plural of asparagus

(idiomatic) A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe.

(computing) Describing a system which has been written so that different subsystems appear to add themselves to the main business logic without that logic having to include them explicitly.

Populus tremuloides, the American aspen, the leaves of which have flattened petioles that cause them to tremble in the breeze.

plural of aspect ratio

Of or pertaining to an aspect. / (grammar) Of or pertaining to grammatical aspect.

(construction) Asphalt produced by blowing air through molten asphalt to raise its softening point and modify other properties.

(roofing) A shingle manufactured by coating a reinforcing material (felt or fibrous glass mat) with asphalt and having mineral granules on the side exposed to the weather.

(roofing) A mixture of asphalt particles and emulsifying agent, such as bentonite clay and water.

plural of asparagine