An official indicator that things will happen as planned.
A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches.
A verification that something is true or has happened.
An act whereby something conditional or voidable is made sure and unavoidable, especially the possession of an estate.
The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
A disagreement or argument.
An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
The quality of being different.
The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).