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  • marine archaeology — the branch of archaeology that deals with the recovery of ancient objects found beneath the sea, as shipwrecks or remains from submerged islands, and with the techniques of underwater exploration, excavation, and retrieval.
  • marketing strategy — a general plan or set of plans dealing with marketing, especially over a long period
  • micropalaeontology — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the study of microscopic fossils
  • minority programme — a programme that appeals to a minority of the available audience
  • montgomery village — a city in central Maryland.
  • moog (synthesizer) — an early musical synthesizer
  • neo-pythagoreanism — a philosophical system, established in Alexandria and Rome in the second century b.c., consisting mainly of revived Pythagorean doctrines with elements of Platonism and Stoicism.
  • neuroendocrinology — the study of the anatomical and physiological interactions between the nervous and endocrine systems.
  • neurophysiological — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
  • neuropsychological — Of or pertaining to neuropsychology, the relation or combination of brain and mind.
  • not a pretty sight — If you say that someone or something is not a pretty sight, you mean that it is not pleasant to look at.
  • now you're talking — at last you're saying something agreeable
  • perennial ryegrass — any of several European grasses of the genus Lolium, as L. perenne (perennial ryegrass) grown for forage in the U.S.
  • plane trigonometry — the branch of trigonometry dealing with plane triangles.
  • plenary indulgence — a remission of the total temporal punishment that is still due to sin after absolution. Compare indulgence (def 6).
  • pre-filled syringe — A pre-filled syringe is a disposable syringe that is supplied already loaded with the substance to be injected.
  • quantity surveying — the action or profession of a person who estimates the cost of the materials and labour necessary for a construction job
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • recruitment agency — company that places job candidates
  • reduction strategy — (theory)   An algorithm for deciding which redex(es) to reduce next. Different strategies have different termination properties in the presence of recursive functions or values. See string reduction, normal order reduction, applicative order reduction, parallel reduction
  • reentering polygon — a polygon having one or more reentering angles.
  • registered company — a company which has officially registered its business
  • running commentary — non-stop description of sth
  • safety regulations — regulations or rules that are put in place to ensure a product, event, etc, is safe and not dangerous
  • saint george's day — April 23, celebrated in parts of the British Commonwealth in honor of the patron saint of Britain and especially in New Zealand as a bank holiday.
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • secondary diagonal — a diagonal line or plane.
  • secondary offering — the sale of a large block of outstanding stock off the floor of an exchange, usually by a major stockholder.
  • secretarial agency — a recruiting business which deals with jobs for secretaries
  • security agreement — business: contract
  • self-deprecatingly — in a self-deprecating manner
  • six-finger country — an isolated area considered as being inhabited by people who practise inbreeding
  • sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
  • strathclyde region — a former local government region in W Scotland: formed in 1975 from Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Buteshire, Dunbartonshire, and parts of Argyllshire, Ayrshire, and Stirlingshire; replaced in 1996 by the council areas of Glasgow, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and East Ayrshire
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • sympathetic string — a thin wire string, as in various obsolete musical instruments, designed to vibrate sympathetically with the bowed or plucked strings to reinforce the sound.
  • synthetic geometry — elementary geometry, as distinct from analytic geometry.
  • system-programming — a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
  • there you go again — Phrases such as there you go again are used to show annoyance at someone who is repeating something that has annoyed you in the past.
  • three-day eventing — participation in a three day equestrian competition consisting of dressage, cross-country jumping, and stadium jumping
  • translation agency — an organization that provide people to translate speech or writing into a different language
  • travelling library — a mobile library in which a vehicle such as a van delivers books to be borrowed
  • treaty obligations — obligations or duties that must be carried out by a party as according to a treaty they have entered into
  • treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • university heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • veterinary surgeon — Chiefly British. a veterinarian.
  • welwyn garden city — a town in SE England, in Hertfordshire: established (1920) as a planned industrial and residential community. Pop: 43 512 (2001)
  • whispering gallery — a space or gallery beneath a dome or broad arch in which low sounds produced at any of certain points are clearly audible at certain other distant points.
  • working hypothesis — See under hypothesis (def 1).
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