An integrated circuit containing analog circuitry operating at frequencies in and above the ultrahigh frequency band.

A situation in which the response to one problem creates a chain of problems, each making it more difficult to solve the original one.

Dated form of cigarette.

(semantics) A definition relying directly or indirectly on the term being defined.

(US, labor) Initialism of American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.

caller identification; a feature that identifies the phone number of the caller. / Abbreviation of combat identification. (compare IFF) / Acronym of center/centre instrument display.

(Britain, law enforcement, initialism) Scotland Yard Criminal Investigation Department / (US, military, law enforcement, initialism) U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command

(idiomatic, originally US, colloquial) Used to indicate that one is almost correct or has almost succeeded, but not quite.

A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion. / A bright red colour tinted with orange.

Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.