(typography) a set of typographic rules as to how certain characters are not allowed at the start or end of a line during line breaking, for example, a start quote 「 is not allowed at the end of a line, an end quote 」, full stop 。 or small kana ぁ is not allowed at the start, etc.

(mathematics) rounding

(cooking) preparation of ingredients

dossier

case closed

closure of a case, settlement of a matter

(a case) become closed, (a matter) become settled

real-time operation

(computing) natural language processing, NLP

(computer hardware) a central processing unit