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Cellular telephone is described as a device consisting of a control unit, a transceiver, and an antenna that processes calls to be sent to or received from the cellular system.
Cell manufacturing refers to grouping processes, equipment and people together to manufacture a specific family of parts. Highly automated and able to change over quickly to produce a different part within the family of parts.
Cattle Feedlots this industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in feeding cattle for fattening.
Catalytic cracking describes a refining process by which certain crude cuts are broken down or cracked into simpler hydrocarbon compounds at the molecular level by means of extreme heat, pressure, and exposure to a chemical catalyst. Essentially, the process changes the long-chain hydrocarbon molecules of less valuable crude components into more-valuable shorter-chain compounds.