(law) A doctrine in the law of wills under which a testator may effectively change the disposition of his property without changing the text of the will, so long as the acts or events changing the disposition have some significance other than avoiding the requirements of the will.

plural of act of independent significance

An athlete participating in the Olympic Games under the Olympic flag, i.e. without representing any nation, either because the athlete is stateless, or because their nation has no international recognition or is banned.

A Euro-sceptic political party in the United Kingdom.

An alliance and confederation of nine former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed as a successor to the Soviet Union.

A greeting used during Independence Day to recognize its celebration.

plural of Independent Olympic Participant

(baseball) A measure of a pitcher's effectiveness based only on plays that do not involve fielders. Originally included only hit-by-pitch, walks, strikeouts, and home runs allowed, but more recently incorporates fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and line drive percentage.

the equation ̂H𝜓(⃑r)=E𝜓(⃑r), for some constant E; applies to separable solutions 𝛹(⃑r,t)=𝜓(⃑r)𝜙(t) to the Schrödinger equation

(UK politics) Alternative form of UK Independence Party.