Any of three island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown.

possessions of the British Crown that are not overseas territories or colonies

(healthcare) An area for patients who require more intensive observation, treatment and nursing care than would be usually provided on a general ward. A standard of care between the general ward and full intensive care.

(computing, database normalization) A functional dependency of an attribute on a superset of itself.

(object-oriented programming) Design principle that states that (1) High- and low-level modules should both depend on abstractions and (2) instead of abstractions depending upon details, details should depend upon abstractions.

Alternative form of like one's life depended on it

Alternative form of like one's life depended on it

plural of high dependency unit

plural of trivial functional dependency

(idiomatic, simile) Desperately.