(mathematics) A theory for atomic decomposition of a range of Banach spaces of distributions, including among others the wavelet transform and the short-time Fourier transform.

A mathematical formalism developed in the 1980s for the representation of meaning or semantics.

(mathematics) The study of the behaviour of queues, and of stochastic processes modelled on them.

(translation studies) The idea that translating and interpreting should primarily take into account the function of both the source and target text.

The field of study dealing with how music works, typically examining the language and notation of music, the patterns and structures in composers' techniques, and so on.

(LGBT) A field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of LGBT studies and feminist studies, a kind of interpretation devoted to queer readings of texts.

(topology) The branch of topology devoted to the study of continua, a type of metric space.

(mathematics, uncountable) The study of the properties of dynamic systems over large timescales.

(psychology) The ability to form an opinion about what other people are thinking.

(linguistics) A linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints.