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  • developmentalism — An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and to impose high tariffs on imported goods.
  • developmentalist — an expert in or advocate of developmental psychology.
  • developmentation — (proscribed, chiefly, US, and, humorous) Development.
  • devil's advocate — If you play devil's advocate in a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.
  • devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
  • devolatilization — Devolatilization is the removal of volatile substances from a solid.
  • digital envelope — (cryptography)  
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • divisional court — a high court in which at least two judges sit
  • eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
  • elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
  • enantioselective — (chemistry) (of a catalyst) that catalyzes the reaction of only one of a pair of enantiomers.
  • environmentalism — A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.
  • environmentalist — A person who is concerned with or advocates the protection of the environment.
  • evangelistically — In an evangelistic manner.
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
  • fielding average — a measure of the fielding ability of a player, obtained by dividing the number of put-outs and assists by the number of put-outs, assists, and errors and carrying out the result to three decimal places. A player with ten errors in 600 chances has a fielding average of .984.
  • filterable virus — a virus particle small enough to pass through a filter of diatomaceous earth or porcelain, which will not pass bacteria: chiefly historical or an informal indicator of size, as synthetic membrane filters now permit passage of the smallest virus.
  • fit like a glove — fit perfectly
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
  • forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
  • four-leaf clover — a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
  • franco-provencal — a Romance dialect group of western Switzerland and neighboring parts of France: closely related to both Provençal and northern French.
  • galvanic battery — battery (def 1a).
  • general aviation — aviation including business flying, sports flying, and crop dusting.
  • general delivery — a postal service that delivers mail to a specific post office where it is held for pickup by the addressee.
  • gerard de nerval — Gérard de [zhey-rar duh] /ʒeɪˈrar də/ (Show IPA), (Gérard Labrunie) 1808–55, French writer.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • governmentalized — Simple past tense and past participle of governmentalize.
  • governor general — a governor who is chief over subordinate or deputy governors.
  • governor-general — A Governor-General is a person who is sent to a former British colony as the chief representative of Britain.
  • governors island — an island in New York Bay at the S end of the East River: U.S. military post. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
  • granville-barker — Harley, 1877–1946, English dramatist, actor, and critic.
  • gravity platform — (in the oil industry) a drilling platform that rests directly on the sea bed and is kept in position by its own weight; it is usually made of reinforced concrete
  • gravity railroad — a railroad depending partly on the force of gravity for motive power.
  • great slave lake — a lake in NW Canada, in the Northwest Territories. 11,172 sq. mi. (28,935 sq. km).
  • green vegetables — green edible plants
  • harvest festival — religious celebration of crops gathered
  • have a field day — If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
  • have a talk with — discuss
  • heavy with child — pregnant
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
  • historical novel — a novel within the genre of historical fiction.
  • hodmezovasarhely — a city in SE Hungary.
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