(law) The principle by which someone can be legally culpable for crimes committed by those under their control.

plural of second-in-command

(computing) A spoken instruction to a computer.

The conscious control of one's own behaviour.

plural of chain of command

(military) The command hierarchy or structure in which one rank obeys the one above it, which obeys the one above it, and so forth.

plural of command line interface

(computing) A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language.

The "mother ship" of the spacecraft that carried astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo missions.

(computing) Alternative form of command line interface