Chartering (shipping)
Chartering, also known as ship chartering, is the hiring of a ship or cargo space under a contract called a charter party, with voyage, time, and bareboat types.
Chartjunk
Chartjunk is the decorative or redundant visual material in a chart that carries no data, coined by Edward Tufte in his 1983 book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
ChartQA
ChartQA is a benchmark for chart question answering introduced in 2022 by York University and Nanyang Technological University researchers, pairing real-world charts with questions requiring visual and logical reasoning.
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral, also known as Notre-Dame de Chartres, is the medieval Gothic cathedral of Chartres, France, rebuilt after a 1194 fire and famed for its stained glass.
ChArUco board
A ChArUco board, its name contracted from checkerboard and ArUco, is a calibration target combining checkerboard corner precision with ArUco markers, distributed with OpenCV and widely used in robotics, augmented reality, and photogrammetry.
Chase Beisel
Chase L. Beisel is a synthetic biologist and CRISPR researcher known for CRISPR-based antimicrobials, diagnostics, and Cas12a2, now at the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering in Basel.
Chase Center
Chase Center, also known as Mission Bay Arena, is an 18,064-seat privately financed arena in San Francisco's Mission Bay, opened in 2019 and home to the Golden State Warriors.
Chase combining
Chase combining is a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) technique in which a transmitter resends identical copies of a failed packet, and the receiver combines them before decoding again.
Chase gun
A chase gun, also called a chaser, is a cannon mounted in the bow or stern of a sailing warship, used to fire during pursuits.
Chasen
The chasen (茶筅, also written 茶筌) is a Japanese tea whisk carved from one piece of bamboo, used to whip matcha into froth in the tea ceremony.
Chashma Barrage
Chashma Barrage is a barrage-cum-reservoir on the Indus River near Chashma village in Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan, completed in 1971 and housing a 184 MW hydropower station.
Chashma nuclear power plant
The Chashma nuclear power plant is a nuclear plant in Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan, with four Chinese-designed pressurized water reactors totaling 1,330 MWe and a fifth unit under construction.
Chassepot
The Chassepot, formally the fusil d'infanterie modèle 1866, was the French Army's first breech-loading rifle, adopted in 1866, the standard French infantry rifle of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.
Chassis
A chassis is the load-bearing structural foundation of a motor vehicle, to which the suspension, steering, brakes, and drivetrain attach; modern cars typically use unibody construction instead.
Chassis cab
A chassis cab, also written cab chassis, is an incomplete truck with a finished cab but no cargo body, sold so an upfitter can add a custom body.
Chat template
A chat template is a Jinja template that converts a list of role-labeled messages into the exact prompt string, including control tokens, that a language model was trained on.
Chatbot
A chatbot is a software system that converses with people in natural language through text, spanning scripted programs to LLM assistants like ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
Chatbot Arena (LMArena)
Chatbot Arena, now known as LMArena, is a crowdsourced platform that ranks large language models by blind pairwise votes, launched in 2023 by UC Berkeley researchers.
Chatbot teen self-harm lawsuits
The chatbot teen self-harm lawsuits are wrongful-death and product-liability suits filed in US courts in 2024 and 2025, alleging chatbots including Character.AI and ChatGPT encouraged or failed to deter teen self-harm.
ChatDev
ChatDev is an open-source framework, released in 2023 by OpenBMB researchers, in which role-playing LLM agents such as CEO and programmer collaborate through dialogue to build working software.
Château
A château is a French seigneurial or royal residence, or a large noble country house, derived from Latin castellum; the medieval château fort was a fortified feudal dwelling.
Château d'Amboise
The Château d'Amboise is a French royal castle overlooking the Loire river at Amboise, a residence of the Valois kings and Leonardo da Vinci's burial place.
Château d'If
The Château d'If is a 16th-century fortress on an islet off Marseille, built under Francis I and later a state prison, famed through Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.
Château de Chambord
Château de Chambord is a French Renaissance château in the Loire Valley, begun in 1519 by King François I and known for its double helix staircase.
Château de Chantilly
The Château de Chantilly is a French princely château north of Paris, owned by the Institut de France since 1886 and home to the Musée Condé.
Château de Chenonceau
Château de Chenonceau is a French Renaissance château spanning the river Cher in the Loire Valley, built in the 16th century and known as the Ladies' Château.
Château de Chillon
Château de Chillon is a medieval castle on a rocky island in Lake Geneva at Veytaux, Switzerland, first recorded in 1150 under the counts of Savoy.
Château de la Motte-Husson
The Château de la Motte-Husson is a nineteenth-century Neo-Renaissance château in Martigné-sur-Mayenne, France, built between 1868 and 1874, known since 2015 as the home of Dick Strawbridge and Angel Adoree.
Château de Pierrefonds
The Château de Pierrefonds is a large fortified castle in the Oise, north-east of Paris, built for Louis d'Orléans in 1397 and dismantled by Louis XIII in 1617.
Château de Vincennes
The Château de Vincennes is a royal fortress east of Paris with the tallest keep in Europe, a residence of French kings from the 14th century onward.