(grammar) Synonym of independent genitive.

(grammar) A grammatical construction in which a noun or pronoun in the genitive or possessive case is used independently of the noun which it possesses.

(UK politics) Alternative form of UK Independence Party.

An alliance and confederation of nine former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed as a successor to the Soviet Union.

(law) A doctrine in the law of wills under which a testator may effectively change the disposition of his property without changing the text of the will, so long as the acts or events changing the disposition have some significance other than avoiding the requirements of the will.

plural of act of independent significance

An athlete participating in the Olympic Games under the Olympic flag, i.e. without representing any nation, either because the athlete is stateless, or because their nation has no international recognition or is banned.

plural of Independent Olympic Participant

(computing) A system using multiple hard drives for the sharing or replication of data in order to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance or throughput.

(baseball) A measure of a pitcher's effectiveness based only on plays that do not involve fielders. Originally included only hit-by-pitch, walks, strikeouts, and home runs allowed, but more recently incorporates fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and line drive percentage.