General
- Honour Moderations, a first set of examinations at Oxford University
- Maximum operating depth, in scuba diving, the depth at which a gas mix exceeds safe limits
- Ministry of Defence, the part of a government responsible for matters of military defence
- Modesto City-County Airport, Stanislaus County, California, US
- Museum of Discovery and Science, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
- Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, a medical condition
- MOD (0.129 seconds), basic unit of time used in the MODAPTS predetermined motion time system
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Famous quotes containing the word general:
“If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)