| state of the art | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the level of knowledge and development achieved in a technique, science, etc, esp at present |
| —adj | |
| 2. | the most recent and therefore considered the best; up-to-the-minute: a state-of-the-art amplifier |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |