plural of senior chief petty officer

(US, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above chief petty officer and below master chief petty officer.

A sensory nerve ending that recognizes a stimulus in the internal or external environment of an organism.

plural of sensory receptor

(grammar) A sentence discussing factual implications or hypothetical situations and their consequences. A full conditional sentence contains two clauses: the condition or protasis, and the consequence or apodosis.

plural of sense strand

(genetics) A strand of (two-stranded) DNA which is transcribed into mRNA.

(idiomatic) Common sense; sensibleness.

(grammar) An adverb that modifies an entire clause or sentence rather than a single word or phrase.

(offensive) AIDS; acquired immune deficiency syndrome.