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  • overcomplicating — Present participle of overcomplicate.
  • pacific sturgeon — a dark gray sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, inhabiting marine and fresh waters along the northwestern coast of North America, valued as a food and sport fish.
  • packing fraction — Physics. a measure of the stability of an atomic nucleus, equal to 10 4 multiplied by the mass defect and divided by the mass number.
  • pattern matching — 1. A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. For example, the function length [] = 0 length (x:xs) = 1 + length xs uses pattern matching in its argument to distinguish a null list from a non-null one. There are well known algorithm for translating pattern matching into conditional expressions such as "if" or "case". E.g. the above function could be transformed to 2. Descriptive of a type of language or utility such as awk or Perl which is suited to searching for strings or patterns in input data, usually using some kind of regular expression.
  • peace campaigner — someone who campaigns for peace or an end to conflict
  • pelican crossing — place to cross road
  • percentage point — difference: one per cent
  • peregrine falcon — a globally distributed falcon, Falco peregrinus, much used in falconry because of its swift flight: several subspecies are endangered.
  • perfecting press — a rotary press for printing both sides of a sheet or web in one operation.
  • permanganic acid — an acid, HMnO 4 , known only in solution.
  • phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
  • pharmacogenomics — the study of human genetic variability in relation to drug action and its application to medical treatment
  • phonocardiograph — an instrument for graphically recording the sound of the heartbeat.
  • photozincography — a type of photoengraving using a sensitized zinc plate.
  • picture moulding — the edge around a framed picture
  • pneumatic trough — a trough filled with liquid, especially water, for collecting gases in bell jars or the like by displacement.
  • pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
  • practice manager — the manager of a business such as a medical practice, dental practice, or legal practice
  • prestige pricing — the practice of giving a product a high price to convey the idea that it must be of high quality or status
  • prevenient grace — divine grace operating on the human will prior to its turning to God.
  • process printing — a method of printing almost any color by using a limited number of separate color plates, as yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, in combination.
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
  • project guardian — (project, security)   A project which grew out of the ARPA support for Multics and the sale of Multics systems to the US Air Force. The USAF wanted a system that could be used to handle more than one security classification of data at a time. They contracted with Honeywell and MITRE Corporation to figure out how to do this. Project Guardian led to the creation of the Access Isolation Mechanism, the forerunner of the B2 labeling and star property support in Multics. The DoD Orange Book was influenced by the experience in building secure systems gained in Project Guardian.
  • project planning — project management
  • prolonged-action — sustained-release.
  • puddling-furnace — the act of a person or thing that puddles.
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • racial profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
  • racing certainty — a horse considered very likely or certain to win a race
  • rating community — an online community based around a website that allows members to rate each other's photographs, qualifications, etc, as well as those of applicants, and which only those approved by existing members are allowed to join
  • rearguard action — an action fought by a rearguard
  • receiver general — a public official in charge of the government's treasury.
  • reckless driving — a serious traffic offence whereby the driver of a vehicle disregards the rules of the road, driving very dangerously, causing accidents or other damage
  • recording studio — place where music is recorded
  • recycling scheme — a scheme enabling the public to recycle waste
  • refracting angle — an angle formed by a ray which is refracted and which is perpendicular to the refracting surface
  • regional council — the governing body in certain countries of a particular region or administrative division
  • register dancing — Many older processor architectures suffer from a serious shortage of general-purpose registers. This is especially a problem for compiler-writers, because their generated code needs places to store temporaries for things like intermediate values in expression evaluation. Some designs with this problem, like the Intel 80x86, do have a handful of special-purpose registers that can be pressed into service, providing suitable care is taken to avoid unpleasant side effects on the state of the processor: while the special-purpose register is being used to hold an intermediate value, a delicate minuet is required in which the previous value of the register is saved and then restored just before the official function (and value) of the special-purpose register is again needed.
  • rejection region — the set of values of a test statistic for which the null hypothesis is rejected.
  • releasing factor — a substance usually of hypothalamic origin that triggers the release of a particular hormone from an endocrine gland.
  • reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
  • revolving credit — credit automatically available up to a predetermined limit while payments are periodically made. Compare credit line (def 2).
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • ring the changes — to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: to change one's name; to change one's opinion; to change the course of history.
  • ring-necked duck — a North American scauplike duck, Aythya collaris, having a chestnut ring around the neck.
  • rolling friction — frictional resistance to rotation or energy losses in rolling bearings
  • rooting compound — a substance, usually a powder, containing auxins in which plant cuttings are dipped in order to promote root growth
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