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16-letter words containing m, i, n, e, c, g

  • 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.
  • gemini telescope — either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón
  • 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
  • germinal vesicle — the large, vesicular nucleus of an ovum before the polar bodies are formed.
  • 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.
  • high-compression — of a modern type of internal-combustion engine designed so that the fuel mixture is compressed into a smaller cylinder space, resulting in more pressure on the pistons and more power
  • 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.
  • huffman encoding — Huffman coding
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • image consultant — imagemaker.
  • image processing — (graphics)   Computer manipulation of images. Some of the many algorithms used in image processing include convolution (on which many others are based), FFT, DCT, thinning (or skeletonisation), edge detection and contrast enhancement. These are usually implemented in software but may also use special purpose hardware for speed. Image processing contrasts with computer graphics, which is usually more concerned with the generation of artificial images, and visualisation, which attempts to understand (real-world) data by displaying it as an artificial image (e.g. a graph). Image processing is used in image recognition and computer vision. See also Pilot European Image Processing Archive.
  • imperfect fungus — a fungus for which only the asexual reproductive stage is known, as any fungus of the Fungi imperfecti.
  • interlaced image — progressive coding
  • irminger current — a branch of the North Atlantic Current, flowing N past the W coast of Iceland and then W.
  • knitting machine — machine that knits yarn into fabric
  • league champions — the team that has come top of the league
  • lymphangiectasia — (medicine) dilation of the lymphatic vessels.
  • lymphangiectasis — Alt form lymphangiectasia.
  • machine language — machine code
  • machine learning — The ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results.
  • machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
  • magazine section — a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.
  • magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
  • magnesiochromite — (mineral) A chromite species with the formula MgCr2O4.
  • magnetic anomaly — a departure from the normal magnetic field of the earth.
  • magnetic bearing — the bearing of a point relative to that of the nearest magnetic pole.
  • magnetic circuit — the closed path described by magnetic flux. It is analogous to the electric circuit with resistance, where flux, reluctance, and magnetomotive force correspond to electric current, resistance, and electromotive force.
  • magnetic compass — a compass having a magnetized needle generally in line with the magnetic poles of the earth.
  • magnetic equator — aclinic line.
  • magnetic pick-up — a type of record player pick-up in which the stylus moves an iron core in a coil, causing a changing magnetic field that produces the current
  • magnetic pyrites — Mineralogy. pyrrhotite.
  • magneto-electric — of or relating to the induction of electric current or electromotive force by means of permanent magnets.
  • magnetoacoustics — (used with a singular verb) the branch of physics studying the effects of magnetism on acoustics or their interaction.
  • magnetochemistry — the study of magnetic and chemical phenomena in their relation to one another.
  • magnetostriction — a change in dimensions exhibited by ferromagnetic materials when subjected to a magnetic field.
  • magnetostrictive — Of or pertaining to magnetostriction.
  • marriage licence — an official document stating that a marriage will be allowed to take place
  • marriage license — permit to marry
  • masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
  • measuring device — gauge
  • megacorporations — Plural form of megacorporation.
  • megalomaniacally — In a megalomaniacal manner.
  • meningomyelocele — (medicine) A congenital defect of the central nervous system of infants in which membranes and the spinal cord protrude through an opening or defect in the vertebral column.
  • mercator sailing — sailing according to rhumb lines, which appear as straight lines on a Mercator chart.
  • microaggressions — Plural form of microaggression.
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