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  • non-volatile storage — (storage)   (NVS, persistent storage, memory) A term describing a storage device whose contents are preserved when its power is off. Storage using magnetic media (e.g. magnetic disks, magnetic tape or bubble memory) is normally non-volatile by nature whereas semiconductor memories (static RAM and especially dynamic RAM) are normally volatile but can be made into non-volatile storage by having a (rechargable) battery permanently connected. Other examples of non-volatile storage are EEPROM, CD-ROM, paper tape and punched cards.
  • nonintrusive testing — (testing)   Testing that is transparent to the software under test, i.e., does not change its timing or processing characteristics. Nonintrusive testing usually involves additional hardware that collects timing or processing information and processes that information on another platform.
  • on everyone's tongue — prevailing as common gossip
  • operator overloading — overloading
  • oscillating universe — a variant model of the closed universe in which the universe undergoes cycles of expansion and contraction.
  • ovo-lacto vegetarian — a vegetarian who eats eggs and dairy products
  • ovo-lacto-vegetarian — lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
  • philoprogenitiveness — producing offspring, especially abundantly; prolific.
  • pound cost averaging — a method of accumulating capital by investing a fixed sum in a particular security at regular intervals, in order to achieve an average purchase price below the arithmetic average of the market prices on the purchase dates
  • private investigator — private detective. Abbreviation: PI, p.i., P.I.
  • regenerative braking — Regenerative braking is a form of braking in electric vehicles in which the loss of kinetic energy from braking is stored and then fed back later to provide power to the electric motor.
  • regenerative cooling — Physics. a method of cooling a gas, utilizing the rapid expansion of a compressed portion of the gas, before it becomes liquid, to cool the remainder.
  • regenerative furnace — a furnace in which the incoming air is heated by regenerators.
  • regional development — aid-giving to poorer areas or countries
  • reminder advertising — a type of advertising designed to remind customers that an existing or well-known product is still available and for sale
  • reservations manager — A reservations manager at a hotel is responsible for the reservations at the hotel.
  • revolving presidency — a form of presidency in which the president and vice-president, or countries or bodies acting as such, switch roles after a set period and then back again and so on
  • scavenger's daughter — an instrument of torture that doubled over and squeezed the body so strongly and violently that blood was brought forth from the ears and nose: invented in 16th-century England.
  • sensitivity training — a form of group therapy designed to develop understanding of oneself and others through free, unstructured discussion.
  • serve a person right — to pay a person back, esp for wrongful or foolish treatment or behaviour
  • squatter sovereignty — (used contemptuously by its opponents) popular sovereignty (def 2).
  • surface-active agent — any substance that when dissolved in water or an aqueous solution reduces its surface tension or the interfacial tension between it and another liquid.
  • tangent galvanometer — a type of galvanometer having a vertical coil of wire with a horizontal magnetic needle at its centre. The current to be measured is passed through the coil and produces a proportional magnetic field which deflects the needle
  • television programme — a programme broadcast on television
  • theory of everything — a theory intended to show that the electroweak, strong, and gravitational forces are components of a single quantized force.
  • track-laying vehicle — A track-laying vehicle is a vehicle whose wheels run inside a continuous chain or track.
  • trailing vortex drag — drag arising from vortices that occur behind a body moving through a gas or liquid
  • travelling-wave tube — an electronic tube in which an electron beam interacts with a distributed high-frequency magnetic field so that energy is transferred from the beam to the field
  • trustee savings bank — a British financial institution which offered savings facilities for small investors and was managed by unpaid trustees. Depositors had no voting rights and no say in financial or managerial matters. The bank is now a public limited company with the same rights and services as other banks and only retains the title in the abbreviated form TSB.
  • twelve-string guitar — an acoustic guitar having twelve strings instead of six, with each pair tuned an octave apart, and more difficult to play than the standard guitar.
  • vertical integration — the joining together of all companies or firms involved in manufacturing a product into one company or firm
  • visual merchandising — Visual merchandising is the use of attractive displays and floor plans to increase customer numbers and sales volumes.
  • warrensville heights — a city in NE Ohio.
  • wide-angle converter — a person or thing that converts.
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