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- multithreading — (parallel) Sharing a single CPU between multiple tasks (or "threads") in a way designed to minimise the time required to switch threads. This is accomplished by sharing as much as possible of the program execution environment between the different threads so that very little state needs to be saved and restored when changing thread. Multithreading differs from multitasking in that threads share more of their environment with each other than do tasks under multitasking. Threads may be distinguished only by the value of their program counters and stack pointers while sharing a single address space and set of global variables. There is thus very little protection of one thread from another, in contrast to multitasking. Multithreading can thus be used for very fine-grain multitasking, at the level of a few instructions, and so can hide latency by keeping the processor busy after one thread issues a long-latency instruction on which subsequent instructions in that thread depend. A light-weight process is somewhere between a thread and a full process.
- murrhine glass — glassware believed to resemble the murrhine cups of ancient Rome.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- neighbourhoods — Plural form of neighbourhood.
- neurohypnology — a name given to hypnosis by the Scottish physician Braid
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- non-homogenous — Biology. corresponding in structure because of a common origin.
- nonhomogeneous — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- nursing mother — a mother who is breast-feeding her baby
- off the ground — the solid surface of the earth; firm or dry land: to fall to the ground.
- on home ground — If you say that someone is on their home ground, you mean that they are in or near where they work or live, and feel confident and secure because of this.
- on the upgrade — improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc
- opechancanough — c1545–1644, Algonquian leader, brother of Powhatan: led Jamestown massacre 1622.
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- park chung hee — 1917–79, South Korean politician: president 1963–79 (assassinated).
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- polygon pusher — (Or "rectangle slinger"). A chip designer who spends most of his or her time at the physical layout level (which requires drawing *lots* of multi-coloured polygons).
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- put on the dog — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- queuing theory — a theory that deals with providing a service on a waiting line, or queue, especially when the demand for it is irregular and describable by probability distributions, as processing phone calls arriving at a telephone exchange or collecting highway tolls from drivers at tollbooths.
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
- rotten borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough that had very few voters yet was represented in Parliament.
- scavenger hunt — a game in which individuals or teams are sent out to accumulate, without purchasing, a series of common, outlandish, or humorous objects, the winner being the person or team returning first with all the items.
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- scrape through — only just succeed
- second thought — Often, second thoughts. reservation about a previous action, position, decision, judgment, or the like: He had second thoughts about his decision.
- self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
- self-slaughter — suicide.
- shutting stile — the stile of a door or shutter that closes against the frame of the opening.
- single honours — a British university degree course that involves study in a single area
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.
- slaughterously — murderously
- smoker's cough — a chronic cough caused by smoking.
- smooth-tongued — fluent or convincing in speech; glib.
- something's up — something is amiss
- soul-searching — the act or process of close and penetrating analysis of oneself, to determine one's true motives and sentiments.
- south georgian — a British island in the S Atlantic, about 800 miles (1290 km) SE of the Falkland Islands. About 1000 sq. mi. (2590 sq. km).
- spanish guinea — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- square-bashing — drill on a barrack square
- squeak through — to succeed, get through, survive, etc. by a narrow margin or with difficulty
- stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala