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  • noncomparable — not comparable
  • noncorrodible — (of a metal) not capable of rusting, decaying, or eroding
  • nonrecordable — Not recordable.
  • nonrecyclable — Not recyclable.
  • obstacle race — a foot race in which the contestants are prevented in a specific way from covering the full course at top speed, as by having hurdles to jump, sacks enclosing the legs, or potatoes to pick up.
  • obstetrically — (medicine) In terms of obstetrics.
  • obstructively — In an obstructive manner.
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • overbalancing — Present participle of overbalance.
  • overexcitable — Excessively excitable.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
  • process table — (operating system, process)   A table containing all of the information that must be saved when the CPU switches from running one process to another in a multitasking system. The information in the process table allows the suspended process to be restarted at a later time as if it had never been stopped. Every process has an entry in the table. These entries are known as process control blocks and contain the following information: process state - information needed so that the process can be loaded into memory and run, such as the program counter, the stack pointer, and the values of registers. memory state - details of the memory allocation such as pointers to the various memory areas used by the program resource state - information regarding the status of files being used by the process such as user ID. Accounting and scheduling information. An example of a UNIX process table is shown below. SLOT ST PID PGRP UID PRI CPU EVENT NAME FLAGS 0 s 0 0 0 95 0 runout sched load sys 1 s 1 0 0 66 1 u init load 2 s 2 0 0 95 0 10bbdc vhand load sys SLOT is the entry number of the process. ST shows whether the process is paused or sleeping (s), ready to run (r), or running on a CPU (o). PID is the process ID. PGRP is the process Group. UID is the user ID. PRI is the priority of the process from 127 (highest) to 0 (lowest). EVENT is the event on which a process is paused or sleeping. NAME is the name of the process. FLAGS are the process flags. A process that has died but still has an entry in the process table is called a zombie process.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republication — publication anew.
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • thermobalance — an analytical balance that measures weight changes when matter is heated
  • throttle back — If you throttle back, or you throttle back the engine, when driving a motor vehicle or flying an aircraft, you make it go slower by reducing the quantity of fuel entering the engine.
  • triboelectric — electricity generated by friction.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
  • tuberculation — Also, tuberculated, tuberculose. having tubercles.
  • uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
  • unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
  • unconquerable — to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.
  • unconquerably — in an invincible manner
  • unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
  • unconvertible — capable of being converted.
  • uncorrectable — not able to be fixed
  • unenforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
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