(marketing) The systematic collection and evaluation of data regarding customers' preferences for actual and potential products and services.

(US, politics, informal) Research into one's opponent's family, friends, and past, which aims to uncover activities or interests which embarrass or discredit them.

(sociology) Research where the researcher themselves are an agent of social action.

(politics) Negative information retrieved about a candidate's opponent in an election for use in campaigning.

Research performed without regard to practical applications.

An octane number, used by the American Society for Testing and Materials to estimate the antiknock characteristics of a fuel at low engine speeds

(UK, politics) A Eurosceptic/pro-Brexit publicly funded political activist group subdivision of the UK Conservative Pary founded in 1992.

(medicine, virology) Medical research that alters an organism or disease in a way that increases pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range.

plural of gain-of-function research

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