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  • escape mechanism — way of avoiding reality
  • examine-in-chief — to examine (one's own witness) in attempting to adduce a case
  • exclamation mark — (character)   The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
  • family of curves — a collection of curves whose equations differ only by values assigned a parameter or parameters.
  • father christmas — Santa Claus.
  • feminine caesura — a caesura occurring immediately after an unstressed or short syllable.
  • ferdinand marcos — Ferdinand E(dralin) [ed-ruh-lin] /ˈɛd rə lɪn/ (Show IPA), 1917–1989, Philippine political leader: president 1965–86.
  • fibonacci number — a number in the Fibonacci sequence, each of which is the sum of the previous two
  • finance minister — a member of a government in charge of the financial affairs of a state etc
  • firewall machine — (networking, security)   A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flying ambulance — an aircraft used to take sick or injured people to hospital
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • franking machine — a machine that franks letters
  • frederic mistral — Frédéric [frey-dey-reek] /freɪ deɪˈrik/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel prize 1904.
  • french ice cream — a type of ice cream in which an egg and cream mixture is cooked to a light custard before being frozen.
  • frigate mackerel — a small, blue-green, black-striped fish, Auxis thazard, abundant in tropical seas, having dark, oily flesh that is sometimes used as food.
  • fundamentalistic — Fundamentalist.
  • galenic pharmacy — the art or practice of preparing and dispensing galenicals.
  • gamma correction — (hardware)   Adjustments applied during the display of a digital representation of colour on a screen in order to compensate for the fact that the Cathode Ray Tubes used in computer monitors (and televisions) produce a light intensity which is not proportional to the input voltage. The light intensity is actually proportional to the input voltage raised to the inverse power of some constant, called gamma. Its value varies from one display to another, but is usually around 2.5. Because it is more intuitive for the colour components (red, green and blue) to be varied linearly in the computer, the actual voltages sent to the monitor by the display hardware must be adjusted in order to make the colour component intensity on the screen proportional to the value stored in the computer's display memory. This process is most easily achieved by a dedicated module in the display hardware which simply scales the outputs of the display memory before sending them to the digital-to-analogue converters. More expensive graphics cards and workstations (particularly those used for CAD applications) will have a gamma correction facility. In combination with the "white-point" gamma correction is used to achieve precise colour matching.
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • general american — any form of American English speech considered to show few regional peculiarities, usually including all dialects except for eastern New England, New York City, Southern, and South Midland (no longer in technical use). Abbreviation: GA.
  • general medicine — non-surgical branch of medicine
  • genetic material — material that stores genetic information; DNA
  • geometrical pace — a pace of 5 feet (1.5 meters), representing the distance between the places at which the same foot rests on the ground in walking.
  • geomorphological — Of or pertaining to geomorphology.
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • glycosylceramide — (organic chemistry) Any glycosyl derivative of a ceramide.
  • haemochromatosis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.
  • haemodynamically — from a hemodynamic point of view
  • hamming distance — (data)   The minimum number of bits that must be changed in order to convert one bit string into another. Named after the mathematician Richard Hamming.
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • hematocrit-value — a centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.
  • hematocrystallin — (biology, archaic) hemoglobin.
  • hemolytic anemia — an anemic condition characterized by the destruction of red blood cells: seen in some drug reactions and in certain infectious and hereditary disorders.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
  • hermaphroditical — Alternative form of hermaphroditic.
  • high-maintenance — needing frequent maintenance or repair: My bike is high-maintenance; this is its third front wheel this month.
  • high-performance — A high-performance car or other product goes very fast or does a lot.
  • himachal pradesh — a state in N India. 21,495 sq. mi. (55,673 sq. km). Capital: Shimla.
  • hispano-american — Spanish.
  • homeric laughter — loud, hearty laughter, as of the gods.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hydraulic cement — cement that can solidify under water.
  • hypermasculinity — pertaining to or characteristic of a man or men: masculine attire.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
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