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  • outline specifications — preliminary specifications or plans on which later plans are based
  • phenolsulfonephthalein — a bright to dark red crystalline compound, C 1 9 H 1 4 O 5 S, slightly soluble in water, alcohol, and acetone: used as an acid-base indicator and as a diagnostic reagent in medicine.
  • picture of dorian gray — a novel (1891) by Oscar Wilde.
  • potassium ferricyanide — a bright-red, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, K 3 Fe(CN) 6 , used chiefly in the manufacture of pigments, as Prussian blue, and of paper, especially blueprint paper.
  • potassium ferrocyanide — a lemon-yellow, crystalline, water-soluble solid, K 4 Fe(CN) 6 ⋅3H 2 O, used chiefly in casehardening alloys having an iron base and in dyeing wool and silk.
  • public domain software — public domain
  • put the frighteners on — to intimidate
  • reproduction furniture — furniture that is made in an imitation or copy of a past style
  • run interference (for) — to accompany (the ball carrier) in order to block opposing players
  • sales force automation — (business)   (Sales Automation, SFA, SFFA, Sales & Field Force Automation) Software to support sales reps. The software gives sales representitives access to contacts, appointments and e-mail. It is likely to be integrated with Customer Relationship Management systems and Opportunity Management Systems.
  • santa cruz de tenerife — a seaport on NE Tenerife island, in the W Canary Islands.
  • save the children fund — a development agency which raises money for deprived children around the world
  • search the fucking web — (web, jargon)   (Always abbreviated STFW) A response implying that an inquirer could have easily found an answer to his question using Google or some other web search engine. It is now often quicker and more productive to search the World-Wide Web than to RTFM.
  • self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
  • solid dose formulation — A solid dose formation is a hard tablet made by compressing medicine in a powder form.
  • south african republic — former name of Transvaal.
  • statute of limitations — a statute defining the period within which legal action may be taken.
  • statute of westminster — the act of Parliament (1931) that formally recognized the independence of the dominions within the Empire
  • strait of juan de fuca — a strait between Vancouver Island (Canada) and NW Washington (US). Length: about 129 km (80 miles). Width: about 24 km (15 miles)
  • struggle for existence — the competition in nature among organisms of a population to maintain themselves in a given environment and to survive to reproduce others of their kind.
  • subornation of perjury — the offense of bribing or otherwise persuading another to commit perjury.
  • tactile user interface — (interface)   (TUI) Hardware and software to provide access to computer-based graphical[?] information using touch, often intended for blind people. See also haptics.
  • temporary life annuity — an annuity that ceases upon the death of the annuitant or upon the expiration of a period of time, whichever occurs first.
  • textual user interface — (interface)   (TUI) Either a text-based version of a GUI, or a full-screen version of a CLI.
  • the edinburgh festival — an arts festival held in Edinburgh in August
  • the point of no return — If you say that you have reached the point of no return, you mean that you now have to continue with what you are doing and it is too late to stop.
  • to be full to bursting — to be very full
  • transformational rules — rules that specify in purely syntactic terms a method by which theorems may be derived from the axioms of a formal system
  • trichlorofluoromethane — chlorotrifluoromethane.
  • trifluorochloromethane — chlorotrifluoromethane.
  • trigonometric function — any of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a ratio of two of the sides of a right-angled triangle containing the angle. The group includes sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, and cotangent
  • unconventional warfare — warfare that is conducted within enemy lines through guerrilla tactics or subversion, usually supported at least in part by external forces.
  • under the influence of — If you are under the influence of someone or something, you are being affected or controlled by them.
  • united reformed church — (in England and Wales) a Protestant denomination formed from the union of the Presbyterian and Congregational churches in 1972
  • university of michigan — (body, education)   A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. 70% of the University's students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class. 90% rank in the top 20% of their high school class. 60% of the students receive financial aid. The main Ann Arbor Campus lies in the Huron River valley, 40 miles west of Detroit. The campus boasts 2700 acres with 200 buildings, six million volumes in 23 libraries, nine museums, seven hospitals, hundreds of laboratories and institutes, and over 18000 microcomputers.
  • university of nijmegen — (body, education)   Katholieke University of Nijmegen (KUN), Nijmegen, the Netherlands. KUN's Computing Science Institute. is known for the Clean, Comma, Communicating Functional Processes, and GLASS projects.
  • university of tasmania — (body, education)  
  • unprofessional conduct — activity that is contrary to the accepted code of conduct of a profession
  • user network interface — (communications, networking)   (UNI) An interface point between ATM end users and a private ATM switch, or between a private ATM switch and the public carrier ATM network. The physical and protocol specifications for UNIs are defined by the ATM Forum's UNI documents, which allow for various types of physical interfaces. See also: NNI
  • volume of distribution — A volume of distribution is the hypothetical volume of body fluid that would be required to dissolve the amount of drug needed to achieve the same concentration in the blood.
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