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  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
  • relief pitcher — a pitcher brought into a game to replace another pitcher, often in a critical situation.
  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • report a claim — If you report a claim, you inform an insurer that an insured event has occurred and that you intend to ask the insurer for financial payment.
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • respectabilize — to make respectable
  • restricted epl — (language)   (REPL) The efficient subset of EPL used to write the core of Multics.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • return receipt — a card bearing the signature of the recipient of registered postal matter, for return to the sender as proof of receipt.
  • rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • ripple control — the remote control of a switch by electrical impulses
  • rock partridge — the Greek partridge; Alectoris graeca
  • roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • sales campaign — product promotion and publicity
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • scaphocephalic — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • schizo-phrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • schizophyceous — belonging to the Schizophyceae, a group of unicellular bluish-green algae, occurring in both salt and fresh water and often causing pollution of drinking water.
  • screen popping — (communications)   The use of CTI to make customer data appear on a call centre terminal at the same time as the customer call is transferred.
  • screen-printed — printed by screen process
  • scrip dividend — a dividend issued in the form of a note entitling the holder to a cash payment at a specified later date.
  • second opinion — view of another expert
  • self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
  • self-impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-replicate — (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself
  • semi-spherical — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • semielliptical — a half ellipse, usually one containing both ends of the major axis.
  • service stripe — a stripe worn on the left sleeve by an enlisted person to indicate a specific period of time served on active duty.
  • sharp practice — You can use sharp practice to refer to an action or a way of behaving, especially in business or professional matters, that you think is clever but dishonest.
  • shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
  • sigma particle — an unstable hyperon having positive, negative, or zero electric charge and strangeness −1. Symbol: Σ.
  • simple machine — machine (def 3b).
  • sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
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