The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.
To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain.
To abstain from (food or drink).
To declare to be a fact.
To make known.
A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
Rank; condition; quality.
A mess; disorder.
The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.