One who, or that which, obliges.

Incidentally; in passing.

(law) An obiter dictum; a statement from the bench commenting on a point of law which is not necessary for the judgment at hand and therefore has no judicial weight, as opposed to ratio decidendi.

plural of obiter dictum

The region of space containing objects that an optical system can form images of.

A person seen primarily or solely as sexually attractive.

(accounting) The purpose for which costs are measured.

(geometry) Any angle that is not a right angle or multiple of right angles.

(programming) A programming paradigm that uses "objects" to design applications and computer programs.

(linguistics) A control verb whose shared object is not the subject.