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  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • guaranteed bond — a bond issued by a corporation in which payment of the principal, interest, or both is guaranteed by another corporation.
  • guru meditation — (operating system)   The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
  • gyrostabilizers — Plural form of gyrostabilizer.
  • hair hygrometer — a hygrometer actuated by the changes in length of a strand of human hair brought about by changes in the relative humidity.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • halting problem — The problem of determining in advance whether a particular program or algorithm will terminate or run forever. The halting problem is the canonical example of a provably unsolvable problem. Obviously any attempt to answer the question by actually executing the algorithm or simulating each step of its execution will only give an answer if the algorithm under consideration does terminate, otherwise the algorithm attempting to answer the question will itself run forever. Some special cases of the halting problem are partially solvable given sufficient resources. For example, if it is possible to record the complete state of the execution of the algorithm at each step and the current state is ever identical to some previous state then the algorithm is in a loop. This might require an arbitrary amount of storage however. Alternatively, if there are at most N possible different states then the algorithm can run for at most N steps without looping. A program analysis called termination analysis attempts to answer this question for limited kinds of input algorithm.
  • have a right to — be entitled to
  • height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
  • herod the great — ("the Great") 73?–4 b.c, king of Judea 37–4.
  • hierogrammatist — a writer of hierograms, hierogrammate
  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
  • honey tangerine — a citrus fruit with a deep-orange pulp, formed by crossing a tangerine and a sweet orange hybrid; Murcott
  • hovering accent — indeterminacy as to which of two consecutive syllables in a line of verse bears the metrical stress, as in any of the first three feet of Slow, slow, / fresh fount, / keep time / with my / salt tears.
  • humphrey bogart — Humphrey (DeForest) ("Bogie"or"Bogey") 1899–57, U.S. motion-picture actor.
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hydrometallurgy — the technique or process of extracting metals at ordinary temperatures by leaching ore with liquid solvents.
  • hyetometrograph — an instrument used to record rainfall
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • image converter — a device for producing a visual image formed by other electromagnetic radiation such as infrared or ultraviolet radiation or X-rays
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • integral domain — a commutative ring in which the cancellation law holds true.
  • integrationists — Plural form of integrationist.
  • intercollegiate — taking place between or participating in activities between different colleges: intercollegiate athletics.
  • interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
  • intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • interrecord gap — the area or space separating consecutive physical records of data on an external storage medium.
  • interrogatingly — So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
  • interrogational — the act of interrogating; questioning.
  • interrogatively — In an interrogative manner; by means of a question.
  • interrogatories — conveying or expressing a question; interrogative.
  • ipod generation — members of the generation of adults born after 1970, who are less financially secure than their parents, due to student debt, high house prices, and job insecurity
  • job enlargement — a widening of the range of tasks performed by an employee in order to provide variety in the activities undertaken
  • joint agreement — a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people
  • juxtaglomerular — (anatomy) Near, or adjoining a renal glomerulus.
  • knight bachelor — bachelor (def 3).
  • labour shortage — a shortage or insufficiency of qualified candidates for employment (in an economy, country, etc)
  • lactovegetarian — Also called lactarian. a vegetarian whose diet includes dairy products.
  • largemouth bass — a North American freshwater game fish, Micropterus salmoides, having an upper jaw extending behind the eye and a broad, dark, irregular stripe along each side of the body. Compare smallmouth bass.
  • laryngectomized — having had one's larynx surgically removed by undergoing a laryngectomy
  • laryngotracheal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and trachea.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • length over all — Nautical. the entire length of a vessel, measured from the foremost point of the bow to the aftermost point of the stern.
  • leptosporangium — (botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
  • linear topology — (theory)   A linear topology on a left A-module M is a topology on M that is invariant under translations and admits a fundamental system of neighborhood of 0 that consists of submodules of M. If there is such a topology, M is said to be linearly topologized. If A is given a discrete topology, then M becomes a topological A-module with respect to a linear topology.
  • long parliament — the Parliament that assembled November 3, 1640, was expelled by Cromwell in 1653, reconvened in 1659, and was dissolved in 1660.
  • longhorn cattle — cattle of a long-horned breed, usually red or variegated, formerly common in SW US
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