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  • preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
  • pretty good privacy — (tool, cryptography)   (PGP) A high security RSA public-key encryption application for MS-DOS, Unix, VAX/VMS, and other computers. It was written by Philip R. Zimmermann <[email protected]> of Phil's Pretty Good(tm) Software and later augmented by a cast of thousands, especially including Hal Finney, Branko Lankester, and Peter Gutmann. PGP was distributed as "guerrilla freeware". The authors don't mind if it is distributed widely, just don't ask Philip Zimmermann to send you a copy. PGP uses a public-key encryption algorithm claimed by US patent #4,405,829. The exclusive rights to this patent are held by a California company called Public Key Partners, and you may be infringing this patent if you use PGP in the USA. This is explained in the PGP User's Guide, Volume II. PGP allows people to exchange files or messages with privacy and authentication. Privacy and authentication are provided without managing the keys associated with conventional cryptographic software. No secure channels are needed to exchange keys between users, which makes PGP much easier to use. This is because PGP is based on public-key cryptography. PGP encrypts data using the International Data Encryption Algorithm with a random session key, and uses the RSA algorithm to encrypt the session key. In December 1994 Philip Zimmermann faced prosecution for "exporting" PGP out of the United States but in January 1996 the US Goverment dropped the case. A US law prohibits the export of encryption software out of the country. Zimmermann did not do this, but the US government hoped to establish the proposition that posting an encryption program on a BBS or on the Internet constitutes exporting it - in effect, stretching export control into domestic censorship. If the government had won it would have had a chilling effect on the free flow of information on the global network, as well as on everyone's privacy from government snooping.
  • progressive judaism — Reform Judaism.
  • projective geometry — the geometric study of projective properties.
  • psychological novel — a novel that focuses on the complex mental and emotional lives of its characters and explores the various levels of mental activity.
  • quantitative easing — the policy by which a central bank creates money and uses it to purchase financial assets, thereby increasing the money supply and stimulating a weak economy. Abbreviation: QE.
  • reciprocal leveling — leveling between two widely separated points in which observations are made in both directions to eliminate the effects of atmospheric refraction and the curvature of the earth.
  • removable cartridge — a hard disk enclosed in a case that can be removed from the disk drive, having more storage than floppy disks.
  • reverse engineering — (systems, product, design)   The process of analysing an existing system to identify its components and their interrelationships and create representations of the system in another form or at a higher level of abstraction. Reverse engineering is usually undertaken in order to redesign the system for better maintainability or to produce a copy of a system without access to the design from which it was originally produced. For example, one might take the executable code of a computer program, run it to study how it behaved with different inputs and then attempt to write a program which behaved identically (or better). An integrated circuit might also be reverse engineered by an unscrupulous company wishing to make unlicensed copies of a popular chip.
  • revival of learning — the Renaissance in its relation to learning, especially in literature (Revival of Literature or Revival of Letters)
  • ride roughshod over — shod with horseshoes having projecting nails or points.
  • saturation coverage — news coverage (of an event, etc) that is very thorough in order not to miss any details
  • savings certificate — a certificate of deposit for a specific sum of money in a savings account, especially a deposit for a fixed term at a specified interest rate.
  • segmentation cavity — blastocoel.
  • self-levelling foot — (on furniture, washing-machines, etc) a foot that adjusts to let the item in question stand in a steady position
  • separation negative — Photography. a black-and-white negative of one of the additive primary colors used to form a color image.
  • shucking and jiving — misleading or deceptive talk or behavior, as to give a false impression.
  • speeding conviction — a conviction for breaking the speed limit while driving a vehicle
  • tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • the underprivileged — those who are underprivileged
  • the varangian guard — the bodyguard of the Byzantine emperor in the late 10th and 11th centuries, consisting of Varangians
  • theological virtues — one of the three graces: faith, hope, or charity, infused into the human intellect and will by a special grace of God.
  • to fit like a glove — If you say that something fits like a glove, you are emphasizing that it fits exactly.
  • to give sb a leg up — to help with climbing
  • traveling-wave tube — an electron tube used in microwave communications systems, having an electron beam directed coaxially through a wire helix to produce amplification.
  • travelling expenses — expenses that are paid to someone, for example, by their employer, for the costs they need to travel
  • travelling salesman — A travelling salesman is a salesman who travels to different places and meets people in order to sell goods or take orders.
  • turn in their grave — If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their grave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.
  • vaginal intercourse — intercourse involving insertion of the penis into the vagina
  • valley of the kings — a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c.
  • verdigris toadstool — a basidiomycetous fungus, Stropharia aeruginosa, having a distinctive and unusual blue-green cap and paler shaggy stem
  • very high frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 megahertz. Abbreviation: VHF.
  • vigilance committee — an unauthorized committee of citizens organized for the maintenance of order and the summary punishment of crime in the absence of regular or efficient courts.
  • virginia-rail-fence — snake fence.
  • vocational guidance — the process of assisting a student to choose, prepare for, and enter an occupation for which he or she shows aptitude.
  • vulvovaginal glands — the small gland on either side of the lower part of the vagina
  • watch night service — a service held on the night of December 24, or of December 31
  • wedding anniversary — the annual commemoration of a couple's marriage: a tenth wedding anniversary.
  • with the gloves off — (of a dispute, argument, etc) conducted mercilessly and in earnest, with no reservations
  • young conservatives — the youth section of the United Kingdom Conservative Party until 1998
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