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  • safety factor — the ratio of the maximum stress that a structural part or other piece of material can withstand to the maximum stress estimated for it in the use for which it is designed.
  • safety screen — a screen covering a work area and protecting people and equipment from fire and other danger
  • sarcastically — of, relating to, or characterized by sarcasm: a sarcastic reply.
  • sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • security leak — a leak of information that could endanger public safety
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • subculturally — in a subcultural manner or way
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
  • superactivity — extreme activity; hyperactivity
  • surface yeast — yeast that rises to the surface as froth during fermentation.
  • sylvicultural — relating to sylviculture
  • symmetrically — characterized by or exhibiting symmetry; well-proportioned, as a body or whole; regular in form or arrangement of corresponding parts.
  • tertiary care — the aspect of in-patient care dealing with illnesses or conditions requiring specialized techniques, as coronary artery bypass surgery, renal hemodialysis, and treatment of severe burns.
  • testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
  • thalassocracy — dominion over the seas, as in exploration, trade, or colonization.
  • the archenemy — the devil
  • the heptarchy — the supposed confederacy of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
  • the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
  • theatricality — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
  • theoretically — of, relating to, or consisting in theory; not practical (distinguished from applied).
  • thermodynamic — of or relating to thermodynamics.
  • thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • touristically — in a touristic or touristy manner
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • tract society — a society that publishes and distributes religious pamphlets.
  • transcendency — the quality or state of being transcendent.
  • translucently — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
  • transmittancy — a measure of the extent to which a solution transmits radiation. It is equal to the ratio of the transmittance of the solution to the transmittance of a pure solvent of the same dimensions
  • traumatically — of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.
  • travel agency — a business that accommodates travelers, as by securing tickets, arranging for reservations, and giving information.
  • traverse city — a city in NW Michigan.
  • treacherously — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • tricarboxylic — pertaining to a molecule that contains three carboxyl groups.
  • tricarpellary — having three carpels.
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