(dated, biochemistry) the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)

Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Control Message Protocol. / (law) Initialism of International Commission on Missing Persons.

(obsolete) past participle of slit