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- reinstallation — something installed, as machinery or apparatus placed in position or connected for use.
- remonstrations — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
- repeat oneself — to say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
- repositionable — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- representation — the act of representing.
- repristination — the restoration of something to its original condition; the act of making something pristine again
- repudiationist — someone who believes that a given thing should be repudiated
- reregistration — the act of registering.
- reservationist — a person who makes or takes reservations, as at an airline office; reservation clerk.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- resolicitation — the act of soliciting.
- restorationism — belief in a future life in which human beings will be restored to a state of perfection and happiness
- resultant tone — a musical sound sometimes heard when two loud notes are sounded together, either lower in pitch than either (differential tone) or higher (summational tone)
- retaliationist — a retaliator
- retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
- retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- retroserrulate — having tiny retrorse teeth or barbs.
- reverberations — remote or indirect consequences of an action; repercussions
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- roller-coaster — to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves.
- roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
- rorschach test — a test for revealing the underlying personality structure of an individual by the use of a standard series of 10 inkblot designs to which the subject responds by telling what image or emotion each design evokes.
- rostrocarinate — a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies.
- rotary shutter — a camera shutter consisting of a rotating disk pierced with a slit that passes in front of the lens to expose the film or plate.
- roundaboutness — the characteristic of being roundabout
- rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm) A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
- rutting season — a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females
- sable antelope — a large antelope, Hippotragus niger, of Africa, with long, saberlike horns and, in the male, a black coat: an endangered species.
- saccharomycete — a single-celled yeast of the family Saccharomycetaceae, having no mycelium.
- sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
- sacred monster — a celebrity whose eccentricities or indiscretions are easily forgiven by admirers.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- safety-deposit — safe-deposit.
- sagging moment — a bending moment that produces concave bending at the middle of a simple supported beam
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- saint george's — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- sale or return — an arrangement by which a retailer pays only for goods sold, returning those that are unsold to the wholesaler or manufacturer
- sales director — a professional responsible for directing and managing the sales department of a company
- sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
- salt dome trap — A salt dome trap is an area where oil has been trapped underground by salt pushing upward.
- sample section — a section of sth, intended as representative of the whole
- sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
- sansculotterie — the characteristics of sansculottes
- sansculottides — the festivities held during the five complementary days in the French Republican Calendar
- saone-et-loire — a department in E France. 3331 sq. mi. (8625 sq. km). Capital: Mâcon.
- sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
- schafer method — a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.
- schematization — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- scholar's mate — a simple mate by the queen on the f7 square, achievable by white's fourth move