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  • control variable — Also called control. Statistics. a person, group, event, etc., that is used as a constant and unchanging standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. Compare dependent variable (def 2), independent variable (def 2).
  • controversialism — The attitude or tendency to engage in controversy.
  • controversialist — a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so
  • controversiality — The quality or state of being controversial.
  • controversialize — (transitive) To make to appear controversial.
  • conventionalised — to make conventional.
  • conventionalists — Plural form of conventionalist.
  • conventionalized — to make conventional.
  • conventionalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conventionalize.
  • conversationally — of, relating to, or characteristic of conversation: a conversational tone of voice.
  • conversion table — a diagram which shows equivalent amounts in different measuring systems
  • convertible bond — a bond that can be exchanged for a fixed number of shares of the common stock of the issuing company at the holder's option.
  • convertible lens — a lens containing two or more elements that can be used individually or in combination to provide a variety of focal lengths.
  • counter-violence — swift and intense force: the violence of a storm.
  • cross-validation — a process by which a method that works for one sample of a population is checked for validity by applying the method to another sample from the same population.
  • deconstructively — In a deconstructive manner.
  • deliberativeness — The state or quality of being deliberative.
  • delta conversion — delta reduction
  • developing world — Third World: poor countries
  • 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.
  • device control 1 — control-Q
  • device control 2 — (character)   (DC2) The mnemonic for ASCII character 18, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • device control 3 — control-S
  • device control 4 — (character)   (DC4) The mnemonic for ASCII character 20, one of the four Device Control characters.
  • devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
  • devolatilization — Devolatilization is the removal of volatile substances from a solid.
  • devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
  • digital envelope — (cryptography)  
  • 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
  • driver's license — a permit, as one issued by a state's motor vehicle bureau, that allows the holder to drive a motor vehicle on public roads.
  • dumont d'urville — Jules Sébastien César [zhyl sey-bas-tyan sey-zar] /ʒül seɪ basˈtyɛ̃ seɪˈzar/ (Show IPA), 1790–1842, French naval officer: explored South Pacific and Antarctic.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • event television — television programmes focusing on events that attract media attention and high ratings
  • executive lounge — a room in an airport in which people who are travelling first class can wait for their flight in comfort
  • 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.
  • find one's level — to find one's most suitable place socially, professionally, etc
  • florencio varela — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • 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.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • glove anesthesia — loss of sensation in the hand
  • golden retriever — one of an English breed of retrievers having a thick, flat or wavy, golden coat.
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