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I've not been able to find a definitive answer on google. I think it means cross-platform.

Is there another site that is more appropriate for this kind of question?

Ltf4an
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    I also would have guessed that it stands for *cross-platform*. In their own words, *CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software*. – NameRakes Jan 15 '17 at 18:08

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It stands for cross-platform . See the Statement from Brad King

It does not stand for compile or cross compile but generates the make/project files for this step.

It does not stand for C or C++ because multiple programming languages are supported.

It does not stand for the third generation of any of the make / nmake tools because they are still required.

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