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  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • reception room — a room for receiving visitors, clients, patients, etc.
  • reimplantation — the surgical restoration of a tooth, organ, limb, or other structure to its original site.
  • repromulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • retrocomputing — /ret'-roh-k*m-pyoo'ting/ Refers to emulations of way-behind-the-state-of-the-art hardware or software, or implementations of never-was-state-of-the-art; especially if such implementations are elaborate practical jokes and/or parodies, written mostly for hack value, of more "serious" designs. Perhaps the most widely distributed retrocomputing utility was the "pnch(6)" or "bcd(6)" program on V7 and other early Unix versions, which would accept up to 80 characters of text argument and display the corresponding pattern in punched card code. Other well-known retrocomputing hacks have included the programming language INTERCAL, a JCL-emulating shell for Unix, the card-punch-emulating editor named 029, and various elaborate PDP-11 hardware emulators and RT-11 OS emulators written just to keep an old, sourceless Zork binary running.
  • rummelgumption — commonsense
  • rummlegumption — common sense
  • sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • semipolar bond — type of chemical bond
  • simple protein — a protein that yields only amino acids and no other major products when hydrolyzed (contrasted with conjugated protein).
  • simpson desert — an uninhabited arid region in central Australia, mainly in the Northern Territory. Area: about 145 000 sq km (56 000 sq miles)
  • simpson's rule — a method for approximating the value of a definite integral by approximating, with parabolic arcs, the area under the curve defined by the integrand.
  • something's up — something is amiss
  • spanish omelet — an omelet served with a sauce of tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.
  • spending money — money for small personal expenses.
  • spermatogonium — one of the undifferentiated germ cells giving rise to spermatocytes.
  • spermiogenesis — the development of a spermatozoon from a spermatid.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • superimportant — extremely important
  • symphonic poem — a form of tone poem, scored for a symphony orchestra, in which a literary or pictorial “plot” is treated with considerable program detail: originated by Franz Liszt in the mid-19th century and developed especially by Richard Strauss.
  • synaposematism — the display of common warning colours between different organisms inhabiting the same region
  • terminal point — the final destination or station of a bus or rail journey
  • the omnipotent — an epithet for God
  • thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.
  • treponematosis — an infection caused by an organism of the genus Treponema, as syphilis, pinta, bejel, or yaws.
  • tripersonalism — the doctrine of three persons making up the Trinity
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • uncomputerized — not computerized; not equipped with, involving, or making use of computers
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
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