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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In organ-building, the wire whereby a pallet or valve is opened when its digital is depressed; a pallet-wire.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun computing A dynamic menu; a list of options in a computer application which appears below a heading when it is selected, and remains only as long as the user needs it
  • noun biology a technique by which a protein is being brought down in a test tube by another.

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