(Australia, New Zealand) Hard dark stone crushed into small pieces used in surfacing roads, for ballast in railway tracks, etc; gravel; road metal.

Synonym of Czochralski process

Someone regularly participating in the activities of a hoodlum group which is identified as gang.

plural of mean streak

Alternative form of clapometer

Alternative form of taste of one's own medicine

Synonym of rousong

(mathematics) An iterative numerical method for finding a root of an equation f(x)=0, using a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate the root.

(mathematics) A root-finding method that applies to any continuous functions for which one knows two values with opposite signs, and consists of repeatedly bisecting the interval defined by these values and then selecting the subinterval in which the function changes sign, and therefore must contain a root.

(simile) Having characteristics considered quintessential to Australians; very Australian.