A CMOS battery--short for complementary metal oxide semiconductor--is necessary to retain your computer's hardware settings. Symptoms of a dying CMOS battery include system warnings, lost time settings, and sometimes even unexpected shutdowns. Once you've recognized the symptoms, you can check the battery itself.
A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a citizen-based association that operates independently of government, usually to deliver resources or serve some social or political purpose.
Meaning: An organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government. Classified under: Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects. Synonyms: NGO; nongovernmental organization. Hypernyms (NGO is a kind of...): organisation; organization (a group of people who work together) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of NGO):