(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.

(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.

(now historical) A commander-in-chief; the head of an armed force.

(programming) A style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of to-be-specified-later types that are then instantiated when needed for specific types provided as parameters.

Alternative form of governor general

(Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.

plural of general anesthetic

plural of general anaesthetic

plural of spontaneous generation