(law, archaic) A commission under which a court is empowered to hear and determine a criminal case. / (law, archaic) The hearing or trial carried out under such authority.

plural of terminal acetylene

(grammar) A form of declension that indicates at what point something ends.

Synonym of short s

A fixture designed to be installed in the end of a cable or a conductor in order to facilitate the connection.

(archaeology) The abruptly truncated end of a knapped stone flake that did not reach across the entire face of the core stone; also applied to the site of the break on the core.

(US) In Alaska, a light, high-altitude snowfall that indicates the end of summer.

(category theory) An object within a category which receives arrows from all other objects in that category, and such that each of these arrows is unique.

plural of terminal velocity

(computing theory) A symbol in a formal grammar that can appear in sentences of the grammar.