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  • authenticating — to establish as genuine.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autocovariance — (statistics) The covariance of a signal with another part of the same signal.
  • autodesk, inc. — (company)   The distributors of the AutoCAD CAD package. Address: Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • avariciousness — The state or quality of being avaricious.
  • backup pumpkin — pumpkin
  • balsaminaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Balsaminaceae, a family of flowering plants, including balsam and touch-me-not, that have irregular flowers and explosive capsules
  • bamboo curtain — (esp in the 1950s and 1960s) the political and military barrier to communications around the People's Republic of China
  • base community — (especially in South America) a group of people taking part in religious devotions and Bible study, who seek to apply this in their socioeconomic and political situation.
  • basic industry — an industry which is highly important in a nation's economy
  • basso continuo — continuo.
  • beaten biscuit — a hard, unleavened biscuit, made to rise by pounding and folding the dough.
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • beta reduction — [lambda-calculus] The application of a lambda abstraction to an argument expression. A copy of the body of the lambda abstraction is made and occurrences of the bound variable being replaced by the argument. E.g. (\ x . x+1) 4 --> 4+1 Beta reduction is the only kind of reduction in the pure lambda-calculus. The opposite of beta reduction is beta abstraction. These are the two kinds of beta conversion. See also name capture.
  • bib and tucker — an outfit of clothes (esp in the phrase best bib and tucker)
  • binary counter — (electronics, hardware)   A digital circuit which has a clock input and a number of count outputs which give the number of clock cycles. The output may change either on rising or falling clock edges. The circuit may also have a reset input which sets all outputs to zero when asserted. The counter may be either a synchronous counter or a ripple counter.
  • bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
  • bioequivalence — the equality of strength, bioavailability, and dosage of various drug products
  • bird sanctuary — an area of land in which birds are protected and encouraged to breed
  • black selenium — an allotropic form of selenium occurring as a black, amorphous, water-insoluble, light-sensitive powder: used chiefly in photoelectric cells.
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • block mountain — a mountain produced by faulting and the uplifting of large blocks of rock
  • braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
  • brazil current — a warm current in the Atlantic Ocean flowing SE along the E coast of Brazil.
  • bronchial tube — Your bronchial tubes are the two tubes which connect your windpipe to your lungs.
  • bubonic plague — Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages.
  • business class — Business class seating on an aeroplane costs less than first class but more than economy class.
  • cable trunking — Cable trunking is an enclosure usually with a rectangular cross section, and with one removable or hinged side, that is used to protect cables and provide space for other electrical equipment.
  • cadmium bronze — an alloy of copper with about 1 percent cadmium.
  • cadmium orange — a yellow color approaching orange.
  • cahokia mounds — the largest group of prehistoric Indian earthworks in the US, located northeast of East St Louis
  • calumniousness — Calumny.
  • cancer-causing — having the ability to induce the growth of a malignant tumour
  • canonical hour — one of the seven prayer times appointed for each day by canon law
  • cape peninsula — (in South Africa) the peninsula and the part of the mainland on which Cape Town and most of its suburbs are located
  • capriciousness — subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
  • captain crunch — 1.   (person)   ("Cap'n Crunch") An early 1970s hacker/phreaker/phacker who used a free whistle included with "Cap'n Crunch" breakfast cereal to fake pay phone system tones and make large quantities of free phone calls. Also alludes to "crunch". 2. (After the above) wardialer. 3. Reportedly, a program which crashes a computer by overloading the interrupt stack.
  • catechumenship — the office or position of a catechumen
  • caucasian lily — a tall lily plant, Lilium monadelphum, having large, fragrant, drooping golden-yellow flowers.
  • centrifugalize — to subject (something) to centrifugal motion
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • chauvinist pig — a sexist man
  • child guidance — the counselling of emotionally disturbed children
  • chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
  • chladni figure — a pattern formed by fine powder placed on a vibrating surface, used to display the positions of nodes and antinodes
  • chondrocranium — the cartilaginous structure that, in early development, envelops the brain
  • christiansburg — a town in SW Virginia.
  • cigarette burn — a burn created by a cigarette
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