To place at disadvantage.
To estimate betting odds.
To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
To interfere.
The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
The situation where a person who knows two languages inappropriately transfers lexical items or structures from one to the other.
A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.