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  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • episodic memory — the recollection of events within their historical setting
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • fission product — a nuclide produced either directly by nuclear fission or by the radioactive decay of such a nuclide
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • glucocorticoids — Plural form of glucocorticoid.
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
  • hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hydrodynamicist — a specialist in hydrodynamics.
  • hydrostatically — In a hydrostatic manner.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypochondriasis — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
  • idiosyncratical — Alternative form of idiosyncratic.
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
  • incredulousness — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • indiscretionary — lack of discretion; imprudence.
  • inverted commas — Inverted commas are punctuation marks that are used in writing to show where speech or a quotation begins and ends. They are usually written or printed as ' ' or " ". Inverted commas are also sometimes used around the titles of books, plays, or songs, or around a word or phrase that is being discussed.
  • iridocapsulitis — inflammation of the iris and the capsule of the lens.
  • isolated camera — a television camera used to isolate a subject, part of a sports play, etc., for instant replay.
  • job description — an abstract of a job analysis containing the classification of and requirements for a job, used in hiring and placing prospective employees.
  • judeo-christian — of or relating to the religious writings, beliefs, values, or traditions held in common by Judaism and Christianity.
  • kailyard school — a school of writers describing homely life in Scotland, with much use of Scottish dialect: in vogue toward the close of the 19th century.
  • learned society — an organization devoted to the scholarly study of a particular field or discipline, as modern languages, psychology, or history.
  • leukodystrophic — Of or pertaining to leukodystrophy.
  • logical address — virtual address
  • marching orders — military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc
  • mass production — the production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • mastoid process — a large, bony prominence on the base of the skull behind the ear, containing air spaces that connect with the middle ear cavity.
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