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  • laurentides park — a national park in SE Canada, in Quebec province between the St. Lawrence and Lake St. John.
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • library pictures — a caption used to alert viewers that footage being broadcast is from an earlier time and is not happening now
  • lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
  • limited-stop bus — a bus which only stops at a small number of predetermined stops, rather than on request
  • lines per minute — (unit)   (lpm) A unit used to measure line printer throughput.
  • linux user group — (body, operating system)   (LUG) Any organisation of Linux users in a local area, university, etc., that offers mutual technical support, companionship with people of similar interests and promotes the use of Linux among computer users generally. LUGs often hold Install Fests for the general public, in which experienced Linux users explain and supervise the installation of Linux on new users' systems.
  • liver of sulphur — a mixture of potassium sulphides used as a fungicide and insecticide and in the treatment of skin diseases
  • lizard peninsula — a promontory in SW England, in SW Cornwall: the southernmost point in Great Britain
  • lymphatic tissue — tissue, such as the lymph nodes, tonsils, spleen, and thymus, that produces lymphocytes
  • malpractice suit — a lawsuit brought against a professional accused of illegal or unethical practices or neglect of duty
  • manipulativeness — Quality of being manipulative.
  • menstrual period — the bleeding from the womb that occurs approximately monthly in nonpregnant women of reproductive age
  • microencapsulate — (transitive) To embed by means of microencapsulation.
  • montes apenninus — a mountain range in the first and second quadrants of the visible face of the moon, forming the SE border of Mare Imbrium: about 600 miles (970 km) long.
  • moulding process — the process of shaping or compacting a material into a frame or mould
  • multi-discipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • multidisciplined — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multiple alleles — any one of a series of three or more alternative or allelic forms of a gene, only two of which can exist in any normal, diploid individual.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • multiple fission — fission into more than two new organisms.
  • multiple listing — the listing of a home for sale with a number of real-estate brokers who participate in a shared listing service.
  • myelosuppression — (medicine) A reduction of bone marrow activity that leads to a lower concentration of platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells.
  • neptunium series — a radioactive series that starts with plutonium-241 and ends with bismuth-209. Neptunium-237 is the longest-lived member of the series. The series does not occur in nature
  • neurohypophysial — Relating to the neurohypophysis.
  • neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
  • neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
  • neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
  • neutrosophic set — (logic)   A generalisation of the intuitionistic set, classical set, fuzzy set, paraconsistent set, dialetheist set, paradoxist set, tautological set based on Neutrosophy. An element x(T, I, F) belongs to the set in the following way: it is t true in the set, i indeterminate in the set, and f false, where t, i, and f are real numbers taken from the sets T, I, and F with no restriction on T, I, F, nor on their sum n=t+i+f. The neutrosophic set generalises: - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0100 and i=0, with both t,f<100); - the dialetheist set, which says that the intersection of some disjoint sets is not empty (for t=f=100 and i=0; some paradoxist sets can be denoted this way).
  • niche publishing — publishing books that are intended for a very specialized market
  • nicoya peninsula — a peninsula in NW Costa Rica, on the Pacific Ocean.
  • noise suppressor — squelch (def 8).
  • non-spuriousness — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
  • october surprise — a major event, occurring shortly before a presidential election, which influences the result
  • osculating plane — the plane containing the circle of curvature of a point on a given curve.
  • osmotic pressure — the force that a dissolved substance exerts on a semipermeable membrane, through which it cannot penetrate, when separated by it from pure solvent.
  • over-consumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • over-speculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
  • oversubscription — to subscribe for more of than is available, expected, or required: The charity drive was oversubscribed by several thousand dollars.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • paediatric nurse — a nurse who specializes in the care of children
  • paint-by-numbers — formulaic; showing no original thought or creativity
  • pairs tournament — an event in a sport such as tennis or darts open to pairs of competitors
  • palmer peninsula — former name of Antarctic Peninsula.
  • panel discussion — a formal discussion before an audience for which the topic, speakers, etc., have been selected in advance.
  • papillary muscle — one of the small bundles of muscles attached to the ventricle walls and to the chordae tendineae that tighten these tendons during ventricular contraction.
  • paratuberculosis — Johne's disease.
  • partial pressure — the pressure that a gas in a mixture of gases would exert if it occupied the same volume as the mixture at the same temperature.
  • passive immunity — immunity resulting from the injection of antibodies or sensitized lymphocytes from another organism or, in infants, from the transfer of antibodies through the placenta or from colostrum.
  • peninsular state — Florida (used as a nickname).
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