(databases) A proposed operator, for use in database queries, that filters out results that are worse than others according to multiple criteria.

(Church of England) A party who opposes the grant of a faculty for the alteration of a church.

(transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, open. / To make a breakthrough on a mystery or problem; to cause a breakthrough to be made.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of break open

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lay open

the state or quality of being open-ended

(figuratively) Cognizant of any risks involved.

symphysiotomy

(biochemistry) The tripeptide (N-(L-γ-glutamyl)-(2S)-2-aminobutyryl)glycine present in the lens of some animal eyes

to expand, to widen, to unwrap or unfold, to spread out from a compact state