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  • pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • quadrantanopia — (medicine) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
  • quasi-personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
  • quick response — fast reaction time
  • quintus prolog — (language, product)   A version of Prolog developed by Quintus. Development of Quintus Prolog had transferred to the Swedish Institute of Computer Science by December 1998. Telephone: +1 (800) 542 1283.
  • quotient group — a group, the elements of which are cosets with respect to a normal subgroup of a given group.
  • radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • rail transport — the system of taking passengers or goods from one place to another by railway
  • rallying point — A rallying point is a place, event, or person that people are attracted to as a symbol of a political group or ideal.
  • re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • re-entry point — the designated place of return of a spacecraft into the earth's atmosphere
  • re-exploration — an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
  • record-keeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • rejection slip — a notification of rejection, attached by a publisher to a manuscript before returning the work to its author.
  • repolarization — a sharp division, as of a population or group, into opposing factions.
  • repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • representation — the act of representing.
  • repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • reprovisioning — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
  • resubscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • rhine province — a former province in W Germany, mostly W of the Rhine: now divided between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine–Westphalia.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • rhinosporidium — any fungus of the genus Rhinosporidium, members of which produce vascular polyps in the nasal passages.
  • ripple control — the remote control of a switch by electrical impulses
  • rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
  • roanoke rapids — a city in NE North Carolina.
  • roller caption — caption lettering that moves progressively up or across the picture, as for showing the credits at the end of a programme
  • rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
  • route flapping — flapping router
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • runcible spoon — a forklike utensil with two broad prongs and one sharp, curved prong, as used for serving hors d'oeuvres.
  • runoff primary — (especially in the southern U.S.) a second primary between the two leading candidates of the first primary to provide nomination by majority rather than by plurality.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
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