(finance) A type of mortgage (typically a loan to buy a house) in which, over the term of the loan, the borrower gradually repays the loan principal, in addition to paying interest, so that at the end of the term the principal is wholly repaid. Contrasted with endowment mortgage.

(military) The transfer of supplies to a seaborne vessel by helicopter.

past of reply-ping

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reply-ping

(transitive, Internet slang) To ping someone by replying to a previous message of theirs

present participle of reply-ping

A crisis caused by the problem that many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce, casting doubt on the meaningfulness of their results in light of the requirements of the scientific method.

All replication crises, in all scientific fields or specialties, viewed collectively as a unitary, single epistemic crisis.

An individual item of news

plural of stool of repentance