A contractual provision determining the territorial (or less often only international, or subject matter) jurisdiction for a legal dispute concerning a concrete legal relationship.

The tendency to interpret information in a way that supports what one already believes.

A process in modelbuilding, in which bulky and/or repetitious elements of the prototype being modeled are omitted, in order to capture the important details in a smaller-than-scale model.

(US, law) A pathogen or biological toxin which has been declared to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety.

plural of select agent

(clinical psychology, psychiatry) A severe form of social anxiety disorder characterized by a total inability to speak or communicate orally in certain social settings. The inability to speak is involuntary and persistent, and is not caused by a communication disorder, neurodevelopmental disorder, psychotic disorder, or intellectual disability.

Alternative spelling of nonselective

(biology) The characteristic of an organism that enables it to survive and reproduce better than other organisms in a population in a given environment; the basis for evolution by natural selection.

The practice of breeding the best specimens of a given organism to encourage certain features.

A standardized colour for automotive lamps, intended to improve vision by removing blue wavelengths from the projected light.