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  • duccio di buoninsegna — c1255–1319? Italian painter.
  • dynamic data exchange — (language)   (DDE, originally Dynamic Data Linking, DDL) A Microsoft Windows 3 hotlink protocol that allows application programs to communicate using a client-server model. Whenever the server (or "publisher") modifies part of a document which is being shared via DDE, one or more clients ("subscribers") are informed and include the modification in the copy of the data on which they are working.
  • educational sociology — the application of sociological principles and methods to the solution of problems in an educational system.
  • electromagnetic field — a field of force associated with a moving electric charge equivalent to an electric field and a magnetic field at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation
  • emitter coupled logic — (ECL) (Or "Current Mode Logic") A technology for building logic gates where the emitter of a transistor is used as the output rather than its collector. ECL has a propagation time of 0.5 - 2 ns (faster than TTL) and a power dissipation 3 - 10 times higher than TTL.
  • faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
  • first-dollar coverage — insurance that provides payment for the full loss up to the insured amount with no deductibles.
  • food standards agency — the full form of FDA
  • foreground processing — a type of processing that supports interaction between interactive and batch operations
  • foreign correspondent — a correspondent, as for a periodical, assigned to send back articles and news dispatches from a foreign country for publication.
  • forward exchange rate — the exchange rate of a currency to be delivered at a later date
  • game of cat and mouse — In a fight or contest, if one person plays cat and mouse, or a game of cat and mouse, with the other, the first person tries to confuse or deceive the second in order to defeat them.
  • garbageabetical order — (humour)   1. The result of using an insertion sort to merge data into an unsorted list. 2. The state of any file or list that is supposed to be sorted, but is not.
  • garden of remembrance — an area of land containing cultivated plants, trees, etc, to commemorate the dead
  • gas analysis recorder — A gas analysis recorder is a device which samples, records, and analyses gas.
  • gilt-edged securities — government securities on which interest payments will certainly be met and that will certainly be repaid at par on the due date
  • girlfriend experience — a service provided by a prostitute that includes more personal activity, such as kissing, than provided traditionally by sex workers
  • goldbach's conjecture — the conjecture that every even number greater than two is the sum of two prime numbers
  • great victoria desert — a desert in SW central Australia. 125,000 sq. mi. (324,000 sq. km).
  • greek orthodox church — the branch of the Orthodox Church constituting the national church of Greece.
  • green river ordinance — a local ordinance banning door-to-door selling.
  • ground-effect machine — ACV (def 2).
  • guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm)   A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
  • hazard warning device — an appliance fitted to a motor vehicle that operates the hazard lights
  • higher-order function — (HOF) A function that can take one or more functions as argument and/or return a function as its value. E.g. map in (map f l) which returns the list of results of applying function f to each of the elements of list l. See also curried function.
  • in bad/good/etc taste — If you say that something that is said or done is in bad taste or in poor taste, you mean that it is offensive, often because it concerns death or sex and is inappropriate for the situation. If you say that something is in good taste, you mean that it is not offensive and that it is appropriate for the situation.
  • in good circumstances — (of a person) in a good financial situation
  • kicking and screaming — If you say that someone is dragged kicking and screaming into a particular course of action, you are emphasizing that they are very unwilling to do what they are being made to do.
  • lactate dehydrogenase — an enzyme that catalyzes the interconversion of pyruvate and lactate, an important step in carbohydrate metabolism: elevated serum levels indicate injury to kidney, skeletal muscle, or heart muscle. Abbreviation: LDH.
  • lady macbeth strategy — a strategy in a takeover battle in which a third party makes a bid acceptable to the target company, appearing to act as a white knight but subsequently joining forces with the original (unwelcome) bidder
  • large hadron collider — a particle accelerator at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics near Geneva, containing a circular underground tunnel 27km (16.8 miles) in circumference, around which two streams of hadrons are sent in opposite directions before being brought together in a high-energy collision
  • learning difficulties — difficulty experienced in reaching the average standard of people of the same age group as regards intellectual and cognitive skills and performance
  • light armored vehicle — an eight-wheeled armored reconnaissance car with a 25mm cannon, in service with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps in the 1980s.
  • logic design language — (language)   A language for computer design.
  • macgillicuddy's reeks — a mountain range in County Kerry, SW Ireland. Highest peak (also highest in Ireland), Carrantuohill, 3414 feet (1041 meters).
  • madagascar aquamarine — a form of blue beryl from Madagascar, used as a gemstone
  • madagascar periwinkle — a plant, Catharanthus roseus (or Vinca rosea), cultivated for its glossy foliage and pink or white flowers.
  • magnetic flux density — Also called magnetic flux density. a vector quantity used as a measure of a magnetic field. Symbol: B.
  • magneto-optical drive — magneto-optical disk
  • magnetofluid dynamics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • magnetoplasmadynamics — magnetohydrodynamics.
  • magnificent riflebird — a bird of paradise, Craspedophora magnifica
  • mariage de convenance — marriage entered into for a personal or family advantage, as for social, political, or economic reasons, usually without love and sometimes without the expectation of sexual relations.
  • mayor of casterbridge — a novel (1886) by Thomas Hardy.
  • meter-kilogram-second — of or relating to the system of units in which the meter, kilogram, and second are the principal units of length, mass, and time. Abbreviation: mks, MKS.
  • multi-ringed compound — A multi-ringed compound is a compound which has 70 or more carbon atoms, often a residual compound.
  • non-repeating decimal — a decimal representation of any irrational number, having the property that no sequence of digits is repeated ad infinitum.
  • occupational guidance — advice and guidance relating to employment issues and career choices
  • open trading protocol — Internet Open Trading Protocol
  • pacific daylight time — the version of Pacific Standard Time that is in use when daylight saving time is being observed
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