The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life, much of which may be trivial.

The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department.

A fallacy of irrelevance where a conclusion is suggested based solely on something or someone's origin rather than its current meaning or context.

(mobile communication) A packet-oriented mobile data service available to users of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and IS-136 mobile phones. It provides data rates from 56 up to 114 kilobits per second.

(networking) The transmission of voice, data, video and any other form of information in packets over the same network.

An emotionally appealing term closely associated with highly-valued concepts and beliefs which convey or invoke conviction without supporting information or reason.

(law) A canon of construction holding that when a general term follows a list of particular terms, the general term only applies to things similar to the particular terms. For example, in the list "sun, moon, and other large objects", the phrase "other large objects" only includes celestial bodies, not houses and elephants.

(business, accounting) The central accounting record of a company or organization consisting of the accounts that support the value items shown in the major financial statements.

A discipline that analyses the influence of landscape and environmental features on the genetic structure of a population.

(biology) Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.