(historical, WW2) A garishly painted aircraft, flying as an initial reference point for a bomber formation in the early part of a mission.

Abbreviation of assistant.

(video games) Automatic adjustment to aim to improve accuracy.

(phonetics, phonology) An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the following sound.

(phonetics, phonology) An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the preceding sound.

A person employed to provide professional administrative services to clients, working remotely from a home office. / A software agent that can perform tasks and services for an individual.

A body of representatives convened to draft and adopt a new constitution for a country.

To defend one's rights or opinions, sometimes with unnecessary zeal; to thrust oneself forward.

(bioinformatics) The aligning and merging of fragments from a longer DNA sequence in order to reconstruct the original sequence.

(bioinformatics) The process of taking a large number of short DNA sequences and putting them back together to create a representation of the original chromosomes from which the DNA originated.