a contract change authorised near the end of a reporting period where time does not permit budget to be allocated prior to the reporting cut off date

a library catalog A library catalog (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library

a linked list in which the head of the list is static, while the other entries are allocated dynamically

a multi-threaded library routine that allocates resources from a common pool and maintains an active resource list for each thread

a pattern matching routine that returns an attribute value for an item it matches