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  • experientialism — (philosophy) The theory that experience is the source of knowledge.
  • experientialist — A proponent of experientialism.
  • experimentalism — An experimental practice or tendency, especially in the arts.
  • experimentalist — One who performs experiments.
  • experimentalize — (transitive) To make experiments upon.
  • external spline — any one of a series of narrow keys formed longitudinally around the circumference of a shaft that fit into corresponding grooves (internal splines) in a mating part: used to prevent movement between two parts, esp in transmitting torque
  • fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
  • family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • geomorphologist — A geologist whose speciality is geomorphology.
  • geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
  • glazier's point — a small, pointed piece of sheet metal, for holding a pane of glass in a sash until the putty has hardened.
  • hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
  • hip replacement — a surgical procedure involving replacing the hip joint with an artificial implant
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
  • hyper-emotional — pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hypercatalectic — (of a line of verse) containing an additional syllable after the last dipody or foot. Compare acatalectic (def 2), catalectic.
  • hypercritically — In a hypercritical manner.
  • hyperextensible — Capable of being stretched and extended.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hypermutability — liable or subject to change or alteration.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hyperventilated — Simple past tense and past participle of hyperventilate.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • hysteresis loop — a closed curve showing the variation of the magnetic flux density of a ferromagnetic material with the external magnetic field producing it, when this field is changed through a complete cycle
  • impenetrability — the state or quality of being impenetrable.
  • imperial system — a system of measurement units, including the foot, pound, and second, as well as miles and yards
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
  • imponderability — The state or characteristic of being imponderable.
  • imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
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