25-letter words containing a, d, p, t, e, c
- programmed data processor — (computer) (PDP) Early (1960's?) Digital Equipment Corporation family of minicomputers. The best known ranges were the PDP-10 and PDP-11. PAL was the assembly language.
- property damage insurance — insurance against losses arising from damage to the property of others, as in a motor-vehicle accident.
- really simple syndication — Rich Site Summary
- sequenced packet exchange — (networking, protocol) (SPX) A transport layer protocol built on top of IPX. SPX is used in Novell NetWare systems for communications in client/server application programs, e.g. BTRIEVE (ISAM manager). SPX is not used for connections to the file server itself; this uses NCP. It has been extended as SPX-II. SPX/IPX perform equivalent functions to TCP/IP.
- special educational needs — learning disability
- spectral band replication — (audio, compression) (SBR) Guessing the nontransmitted higher frequency range of a compressed audio file by some helper bits (transmiited with the stream) and the transmitted base band. SBR allows a restoration (not reconstruction) of the upper frequency range without lots of bits. It was developed by Coding Technology, and is useful for medium and high quality coding at low and medium data rates. It is used by Digital Radio Mondiale and MP3 Pro.
- statistically independent — (of events or values) having the probability of their joint occurrence equal to the product of their individual probabilities.
- take up the cudgels (for) — to come to the defense (of)
- thermodynamic temperature — temperature defined in terms of the laws of thermodynamics and not in terms of the properties of any real material. It is usually expressed on the Kelvin scale
- transcendental-philosophy — transcendental character, thought, or language.
- tribasic sodium phosphate — sodium phosphate (def 3).
- undisputed world champion — a boxer who holds the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, the World Boxing Organization, and the International Boxing Federation world championship titles simultaneously