** Myokymia, a continuous, involuntary muscle twitch that affects the muscles of the face, particularly the eyelids

** Clean and jerk

** anti-tank artillery: weapons, usually mobile, designed for attacking tanks.

** anti-aircraft artillery: weapons, usually mobile, designed for attacking aircraft from the ground.

** DI — Defensive Indifference: if the catcher does not attempt to throw out a runner ( usually because the base would be insignificant ), the runner is not awarded a steal.

** Latgalian ( 150 thousand speakers ; usually considered a dialect of Latvian )

** Samogitian (~ 0. 5 million speakers ; usually considered a dialect of Lithuanian )

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

** Name of the Recruitment Commission ( usually name of the town or city the soldier was attached to )

** Powdered milk ( or milk powder ), produced by removing the water from ( usually skim ) milk

** Stave-core-Consists of wooden slats stacked upon one another in a manner similar to a plank & batten door ( though the slats are usually thinner ) or the wooden-block hollow-core ( except that the space is entirely filled ).

** Stave-core-Consists of wooden slats stacked upon one another in a manner similar to a plank & batten door ( though the slats are usually thinner ) or the wooden-block hollow-core ( except that the space is entirely filled ).

** coathanger – slang for high contact to the head, usually by a stiff arm, which causes a player to land flat on their back.

** Oceanids ( daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, any water, usually salty )

** A variable for a 2-dimensional region in calculus, usually corresponding to the domain of a double integral.

** Mud plain Mud plains are usually found close to swamps and quicksand.

** having multiple alleles of a gene within a population, usually expressing different phenotypes

** Service record, usually associated with military service

** in a full consensus process: usually open to all interested and qualified parties and with formal procedures for due-process considerations.

** publickey: a method for public key-based authentication, usually supporting at least DSA or RSA keypairs, with other implementations also supporting X. 509 certificates.

** Comedy of errors – a work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

** the act of appointing ( i. e. giving ) an asset from the trust to a beneficiary ( usually where there is some choice in the matter — such as in a discretionary trust ); or

** EEC joined with European Coal and Steel Community and European Atomic Community to form the European Communities ( from the 1980s usually known as European Community ).

In the US, magazines and newspapers often do not use it, instead printing " family-friendly " censored versions, usually " n * gg * r ", " n ** ger ", " n ——", and " the N-word "; however, historians and social activists, such as Dick Gregory, criticize the euphemisms and their usage as intellectually dishonest, because using the euphemism " the N-word " instead of nigger robs younger generations of Americans of the full history of Black people in America.

** Military operation, a military action ( usually in a military campaign ) using deployed forces

** Note: The sum of the individual digits is usually compared with a previously computed value.

** Waterhouse – Friderichsen syndrome is adrenal gland failure due to bleeding into the adrenal glands, caused by severe bacterial infection.

** Chromatic aberration, caused by differences in refractive index for different wavelengths of light

** May be caused by mass effect or venous dilatations.

** Penalizing employees for failures caused by bad management

** Affective filter, an impediment to learning or acquisition caused by negative emotional (" affective ") responses to one's environment.

** Ionic polarization, polarization caused by relative displacements between ions in ionic crystals

** Self-focusing, an effect due to the Optical Kerr effect ( and possibly higher order nonlinearities ) caused by the spatial variation in the intensity creating a spatial variation in the refractive index

** Self-phase modulation ( SPM ), an effect due to the Optical Kerr effect ( and possibly higher order nonlinearities ) caused by the temporal variation in the intensity creating a temporal variation in the refractive index

** Puncture wounds caused by crabs, lobsters, sea urchins, zebra mussels, stingrays, flying fish, sea birds, and rubbish.

** An air crash in Indonesia ( likely caused by smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area ) kills 235 people ( see Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 ).

** The Panama Canal is closed for a couple of weeks due to damage caused by earthquakes.

** U. S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness ; no trace of arsenic is found.

** Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of unrest partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.

** Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.

** Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $ 470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.

** Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignment

** The Tollan followed a policy effectively the same as the Prime Directive, following the destruction of a neighboring planet caused by the misuse of power-generating technology given to them by the Tollan.

** Narcolepsy: A chronic neurological disorder ( or dyssomnia ), which is caused by the brain's inability to control sleep and wakefulness.

** Blast injury, a type of physical trauma caused by an explosion

** Blunt trauma, a type of physical trauma caused by impact or other force applied from or with a blunt object

** Plant pathology – scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens ( infectious diseases ) and environmental conditions ( physiological factors ).

** The early MMX instruction set shared a register file with the floating-point stack, which caused inefficiencies when mixing floating-point and MMX code.

** Rotating variables, stars whose variability is caused by phenomena related to their rotation.

** The pathologic process, injury, or disease that directly results in or initiates a series of events that lead to a person's death ( also called mechanism of death ), such as a bullet wound to the head, exsanguination caused by a stab wound, manual or ligature strangulation, myocardial infarction resulting from coronary artery disease, etc.

** QuarkXPress 9. 2. 1 ( 2012 ) ( Mac OS X only )-Fix " missing icons " bug caused by Lion 10. 7. 3