The technique, or an instance, of using likely guesses and assumptions, then narrowing in on any positive responses, in order to give the impression of having information about a person or event.

A person who reads. / A person who reads a publication. / A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience. / A proofreader.

Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively.

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which particles produced by the fission of one atom trigger fissions of other atoms. / (figuratively) A series of events, each one causing or influencing the next.

(chemistry) A compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, other compounds or reactants in a laboratory or sometimes an industrial setting.

Alternative form of real-world

The realm of human experience comprising physical objects, and excluding theoretical constructs, hypotheses, artificial environments, and "virtual" worlds such as the Internet, computer simulations, or the imagination.

(idiomatic) To infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly.

(chemistry) Either the oxidation or the reduction component of a redox reaction

A process such as the fission of an atomic nucleus, or the fusion of one or more atomic nuclei and/or subatomic particles in which the number of protons and/or neutrons in a nucleus changes; the reaction products may contain a different element or a different isotope of the same element.