(inorganic chemistry) An analytical technique that measures the decay of elements when bombarded with neutrons

(chiefly southern US, idiomatic, dated, law, finance) A loan arrangement in which all of the money borrowed from a lender, for whatever purpose, is secured by one's home, land, and other property.

Alternative form of in the final analysis

(uncountable, statistics) A statistical method used to describe variability among observed correlated variables in terms of one or more unobserved variables (called factors).

(medicine) A chronic abnormal communication between the epithelialised surface of the anal canal and (usually) the perianal skin.

plural of analytic function

(anatomy) A triangular deepening on the radial, dorsal aspect of the hand, bounded by extensor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis.

(mathematics) A generalization of a theorem, identity or expression that involves a new parameter q that returns the original theorem, identity or expression in the limit as q → 1. They have applications in the study of fractals and the entropy of chaotic dynamical systems.

(computational linguistics, text analysis) The use of computers to process natural language in an attempt to identify and extract information about the writer's affective state.

Alternative form of q-analog