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  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double precision — using twice the normal amount of storage, as two words rather than one, to represent a number.
  • double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
  • driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
  • duchess of malfi — a tragedy (1614?) by John Webster.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • el camino bignum — (humour)   /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ The road mundanely called El Camino Real, a road through the San Francisco peninsula that originally extended all the way down to Mexico City and many portions of which are still intact. Navigation on the San Francisco peninsula is usually done relative to El Camino Real, which defines logical north and south even though it isn't really north-south many places. El Camino Real runs right past Stanford University. The Spanish word "real" (which has two syllables: /ray-al'/) means "royal"; El Camino Real is "the royal road". In the Fortran language, a "real" quantity is a number typically precise to seven significant digits, and a "double precision" quantity is a larger floating-point number, precise to perhaps fourteen significant digits (other languages have similar "real" types). When a hacker from MIT visited Stanford in 1976, he remarked what a long road El Camino Real was. Making a pun on "real", he started calling it "El Camino Double Precision" - but when the hacker was told that the road was hundreds of miles long, he renamed it "El Camino Bignum", and that name has stuck. (See bignum).
  • electroacoustics — a branch of acoustics that deals with the conversion of sound into electricity and vice versa, as in a microphone or a speaker
  • electrohydraulic — Relating to electrohydraulics.
  • electronic music — music: synthesized
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • equational logic — (logic)   First-order equational logic consists of quantifier-free terms of ordinary first-order logic, with equality as the only predicate symbol. The model theory of this logic was developed into Universal algebra by Birkhoff et al. [Birkhoff, Gratzer, Cohn]. It was later made into a branch of category theory by Lawvere ("algebraic theories").
  • ethnolinguistics — The field of linguistic anthropology which studies the language of a specific ethnic group.
  • european council — an executive body of the European Union, made up of the President of the European Commission and representatives of the member states, including the foreign and other ministers. The Council acts at the request of the Commission
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
  • executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • fictitious force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
  • figure-conscious — concerned to keep an attractively slim body shape
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
  • foreign currency — money used in another country
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • fuel consumption — use of a material to generate power
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • functionlessness — The quality or state of being functionless.
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • galactic equator — the great circle on the celestial sphere that is equidistant from the galactic poles, being inclined approximately 62° to the celestial equator and lying about one degree north of the center line of the Milky Way.
  • gas liquefaction — Gas liquefaction is the process of refrigerating a gas to a temperature that is below its critical temperature in order to form a liquid.
  • gaudí (i cornet) — An‧to‧nio (ɑnˈtɔnjɔ ) ; änt^ōˈny^ō) 1852-1926; Sp. architect
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • golden delicious — a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.
  • granulocytopenia — a diminished number of granulocytes in the blood, which occurs in certain forms of anaemia
  • greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track
  • health education — education that aims to give people the information they need to live healthily
  • health-conscious — having an active interest in one's health
  • heliotherapeutic — Pertaining to heliotherapy.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • heteromultimeric — (biochemistry) Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains.
  • high court judge — a judge who sits in the High Court
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