A commissioned officer in the British Army or Royal Marines or the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, or United States Air Force, ranked above a major general and below a general.

(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to. / (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process. / (transitive) To procreate, beget.

plural of genus

The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

(international law) An international treaty which defines the required treatment for prisoners of war by their captors.

A sequence generator which has a finite description of the internal generator state.

(genetics) A flaw in the DNA.

(electronics) The loss of quality between successive copies, usually associated with magnetic audio and video media.

Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.

(physics) a device in which an electric charge is built up on a large spherical electrode by means of a rapidly moving belt