(electronics) The loss of quality between successive copies, usually associated with magnetic audio and video media.

A commissioned officer in the British Army or Royal Marines or the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, or United States Air Force, ranked above a major general and below a general.

A business partnership in which each partner is liable for the firm's debts.

(military) A military officer who commands a brigade. / (US, military) A one star general.

A sequence generator which has a finite description of the internal generator state.

Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.

(relativity) A theory extending special relativity and uniformly accounting for gravity and accelerated frames of reference, postulating that space-time curves in the presence of mass.

A physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education; a family doctor.

An educational discipline based on the notion that certain techniques can enhance one's ability to evaluate and respond to the world

(chemistry) The molecular formula of a class of compounds in which actual numbers are represented by x, n etc., and organic radicals are represented as Rₙ