26-letter words containing a, c, t, i, v, o
- active measurement project — (networking, tool, project) (AMP) An NLANR project undertaking site-to-site measurement across the HPC networks. This work is intended to compliment the measurements taken by MCI and Abilene within the networks' infrastructure. Currently round trip times, topology, and packet loss are being measured.
- advanced function printing — Advanced Function Presentation
- analogue-digital converter — a device converting an analogue electrical signal into a digital representation so that it can be processed by a digital system
- carnegie mellon university — (body, education) (CMU) A university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. School of Computer Science.
- compassionate conservative — a political conservative who is motivated by concern for the needy but supports policies based on personal responsibility and limited government: George W. Bush ran for president as a compassionate conservative.
- compassionate-conservatism — a political conservative who is motivated by concern for the needy but supports policies based on personal responsibility and limited government: George W. Bush ran for president as a compassionate conservative.
- conversational implicature — an inference that can be drawn from an utterance, as from one that is seemingly illogical or irrelevant, by examining the degree to which it conforms to the canons of normal conversation and the way it functions pragmatically within the situation, as when “The phone is ringing,” said in a situation where both speaker and listener can clearly hear the phone, can be taken as a suggestion to answer the phone.
- convertible term insurance — A convertible term insurance is a life insurance policy which pays out if the policyholder dies within a specified period of time, but also allows them to convert to another type of plan.
- coordinated universal time — Universal Time as periodically adjusted to coordinate with atomic clocks: it serves as the official international basis for standard time
- electrochemical equivalent — the mass of an element liberated from its ions or converted into them by one coulomb of electric charge
- enhanced directory service — (operating system) (EDS) A common, distributed, integrated, directory service with centralized and/or replicated administration.
- event description language — (language) (EDL)
- finitely additive function — a set function that upon operating on the union of a finite number of disjoint sets gives the same result as the sum of the functional values of each set.
- free collective bargaining — independent negotiation between one or more trade unions and one or more employers or an employers' organization on the incomes and working conditions of the employees
- geotechnical investigation — Geotechnical investigation is a process in which the physical qualities of a site are evaluated in order to determine if the site is suitable and safe for the proposed purpose.
- have one's cake and eat it — to enjoy both of two desirable but incompatible alternatives
- hydraulic torque converter — an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing a different torque in the other shaft.
- individualized instruction — a teaching method tailored to the skills, abilities, and interests of the individual student
- interactive voice response — (communications) (IVR)
A telecommunications system, prevelant with PBX and voice mail systems, that uses a prerecorded database of voice messages to present options to a user, typically over telephone lines. User input is retrieved via DTMF tone key presses. When used in conjunction with voice mail, for example, these systems typically allow users to store, retrieve, and route messages, as well as interact with an underlying database server which may allow for automated transactions and data processing. (15 Sept 1997) - java database connectivity — (database, programming) (JDBC) Part of the Java Development Kit which defines an application programming interface for Java for standard SQL access to databases from Java programs. See also Open Database Connectivity.
- javascript object notation — (programming) (JSON) Syntax for serialising JavaScript objects, often used as a data carrier format. JSON is based on a subset of the JavaScript programming language. It uses a file extension of .json and is considered a language-independent data format.
- leave to one's own devices — to allow to do as one wishes
- make a virtue of necessity — moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
- mammoth cave national park — a national park in central Kentucky: limestone caverns with onyx formations, stalagmites, and stalactites. 79 sq. mi. (205 sq. km).
- most-favored-nation clause — a clause in a commercial treaty or contract by which each signatory agrees to give the other the same treatment that is or will be accorded any other nation.
- nature conservancy council — (in Britain) a body set up by act of parliament in 1973 to establish and manage nature reserves, identify SSSIs, and provide information and advice about nature conservation. In 1991–92 it was replaced by English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage, and the Countryside Council for Wales
- netware directory services — (networking) (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for Netware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directory represents each network resource (user, hardware, or application) as an object of a certain class, where each class has certain properties. For example, User and Print Server are object classes and a user has over 80 properties such as name, login, password, department, and title. The directory is hierarchical, divided into branches by rules of containment. A given object can only belong to a given container (or branch). The rules governing classes, properties and, rules of containment are known as the schema.
- open database connectivity — (standard, database) (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve databases. An application can submit statements to ODBC using the ODBC flavor of SQL. ODBC then translates these to whatever flavor the database understands. ODBC 1.0 was released in September 1992. ODBC is based on Call-Level Interface and was defined by the SQL Access Group. Microsoft was one member of the group and was the first company to release a commercial product based on its work (under Microsoft Windows) but ODBC is not a Microsoft standard (as many people believe). ODBC drivers and development tools are available now for Microsoft Windows, Unix, OS/2, and Macintosh.
- overdraft checking account — a bank account with a credit line permitting checks to be written for an amount above the account balance, subject to a finance charge on the overdraft.
- pellagra-preventive factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- prince henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
- privately held corporation — A privately held corporation is a company whose shares cannot be bought by the general public.
- public-service corporation — a private or quasi-private corporation chartered to provide an essential commodity or service to the public.
- record management services — (operating system) (RMS) Procedures in the VMS operating system that programs call to process files and records within files. RMS allows programs to issue GET and PUT requests at the record level (record I/O) as well as read and write blocks (block I/O). VMS RMS is an integral part of the system software; its procedures run in executive mode.
- take five (or ten, etc. ) — take a break for five (or ten, etc.) minutes, as from working
- transport driver interface — (networking) (TDI) Developed by SUN, IBM, and Microsoft (and others?), the TDI is a software interface between the protocols and application programing interface layers of the Windows NT network model.
- universal communications x — (communications) (UCX) A software implementation of the ubiquitous TCP/IP suite of communications protocols for Digital Equipment Corporation's OpenVMS operating system. Users of the UCX product can connect to heterogeneous networks to access and download files, send electronic mail, run and develop applications, and monitor activity.
- universal resource locator — Uniform Resource Locator
- universal time coordinated — incorrect term for coordinated universal time.
- vertical take-off aircraft — an aircraft which does not require a runway to take off as it can rise vertically
- victoria and albert museum — a museum of the fine and applied arts in London, originating from 1856 and given its present name and site in 1899
- virtual local area network — (networking) (VLAN) A logical grouping of two or more nodes which are not necessarily on the same physical network segment but which share the same IP network number. This is often associated with switched Ethernet. IEEE 802.1Q is a VLAN standard.
- voluntary service overseas — an organization that sends young volunteers to use and teach their skills in developing countries
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