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  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • discombobulated — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
  • discombobulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discombobulate.
  • disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
  • lambda-calculus — (mathematics)   (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • microsoft basic — (language)   (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
  • mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
  • monosyllabicity — The state or characteristic of being monosyllabic.
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • no-claims bonus — law: insurance premium reduction
  • non-compensable — eligible for or subject to compensation, especially for a bodily injury.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • polysyllabicism — a polysyllabic style
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • sand-lime brick — a hard brick composed of silica sand and a lime of high calcium content, molded under high pressure and baked.
  • sb's trump card — Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • semiabstraction — a work of art whose subject matter is semi-abstract
  • side impact bar — A side impact bar is a long beam in a car door that is designed to protect passengers during a crash.
  • skimble-scamble — rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.
  • small cranberry — See under cranberry (def 1).
  • social bookmark — the practice of saving bookmarked Web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other Internet users: Social bookmarking is a tool that allows you to add tags and comments to your bookmarks.
  • social climbing — advancement of one's social status
  • social mobility — mobility (def 2).
  • spermatoblastic — relating to a spermatoblast
  • sub-machine gun — a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip.
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • thomas a becket — Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.
  • unclimbableness — the quality or condition of being unclimbable
  • uncompromisable — that cannot or should not be compromised
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
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