(finance, business) The risk of not having access to sufficient funds to make a payment on time.

(astronomy) A type of reflecting telescope employing a parabolic liquid mirror made by spinning a pool of reflective liquid.

(analytical chemistry, chemistry) A piece of laboratory equipment used to analyse solutions of a beta particle emitter by measuring the scintillations from a scintillation cocktail.

high-pressure liquid chromatography

(chemistry) A form of chromatography in which the liquid mobile phase is forced through a column of solid stationary phase under high pressure

a display technology based on the ferroelectric properties of chiral smectic liquid crystals

plural of ferroelectric liquid-crystal display