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  • fifth generation language — (language, artificial intelligence)   A myth the Japanese spent a lot of money on. In about 1982, MITI decided it would spend ten years and a lot of money applying artificial intelligence to programming, thus solving the software crisis. The project spent its money and its ten years and in 1992 closed down with a wimper.
  • five nations championship — a former annual competition involving the national sides of England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; replaced by the Six Nations Championship in 2000
  • further education college — (in Britain) an establishment that offers formal education beyond school and which is not a university or polytechnic
  • genealogical relationship — the relationship that exists between languages that have developed from a single earlier language.
  • general recursion theorem — (mathematics)   Cantor's theorem, originally stated for ordinals, which extends inductive proof to recursive construction. The proof is by pasting together "attempts" (partial solutions).
  • german wirehaired pointer — one of a German breed of large sporting dogs having a harsh, wiry, flat-lying coat usually liver and white in color, a muzzle with a beard and whiskers, and a docked tail, used as a retrieving pointer.
  • get up on one's hind legs — to become assertive, belligerent, etc.
  • give (or get) the mitten — to reject (or be rejected) as a lover
  • give someone the business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • give someone the dingbats — to make someone nervous
  • go through fire and water — to undergo great difficulties or dangers
  • graphics interface format — (spelling)   You mean "Graphics Interchange Format".
  • hailsham of st marylebone — Baron, title of Quintin (McGarel) Hogg (ˈkwɪntɪn). 1907–2001, British Conservative politician; Lord Chancellor (1970–74; 1979–87). He renounced his viscountcy in 1963 when he made an unsuccessful bid for the Conservative Party leadership; he became a life peer in 1970
  • hardening of the arteries — medical condition: arteriosclerosis
  • harris semiconductor ltd. — (company)   Address: Riverside Way, Camberley, Surrey, CU15 3YQ, UK. Telephone: +44 (1276) 686 886. Fax: +44 (1276) 682 323.
  • have an eye for something — If you say that someone has an eye for something, you mean that they are good at noticing it or making judgments about it.
  • have bats in one's belfry — any of numerous flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, of worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions, having modified forelimbs that serve as wings and are covered with a membranous skin extending to the hind limbs.
  • have it on good authority — If you say you have it on good authority that something is true, you mean that you believe it is true because you trust the person who told you about it.
  • have no/little truck with — If you say that you will have no truck with someone or something, you are refusing to be involved with them in any way.
  • have one's wits about one — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • high voltage differential — (hardware)   (HVD) Differential SCSI scheme that has been in use for years. The terminators run on 5 Volts DC. See also LVD.
  • high-density polyethylene — polyethylene consisting mainly of linear, or unbranched, chains with high crystallinity and melting point, and density of 0.96 or more, produced at low pressure and used chiefly for containers and articles made by injection molding. Abbreviation: HDPE.
  • hoist by one's own petard — an explosive device formerly used in warfare to blow in a door or gate, form a breach in a wall, etc.
  • home entertainment system — equipment for watching films and listening to music at home
  • homothetic transformation — similarity transformation (def 1).
  • homothetic-transformation — Also called homothetic transformation. a mapping of a set by which each element in the set is mapped into a positive constant multiple of itself, the same constant being used for all elements.
  • honi soit qui mal y pense — shamed be he who thinks evil of it: the motto of the Order of the Garter
  • hospitalization insurance — insurance to cover, in whole or in part, the hospital bills of a subscriber or of his or her dependents.
  • human embryonic stem cell — a stem cell obtained from the blastocyst of a human embryo
  • human-factors engineering — an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker.
  • implicit function theorem — a theorem that gives conditions under which a function written in implicit form can be written in explicit form.
  • in (or out of) character — consistent with (or inconsistent with) the role or general character
  • in decline/on the decline — If something is in decline or on the decline, it is gradually decreasing in importance, quality, or power.
  • in the foreseeable future — If you say that something will happen in the foreseeable future you mean that you think it will happen fairly soon.
  • in the heat of the moment — without pausing to think
  • in the palm of one's hand — If you have someone or something in the palm of your hand, you have control over them.
  • indirect characterization — the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.
  • industrial rehabilitation — the treatment of people who have acquired a disability or disease during the course of their work, with the aim of allowing them to return to work or to a new job
  • international match point — a unit of scoring in contract bridge tournaments held in Europe. Abbreviation: IMP.
  • johnniac open shop system — (language)   (JOSS) An early, simple, interactive calculator language developed by Charles L. Baker at Rand in 1964. There were two versions: JOSS I and JOSS II.
  • joint technical committee — (standard, body)   (JTC) A standards body straddling ISO and IEC.
  • khakass autonomous region — an autonomous region in the Russian Federation, in S Siberia. 19,161 sq. mi. (49,627 sq. km). Capital: Abakan.
  • know something inside out — to know something thoroughly or perfectly
  • land of the little sticks — the part of the north of Canada that lies south of the tree line but contains only stunted evergreens or dwarf deciduous trees.
  • lie at (or on) the lurch — to lie in wait
  • local education authority — a body that is responsible for education in a particular area
  • magnetohydromagnetic wave — Physics. Alfvén wave.
  • maintenance of membership — an arrangement or agreement between an employer and a labor union by which employees who are members of the union at the time the agreement is made, or who subsequently join, must either remain members until the agreement expires, or be discharged.
  • make a thing about/out of — If you make a thing of something or make a thing about it, you talk about it or do it in an exaggerated way, so that it seems much more important than it really is.
  • massacre of the innocents — the slaughter of all the young male children of Bethlehem at Herod's command in an attempt to destroy Jesus (Matthew 2:16–18)
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