(idiomatic, rhetoric, logic, linguistics) A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.

Before the menopause.

(nautical) The action of deliberately flooding spaces on one side (of a ship, boat, or other vessel) in order to counterbalance flooding occurring on the opposite side and keep the vessel on an eve...

plural of Willette