A form of torture in which water is repetitively dripped onto the forehead of a victim who is restrained. / (by analogy) Any repeated irritation that builds to deliver cumulative damage.

(graph theory) The problem of finding the shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of a (connected) undirected graph.

plural of Chinese postman problem

An English-based pidgin formerly spoken in Guangzhou and other ports in China.

plural of Chinese mitten crab

Eriocheir sinensis, a medium-sized burrowing crab with furry claws, native to parts of Asia.

plural of Chinese patent medicine

(traditional Chinese medicine) Herbal medicine modernized into a ready-to-use form such as tablets, oral solutions or dry suspensions, as opposed to herbs that require cooking.

(number theory) A theorem stating that, if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime.

Alternative form of Communist Party of China.