A form of torture in which water is repetitively dripped onto the forehead of a victim who is restrained. / (by analogy) Any repeated irritation that builds to deliver cumulative damage.

plural of Chinese postman problem

(graph theory) The problem of finding the shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of a (connected) undirected graph.

Alternative form of Communist Party of China.

Eriocheir sinensis, a medium-sized burrowing crab with furry claws, native to parts of Asia.

plural of Chinese mitten crab

(number theory) A theorem stating that, if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime.

An English-based pidgin formerly spoken in Guangzhou and other ports in China.

(traditional Chinese medicine) Herbal medicine modernized into a ready-to-use form such as tablets, oral solutions or dry suspensions, as opposed to herbs that require cooking.

plural of Chinese patent medicine