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  • antitheoretical — opposed to or contradicting a theory
  • antituberculous — (medicine) Acting to combat or counteract tuberculosis.
  • aortic stenosis — abnormal narrowing of the aorta, especially of its orifice, usually as a result of rheumatic fever or embryologic anomalies.
  • apartment block — building: flats, apartments
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • archaeastronomy — (astronomy, archaeology) The historical, especially archeological, study of astronomy; the study of the astronomical systems and methods of ancient cultures often embracing the astrology and cosmology of the past.
  • archaeobotanist — A person engaged in archaeobotany.
  • archeoastronomy — the branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, especially as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures.
  • architectonical — Alternative form of architectonic.
  • arms inspection — the official checking of a country's weapons and other military equipment, usually to check that international agreements have been respected
  • at short notice — Notice is used in expressions such as 'at short notice', 'at a moment's notice' or 'at twenty-four hours' notice', to indicate that something can or must be done within a short period of time.
  • at the controls — If someone is at the controls of a machine or other piece of equipment, they are operating it.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • back projection — a method of projecting pictures onto a translucent screen so that they are viewed from the opposite side, used esp in films to create the illusion that the actors in the foreground are moving
  • baconian theory — the theory attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's plays to Francis Bacon.
  • balance control — a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount, etc.
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • benedict arnold — Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
  • benefit concert — a concert to raise money for charity
  • beta conversion — (theory)   A term from lambda-calculus for beta reduction or beta abstraction.
  • bicycle touring — the activity of touring on a bicycle
  • bidirectionally — in a bidirectional manner
  • bits per second — (communications, unit)   (bps, b/s) The unit in which data rate is measured. For example, a modem's data rate is usually measured in kilobits per second. In 1996, the maximum modem speed for use on the PSTN was 33.6 kbps, rising to 56 kbps in 1997. Note that kilo- (k), mega- (M), etc. in data rates denote powers of 1000, not 1024.
  • black operation — a covert and undocumented military operation
  • black snakeroot — a tall bugbane, Cimicifuga racemosa, of the buttercup family, of eastern North America, having thin, tapering, toothed or deeply cut leaflets and branched clusters of small, white flowers.
  • booster cushion — an extra seat or cushion placed on an existing seat for a child to sit on in a car
  • border incident — an incident, usually fighting, on a border between countries
  • boston massacre — an outbreak (1770) in Boston against British troops, in which a few citizens were killed
  • boustrophedonic — of or relating to lines written in opposite directions
  • box chronometer — a ship's chronometer, supported on gimbals in a wooden box
  • brachistochrone — the curve between two points through which a body moves under the force of gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve; the path of quickest descent
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • bristol channel — an inlet of the Atlantic, between S Wales and SW England, merging into the Severn estuary. Length: about 137 km (85 miles)
  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • brocken specter — an optical phenomenon sometimes occurring at high altitudes when the image of an observer placed between the sun and a cloud is projected on the cloud as a greatly magnified shadow.
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • brooklyn center — a city in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • bucket conveyor — a conveyor consisting of an endless chain with a series of buckets attached at regular intervals, used for moving ore, gravel, grain, or other bulk materials.
  • cadmean victory — a victory won with great losses to the victors
  • cairngorm-stone — smoky quartz.
  • calendarization — the process of calendarizing
  • canisterization — the process of putting (something) into a canister or canisters
  • cannonball tree — a South American tree, Couroupita guianensis, bearing round, woody-husked fruit whose shells are used to make containers and utensils.
  • car transporter — a vehicle for carrying automobiles
  • carcinogenicity — any substance or agent that tends to produce a cancer.
  • carry one's bat — (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cartier-bresson — Henri (ɑ̃ri). 1908–2004, French photographer
  • cast aspersions — If you cast aspersions on someone or something, you suggest that they are not very good in some way.
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