The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department.

(mobile communication) A packet-oriented mobile data service available to users of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and IS-136 mobile phones. It provides data rates from 56 up to 114 kilobits per second.

plural of gender bender

(networking) The transmission of voice, data, video and any other form of information in packets over the same network.

An emotionally appealing term closely associated with highly-valued concepts and beliefs which convey or invoke conviction without supporting information or reason.

All the protective clothing, shields and weaponry worn or carried by a force attempting to control a riot.

(business, accounting) The central accounting record of a company or organization consisting of the accounts that support the value items shown in the major financial statements.

A measurable difference between the pay, status, political preferences etc. of men and women.

(biology) Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.

(evolutionary theory, historical) The fancied production of living organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters.