(uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession ...

plural of disabled sport

(medical genetics) A very rare disorder in which multiple benign tumors of cartilage, (enchondromas), develop within the bones.

An approach which extends hyperelastic material models to allow for the Mullins effect.