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Chief engineer
The chief engineer is the senior engineer officer of a merchant ship, head of the engine department, responsible to the master for the ship's machinery and propulsion.
Chief information officer
A chief information officer, also known as an IT director, is an executive who oversees an organization's IT people, processes, and technologies to support business goals.
Chief information security officer
The chief information security officer (CISO) is the executive responsible for an organization's cybersecurity risk, a role first held by Steve Katz at Citicorp in 1995.
Chief Joseph Dam
Chief Joseph Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers with 2,611 megawatts of capacity.
Chief mate
The chief mate, also called chief officer or first mate, is the deck officer second to the master of a merchant ship, responsible for cargo operations and stability.
Chief Post Office, Christchurch
The Chief Post Office in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, is a former government post office built in 1877–1879 to a design by William Clayton, best known as the home of New Zealand's first telephone exchange.
CHIEF Telecom
CHIEF Telecom, also known as Chief Telecom Inc. (是方電訊), is a Taiwanese carrier-neutral data center company founded in 1991 and majority-owned by Chunghwa Telecom. It operates TPIX, the largest internet exchange in Taiwan.
Chieftain (tank)
The Chieftain (FV4201) was a British main battle tank that served as the British Army's principal tank from 1966 until the early 1990s, armed with a 120 mm gun.
Chieh-Su Hsu
Chieh-Su Hsu (徐皆苏, 1922–2014) was a mechanical engineer and applied mechanician at the University of California, Berkeley, known for cell-to-cell mapping methods of global analysis for nonlinear dynamical systems.
Chieko Asakawa
Chieko Asakawa is a blind Japanese computer scientist who invented the IBM Home Page Reader voice browser, became the first Japanese woman IBM Fellow, and directs Miraikan in Tokyo.
Chifeng Daban power station
Chifeng Daban power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Daban, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China, operating two 600 MW lignite units since 2013.
Chifeng Yuanbaoshan power station
Chifeng Yuanbaoshan power station (元宝山发电厂) is a lignite-fired pit-mouth coal power station in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China, founded in 1974 with four units totaling 2,100 MW.
Chih-Tang Sah
Chih-Tang Sah (萨支唐, 1932–2025) was a Chinese-born American engineer who co-invented the CMOS circuit with Frank Wanlass in 1963, the technology behind nearly all integrated circuits.
Chikka Tirupati (ಚಿಕ್ಕ ತಿರುಪತಿ)
Chikka Tirupati (ಚಿಕ್ಕ ತಿರುಪತಿ), 'Small Tirupati', is a Venkateshwara (Prasanna Venkataramana Swamy) temple in Malur taluk, Kolar district, Karnataka, near Bengaluru, with a Mahabharata Agni legend, Abhayahastha idol, and Dravidian gopura.
Chilca power station
Chilca power station is a gas-fired generation complex in Chilca district, Cañete province, south of Lima, Peru, whose ENGIE combined-cycle plant Chilca 1, running on Camisea gas, produces about 862 MW.
Child abuse image content list
A child abuse image content list, or CSAM hash list, is a database of hash values for confirmed child sexual abuse images and videos, used by technology companies to detect and block known material.
Child restraint law
A child restraint law requires child passengers to be secured in an approved car seat or booster seat rather than an adult seat belt alone, with every U.S. state having one.
Child safety seat
A child safety seat, also called a child car seat, is a seat that protects small children in car crashes, cutting infant fatalities by an estimated 71%.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, is a 1998 United States federal law requiring verifiable parental consent before websites collect personal information from children under 13.
Chilean Air Force
The Chilean Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea de Chile, FACH) is the air branch of Chile's armed forces, created on 21 March 1930 by unifying Army and Navy aviation.
Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission
The Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CCHEN) is Chile's nuclear regulator and research institute, created by law in 1965 and linked to the Ministry of Energy.
Chill casting
Chill casting is a foundry technique in which metal or water-cooled inserts, called chills, speed local solidification and refine grain structure; it also names casting in permanent metal molds.
Chilled water system (data center cooling)
A chilled water system in a data center is a central plant that cools water with chillers and pumps it to heat exchangers carrying server heat to cooling towers.
Chiller
A chiller is a machine that uses a refrigerant cycle to remove heat from a liquid, typically water, which is then circulated to cool buildings or industrial process equipment.
Chillingar Oil Field
Chillingar Oil Field (میدان نفتی چلینگر) is an onshore conventional oil field in the Dezful embayment of southwest Iran, discovered in 1974 and operated by the National Iranian Oil Company.
Chiltern Railways
Chiltern Railways, operated by M40 Trains, is a British train company running services from London Marylebone to Birmingham Snow Hill, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Oxford since 1996.
Chilwee
Chilwee (超威) is the international brand of Chaowei Group Co., Ltd., a Chinese battery manufacturer best known for lead-acid motive batteries for electric bicycles and tricycles.
Chimay hydroelectric plant
The Chimay hydroelectric plant is a 152 MW hydroelectric station on the Río Tulumayo in Junín, Peru, opened in 2000 and owned by Chinango S.A.C.
CHIME/FRB Outriggers
CHIME/FRB Outriggers is a very-long-baseline interferometry network of three CHIME-like radio telescopes in North America, built to localize fast radio bursts detected by CHIME to about 50 milliarcsecond precision.
Chimney
A chimney, also called a chimney stack or smokestack, is a vertical structure that vents smoke and combustion gases from a fire or furnace out of a building.