crime offense criminal offense criminal offence offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
crime | an evil act not necessarily punishable by law, crimes of the heart |
Had crime | (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran, Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery |
sexual assault sexual abuse sex crime sex offense | a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat, most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault |
Tazir crime | (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims, crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way, in some Islamic nations Tazir crimes are set by legislation |
vice crime | a vice that is illegal |
victimless crime | an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims, he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime |
war crime | a crime committed in wartime, violation of rules of war |
series circuit | a circuit having its parts connected serially |
GI series | diagnostic tests of the alimentary canal, usually involves inserting a contrast medium (such as barium sulfate) and taking an Xay |
series | (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions |
power series | the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable |
geometric series | a geometric progression written as a sum |
Fourier series | the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions, used in the analysis of periodic functions |
time series | a series of values of a variable at successive times |
series serial serial publication | a periodical that appears at scheduled times |
serial series | a serialized set of programs, a comedy series, the Masterworks concert series |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
series | (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams, the visiting team swept the series |
World Series | series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship, we watched the World Series on TV |
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN | a law enforcement agency of the Treasury Department responsible for establishing and implementing policies to detect money laundering |
organized crime gangland gangdom | underworld organizations |
syndicate crime syndicate mob family | a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities |
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention DCCP | an agency of the United Nations that promotes drug control and crime prevention |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
electromotive series electromotive force series electrochemical series | a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions, the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series |
series | similar things placed in order or happening one after another, they were investigating a series of bank robberies |
series | a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection, the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers, his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies |
confederate collaborator henchman partner in crime | someone who assists in a plot |
exponential series | a series derived from the expansion of an exponential expression |
series | (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other, the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors |
scale scale of measurement graduated table ordered series | an ordered reference standard, judging on a scale of to |
actinide series | (chemistry) a series of radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium |
lanthanide series | the rare-earth elements with atomic numbers through , having properties similar to lanthanum |
methane series alkane series alkane paraffin series paraffin | a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(n) |
crime rate | the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area, expressed per population per year |
serial in series(p) nonparallel | of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations, serial processing |