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Corpus Christi LNG

Corpus Christi LNG is a liquefied natural gas export terminal on Corpus Christi Bay in Texas, owned by Cheniere Energy and first producing LNG in 2018.

Corpus Christi Pipeline

The Corpus Christi Pipeline is a Cheniere Energy natural gas pipeline running from near Sinton, Texas, to the Corpus Christi LNG export terminal, in service since 2018.

Corrado Böhm

Corrado Böhm (1923–2017) was an Italian computer scientist and mathematician at the University of Rome known for the Böhm–Jacopini theorem, the theoretical basis of structured programming, and for lambda calculus results.

Corredor Norte (Panama)

The Corredor Norte is a toll highway in Panama City running along the city's north side, linking the center to northern suburbs and the Panamá–Colón highway.

Correlated subquery

A correlated subquery is a SQL subquery that references a column of the outer query, so it cannot run alone and is evaluated once per candidate outer row.

Correlation receiver

A correlation receiver is a digital-communication receiver that decides which known signal was sent by cross-correlating the received waveform with stored copies of each candidate, equivalent to a matched filter.

Corrib Oil and Gas Field

The Corrib gas field, discovered in 1996 about 83 kilometers off County Mayo, Ireland, began production in 2015 and is the country's only producing gas field, supplying 100% of domestic gas production.

Corridor-based trajectory planning

Corridor-based trajectory planning encodes a robot's collision-free path in overlapping convex regions and optimizes the trajectory inside them, widely used for drones and autonomous vehicles.

Corrosion fatigue

Corrosion fatigue is the premature cracking of a metal under repeated cyclic loading in a corrosive environment, at lower stresses than fatigue alone would cause.

Corrosion inhibitor

A corrosion inhibitor is a chemical compound that, at low concentrations, slows metal corrosion, in civil engineering chiefly an admixture protecting steel reinforcement in concrete from chloride attack.

Corrosion Science

Corrosion Science is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier since 1961, originally under Pergamon Press, covering corrosion and its practical control across metals, polymers, ceramics, and other materials.

Corrugated galvanised iron

Corrugated galvanised iron, also called corrugated iron or corrugated steel, is sheet iron or steel rolled into a wavy profile and zinc-coated to resist rust, patented in 1829.

Corrugating medium

Corrugating medium, also called fluting medium or fluting paper, is the paper formed into the wave-shaped core of corrugated board, giving packaging its compression strength and rigidity.

Corsair Gaming

Corsair Gaming is an American computer hardware company headquartered in Milpitas, California, founded in 1994 as a memory maker, now selling gaming peripherals, components, and systems under brands including Elgato and SCUF.

CORSIM

CORSIM (CORridor SIMulation) is a microscopic traffic simulation model developed by the US Federal Highway Administration, formed in 1994 by merging NETSIM and FRESIM and distributed as the core of TSIS-CORSIM.

Corsin Battaglia

Corsin Battaglia is a Swiss materials scientist who directs the Materials for Energy Conversion laboratory at Empa and holds adjunct professorships at ETH Zurich and EPFL, working on solid-state batteries and electrochemical CO2 conversion.

Cortana (Halo)

Cortana is a fictional artificial intelligence character in the Halo video game franchise, created by Dr. Catherine Halsey in the fiction and voiced by Jen Taylor since her 2001 debut.

Cortana (virtual assistant)

Cortana was Microsoft's virtual assistant, introduced in 2014 for Windows Phone 8.1 and named after the Halo character, retired in 2023 as Microsoft Copilot took over.

Cortes La Muela I hydroelectric plant

Cortes La Muela I is an underground pumped-storage hydroelectric plant on the Júcar river in Valencia, Spain, pumping water about 500 meters up to a plateau reservoir for peak demand.

Cortical Labs

Cortical Labs is a biotechnology company founded in Melbourne in 2019 that builds synthetic biological intelligence, growing human neurons on silicon chips to process information.

Corvette

A corvette is a small, heavily armed surface warship smaller than a frigate, typically displacing 500 to 3,000 tons and used for patrol, escort, and anti-submarine missions.

Corviale

Corviale is a public residential megastructure in southwest Rome: a concrete slab about one kilometer long, designed in 1972 by a team led by Mario Fiorentino, with first apartments delivered in 1982.

Corvin Castle

Corvin Castle, also known as Hunyadi or Hunedoara Castle, is a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Hunedoara, Transylvania, Romania, expanded by John Hunyadi and King Matthias Corvinus into one of Eastern Europe's largest medieval buildings.

Corvus Energy

Corvus Energy is a Canadian-founded, Norwegian-owned company making lithium-ion battery systems for ships, ferries, offshore vessels, and ports. It supplied batteries for the MF Ampere, the world's first fully electric ferry.

Cosan

Cosan is a Brazilian holding company, headquartered in São Paulo and tracing its origins to a 1936 sugarcane mill, that invests in logistics, natural gas, lubricants, and farmland.

Cosan FSRU

The Cosan FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit serving the São Paulo LNG terminal at the port of Santos, Brazil, operating since 2024.

Coscientist

Coscientist is an AI agent built on GPT-4 that autonomously designs and runs chemistry experiments, developed at Carnegie Mellon University and reported in Nature in 2023.

COSCO

COSCO, also known as China Ocean Shipping Company, is a Chinese state-owned shipping conglomerate formed in Shanghai in 2016, among the largest shipping enterprises in the world.

COSCO Shipping Energy

COSCO Shipping Energy (中远海运能源) is a Shanghai-based state-owned Chinese shipping company that transports crude oil, product oil, LNG, LPG, and chemicals, and operates the world's largest oil tanker fleet by capacity.

COSCO Shipping Lines

COSCO Shipping Lines is a Chinese container shipping company headquartered in Shanghai, formed in 2016 from COSCO and China Shipping's container businesses and ranked fourth worldwide in container fleet capacity.