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Cloture
Cloture is the procedure for ending debate: in the US Senate under Rule XXII (1917, now 60 of 100 senators, 16-signature motion, 30-hour cap), and in the UK as the closure motion "that the question be now put" requiring 100 MPs.
Cloud Apps Capital Partners
Cloud Apps Capital Partners is a venture capital firm investing in enterprise cloud business application companies at the Classic Series A, led by former Salesforce executive Matthew Holleran.
Cloud Deep Technology (杭州云深处科技股份有限公司) (云深处科技)
Cloud Deep Technology, also known as DEEP Robotics (杭州云深处科技), is a Chinese robotics company founded in Hangzhou in 2017 that builds industrial quadruped, wheeled-legged, and humanoid robots.
Clouding of consciousness
Clouding of consciousness, also called clouded consciousness, is a mild altered mental state with inattention and reduced wakefulness, classically a cardinal feature of delirium; DSM-5 dropped it while ICD-11 retains it as code MB20.2.
Cloudmatix (Yunmaixinlian)
Cloudmatix (云脉芯联) is a Shanghai-based fabless semiconductor startup, founded in May 2021, that develops DPUs, smart NICs, and RDMA interconnect chips for cloud data centers and AI clusters.
CloudPay
CloudPay is a British provider of global payroll and payment solutions, headquartered in Andover, England, that originated in 1996 as a venture of Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions.
Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith is a Belfast-based software company founded in 2016 by Alan Carson and Lee Skillen whose cloud-native platform manages software packages, serving as a private registry and security layer for developers.
Cloudvirga
Cloudvirga is a fintech company founded in the mid-2010s that develops digital mortgage software. It raised over $77 million before being acquired by Stewart Information Services Corporation in 2021.
Clove Dental
Clove Dental is India's largest organized dental clinic chain, a company-owned network founded in 2011 by Amarinder Singh that reached 715 clinics across 26 cities by 2026.
Clover Biopharmaceuticals (三叶草生物)
Clover Biopharmaceuticals (三叶草生物) is a Chinese biotechnology company founded in Chengdu in 2007, listed in Hong Kong since 2021 and known for its Trimer-Tag vaccine platform and COVID-19 vaccine.
Clovis culture
Clovis culture: Paleoindian culture of North America, about 13,325–12,975 calendar years ago, defined by fluted stone projectile points; type site Blackwater Draw, New Mexico; once central to the Clovis First peopling model, now predated by accepted pre-Clovis sites.
Clovis First
Clovis First, the once-dominant archaeological model placing the first Americans at Clovis fluted-point sites around 13,400 years ago via the Ice-Free Corridor, now effectively refuted by pre-Clovis sites such as Monte Verde, Page-Ladson, Cooper's Ferry, and White Sands footprints.
Clovis I
Clovis I (Chlodovech, ca. 466-511), first Merovingian king of the Franks: united the Frankish tribes, defeated Syagrius at Soissons (486) and Alaric II at Vouillé (507), converted from paganism to Catholic baptism at Reims (traditionally 496, debated), received a consulship from Anastasius, and died at Paris in 511.
Clovis Maksoud
Clovis Maksoud (كلوفيس مقصود, 1926–2016), Lebanese American diplomat, journalist, and professor; Arab League ambassador to India (1961–66) and to the US and UN (1979–90); resigned over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait; later led American University's Center for the Global South.
Clovis point
Clovis point: fluted lanceolate stone dart point of the Clovis culture, named for Clovis, New Mexico, dated 13,050 to 12,750 cal yr B.P., found across North America, used as weaponry and butchery knife.
Cloward–Piven strategy
Cloward–Piven strategy: 1966 proposal by sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in The Nation to overload US welfare rolls and force a guaranteed annual income; later a tea party conspiracy theory.
Cloze test
A cloze test is a fill-in-the-blank assessment in which readers restore words deleted from a passage, introduced by Wilson L. Taylor in 1953 to measure readability, comprehension, and language proficiency.
CLP Holdings
CLP Holdings Limited is the Hong Kong-listed holding company of CLP Power, which supplies electricity to about 2.9 million customers in Kowloon and the New Territories.
Club 33
Club 33 is a private members-only club founded by Walt Disney, opened in 1967 in Disneyland's New Orleans Square, with locations in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Walt Disney World.
Club for Growth
Club for Growth: conservative US advocacy group founded 1999 by Stephen Moore, now led by David McIntosh; network with a 527 nonprofit, a PAC, and the Club for Growth Action super PAC (est. 2010) that funds GOP primary challenges and spent $89.3 million in 2022.
Club Massiac
Club Massiac, or Club de Massiac, was a Paris political society of wealthy Saint-Domingue slaveholding planters, founded in 1789 to defend slavery against abolitionists and closed in 1792.
Club of Madrid
Club of Madrid (World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid) is a Madrid-based non-profit alliance of over 100 democratic former presidents and prime ministers from 70+ countries, founded from the 2001 Conference on Democratic Transition and Consolidation, distinct from sports clubs of similar name.
Club of Rome
Club of Rome: international think tank founded April 1968 in Rome by Aurelio Peccei and Alexander King; known for the 1972 Limits to Growth report (30 million copies, 30 languages), now based in Winterthur, Switzerland with 35+ national associations.
Club Seven Dragon
Club Seven Dragon, a Japanese-oriented 24-hour electronic gaming club (casino) on the first floor of Four Points by Sheraton Danang, Vietnam; 75 slots, 30 baccarat and 16 roulette machines, one of four E-Gaming Resorts Danang clubs, foreigners only.
Cluniac Order
The Cluniac Order, also called the Order of Cluny, was a congregation of reformed Benedictine monasteries headed by the abbot of Cluny, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910.
Clunies-Ross family
Clunies-Ross family: Scottish-origin dynasty that settled the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in 1827 and ruled them, styled 'Kings of the Cocos', until Australia bought their property in 1978 for $6.25 million; integration followed in 1984.
Cluno
Cluno was a Munich-based German car-subscription startup founded in 2017 by the team behind easyautosale, offering all-inclusive monthly car subscriptions through an app before its 2021 acquisition by Cazoo.
Cluny Abbey
Cluny Abbey, also known as Abbaye de Cluny, was a Benedictine monastery in Burgundy founded by Duke William the Pious in 910, which grew into the head of the largest monastic congregation in Latin Christendom.
Clutter family murders
Clutter family murders: November 15, 1959 quadruple homicide of Herbert Clutter's family in Holcomb, Kansas, by ex-convicts Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, basis of Capote's In Cold Blood.
Clyde Chambliss
Clyde Chambliss is an American politician and Republican member of the Alabama Senate from District 30, elected in 2014 after three terms on the Autauga County Commission.