The wife of one's grandson or granddaughter.

Alternative form of Christian sharia

plural of land guard

(nautical) To observe by the compass how the shore bears from the ship.

(Ghana) A vigilante who perpetrates assault and vandalism against land developers and their projects.

A large telescopic ladder mounted on a turntable on the back of a truck chassis, allowing it to pivot around a stable base; used in fire engines etc.

plural of turntable ladder

(computing theory) A formula giving the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at fixed execution time that can be expected of a system whose resources are improved.

(computing theory) A formula giving the theoretical speedup in latency of the execution of a task at fixed workload that can be expected of a system whose resources are improved.

A north-south running lake surrounded by the Champlain Valley, in upstate New York, Vermont and southern Quebec, spanning the United States and Canada, mostly lying within the U.S.; separating the Adirondacks from the Green Mountains and Appalachians.