A voting system in which each voter lists the candidates in order of preference. At each stage the candidate with the fewest votes is excluded and their votes transferred according to the voters' preferences.

A boy serving as an acolyte in certain forms of Christianity. / A young man adhering to traditional values.

(law) The resolution of a dispute through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or similar means, as opposed to litigation.

present participle of alternate

That alternates. / (mathematics, of a knot) Having a planar diagram whose crossings alternate between "over" and "under" as one travels along the knot.

(architecture, Christianity) A partition, often richly decorated, separating the nave from the chancel in a church; a rood screen.

Somebody's alternate personality or persona; another self. / A very close and intimate friend.

Capable of being changed, changeable, mutable

Something that can be altered; a variable.

Of or pertaining to a grouping of languages (formerly proposed to be a language family, now generally considered a sprachbund by linguists) that includes the Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish), the Mongolic (e.g. Mongolian) and Tungusic (e.g. Xibe) languages, and less often the Japanese and Korean languages.