open

Definitions

• (not comparable) Not closed
• Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended
• (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
• (comparable) Receptive.
• (not comparable) Public
• (not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
• (mathematics) Having a free variable.
• (mathematics) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of .
• (graph theory) Whose first and last vertices are different.
• (computing) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
• (business) Not fulfilled.
• Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
• (music) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
• (music) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
• Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
• (law) (Of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. (Opposite of "without prejudice")
• (phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
• (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
• (phonetics) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
• (computing) Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
• (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.