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  • refactoring — (object-oriented, programming)   Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
  • refuctoring — (humour, programming)   Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
  • religionist — excessive or exaggerated religious zeal.
  • remigration — the act or process of returning or migrating back to the place of origin
  • renegotiate — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
  • resignation — the act of resigning.
  • retroengine — a small rocket on a spacecraft which is fired to alter its course or slow it down
  • right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
  • roentgenium — a superheavy, synthetic radioactive element with a very short half-life. Symbol: Rg; atomic number: 111.
  • roentgenize — to subject to the action of x-rays.
  • root ginger — the rhizome of the ginger plant.
  • scientology — the philosophy of the Church of Scientology, a nondenominational movement founded in the US in the 1950s, which emphasizes self-knowledge as a means of realizing full spiritual potential
  • segregation — the act or practice of segregating; a setting apart or separation of people or things from others or from the main body or group: gender segregation in some fundamentalist religions.
  • sherrington — Sir Charles Scott, 1861–1952, English physiologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1932.
  • shoe-string — a shoelace.
  • sign-posted — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
  • signatories — having signed, or joined in signing, a document: the signatory powers to a treaty.
  • single knot — overhand knot.
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • single-shot — (of a firearm) requiring loading before each shot; not having or using a cartridge magazine.
  • somatogenic — developing from somatic cells.
  • sopping wet — soaked, dripping
  • sovereignty — the quality or state of being sovereign, or of having supreme power or authority.
  • stenohygric — able to withstand only a narrow range of humidity
  • stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
  • strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
  • suggestions — the act of suggesting.
  • swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • technologic — of or relating to technology; relating to science and industry.
  • teetotaling — of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
  • telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
  • telescoping — an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Compare radio telescope.
  • teleworking — Teleworking is working from home using equipment such as telephones, fax machines, and modems to contact people.
  • telling-off — If you give someone a telling-off, you tell them that you are very angry with them about something they have done.
  • temporizing — an agreement for a limited period of time
  • tense logic — the study of the logical properties of tense operators, and of the logical relations between sentences having tense, by means of consideration of appropriate formal systems
  • tentiginous — relating to feelings of lust
  • teratogenic — a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects.
  • terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
  • terrigenous — produced by the earth.
  • terrorising — to fill or overcome with terror.
  • tettigoniid — long-horned grasshopper.
  • theogonical — of or relating to theogony
  • thermogenic — causing or pertaining to the production of heat.
  • ticonderoga — a village in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: site of French fort captured by the English 1759 and by Americans under Ethan Allen 1775.
  • toe-curling — If you describe something as toe-curling, you mean that it makes you feel very embarrassed.
  • toggle iron — a pin, bolt, or rod placed transversely through a chain, an eye or loop in a rope, etc., as to bind it temporarily to another chain or rope similarly treated.
  • tongue-tied — unable to speak, as from shyness, embarrassment, or surprise.
  • topdressing — an application of fertiliser to soil
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