(obsolete, Britain, Oxford University slang) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; at Cambridge called a pensioner.
Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially rights on common land.
(telecommunications) A quality that applies to materiel or systems: (a) possessing like and interchangeableparts or characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained in common; (b) having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; (c) applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.
(law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.