(genetics) A flaw in the DNA.

(electronics) The loss of quality between successive copies, usually associated with magnetic audio and video media.

Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.

(physics) a device in which an electric charge is built up on a large spherical electrode by means of a rapidly moving belt

of or relating to genealogy. / (systematics) Of the relationships among individuals within a species. / (linguistics) Genetic (based on shared membership in a linguistic family).

(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree. / (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.

(relativity) A theory extending special relativity and uniformly accounting for gravity and accelerated frames of reference, postulating that space-time curves in the presence of mass.

(military) The military officer title

(informal, medicine) Short for General Hospital. or "X General Hospital" (where X is a stand-in for another part of the name), a common hospital name.

(religion) The first book in the Hebrew Bible. / A female given name from Ancient Greek of American usage since the 1980s. / (video games) A video game console, the Sega Genesis.