What Does CC Mean

There is no such actual meaning of CC. In general, CC serves as an abbreviation to any two words. And these two words can be common words or may relate to a specific jargon of any industry. Though CC has many full forms and meanings, it is usually related to two subjects. These two subjects are when sending emails and the engine capacity of a motorcycle.

What Does CC Mean in Email?

The conventional method used for making copies of written documents before the advent of computers was using carbon copies. This is how the name 'carbon copy' in emails came about. Those who have been using corporate emails accounts for a while might be knowing what CC means. It is also sometimes referred to as 'courtesy copy'. A Carbon Copy (CC) is a field which is present in the draft email, when you choose to send a new email to someone. It is situated below the 'To' field. The 'To' field is intended for inserting the email address of the primary recipient. The primary recipient is one from whom the sender does expect a reply or a feedback.

The CC field is for recipients who would receive a copy of the email and from whom the sender would not expect a reply. It is just for letting the recipients mentioned in the CC field know about the sender sending an email to the primary recipient. CC is rarely used in personal email communication, but is widely used in business communication.

Below the CC field comes the 'BCC' field. The full form of BCC is blind carbon copy. Now, this email field is for hiding the identity of the recipients. If the sender does not want the primary and the CC recipients to know who all he is sending a copy of that particular email to, he would include the confidential email addresses to be hidden in the BCC field. However, a majority of the people prefer not to use this field, as it can give rise to several issues later.

What Does CC Mean in Motorcycles?

Those who are using motorcycles and cars must be knowing what CC means in mechanical terms. CC, in technical terms stands for cubic centimeters. Without going into technicality, it simply refers to the capacity of the engine and how big the engine would be. More the CC of the automobile or the motorbike; bigger its engine would be, and more would be its power and the load carrying capacity. If you have observed, how many CCs the bike has may be mentioned on the tank or the frame of the motorcycle. The CC capacity in motorbikes ranges from 50 to even more than 2000. In cars, CCs are normally measured in liters. If the car has an engine of a 1000 CC, we would say it has an engine of 1 liter.

This was the actual meaning of CC in email terms and technical terms. CC can also be an acronym for call center, conference call, critical care, cheat code, cyber cafe, customer care, cost control, cost center, and many more. However, most of these words are used in informal communication.