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  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • green cross code — (in Britain) a code for children giving rules for road safety: first issued in 1971
  • gross misconduct — a proven crime in connection with employment that is serious enough to require dismissal
  • gross negligence — extreme carelessness that shows wilful or reckless disregard for the consequences to the safety or property of another
  • ground substance — Also called matrix. the homogeneous substance in which the fibers and cells of connective tissue are embedded.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gruyère (cheese) — a light-yellow Swiss cheese, very rich in butterfat
  • guaranteed stock — stock for which dividends are guaranteed by a company other than the one issuing the stock.
  • gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
  • gyratory crusher — A gyratory crusher is a crusher in which a cone-shaped rod rotates in a cone-shaped bowl.
  • hacienda heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • hailing distance — the distance within which the human voice can be heard: They sailed within hailing distance of the island.
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • handling charges — a fee paid to cover the packaging, transport, etc, of a commodity
  • hanseatic league — a medieval league of towns of northern Germany and adjacent countries for the promotion and protection of commerce.
  • harvard graphics — (graphics, tool)   A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
  • heralds' college — a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.
  • high renaissance — a style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on draftsmanship, schematized, often centralized compositions, and the illusion of sculptural volume in painting. Compare Early Renaissance, Venetian (def 2).
  • high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
  • higher criticism — the study of the Bible having as its object the establishment of such facts as authorship and date of composition, as well as determination of a basis for exegesis.
  • horseback riding — activity: riding a horse
  • horsetail agaric — the shaggy-mane.
  • huygens eyepiece — an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses, the plane sides of which both face the eye.
  • hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • image processing — (graphics)   Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
  • imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
  • import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
  • incorrigibleness — The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
  • indexing service — a service that indexes the contents of a number of publications for use in printed or machine-readable form.
  • indiscriminating — not discriminating.
  • integer specrate — SPECrate_int92
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • jacobson's organ — either of a pair of blind, tubular, olfactory sacs in the roof of the mouth, vestigial in humans but well-developed in many animals, especially reptiles.
  • kangaroo closure — a form of closure in which the chair or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others
  • lactovegetarians — Plural form of lactovegetarian.
  • lapsang souchong — a large-leafed variety of China tea with a slightly smoky flavour
  • laughing jackass — kookaburra.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • learning process — a process of learning
  • liebig condenser — a laboratory condenser consisting of a glass tube surrounded by a glass envelope through which cooling water flows
  • light microscope — microscope (def 1).
  • lighthouse clock — an American mantel clock of the early 19th century, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
  • lighting effects — the illumination of a play, film, etc
  • linguistic atlas — dialect atlas.
  • linguistic stock — a parent language and all its derived dialects and languages.
  • listening device — a device used to overhear, record, or monitor speech
  • logical constant — one of the connectives of a given system of formal logic, esp those of the sentential calculus, not, and, or, and if … then …
  • long-tail claims — Long-tail claims are claims that are made or settled a long time after the insurance policy has expired.
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