(sciences) A type of competition where the resource is inadequate to fit the needs of all and the resource is partitioned unequally among contestants, thus some obtain all they need and others less than they need.

Abbreviation of continued.

(anthropology) The first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures. / (science fiction) The first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials.

the connection where two or more electrical conductors meet or are joined. / the point on a conductor or electrical device where the connection happens.

(sometimes offensive, dated, informal) Africa.

(computing) The main repository of a content management system

(mathematical analysis, of a function) The property of being uniformly continuous.

plural of context-free grammar

plural of continental shift

plural of continental slope