Headless (disambiguation)

Being headless is acrania, the failure of an individual animal to develop a head, despite belonging to a species that normally does so.

Headless or Acrania may also refer to:

Science and technology

Medicine

  • Acephaly (medicine), a condition where a headless lower body can live if not detached from the body of its more normal twin
  • Decapitation, the severing of the whole head from the body

Computing

  • Headless system, a server with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached
  • Headless software, software capable of working on a device without a graphical user interface
  • Headless browser, a web browser without a graphical user interface

Linguistics

  • Headless phrase, a term in linguistics for a phrase with no head

Geology

Media and pop culture

Literature

gollark: It's irritating that there's not room in my neural interface for a block scanner.
gollark: My thing just tries to slow you down all the time if you're going downward fast. Which mostly works with hover boots.
gollark: My flight script used to detect the ground, but it was far too slow.
gollark: Collision avoidance? How does that work?
gollark: Another fun idea: advertising in potatOS, but you have to buy advertising slots using a complicated auction thing as Google's Adwords thing does.
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