plural of community chest

(law) Property acquired during a marriage, excluding gifts and inheritances, that is owned jointly by both spouses and is divided upon divorce, annulment or death.

plural of climax community

(ecology) A community (group of interdependent organisms interacting with one another) which, through the process of ecological succession (the development of vegetation in an area over time), has reached a steady state.

(UK) The treatment and care of physically and mentally disabled people in their own homes, rather than in an institution.

(politics, economics) A form of anarchism advocating the abolition of the state and capitalism in favor of a horizontal network of voluntary associations through which people would satisfy their needs.

(physics) A no-go theorem stating that, during measurement of an entangled quantum state, it is not possible for one observer, making a measurement of a subsystem of the total state, to communicate information to another observer.

A planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

Alternative spelling of excommunication

plural of ex-communication