol, carbinyl, carbogen, Carboloy, carbon-13 NMR, carbonæmia, carbon anhydride, carbon arc, carbonate, carbonation, carbon audit, carbon-based, carbon bisulfide, carbon bisulphide, carbon black, carbon budget, carbon burning, carbon capture, carbon-carbon bond, carbon chauvinism, carbon chauvinist, carbon chloride, carbon-copy, carbon copy, carbon cost, Carbon County, carbon credit, carbon cycle, carbon-date, carbon dating, carbon debt, carbon detonation, carbon dioxid · +108 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at carbon. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01carbon02transparent03clearly04clear05bright06luminous07glowing08glows09glow10fire

A definitional loop anchored at carbon. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at carbon

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA