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conventional mortgage — A conventional mortgage is a fixed rate mortgage with a standard term of 15, 20, or 30 years.
conway's game of life — (simulation) The first popular cellular automata based artificial life simulation. Life was invented by British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970 and was first introduced publicly in "Scientific American" later that year. Conway first devised what he called "The Game of Life" and "ran" it using plates placed on floor tiles in his house. Because of he ran out of floor space and kept stepping on the plates, he later moved to doing it on paper or on a checkerboard and then moved to running Life as a computer program on a PDP-7. That first implementation of Life as a computer program was written by M. J. T. Guy and S. R. Bourne (the author of Unix's Bourne shell). Life uses a rectangular grid of binary (live or dead) cells each of which is updated at each step according to the previous state of its eight neighbours as follows: a live cell with less than two, or more than three, live neighbours dies. A dead cell with exactly three neighbours becomes alive. Other cells do not change. While the rules are fairly simple, the patterns that can arise are of a complexity resembling that of organic systems -- hence the name "Life". Many hackers pass through a stage of fascination with Life, and hackers at various places contributed heavily to the mathematical analysis of this game (most notably Bill Gosper at MIT, who even implemented Life in TECO!; see Gosperism). When a hacker mentions "life", he is more likely to mean this game than the magazine, the breakfast cereal, the 1950s-era board game or the human state of existence.
coordination language — (networking, protocol) A language defined specifically to allow two or more parties (components) to communicate in order to accomplish some shared goal. Examples of coordination languages are Linda and Xerox's CLF (STITCH).
cornella de llobregat — a city in N Spain.
cosmological argument — one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause
cosmological constant — a term introduced by Einstein into his field equations of general relativity to permit a stationary, nonexpanding universe: it has since been abandoned in most models of the universe.
cosmological redshift — the part of the redshift of celestial objects resulting from the expansion of the universe.
crystallographic axis — one of the imaginary reference lines passing through the center of an ideal crystal, designated a, b, or c.
cultural anthropology — the branch of anthropology dealing with cultural as opposed to biological and racial features
de-ontological ethics — the branch of ethics dealing with right action and the nature of duty, without regard to the goodness or value of motives or the desirability of the ends of any act.
delusions of grandeur — If someone has delusions of grandeur, they think and behave as if they are much more important or powerful than they really are.
dendrochronologically — By the use of, or with reference to dendrochronology.
designated employment — (in Britain) any of certain kinds of jobs reserved for handicapped workers under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944
developmental biology — the study of the development of multicellular organisms, including the study of the earliest stages of embryonic structure and tissue differentiation
differential geometry — the branch of mathematics that deals with the application of the principles of differential and integral calculus to the study of curves and surfaces.
differential topology — the branch of topology that studies the properties of differentiable manifolds that remain invariant under diffeomorphisms.
digital videocassette — a videocassette containing magnetic tape used for high-fidelity digital recording or playback of video. Abbreviation: DVC.
dumfries and galloway — a region in S Scotland. 2460 sq. mi. (6371 sq. km).
ecological succession — succession (def 6).
ecological-succession — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.
educational sociology — the application of sociological principles and methods to the solution of problems in an educational system.
electrochromatography — chromatography effected by the influence of an applied electric field
electroencephalograms — Plural form of electroencephalogram.
electroencephalograph — A machine used for electroencephalography.
electromagnetic field — a field of force associated with a moving electric charge equivalent to an electric field and a magnetic field at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation
electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
electromyographically — By means of, or in terms of, electromyography.
electronystagmography — A diagnostic test to record involuntary movements of the eye caused by a condition known as nystagmus. It can also be used to diagnose the cause of vertigo, dizziness or balance dysfunction by testing the vestibular system.
equiangular hyperbola — a hyperbola with transverse and conjugate axes equal to each other.
faculty board meeting — a meeting of the governing body of a faculty
first-dollar coverage — insurance that provides payment for the full loss up to the insured amount with no deductibles.
forensic anthropology — the branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
franco-belgian system — French system.
free alongside vessel — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel
free-floating anxiety — chronic anxiety occurring for no identifiable cause
garbageabetical order — (humour) 1. The result of using an insertion sort to merge data into an unsorted list. 2. The state of any file or list that is supposed to be sorted, but is not.
gas analysis recorder — A gas analysis recorder is a device which samples, records, and analyses gas.
gas blanketed storage — Gas blanketed storage is the use of gas to fill empty space in a storage tank.
general court-martial — a court-martial having the authority to try any offense against military law and to impose a sentence of dishonorable discharge or of death when provided by law.
general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
genetic amplification — an increase in the frequency of replication of a DNA segment.
gentleman of the road — a highwayman.
george bryan brummell — George Bryan II, Beau Brummell.
gestalt psychotherapy — a therapy devised in the US in the 1960s in which patients are encouraged to concentrate on the immediate present and to express their true feelings
gideons international — an interdenominational lay society organized in 1899 to place Bibles in hotel rooms.
give place to someone — to make room for or be superseded by someone
give someone a leg up — to help someone to climb an obstacle by pushing upwards
give someone a tinkle — to call someone on the telephone
glacier national park — a national park in NW Montana: glaciers; lakes; forest reserve. 1534 sq. mi. (3970 sq. km).
glen of imaal terrier — a strongly-built medium-sized variety of terrier with a medium-length coat and short forelegs

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