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An Acronym with many meanings:

CarbonCopy?

In ElectronicMail? addressing a CarbonCopy? recipient is sent a copy of the message and all other parties are (potentially) aware of that they have been sent a copy.

C Compiler

In Unix tradition, the C Compiler binary is called cc1?, and among the MakefileVariables, there's one called CC which stores the name of the C Compiler to use. On a Linux system, cc is almost always a link to GCC.

Credit Card

A small piece of plastic that lets you spend money you don't have.


1? - although, on some proprietary UNIX OperatingSystems? (cough*Solaris*cough), cc is a shell script that prints out something to the effect that you have not paid for the additional software development component of the system.