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  • pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
  • quattrocentism — the 15th-century Italian style of art and literature
  • quattrocentist — a painter or writer of 15th-century Italy
  • race condition — Anomalous behavior due to unexpected critical dependence on the relative timing of events. For example, if one process writes to a file while another is reading from the same location then the data read may be the old contents, the new contents or some mixture of the two depending on the relative timing of the read and write operations. A common remedy in this kind of race condition is file locking; a more cumbersome remedy is to reorganize the system such that a certain processes (running a daemon or the like) is the only process that has access to the file, and all other processes that need to access the data in that file do so only via interprocess communication with that one process. As an example of a more subtle kind of race condition, consider a distributed chat network like IRC, where a user is granted channel-operator privileges in any channel he starts. If two users on different servers, on different ends of the same network, try to start the same-named channel at the same time, each user's respective server will grant channel-operator privileges to each user, since neither will yet have received the other's signal that that channel has been started. In this case of a race condition, the "shared resource" is the conception of the state of the network (what channels exist, as well as what users started them and therefore have what privileges), which each server is free to change as long as it signals the other servers on the network about the changes so that they can update their conception of the state of the network. However, the latency across the network makes possible the kind of race condition described. In this case, heading off race conditions by imposing a form of control over access to the shared resource -- say, appointing one server to be in charge of who holds what privileges -- would mean turning the distributed network into a centralized one (at least for that one part of the network operation). Where this is not acceptable, the more pragmatic solution is to have the system recognize when a race condition has occurred and to repair the ill effects. Race conditions also affect electronic circuits where the value output by a logic gate depends on the exact timing of two or more input signals. For example, consider a two input AND gate fed with a logic signal X on input A and its negation, NOT X, on input B. In theory, the output (X AND NOT X) should never be high. However, if changes in the value of X take longer to propagate to input B than to input A then when X changes from false to true, there will be a brief period during which both inputs are true, and so the gate's output will also be true. If this output is fed to an edge-sensitive component such as a counter or flip-flop then the temporary effect ("glitch") will become permanent.
  • race relations — relationships between races
  • radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • raking cornice — either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  • ranunculaceous — belonging to the Ranunculaceae, the buttercup family of plants.
  • rationalized c — (language)   (RatC, after "RATFOR") A version of Ron Cain's original Small-C compiler.
  • re-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • re-application — the act of putting to a special use or purpose: the application of common sense to a problem.
  • reaccumulation — act or state of accumulating; state of being accumulated.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • reading notice — a short advertisement placed at the bottom of a column, as on the front page of a newspaper, and often set in the same print as other matter.
  • readjudication — an act of adjudicating.
  • ready reckoner — reckoner (def 2).
  • rearticulation — an act or the process of articulating: the articulation of a form; the articulation of a new thought.
  • recalcitration — the act of being recalcitrant
  • recanalization — the reopening of a previously occluded passageway within a blood vessel.
  • recapitulation — the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
  • reception area — the waiting area in a hotel near the desk or office where guests can books rooms or ask the staff questions
  • recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
  • recolonization — to establish a colony in; settle: England colonized Australia.
  • recommendation — an act of recommending.
  • recommendatory — serving to recommend; recommending.
  • recompensatory — serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury.
  • reconciliation — an act of reconciling, as when former enemies agree to an amicable truce.
  • reconciliatory — tending to reconcile.
  • recondensation — the act or process of condensing again
  • reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
  • reconnaissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • reconnoissance — the act of reconnoitering.
  • reconsecration — the act of consecrating; dedication to the service and worship of a deity.
  • reconsolidated — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • record cabinet — a piece of furniture like a cupboard, designed to hold or display vinyl records stacked on their side
  • record changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
  • record company — business: sells recorded music
  • record-changer — a device that automatically places each of a stack of records in succession onto the turntable of a phonograph.
  • recording head — the part of a tape recorder that records a sound source by converting the electrical analog of the sound, as from a microphone, into a magnetic signal for storage on magnetic tape.
  • recording tape — a ribbon of material, esp magnetic tape, used to record sound, images and data, used in a tape recorder
  • recreationally — of or relating to recreation: recreational facilities in the park.
  • rediscountable — able to be rediscounted
  • refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
  • regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
  • reindoctrinate — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
  • relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
  • rent allowance — money given to individuals by the government that subsidises the cost of renting a property
  • resinification — to convert into a resin.
  • resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • reverification — the act of verifying.
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