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35-letter words containing a, t, f, u

  • a picture of sth/the picture of sth — You use picture to describe what someone looks like. For example, if you say that someone is a picture of health or the picture of misery, you mean that they look extremely healthy or extremely miserable.
  • algebraic logic functional language — (language)   (ALF) A language by Rudolf Opalla <[email protected]> which combines functional programming and logic programming techniques. ALF is based on Horn clause logic with equality which consists of predicates and Horn clauses for logic programming, and functions and equations for functional programming. Any functional expression can be used in a goal literal and arbitrary predicates can occur in conditions of equations. ALF uses narrowing and rewriting. ALF includes a compiler to Warren Abstract Machine code and run-time support.
  • association for computing machinery — Association for Computing
  • city and guilds of london institute — (in Britain) an examining body for technical and craft skills, many of the examinations being at a lower standard than for a degree
  • computer aided software engineering — (programming)   (CASE, or "- assisted -") A technique for using computers to help with one or more phases of the software life-cycle, including the systematic analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software. Adopting the CASE approach to building and maintaining systems involves software tools and training for the developers who will use them.
  • customer information control system — (communications, database)   (CICS) An IBM communications system that was converted for database handling.
  • dynamic host configuration protocol — (protocol)   (DHCP) A protocol that provides a means to dynamically allocate IP addresses to computers on a local area network. The system administrator assigns a range of IP addresses to DHCP and each client computer on the LAN has its TCP/IP software configured to request an IP address from the DHCP server. The request and grant process uses a lease concept with a controllable time period. DHCP is defined in RFC 2131.
  • federal insurance contributions act — a law requiring that employees and employers alike contribute towards the cost of Social Security and Medicare
  • fortran automatic symbol translator — (language)   (FAST) An assembly language for the IBM 650 by MITRE Corporation.
  • fully automated compiling technique — (language)   (FACT, "Honeywell-800 Business Compiler") A pre-COBOL English-like business data processing language for the Honeywell 800, developed ca. 1959.
  • grateful/thankful for small mercies — If you tell someone who is in an unpleasant situation that they should be grateful or thankful for small mercies, you mean that although their situation is bad, it could be even worse, and so they should be happy.
  • he couldn't raffle a chook in a pub — he is incapable of carrying out even the simplest of tasks
  • institute for global communications — (IGC) Provider of computer networking tools for international communications and information exchange. The IGC Networks -- PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet and LaborNet -- comprise the world's only computer communications system dedicated solely to environmental preservation, peace, and human rights. New technologies are helping these worldwide communities cooperate more effectively and efficiently. Address: 18 De Boom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 USA. A division of the Tides Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organisation. A founding member of the world-wide Association of Progressive Communications (APC). E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • international scientific vocabulary — a vocabulary of scientific and technical words, terms, formulas, and symbols that are almost universally understood by scientists and similarly used in at least two languages. Abbreviation: ISV.
  • law of diminishing marginal utility — the law that for a single consumer the marginal utility of a commodity diminishes for each additional unit of the commodity consumed.
  • let the grass grow under one's feet — any plant of the family Gramineae, having jointed stems, sheathing leaves, and seedlike grains. Compare grass family.
  • multisystem extention interface bus — (hardware)   (MXIbus) A high performance communication link that interconnects devices using round, flexible cable. MXIbus is used between a GPIB card and a VXI cage.
  • national guard of the united states — those members and units of the National Guard that have been accorded federal recognition as a reserve component of the Army or Air Force of the U.S.
  • national information infrastructure — (project)   (NII, or "information superhighway") Future integrated communications in the USA. The NII will be based on a nationwide network of networks, and will supposedly allow all Americans to take advantage of the country's information, communication, and computing resources. The NII will include current and future public and private high-speed, interactive, narrow-band and broadband networks. It is the satellite, terrestrial, and wireless communications systems that deliver content to homes, businesses, and other public and private institutions. It is the information and content that flows over the infrastructure whether in the form of databases, the written word, a film, a piece of music, a sound recording, a picture, or computer software. It is the computers, televisions, telephones, radios, and other products that people will employ to access the infrastructure. It is the people who will provide, manage, and generate new information, and those that will help others do the same. And it is the individual Americans who will use and benefit from the NII. The NII is a term that encompasses all these components and captures the vision of a nationwide, invisible, seamless, dynamic web of transmission mechanisms, information appliances, content, and people.
  • national science foundation network — (NSFNET) A high speed hierarchical "network of networks" in the US, funded by the National Science Foundation. At the highest level, it is a backbone network comprising 16 nodes connected to a 45Mb/s facility which spans the continental United States. Attached to that are mid-level networks and attached to the mid-levels are campus and local networks. NSFNET also has connections out of the US to Canada, Mexico, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The NSFNET is part of the Internet.
  • out of a (or the) clear (blue) sky — without warning; suddenly
  • out of the frying pan into the fire — a shallow, long-handled pan in which food is fried.
  • perpetual motion of the second kind — motion of a hypothetical mechanism that derives its energy from a source at a lower temperature. It is impossible in practice because of the second law of thermodynamics
  • principle of mathematical induction — a law in set theory which states that if a set is a subset of the set of all positive integers and contains 1, and if for each number in the given set the succeeding natural number is in the set, then the given set is identical to the set of all positive integers. Compare induction (def 5).
  • pull oneself up by one's bootstraps — If you have pulled yourself up by your bootstraps, you have achieved success by your own efforts, starting from very difficult circumstances and without help from anyone.
  • sixty-four thousand dollar question — a crucial question or issue
  • structure of management information — (SMI) The rules used to define the objects that can be accessed via a network management protocol. This protocol is defined in STD 16, RFC 1155. See also Management Information Base.
  • that's not a bug, that's a feature! — The canonical first parry in a debate about a purported bug. The complainant, if unconvinced, is likely to retort that the bug is then at best a misfeature. See also feature.
  • there but for the grace of god go i — If you are talking about someone who is in a bad situation and you say 'There but for the grace of God go I', you mean that you are lucky not to be in the same situation as them and you feel sympathy for them.
  • to price yourself out of the market — If you price yourself out of the market, you try to sell goods or services at a higher price than other people, with the result that no one buys them from you.
  • to put the fear of god into someone — If someone or something puts the fear of God into you, they frighten or worry you, often deliberately.
  • trust-territory-the-pacific-islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
  • union of soviet socialist republics — former country in E Europe & N Asia, extending from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea & from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific: formed in 1922 as a union of fifteen constituent republics, it was disbanded in 1991: 8,649,000 sq mi (22,401,000 sq km); cap. Moscow
  • virgin islands of the united states — a territory of the US in the Caribbean, consisting of islands west and south of the British Virgin Islands: purchased from Denmark in 1917 for their strategic importance. Capital: Charlotte Amalie. Pop: 104 737 (2013 est). Area: 344 sq km (133 sq miles)

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