(finance) an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value

A type of fluorescent lamp (that may or may not contain mercury).

(chiefly US) The principle that there should be no difference in remuneration between jobs held mostly by women and jobs held mostly by men, when the women's work is comparable in skill, effort, working conditions, and responsibility to the men's work.

(linguistics) A branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages in order to establish their historical relatedness.

(anthropology, sociology, ethics) A type of descriptive ethics, focused on studying the nature and origins of beliefs about morality held by people in diverse social or cultural groups.

present participle of comparison-shop

Alternative form of comparison shopping.

A compass, equipped with a small prism, that allows the heading to be read while sighting

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of box the compass

simple past tense and past participle of box the compass