plural of captain general

An emotionally appealing term closely associated with highly-valued concepts and beliefs which convey or invoke conviction without supporting information or reason.

(business, accounting) The central accounting record of a company or organization consisting of the accounts that support the value items shown in the major financial statements.

(biology) Each of the two forms of an organism whose life cycle involves alternation of generations, or the fact of such alternation occurring in a given organism.

(evolutionary theory, historical) The fancied production of living organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters.

(now historical) A commander-in-chief; the head of an armed force.

(programming) A style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of to-be-specified-later types that are then instantiated when needed for specific types provided as parameters.

plural of glittering generality

Of or pertaining to someone whose parents are immigrants / Of or pertaining to a second version of something that is materially different to the first

The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department.