| absolute |
free of any external standard; not relative. [2/7 definitions] |
| absolute pitch |
the exact pitch of a single musical tone as determined by its rate of vibrations as measured on a standard scale. [1/2 definitions] |
| absolutist |
characterized by ideas, or a belief in ideas, whose truth is unconditional and not subject to any external standard. [1/3 definitions] |
| account |
an arrangement with a store or other business that allows a customer to pay for goods or services on credit offered by the store instead of the customer using cash at the time of sale or using a standard credit card. In such cases, the store generally offers its own store credit card. [1/16 definitions] |
| age of consent |
the age at which a person, usu. female, is legally considered to be competent to consent to sexual relations, used as a standard in determining whether statutory rape has occurred. |
| Alaska Standard Time |
the standard time used in most of Alaska, nine hours behind Greenwich time. |
| alphabet |
the letters of a written language, esp. if in the standard or customary order. [1/2 definitions] |
| alphabetic |
pertaining to or arranged according to the standard order of an alphabet; alphabetical. [1/2 definitions] |
| alphabetical |
pertaining to or arranged according to the standard order of an alphabet. [1/2 definitions] |
| alphabetize |
to arrange according to the standard order of an alphabet. |
| American Revised Version |
see "American Standard Version." |
| anomalous |
differing from the norm, standard, or common type or rule; abnormal. [1/2 definitions] |
| ASCII |
abbreviation of "American Standard Code for Information Interchange," originally, a standard code using numbers to represent characters used in writing English, allowing textual data to be transferred between computers. ASCII has been expanded to allow character sets from other languages to be similarly encoded. |
| Atlantic Standard Time |
the standard time used in the western Atlantic and the easternmost parts of Canada, four hours behind Greenwich time. |
| azimuth |
in gunnery or surveying, the angle of sideways divergence from a standard path or direction, as of a bomb or shell. [1/2 definitions] |
| bank rate |
the standard rate of discount that is established by a central bank or banks. |
| basis |
a particular system, mode of operation, standard, or guiding principle that underlies the way something else is established, decided on, or managed. [1/3 definitions] |
| benchmark |
a point of reference for judging value, quality, change, or the like; standard to which others can be compared. [1/2 definitions] |
| bimetallic |
pertaining to the use of gold and silver as a monetary standard. [1/2 definitions] |
| bimetallism |
the use of two metals, usu. gold and silver, at fixed values in relation to each other, as the monetary standard of currency and value. [2 definitions] |
| boxing gloves |
a heavily padded set of leather gloves of standard weight and design used in boxing. |