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  • free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
  • freezing injunction — an order enabling the court to freeze the assets of a defendant, esp to prevent him or her taking them abroad
  • functional language — (language)   A language that supports and encourages functional programming.
  • gallipoli peninsula — peninsula in S European Turkey, forming the NW shore of the Dardanelles: c. 55 mi (89 km) long
  • gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
  • genetic counselling — the provision of advice for couples with a history of inherited disorders who wish to have children, including the likelihood of having affected children and the course and management of the disorder, etc
  • geomagnetic equator — an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.
  • glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
  • go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
  • go round in circles — to engage in energetic but fruitless activity
  • godfrey of bouillon — (Duke of Lower Lorraine) 1060?–1100, French leader of the First Crusade 1096–99.
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • grand duke nicholas — of Cusa [kyoo-zuh] /ˈkyu zə/ (Show IPA), 1401–1464, German cardinal, mathematician, and philosopher. German Nikolaus von Cusa.
  • granuloma inguinale — a venereal disease marked by deep ulceration of the skin of the groin and external genitals, caused by the bacterium Calymmatobacterium granulomatis.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • grievance procedure — the established series of steps to be taken in dealing with a grievance raised with an employer by an employee
  • ground-plane aerial — a quarter-wave vertical dipole aerial in which the electrical image forming the other quarter-wave section is formed by reflection in a system of radially disposed metal rods or in a conductive sheet
  • gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
  • haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
  • hermitian conjugate — adjoint (def 2).
  • housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
  • human rights record — the facts that are known about the tendency of a country, regime, etc, to observe and protect human rights
  • humanist technology — (philosophy)   Technology centered around the interests, needs, and well-being of humans.
  • huntington's chorea — a hereditary disease of the central nervous system characterized by brain deterioration and loss of control over voluntary movements, the symptoms usually appearing in the fourth decade of life.
  • index expurgatorius — a list of books now included in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, forbidden to be read except from expurgated editions.
  • induction hardening — a process in which the outer surface of a metal component is rapidly heated by means of induced eddy currents. After rapid cooling the resulting phase transformations produce a hard wear-resistant skin
  • introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
  • jacques montgolfier — Jacques Étienne [zhahk ey-tyen] /ʒɑk eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1745–99, and his brother Joseph Michel [zhaw-zef mee-shel] /ʒɔˈzɛf miˈʃɛl/ (Show IPA) 1740–1810, French aeronauts: inventors of the first practical balloon 1783.
  • jumping plant louse — any of numerous lice, of the family Psyllidae, that feed on plant juices and are sometimes pests of fruits and vegetables.
  • junior bantamweight — a boxer weighing up to 115 pounds (51.7 kg), between flyweight and bantamweight.
  • junior middleweight — a boxer weighing up to 154 pounds (69.3 kg), between welterweight and middleweight.
  • junior welterweight — a boxer weighing up to 140 pounds (63 kg), between lightweight and welterweight.
  • languages of choice — C and Lisp. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both. Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities. There is also a rapidly dwindling category of older hackers with Fortran, or even assembler, as their language of choice. They often prefer to be known as Real Programmers, and other hackers consider them a bit odd (see "The Story of Mel"). Assembler is generally no longer considered interesting or appropriate for anything but HLL implementation, glue, and a few time-critical and hardware-specific uses in systems programs. Fortran occupies a shrinking niche in scientific programming. Most hackers tend to frown on languages like Pascal and Ada, which don't give them the near-total freedom considered necessary for hacking (see bondage-and-discipline language), and to regard everything even remotely connected with COBOL or other traditional card walloper languages as a total and unmitigated loss.
  • league championship — the competition to become league champions
  • legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
  • let it all hang out — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • liaodong pensinsula — a peninsula of NE China, in S Manchuria extending south into the Yellow Sea: forms the S part of Liaoning province
  • lieutenant governor — a state officer next in rank to a governor, who takes the governor's place in case of the latter's absence, disability, or death.
  • logical consequence — the relation that obtains between the conclusion and the premises of a formally valid argument
  • logical unit number — (storage)   (LUN) A 3-bit identifier used on a SCSI bus to distinguish between up to eight devices (logical units) with the same SCSI ID.
  • lose your virginity — When you lose your virginity, you have sex for the first time.
  • lucent technologies — (company, telecommunications, Unix)   The former systems and equipment portion of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), split off in 1996.
  • luteinizing hormone — LH.
  • magnesium carbonate — a white powder, MgCO 3 , insoluble in water and alcohol, soluble in acids, used in dentifrices and cosmetics, in medicine as an antacid, and as a refractory material.
  • magnesium hydroxide — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, Mg(OH) 2 , used chiefly in medicine as an antacid and as a laxative.
  • midnight regulation — a rule or directive approved by the federal government near the end of a president’s term of office
  • negation by failure — An extralogical feature of Prolog and other logic programming languages in which failure of unification is treated as establishing the negation of a relation. For example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our database and we asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  • neighbourhood watch — a scheme under which members of a community agree together to take responsibility for keeping an eye on each other's property, as a way of preventing crime
  • neuropathologically — In a neuropathologic way.
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