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  • functional program — (language)   A program employing the functional programming approach or written in a functional language.
  • functional testing — (testing)   (Or "black-box testing", "closed-box testing") The application of test data derived from functional requirements without regard to how the system is implemented.
  • funeral procession — ceremonial cortège at a burial
  • gene amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
  • general confession — a prayer confessing sins
  • grand council fire — a formal gathering of camp fire members requiring a minimum attendance of three troops.
  • gulf of california — an arm of the Pacific Ocean, between Sonora and Lower California
  • gulf saint vincent — a shallow inlet of SE South Australia, to the east of the Yorke Peninsula: salt industry
  • handkerchief table — corner table.
  • historical fiction — the genre of literature, film, etc., comprising narratives that take place in the past and are characterized chiefly by an imaginative reconstruction of historical events and personages.
  • honeysuckle family — the plant family Caprifoliaceae, typified by shrubs and woody vines having opposite leaves, clusters of usually flaring, narrow, tubular flowers, and various types of fruit, and including the elder, honeysuckle, snowberry, twinflower, and viburnum.
  • in the first place — firstly
  • indefinite article — an article, as English a, an, that denotes class membership of the noun it modifies without particularizing it.
  • interface analysis — (testing)   A software test which checks the interfaces between program elements for consistency and adherence to predefined rules or axioms.
  • isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
  • job classification — an arrangement of different types of employment within a company or industry, according to the skill, experience, or training required.
  • king of the castle — most powerful figure
  • law of mass action — the statement that the rate of a chemical reaction is proportional to the concentrations of the reacting substances.
  • lawrence of arabia — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • lean manufacturing — efficiency in the production of goods
  • lifecycle analysis — Lifecycle analysis is the consideration of all the energy and materials that are needed to make a product and to dispose of it.
  • lifesaving service — a private organization or government agency for general marine rescue operations.
  • locally finite set — a collection of sets in a topological space in which each point of the space has a neighborhood that intersects a finite number of sets of the collection.
  • magnetic amplifier — an amplifier that applies the input signal to a primary winding and feeds an alternating current to a secondary winding where this current is modulated by the variations in the primary winding.
  • medical profession — the body of people who work as doctors of medicine
  • mexican fire-plant — a showy plant, Euphorbia heterophylla, of the spurge family, growing in the central U.S. to central South America, having red or mottled red and white bracts.
  • multifunctionality — The condition of being multifunctional.
  • negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
  • no-fault insurance — Also called no-fault insurance. a form of automobile insurance designed to enable the policyholder in case of an accident to collect a certain basic compensation promptly for economic loss from his or her own insurance company without determination of liability.
  • nonconfrontational — Tending to deal with situations calmly and diplomatically; not aggressive or hostile.
  • nursery facilities — places where young children are looked after
  • oath of allegiance — pledge to one's nation
  • oil of catechumens — holy oil used in baptism, the ordination of a cleric, the coronation of a sovereign, or in the consecration of a church.
  • old low franconian — a Low German dialect of the Franks of the lower Rhine valley before c1100.
  • once in a lifetime — extremely rarely
  • out of circulation — If someone is out of circulation, they do not appear in public or at social gatherings for a period of time. You can also say that someone is out of circulation when they are in prison.
  • people trafficking — the practice of bringing immigrants into a country illegally
  • percussion flaking — a method of forming a flint tool by striking flakes from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone or wood.
  • plane of incidence — a plane determined by a given ray, incident on a surface, and the normal at the point where the incident ray strikes the surface.
  • play second fiddle — be considered less important
  • pontifical college — the chief body of priests in ancient Rome.
  • reinforced plastic — plastic with fibrous matter, such as carbon fibre, embedded in it to confer additional strength
  • relative frequency — the ratio of the number of times an event occurs to the number of occasions on which it might occur in the same period.
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • self-actualization — the achievement of one's full potential through creativity, independence, spontaneity, and a grasp of the real world.
  • self-certification — statement of sick leave
  • self-contemplation — the act or process of thinking about oneself or one's values, beliefs, behavior, etc.
  • self-contradiction — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-contradictory — an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
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