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  • insurance company — company that sells insurance policies
  • kyoto common lisp — (language)   (KCL) An implementation of Common Lisp by T. Yuasa <[email protected]> and M. Hagiya <[email protected]>, written in C to run under Unix-like operating systems. KCL is compiled to ANSI C. It conforms to Common Lisp as described in Guy Steele's book and is available under a licence agreement. E-mail: <[email protected]> (bug reports). Mailing list: [email protected], [email protected]
  • literacy campaign — a campaign designed to reduce illiteracy and promote literacy in a country, area, etc
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • lymphangiographic — Relating to lymphangiography.
  • malayo-polynesian — a family of languages extending from Madagascar to the central Pacific, including Malagasy, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Polynesian
  • manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
  • melissopalynology — The study of honey and its composition.
  • memory protection — (memory management)   A system to prevent one process corrupting the memory (or other resources) of any other, including the operating system. Memory protection usually relies on a combination of hardware (a memory management unit) and software to allocate memory to processes and handle exceptions. The effectiveness of memory protection varies from one operating system to another. In most versions of Unix it is almost impossible to corrupt another process' memory, except in some archaic implementations and Lunix (not Linux!). Under Microsoft Windows (version? hardware?) any 16 bit application(?) can circumvent the memory protection, often leading to one or more GPFs. Currently (April 1996) neither Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, nor Mac OS offer memory protection. Windows NT has it, and Mac OS System 8 will offer a form of memory protection.
  • mentally impaired — with reduced or weakened mental capacity
  • mercury poisoning — illness caused by exposure to mercury
  • method of payment — cash, credit card, cheque, etc.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • methylnaphthalene — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 0 , whose alpha isomer, a colorless liquid, is used in determining cetane numbers.
  • micropaleontology — the branch of paleontology dealing with the study of microscopic fossils.
  • microphanerophyte — any shrub or tree having a height of 2 to 8 metres
  • midmorning prayer — the third of the seven canonical hours; terce
  • mind-body problem — the problem of explaining the relation of the mind to the body.
  • multidisciplinary — composed of or combining several usually separate branches of learning or fields of expertise: a multidisciplinary study of the 18th century.
  • multipotentiality — The capacity to develop in multiple ways; the state of having multiple potentialities.
  • nephelometrically — By means of nephelometry.
  • neuropharmacology — the branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
  • olympic mountains — a mountain range in NW Washington: part of the Coast Range. Highest peak: Mount Olympus, 2427 m (7965 ft)
  • olympic peninsula — a large peninsula of W Washington
  • one-parent family — A one-parent family is a family that consists of one parent and his or her children living together.
  • onomatopoetically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • optical astronomy — the branch of observational astronomy using telescopes to observe or photograph celestial objects in visible light.
  • packaging company — a company that packages goods on behalf of the producer
  • parachute payment — a payment made to alleviate hardship resulting from a sudden loss of income
  • parents anonymous — (in Britain) an association of local voluntary self-help groups offering help through an anonymous telephone service to parents who fear they will injure their children, or who have other problems in managing their children
  • parliamentary law — the body of rules, usages, and precedents that governs proceedings of legislative and deliberative assemblies.
  • pastoral symphony — the Symphony No. 6 in F major (1807–08) by Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • pay someone's way — to pay someone's share of the expenses
  • paymaster general — a government minister responsible for making payments by government departments
  • persistent memory — non-volatile storage
  • phantom pregnancy — the occurrence of signs of pregnancy, such as enlarged abdomen and absence of menstruation, when no embryo is present, due to hormonal imbalance
  • phenylformic acid — benzoic acid.
  • physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
  • physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
  • plymouth brethren — a religious sect founded c. 1827, strongly Puritanical in outlook and prohibiting many secular occupations for its members. It combines elements of Calvinism, Pietism, and millenarianism, and has no organized ministry
  • political economy — a social science dealing with political policies and economic processes, their interrelations, and their influence on social institutions.
  • polymorphonuclear — (of a leukocyte) having a lobulate nucleus.
  • potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
  • primary dentition — the deciduous dentition
  • primary education — junior, elementary schooling
  • primary intention — Logic. See under intention (def 5a).
  • primary-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
  • production system — (programming)   A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • purely and simply — You use purely and simply to emphasize that the thing you are mentioning is the only thing involved.
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