(idiomatic) Thoroughly; including every detail; with all particulars. / (military) By engaging small sections of an enemy army rather than fighting a single pitched battle against the entire enemy force.

(law) A defeasible fee created with clear durational language expressing a condition (e.g. "so long as", "until", "while") which causes ownership of a property to revert to the grantor upon the occurrence of that condition.

plural of fee simple determinable

A depression in the ground designed to fill with rainwater that would otherwise cause flooding

Alternative spelling of house detective

A person employed by a privately owned establishment, such as a hotel or large retail store, with the job of preventing wrongdoing and apprehending violators of laws or other regulations.

The hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism's genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) determine the majority of psychological and behavioural traits.

(mathematics, probability theory) a Markov process is said to show detailed balance if the transition rates between each pair of states i and j in the state space obey

plural of detention centre

A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.