(software architecture) Abstract principle describing an aspect of some software architecture designs in which the flow of control of a system is inverted in comparison to the traditional architecture, getting the flow of control from a generic code part.

(sequence, idiomatic) Firstly; before anything else.

A peninsula in East Africa, jutting into the Guardafui Channel.

People's acceptance, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.

A particular region of Russia from 1791 to 1917, designated for Jews.

plural of order of magnitude

plural of person of ordinary skill in the art

Official name of Senegal.

(publishing) Not available from the publisher (of a printed work, especially a book, or a music release).

(law) A legal standard, applied in many jurisdictions for deciding the outcome of civil disputes, which requires that evidence be sufficient to determine that a claim is more likely to be true than not.