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Consonant
Consonant: a speech sound made with vocal-tract constriction, contrasting with vowels. Classified by voicing, place, and manner; English has 24, inventories worldwide range 6-122, and no language lacks the category.
Consonant cluster
A consonant cluster, also called a consonant blend or consonant sequence, is two or more consonant sounds with no intervening vowel, as in English "spleen" or "sixths."
Consonant mutation
Consonant mutation: systematic, grammatically triggered alternation of a word's initial consonant (lenition, fortition, nasalization), best known from Celtic and Atlantic languages such as Irish, Welsh, and Fula.
Consorcio Financiero
Consorcio Financiero is a Chilean financial holding company operating in life insurance, banking, and investments, tracing to an insurer founded in 1916 and controlled by Chilean families since 1997.
Consort Medical
Consort Medical plc was a British drug delivery device company and contract development and manufacturing organization, based in Hemel Hempstead, England, until Recipharm acquired it in 2020.
Consortium
A consortium is an arrangement where two or more independent organizations pool resources, money, or expertise to pursue a shared goal without merging into one company.
Consortium imperii
Consortium imperii, Latin for "partnership in power," denotes shared imperial command in the Roman Empire, known from Tacitus and embodied in Diocletian's Tetrarchy of 293.
Conspicuous consumption
Conspicuous consumption is the public display of goods, services, or experiences to signal wealth and social status. Coined by Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), now studied largely as status signaling on social media.
Conspiracy
Criminal conspiracy: an agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act, the agreement itself being the offense; covers elements, overt acts, intent, Pinkerton liability, MPC unilateral reform.
Conspiracy against the United States
Conspiracy against the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 371, the general federal conspiracy statute: agreement of two or more persons to commit a federal offense or defraud the government, plus an overt act, punishable by up to five years.
Conspiracy of 1808 in Mexico City
The Conspiracy of 1808 in Mexico City was a creole-led movement to keep sovereignty in New Spain after the Spanish king's capture, ending with a September 1808 coup.
Conspiracy of Gual and España
The Conspiracy of Gual and España (Conspiración de Gual y España) was a 1797 republican plot in La Guaira and Caracas, Venezuela, led by Manuel Gual and José María España.
Conspiracy of Li Chengqian
The Conspiracy of Li Chengqian (李承干谋反案) was the Tang crown prince Li Chengqian's plot to seize the throne from his father, Emperor Taizong, leading to his deposal.
Conspiracy of the Equals
The Conspiracy of the Equals was a 1796 failed plot by French radicals, led by Gracchus Babeuf, to establish communal property, which later influenced Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Conspiracy of the Machetes
The Conspiracy of the Machetes (Conspiración de los Machetes) was an abortive 1799 plot against Spanish rule in Mexico City, led by Pedro de la Portilla.
Conspiracy theories about Adolf Hitler's death
Conspiracy theories claiming Adolf Hitler escaped the 1945 Berlin suicide, most often to Argentina; fueled by Soviet disinformation, FBI files, and ratlines, but rejected by forensic dental evidence and historians.
Conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Conspiracy theories about Diana, Princess of Wales's 1997 Paris crash claim MI6 or Prince Philip ordered her murder. Operation Paget and the 2008 inquest found accidental death, no conspiracy.
Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory, also called conspiracist ideation, is an explanation alleging a secret plot by powerful groups, typically lacking adequate evidence and linked to reduced institutional trust.
Constable
A constable is an officer whose title descends from the Latin comes stabuli, today chiefly the lowest police rank in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries.
Constabulary
Constabulary: a police force, especially a county or colonial force on the British model; also the body of constables. Covers the 1839 and 1856 English acts, the Royal Irish Constabulary, colonial armed constabularies, and the Special Constabulary.
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley was an American civil rights lawyer and federal judge who won nine of ten Supreme Court arguments and helped James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi.
Constance Markievicz
Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), née Gore-Booth, Irish republican, suffragist and socialist; first woman elected to the UK House of Commons (Dublin St Patrick's, 1918, Sinn Féin, abstained) and first female cabinet minister in western Europe as First Dáil Minister for Labour.
Constand v. Cosby
Constand v. Cosby is Andrea Constand's 2005 E.D. Pa. civil suit against Bill Cosby, settled confidentially in 2006 for nearly $3.4 million; its unsealed 2015 deposition triggered criminal charges and the 2021 reversal of Cosby's conviction.
Constandine Ravindran
Constandine Ravindran is an Indian politician of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, named a DMK Rajya Sabha candidate in March 2026 to represent Tamil Nadu for a 2026 to 2032 term.
Constans
Constans I (Flavius Claudius Constans, c. 323–350), youngest son of Constantine the Great, Roman emperor 337–350 ruling Italy, Africa and later the whole West; defeated Constantine II in 340, murdered by Magnentius; distinct from Constans II (r. 641–668).
Constans II (son of Constantine III)
Constans II, son of the usurper Constantine III, was Caesar from 408 and co-Augustus 409/410-411 in the breakaway Gallic regime, suppressed a Spanish revolt, and was captured and executed at Vienne in 411 by the rebel Gerontius.
Constant relative risk aversion
Constant relative risk aversion (CRRA), also called isoelastic or power utility, is a utility function whose relative risk aversion is constant at every wealth level.
Constantin Argetoianu
Constantin Argetoianu (1871–1955) was a Romanian politician, diplomat, and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of Romania in 1939 and belonged to eight political parties.
Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654–1714) was prince of Wallachia from 1688 to 1714, whose reign produced the Brâncovenesc architectural style; he was beheaded at Constantinople with his four sons in 1714.
Constantin Noica
Constantin Noica (1909–1987) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist who worked in logic and ontology and led the informal School of Păltiniș in his last years.