(electrical engineering) A device that converts direct current electricity to alternating current electricity.

A literary piece written in verse. / A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

(mathematics) A point on a curve where the gradient is zero. This point can be a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection.

An imaginary police force that ensures that people dress according to fashion.

(Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.

(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). / (transitive, intransitive, military, slang) To clean up an area. / (transitive, figuratively) To enforce norms or standards upon.

A male police officer, sometimes used for any police officer regardless of gender. / (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.

(logic) Involving induction of theories from facts. / (linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.

(logic) In a manner that deduces theories from facts.

(networking) An HTTP request method used to send an arbitrary amount of data to a web server. / (computing) Acronym of power-on self-test.