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  • ground meristem — an area of primary meristematic tissue, emerging from and immediately behind the apical meristem, that develops into the pith and the cortex.
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • gutenberg bible — an edition of the Vulgate printed at Mainz before 1456, ascribed to Gutenberg and others: probably the first large book printed with movable type.
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
  • high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • huntingdonshire — a former county in E England, now part of Cambridgeshire.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
  • ignition source — An ignition source is a process or event which can cause a fire or explosion.
  • illustriousness — The state of being illustrious.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunochemistry — the study of the chemistry of immunologic substances and reactions.
  • immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • impulse turbine — a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.
  • in (the) future — You use in future when saying what will happen from now on, which will be different from what has previously happened. The form in the future is sometimes used instead, especially in American English.
  • in rerum natura — in the nature of things
  • in the doldrums — miserable, depressed
  • in the long run — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • in the universe — If you say that something is, for example, the best or biggest thing of its kind in the universe, you are emphasizing that you think it is bigger or better than anything else of its kind.
  • in/into trouble — If someone is in trouble, they are in a situation in which a person in authority is angry with them or is likely to punish them because they have done something wrong.
  • indirect labour — work done in administration and sales rather than in the manufacturing of a product
  • indistributable — of a nature that cannot be distributed
  • industriousness — working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent: an industrious person.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • inobtrusiveness — the quality of being unobtrusive
  • inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • instruction set — (architecture)   The collection of machine language instructions that a particular processor understands. The term is almost synonymous with "instruction set architecture" since the instructions are fairly meaningless in isolation from the registers etc. that they manipulate.
  • instructiveness — Quality of being instructive.
  • instrumentalism — the variety of pragmatism developed by John Dewey, maintaining that the truth of an idea is determined by its success in the active solution of a problem and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience.
  • instrumentalist — a person who plays a musical instrument.
  • instrumentality — the quality or state of being instrumental.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • insubordinately — In an insubordinate manner.
  • insurance agent — sb who sells insurance policies
  • insurance stamp — an insurance contribution
  • insurrectionary — of, relating to, or of the nature of insurrection.
  • insurrectionist — an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
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