plural of avant-courier

(cryptography) A property of some cipher systems in which a small change in the input results in a very large change in the output.

(music) A genre of heavy metal music characterized by experimental and unconventional elements.

Unwilling to take risks; especially (economics) reluctant to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff.

A genre of experimental, avant-garde music influenced by garage rock.

(idiomatic) With no success or benefit; unsuccessfully.

(sports) The ratio of the numbers of goals scored for and against a team in a series of matches, sometimes used in deciding the team’s position in a table.

(aviation) Collision between a bird and an aircraft in motion, especially a jet airplane, in which the bird enters a running engine.

(finance) A metric used by brokers to represent the number of trades the broker can expect to make revenue from in a day

Negative short-term reaction to changes in a product or service.