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  • spontaneous recovery — the reappearance of a response after its extinction has been followed by a period of rest
  • spontaneous-abortion — Also called voluntary abortion. the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy.
  • square cross-section — If a kelly has a square cross-section, it has a surface area with four equal sides, when looked at as if has been sliced through.
  • square of opposition — a diagrammatic representation of the opposition of categorical propositions.
  • squatter sovereignty — (used contemptuously by its opponents) popular sovereignty (def 2).
  • squirrel's-foot fern — ball fern.
  • staff of aesculapius — a representation of a forked staff with an entwining serpent, used as a symbol of the medical profession and as the insignia of the American Medical Association and other medical organizations. Compare caduceus (def 2).
  • standard book number — International Standard Book Number. Abbreviation: SBN.
  • state enrolled nurse — a nurse with training and examinations enabling him or her to perform many nursing services
  • states of the church — Papal States
  • step up to the plate — to move into batting position
  • stick one's neck out — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • stockholders' equity — the net assets of a corporation as owned by stockholders in capital stock, capital surplus, and undistributed earnings.
  • strong nuclear force — an interaction between elementary particles responsible for the forces between nucleons in the nucleus. It operates at distances less than about 10–15 metres, and is about a hundred times more powerful than the electromagnetic interaction
  • structural isomerism — Chemistry. the relation of two or more compounds, radicals, or ions that are composed of the same kinds and numbers of atoms but differ from each other in structural arrangement (structural isomerism) as CH 3 OCH 3 and CH 3 CH 2 OH, or in the arrangement of their atoms in space and therefore in one or more properties. Compare optical isomerism, stereoisomerism.
  • subjective intension — the associations that an expression has for an individual; the intension he believes it to have
  • subpoena duces tecum — a writ directing a person to appear in court and to bring some document described in the writ.
  • subscription edition — an edition of one or more volumes for which a number of prospective purchasers place orders, usually in advance of publication.
  • sufficient condition — a statement whose truth is sufficient to guarantee the truth of a given statement
  • sunday-go-to-meeting — most presentable; best: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.
  • superior conjunction — the alignment of an inferior planet and the sun in which the planet is at the far side of the sun from the earth.
  • supersonic transport — a commercial jet airplane that can fly faster than the speed of sound. Abbreviation: SST.
  • surveillance society — a society where surveillance technology is widely used to monitor people's everyday activities
  • sweat one's guts out — to work very hard
  • systemic circulation — the circulatory system in general.
  • take up a collection — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • tchebycheff equation — a differential equation of the form (1 − x 2) d 2 y/dx 2 − x dy/dx + n 2 y = 0, where n is any nonnegative integer.
  • telephone subscriber — a person who subscribes to a telephone service
  • that makes two of us — the same applies to me
  • the beautiful people — rich, fashionable people in international high society
  • the course of nature — the ordinary course of events
  • the day of judgement — a Christian term for the ending of the world
  • the founding fathers — any of the men who were members of the U.S. Constituional Convention of 1787
  • the gnomes of zurich — Swiss bankers and financiers
  • the internet account — An Internet provider in Sydney, Australia who provides SLIP, PPP and CLI accounts for the same rates. <[email protected]> handles Acorn software. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +61 (2) 968 4333. Fax: +61 (2) 968 4334. Address: PO BOX 473, Crows Nest, NSE 2065, Australia.
  • the luck of the draw — If you say that something is the luck of the draw, you mean that it is the result of chance and you cannot do anything about it.
  • the methodist church — a group of people within the Christian religion who follow a system of faith and practice initiated by the English preacher John Wesley (1703–91) and his followers
  • the other way around — reversed
  • the sum total of sth — all of something
  • the thousand guineas — an annual horse race, restricted to fillies, run at Newmarket since 1814
  • theater-in-the-round — arena theater.
  • theatre-in-the-round — a theatre with seats arranged around a central acting area
  • therapeutic abortion — abortion performed when a woman's pregnancy endangers her health.
  • thermal conductivity — the amount of heat per unit time per unit area that can be conducted through a plate of unit thickness of a given material, the faces of the plate differing by one unit of temperature.
  • this time, for sure! — (exclamation)   Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles (e.g. attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity imitation of Bullwinkle J. Moose. Also heard: "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!" The canonical response is, of course, "But that trick *never* works!" See hacker humour.
  • thomas of erceldoune — Thomas of, Thomas of Erceldoune.
  • thought transference — transference of thought by extrasensory means from the mind of one individual to another; telepathy.
  • thread language zero — (language)   (TL0) The instruction set of the TAM (Threaded Abstract Machine), used to implement Id.
  • three-quarter nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from a kneeling position behind a prone opponent, applies a half nelson with one arm, passes the other arm under the opponent's body on the near side, and locks the arms at the fingers or wrist on the back of the opponent's neck.
  • throw up one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
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