c-ration

1. 1.

   a canned field ration issued by the United States Army

   Broaderfield ration

Questions about c-ration

What does c-ration mean?

c-ration means "a canned field ration issued by the United States Army".

How many syllables are in c-ration?

c-ration has 3 syllables and divides as c-ra-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is c-ration a common word?

c-ration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.