(rail transport) to remove points and crossovers from a stretch of track.

(figuratively) A good aspect of a mostly bad event.

(idiomatic) To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.

(computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link. / (programming) Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text.

Images that consist of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color).

The limit of the tenant space, either physically demarcated (by a demising partition or demising wall) or imaginary, controlled by the tenant of a leased, typically retail space, in a multi-tenant establishment, such as a mall.

Alternative spelling of rhumb line

(typography) A point in writing where text that would normally continue on the same line starts at the beginning of a new line.

(software compilation) The replacement by a compiler of a function call with a copy of the entire function body, sometimes used as an optimization.

(rare) A line or rope held by one or many pickets, chiefly one used for tethering horses. / (military, rare) A barrier or fortification formed by pickets; a stockade.