CL Business & Finance Abbreviation

Classic

An environment within Mac OS X that allows a user to run legacy software. Classic emulates the earlier Macintosh operating system chosen by the user and pro-vides support for programs that aren’t compatible with Mac OS X architecture.

Channel

Narrow arm of sea between two land areas. Deepest part of a body of water, and through which main current flows. Longitudinal hollow or cavity. Flat projection from side of a ship to give spread to rigging (usually called 'chains'). Standard rolled steel section in form of three sides of a rectangle

Clerk

In the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS), a software component that receives CDS requests from a client application, ascertains an appropriate CDS server to process the requests, and returns the results of the requests to the client application. 2.In the DCE Distributed Time Service (DTS), a software component that synchronizes the clock for its client system by requesting time values from servers, computing a new time from the values, and supplying the computed time to client applications.

Closed

Having the skin intact with no underlying tissue exposed. Composed entirely of closed tubes or vessels

Close

To end an application’s relationship with an open file so that the application will no longer be able to access the file without opening it agai To end a com-puter’s connection with another computer on a network. Or An FTP command that instructs the client to close the current connection with a server or To end an activity and remove that window from the display.or To end processing by ending the connection between the file and a program.

Closet

Canada Life Financial Corporation

Closing

Cluster

In the computer world, a cluster can refer to two different things: 1) A group of sectors on a disk. While a sector is the smallest unit that can be accessed on your hard disk, a cluster is a slightly larger unit that is used to organize and identify files on the disk. 2) A group of connected computers. A cluster can also refer to several machines grouped together, all performing a similar function.