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  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • product manager — sb who oversees product development
  • program counter — (hardware)   (PC) A register in the central processing unit that contains the addresss of the next instruction to be executed. After each instruction is fetched, the PC is automatically incremented to point to the following instruction. It is not normally manipulated like an ordinary register but instead, special instructions are provided to alter the flow of control by writing a new value to the PC, e.g. JUMP, CALL, RTS.
  • program picture — a motion picture produced on a low budget, usually shown as the second film of a double feature.
  • programme music — music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • pseudo-artistic — conforming to the standards of art; satisfying aesthetic requirements: artistic productions.
  • pseudo-critical — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
  • pseudo-dramatic — of or relating to the drama.
  • pseudo-romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • pseudopregnancy — Pathology, Veterinary Pathology. false pregnancy.
  • puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • pure land sects — Mahayana Buddhist sects venerating the Buddha as the compassionate saviour
  • quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
  • quadruple bucky — Obsolete. 1. On an MIT space-cadet keyboard, use of all four of the shifting keys (control, meta, hyper, and super) while typing a character key. 2. On a Stanford or MIT keyboard in raw mode, use of four shift keys while typing a fifth character, where the four shift keys are the control and meta keys on *both* sides of the keyboard. This was very difficult to do! One accepted technique was to press the left-control and left-meta keys with your left hand, the right-control and right-meta keys with your right hand, and the fifth key with your nose. Quadruple-bucky combinations were very seldom used in practice, because when one invented a new command one usually assigned it to some character that was easier to type. If you want to imply that a program has ridiculously many commands or features, you can say something like: "Oh, the command that makes it spin the tapes while whistling Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is quadruple-bucky-cokebottle." See double bucky, bucky bits, cokebottle.
  • quarter century — a period of twenty five years
  • quarter section — (in surveying and homesteading) a square tract of land, half a mile on each side, thus containing ¼ sq. mi. or 160 acres. Abbreviation: q.s.
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • quatercentenary — a 400th aniversary or its celebration.
  • quiche lorraine — a quiche containing bits of bacon or ham and often cheese.
  • quincentenaries — Plural form of quincentenary.
  • radio announcer — someone who broadcasts or presents radio programmes
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • re-adjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • reconceptualize — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reconstitutable — to constitute again; reconstruct; recompose.
  • recontextualize — to contextualize (something) again
  • rediscount rate — the rate charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks for rediscounting commercial paper.
  • redocumentation — The creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction level. The resulting forms of representation are usually considered alternate views intended for a human audience.
  • reduce to tears — If someone or something reduces you to tears, they make you feel so unhappy that you cry.
  • reduction ratio — an expression of the number of times by which an original document has been reduced in a microcopy.
  • reduplicatively — in a reduplicative manner
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • relative clause — a subordinate clause introduced by a relative pronoun, adjective, or adverb, either expressed or deleted, especially such a clause modifying an antecedent, as who saw you in He's the man who saw you or (that) I wrote in Here's the letter (that) I wrote.
  • remuera tractor — a four-wheel drive vehicle
  • renal corpuscle — Malpighian body (sense 2)
  • reported clause — A reported clause is a subordinate clause that indicates what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'she was hungry' is a reported clause.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • residual income — the remaining income (of a business or person) after necessary debts, expenses, etc, have been paid
  • resurrectionary — pertaining to or of the nature of resurrection.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rez-de-chaussee — street level; ground floor.
  • rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
  • riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • robert guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
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