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  • 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.
  • haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haemoglobinuric — relating to the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
  • haute-normandie — a region of NW France, on the English Channel: generally fertile and flat
  • heterosexualism — Discrimination of non-heterosexual people on the basis of their sexual orientation.
  • human geography — the study of the interaction between human beings and their environment in particular places and across spatial areas.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • human resources — (used with a plural verb) people, especially the personnel employed by a given company, institution, or the like.
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hurdle champion — a hurdler who has defeated all others in a competition
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • ibero-maurusian — of or relating to an Epipaleolithic culture of northwestern Africa that preceded the Capsian culture and was once erroneously thought to have originated in southwestern Europe; characterized by the use of backed bladelets, occupation of the maritime plain, and the hunting of the Barbary sheep.
  • immunoadsorbent — immunosorbent.
  • immunoreactions — Plural form of immunoreaction.
  • importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
  • in some measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
  • in your dreams! — You say `In your dreams!' when you think that what someone wants is never going to happen or be true.
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
  • intermodulation — the production in an electrical device of frequencies that are the sums or differences of frequencies of different inputs or of their harmonics.
  • jerusalem cross — a cross whose four arms are each capped with a crossbar and often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.
  • jerusalem thorn — See under Christ's-thorn.
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • laptop computer — portable computer
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • linear momentum — force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: The car gained momentum going downhill. Her career lost momentum after two unsuccessful films.
  • lobar pneumonia — pneumonia (def 2).
  • macro-structure — the gross structure of a metal, as made visible to the naked eye by deep etching.
  • macroprudential — Of or pertaining to systemic prudence, especially to the strengths and vulnerabilities of financial systems.
  • macrostructures — Plural form of macrostructure.
  • made to measure — (of a garment, shoes, etc.) made in accordance with a specific individual's measurements.
  • made-to-measure — (of a garment, shoes, etc.) made in accordance with a specific individual's measurements.
  • magnetic course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the magnetic meridian of the area.
  • make the rounds — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
  • make-up remover — a substance that you use to remove make-up from your face
  • male prostitute — man who has sex for money
  • man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
  • manoeuvrability — The quality of being manoeuvrable.
  • marathon runner — person who runs in a marathon race
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • marine surveyor — a person who carries out surveys of ships to determine seaworthiness, etc
  • marlborough leg — a tapered leg having a square section.
  • marsupial mouse — any of various mouse-sized to rat-sized marsupials of the family Dasyuridae, occurring in Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania: some species are rare or endangered.
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • massage parlour — A massage parlour is a place where people go and pay for a massage. Some places that are called massage parlours are in fact places where people pay to have sex.
  • meadow mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • measurement ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
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