A particular means of accomplishing something.
A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
Style or fashion; popular trend.
That which exists only as a quality of substance.
One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
One of several ancient Greek scales.
A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
The act or operation of reaping.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Tending to cut or tear.