(law) Of sound mind, sane; thus criminally responsible for one's eventual wrongdoing.

a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs. / (slang, usu. plural) One's hands or arms.

(medicine) A staining technique, using a sequence of crystal violet, iodine and safranine, used to differentiate bacteria into two large groups of species.

Resembling meal (the foodstuff).

(physics) the average distance travelled between two similar events; especially by molecules in a gas or liquid, electrons or phonons in a crystal or neutrons in a moderator

A heavy and intense form of heavy metal music with a focus on speed, technical precision, alternate picking, extended guitar solos, and often having aggressive lyrics.

(mathematics) A branch of mathematical analysis, concerned with the theory of integration, that generalizes the intuitive notions of length, area and volume.

(chemistry) the study of processes and reactions whose developments have been inspired by the biological membrane

(chemistry, physics) any of several processes for separating the components of mixtures by using thin barriers between two miscible fluids; any transmembrane force leads to preferential transport of one or more feed components

(physics, chemistry) a separation method in which a nonwetting, microporous membrane is used with a liquid feed phase on one side of the membrane and a condensing, permeate phase on the other