plural of anal fissure

(medicine) A break or tear in the skin of the anal canal, resulting in bleeding and occasionally pain on defecation.

(politics) Opposition to anarchism.

plural of time stretch analog-to-digital converter

Alternative spelling of analog clock

An ancient Semitic goddess of war and fertility.

(medicine) A rare condition in which somebody cannot feel and has never felt physical pain.

Opposing anarchism.

An opponent of anarchism.

(linguistics) Any valid analysis of a word's morphology regardless of whether it represents its etymology in the strict sense of that word (that is, the historical origin); for example, the word biology has a surface analysis of bio- + -logy although it was not coined as the combination of those combining forms (in fact predating them). The word can validly be viewed as an example of words ending in the suffix -ology even though it was not coined as one (whereas many analogous but newer words were thus coined, such as immunology).