A parade featuring a progression of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes. / A rhetorical device employing a series of progressively more terrible results following from an act.

A paragraph in which all lines other than the first are indented

Politics that is dominated by rivalry between political parties

A large public, urban park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

(psychiatry) A form of schizophrenia that is accompanied by delusions, either of persecution, grandeur or jealousy.

A company that is contracted, by a bank etc., to conduct some part of a financial transaction process; especially a company that provides software or hardware for such a process

(relativity) The phenomenon in which two observers who start together with identical clocks, follow different timelines, and then rejoin can have different elapsed times on their clocks, especially if one travels at a relativistic speed.

(relativity) The clock paradox.

A person with whom someone has had sex.

Miscellaneous items, especially the set of equipment required for a particular activity. / (archaic, family law) Things a married woman owns, such as clothing and jewellery, apart from her dowry.