The manipulation of a planet's environment to create a new environment.

(colloquial) raw deal

(fashion, furniture, art) Following or imitating a style popular during the First French Empire (1804–1814). / (of a woman's dress) Having the waistline just below the bust; featuring an empire waist.

A census-designated place in Stanislaus County, California, United States. / A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

(politics) An election that is called earlier than the regularly scheduled election time.

A British qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

(zoology) The tendency for female rodents to terminate their pregnancies following exposure to the scent of an unfamiliar male.

plural of Bruce effect

The Chinese phenomenon of distributed research using Internet media such as blogs and forums, sometimes as a form of vigilantism against an individual person/doxxing.

(graph theory) An edge that is attached to only one node, rather than connecting two of them, or is connected in only one direction