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  • inference rule — (logic)   A procedure which combines known facts to produce ("infer") new facts. For example, given that 1. Socrates is a man and that 2. all men are motal, we can infer that Socrates is mortal. This uses the rule known as "modus ponens" which can be written in Boolean algebra as (A & A => B) => B (if proposition A is true, and A implies B, then B is true). Or given that, 1. Either Denis is programming or Denis is sad and 2. Denis is not sad, we can infer that Denis is programming. This rule can be written ((A OR B) & not B) => A (If either A is true or B is true (or both), and B is false, then A must be true). Compare syllogism.
  • infinitesimals — Plural form of infinitesimal.
  • inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.
  • inflation rate — economy: price increase
  • inflectionless — Without inflection.
  • inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
  • inflorescences — Plural form of inflorescence.
  • infopreneurial — of or relating to the manufacture or sales of electronic office or factory equipment designed to distribute information
  • infratentorial — (anatomy) refers to a location below the tentorium cerebelli.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
  • insufficiently — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
  • interferential — of or relating to interference.
  • interfibrillar — situated between fibrils.
  • interfraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
  • interinfluence — to influence reciprocally or mutually
  • intestinal flu — influenza with abdominal symptoms, as diarrhea or vomiting.
  • isle of france — Île-de-France
  • isle of thanet — an island in SE England, in NE Kent, separated from the mainland by two branches of the River Stour: scene of many Norse invasions. Area: 109 sq km (42 sq miles)
  • jackknife clam — any bivalve mollusk of the family Solenidae, especially of the genus Ensis, having a long, rectangular, slightly curved shell.
  • jeffersonville — a city in S Indiana, on the Ohio River.
  • kentucky rifle — a long-barreled muzzleloading flintlock rifle developed near Lancaster, Pa., in the early 18th century and widely used on the frontier.
  • kidney failure — loss of renal function
  • killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
  • law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • lend itself to — to be adapted to, useful for, or open to
  • life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • life assurance — insurance: pays if holder dies
  • life insurance — insurance providing for payment of a sum of money to a named beneficiary upon the death of the policyholder or to the policyholder if still living after reaching a specified age.
  • life president — the president of a club, society, etc, who will remain president until death
  • life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
  • life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
  • life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
  • lift attendant — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
  • light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
  • lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
  • lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
  • line of attack — a line of attack to a problem or situation is how you approach it
  • line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
  • line of credit — credit line (def 2).
  • line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
  • line of vision — a straight line that connects the fovea centralis of an eye with the point on which the eye focuses.
  • long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
  • lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
  • magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
  • man of galilee — Jesus.
  • massif central — a great plateau and the chief water divide of France, in the central part.
  • meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
  • melamine-faced — having a thin melamine layer on one or more faces
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