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Comprehensive sexuality education programs refer to sexuality education programs that often begin in kindergarten and continue through 12th grade, presenting a wide variety of topics to help students develop their own skills while learning factual information.

Compressed workweeks refer to work schedules that allow an employee to work fewer days per week by putting in more hours per day. Compressed workweeks is likewise defined as work schedules in which 40 hours are worked in less than the traditional five-day workweek.

Deutsch: Kompromiss / Español: Compromiso / Português: Compromisso / Français: Compromis / Italiano: Compromesso /

Compromise refers to the settlement of a dispute by mutual concession. A compromise often results in both parties giving something up and meeting midway.

Compulsion refers to the uncontrollable, repetitive, and unwanted urge to perform an act; serves as a defense against unacceptable ideas and desires, and failure to perform the act leads to overt anxiety.

Compulsions refer to repetitive behaviors, such as hand washing, checking, counting or mental acts that a person feels he/she must perform; intended to prevent or reduce anxiety or distress, but not to provide the affected person with pleasure. Compulsions are repetitive ritualized actions that serve as mechanisms for controlling anxiety and are performed to extinguish obsessional thoughts. .

Compulsive sexual behavior refers to a compulsive need to relieve anxiety through sex. Compulsive sexual behavior also refers to a disorder in which the individual experiences intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges, and associated sexual behaviors.

Computational modeling refers to a method of testing hypotheses about how a process, such as language acquisition, works by implementing a model of that process in a computer program and asking whether the computer can mimic the process that is being modeled.

Computed axial tomography (CAT or CT scan) refers to a series of X-rays taken from various angles around the body which are integrated by a computer to produce a composite picture.