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Cn

1 American  
Symbol, Chemistry, Physics.
  1. copernicium.


CN 2 American  
C/N 3 American  
  1. circular note.

  2. credit note.


cn 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. China

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

C/N 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. credit note

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cn Scientific  
  1. The symbol for copernicium.


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Points Pi divide curve C into n pieces C1, C2 ,…, Cn, with lengths Δs1, Δs2 ,…, Δsn, respectively.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

When curves Ci satisfy the condition that the endpoint of Ci is the starting point of Ci + 1, we write their union as C1 + C2 + ⋯ + Cn.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

With seventeen of these queer quinqueremes, each with 300 rowers, who by their misunderstandings kept up a continual but useless row, the Consul, Cn.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

It was the work of the censors Cn.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

Sampsiceramus," that "Hierosolymarius," that "Arabarches" into whose character he had seen so clearly when writing from Macedonia to Atticus—that "Cn.

From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope

"I remember wanting to go and visit New York all the time," he told the BBC after finishing his overnight shift, not far from one of Toronto's most iconic buildings, the CN tower.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Find insight on CN Rail, Hyundai Mobis and more in the latest Market Talks covering Auto and Transport.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Find insight on CN Rail, vessels in the Red Sea and more in the latest Market Talks covering Auto and Transport.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Under one of the deals, CN also agreed not to oppose the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Huggins had found organic matter in the comets; in subsequent years cyanogen, CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom, the molecular fragment that makes cyanides, was identified in the tails of comets.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

For example, Fermat’s last theorem, which deals with solutions of the form an + bn = cn, has puzzled experts for more than 350 years.

From Scientific American Jul. 28, 2023

In general, an arithmetic sequence is any sequence of the form an = cn + b.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

Or like this swatch of light verse: U cn gt a gd jb w hi pa!

From Time Magazine Archive

Always there were rich food and champagne and the tasteless corn-bread that is found cn most French tables.

From Time Magazine Archive

This confirms very aptly, I suppose, the point made by the man who until a little while ago was sitting here beside me cn this bench, and with whom I had my curious discussion.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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