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32-letter words containing m, o, t, r

  • object database management group — Object Data Management Group
  • on equal terms/on the same terms — If two people or groups compete on equal terms or on the same terms, neither of them has an advantage over the other.
  • open document interchange format — (standard)   (ODIF) Part of the ODA standard.
  • pleuk grammar development system — (grammar, tool)   A shell for grammar development by Jo Calder <[email protected]>, Kevin Humphreys <[email protected]>, Chris Brew <[email protected]>, and Mike Reape <[email protected]>. It handles various grammatical formalisms and requires SICStus Prolog version 2.1#6 or later. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • point-to-point protocol over atm — (networking)   (PPPoA) A network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames in ATM AAL5. It is used mainly with cable modem, DSL and ADSL services. PPPoA offers standard PPP features such as authentication, encryption, and compression. It is very slightly more efficient than PPPoE and, like PPPoE, supports VC-MUX and LLC encapsulation. PPPoA is specified in RFC 2364.
  • portable common tool environment — (tool)   (PCTE) An ECMA standard framework for software tools developed in the Esprit programme. It is based on an entity-relationship Object Management System and defines the way in which tools access this.
  • probability of failure on demand — (systems)   (POFOD) The likelihood that some system will fail when a service request is made.
  • put something on the long finger — to postpone something for a long time
  • queen mary and westfield college — (QMW) One of the largest of the multi-faculty schools of the University of London. QMW has some 6000 students and over 600 teaching and research staff organised into seven faculties. QMW was one of the first colleges in the University of London to develop fully the course-unit, or modular, approach to degree programmes. Cross faculty courses are encouraged and the physical proximity of all the College buildings is a major factor in enabling students to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their studies.
  • real-time common design language — (language)   (RT-CDL) A real-time language for the design of reliable reactive systems.
  • reduced instruction set computer — (processor)   (RISC) A processor whose design is based on the rapid execution of a sequence of simple instructions rather than on the provision of a large variety of complex instructions (as in a Complex Instruction Set Computer). Features which are generally found in RISC designs are uniform instruction encoding (e.g. the op-code is always in the same bit positions in each instruction which is always one word long), which allows faster decoding; a homogenous register set, allowing any register to be used in any context and simplifying compiler design; and simple addressing modes with more complex modes replaced by sequences of simple arithmetic instructions. Examples of (more or less) RISC processors are the Berkeley RISC, HP-PA, Clipper, i960, AMD 29000, MIPS R2000 and DEC Alpha. IBM's first RISC computer was the RT/PC (IBM 801), they now produce the RISC-based RISC System/6000 and SP/2 lines. Despite Apple Computer's bogus claims for their PowerPC-based Macintoshes, the first RISC processor used in a personal computer was the Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) used in the Acorn Archimedes.
  • saint bartholomew's day massacre — a massacre of over 3000 Huguenots, instigated by Catherine de Médicis and begun in Paris on St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24, 1572.
  • securities and investments board — (from 1986 to 1997) a British regulatory body that oversaw London's financial markets, each of which has its own self-regulatory organization: replaced by the Financial Services Authority
  • single instruction multiple data — Single Instruction/Multiple Data
  • smaller european elm bark beetle — elm bark beetle (def 1).
  • software engineering environment — (SEE) A set of management and technical tools to support software development, usually integrated in a coherent framework; equivalent to an IPSE.
  • south ossetian autonomous region — an autonomous region of the Georgian Republic, in the N part. 1428 sq. mi. (3900 sq. km). Capital: Tskhinvali.
  • standing settlement instructions — Standing settlement instructions are instructions that have been agreed in advance, and that are to be used every time a trade is made.
  • sweep something under the carpet — to conceal (something, esp a problem) in the hope that it will be overlooked by others
  • symbolic mathematical laboratory — (tool, mathematics)   An on-line system under CTSS for symbolic mathematics. It used a display screen and a light pen.
  • systems application architecture — (programming)   (SAA) IBM's family of standard interfaces which enable software to be written independently of hardware and operating system.
  • temporomandibular joint disorder — a syndrome caused by a dislocation, injury, etc. of the temporomandibular joint, characterized variously by headache, facial pain, dizziness, partial loss of hearing, etc.
  • temporomandibular joint syndrome — a condition attributed to tension in or faulty articulation of the temporomandibular joint, having a wide range of symptoms that include dizziness, ringing in the ears, and pain in the head, neck, and shoulders.
  • terminal oriented social science — (project)   (TOSS) The Cambridge Project Project MAC was an ARPA-funded political science computing project. They worked on topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntema had done a system on the MIT Lincoln Labs TX-2 called the Lincoln Reckoner, and in the summer of 1969 led a Cambridge Project team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS. TOSS was like Logo, with matrix operators. A major feature was multiple levels of undo, back to the level of the login session. This feature was cheap on the Lincoln Reckoner, but absurdly expensive on Multics.
  • the game is not worth the candle — If you say that the game is not worth the candle, you mean that something is not worth the trouble or effort needed to achieve or obtain it.
  • the same old story/the old story — If you say it's the same old story or it's the old story, you mean that something unpleasant or undesirable seems to happen again and again.
  • there's no time like the present — If you say 'There's no time like the present', you are suggesting to someone that they should do something now, not later.
  • throw someone in at the deep end — to put someone into a new situation, job, etc, without preparation or introduction
  • time-of-flight mass spectroscopy — a technique for separating ions according to the time required for them to traverse a set distance.
  • to leave somebody partially deaf — to make sb partly deaf
  • to nail your colours to the mast — If someone nails their colours to the mast, they say what they really think about something.
  • to poke your nose into something — If someone pokes their nose into something or sticks their nose into something, they try to interfere with it even though it does not concern them.
  • to vanish from the radar screens — to go missing; to no longer be visible or able to be detected by anyone
  • twente compiler generator system — (language, tool)   (TCGS) A compiler generator developed at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
  • uniform code of military justice — the body of laws governing members of the U.S. armed forces: superseded the Articles of War in 1951
  • united states employment service — the division of the Department of Labor that supervises and coordinates the activities of state employment agencies. Abbreviation: USES.
  • united states information agency — an independent agency, created in 1953 and known from 1978 to 1982 as the International Communication Agency, that administers the government's overseas information and cultural programs. Abbreviation: USIA.
  • virtual sequential access method — Virtual Storage Access Method
  • volunteers in service to america — VISTA.
  • where there's smoke there's fire — If someone says where there's smoke there's fire, they mean that there are rumors or signs that something is true so it must be at least partly true.
  • workmen's compensation insurance — workers' compensation insurance.
  • xinjiang uygur autonomous region — an administrative division of NW China: established in 1955 for the Uygur ethnic minority, with autonomous subdivisions for other small minorities; produces over half China's wool and contains valuable mineral resources. Capital: Ürümqi. Pop: 19 340 000 (2003 est). Area: 1 646 799 sq km (635 829 sq miles)
  • yet another scheme object system — (language)   (YASOS) A system for object-oriented programming in Scheme. E-mail: Ken Dickey <[email protected]>
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