A thin sheet of colored plastic used to affect color temperature of lights when shooting film or video. They are held in front of a light by clipping it to the barn doors using C-47s.

A dish of stuffed fish, or of fish cakes in broth.

(astronomy) A catalogue of deep sky objects compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from William Herschel. It contains nearly 8,000 objects, known as the NGC objects. Objects in the catalogue are numbered, and the letters NGC are prepended to these numbers, as in NGC 224 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or NGC 6205 (the globular cluster in Hercules).

The position or office of a general. / The term of office of a military general. / The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy. / By extension, leadership, good management.

(US, dated) Expression of surprise or annoyance, now usually equivalent to "Why should I care?"; so what?

very good, impressive.

The succeeding generation. / The next in line; upgrade.

Expected or intended to supersede present-day techniques.

An assembly of meshed gears consisting of a central (sun) gear, a coaxial internal gear-wheel and one or more intermediate pinions supported on a revolving carrier.

for general purposes; all-purpose