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  • fractal dimension — (mathematics)   A common type of fractal dimension is the Hausdorff-Besicovich Dimension, but there are several different ways of computing fractal dimension. Fractal dimension can be calculated by taking the limit of the quotient of the log change in object size and the log change in measurement scale, as the measurement scale approaches zero. The differences come in what is exactly meant by "object size" and what is meant by "measurement scale" and how to get an average number out of many different parts of a geometrical object. Fractal dimensions quantify the static *geometry* of an object. For example, consider a straight line. Now blow up the line by a factor of two. The line is now twice as long as before. Log 2 / Log 2 = 1, corresponding to dimension 1. Consider a square. Now blow up the square by a factor of two. The square is now 4 times as large as before (i.e. 4 original squares can be placed on the original square). Log 4 / log 2 = 2, corresponding to dimension 2 for the square. Consider a snowflake curve formed by repeatedly replacing ___ with _/\_, where each of the 4 new lines is 1/3 the length of the old line. Blowing up the snowflake curve by a factor of 3 results in a snowflake curve 4 times as large (one of the old snowflake curves can be placed on each of the 4 segments _/\_). Log 4 / log 3 = 1.261... Since the dimension 1.261 is larger than the dimension 1 of the lines making up the curve, the snowflake curve is a fractal. [sci.fractals FAQ].
  • fraternal society — a club or other association, usually of men, having a limited membership and devoted to professional, religious, charitable, or social activities.
  • fulgencio batista — Fulgencio [fool-hen-syaw] /fulˈhɛn syɔ/ (Show IPA), (Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar) 1901–73, Cuban military leader: dictator of Cuba 1934–40; president 1940–44, 1952–59.
  • functional isomer — any of several structural isomers that have the same molecular formula but with the atoms connected in different ways and therefore falling into different functional groups.
  • gestatorial chair — a ceremonial chair on which the pope is carried
  • globus hystericus — the sensation of having a lump in the throat or difficulty in swallowing for which no medical cause can be found.
  • go like hot cakes — to be sold very quickly or in large quantities
  • guilty conscience — Your conscience is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong. If you have a guilty conscience, you feel guilty about something because you know it was wrong. If you have a clear conscience, you do not feel guilty because you know you have done nothing wrong.
  • haematocrystallin — Alternative form of hematocrystallin.
  • hemiglossectomies — Plural form of hemiglossectomy.
  • heterochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth consisting of distinct sepals and petals
  • high-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent carbon
  • histamine blocker — any of various substances that act at a specific receptor site to block certain actions of histamine.
  • historical method — the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
  • hold all the aces — If you say that someone holds all the aces, you mean that they have all the advantages in a contest or situation.
  • holistic medicine — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
  • homeland security — national defence
  • hornblende schist — a variety of schist containing needles of hornblende that lie in parallel planes.
  • household effects — domestic belongings
  • hubble's constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • identity politics — political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.
  • immunofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or using immunofluorescence.
  • incompatibilities — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • incompressibility — The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure.
  • inconsequentially — The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
  • inspector general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • inspector-general — a comedy (1836) by Gogol.
  • integrated school — (in New Zealand) a private or church school that has joined the state school system
  • interconfessional — common to or occurring between churches having different confessions.
  • intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
  • intersectionality — the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively): Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.
  • isoelectric point — the pH at which a substance is electrically neutral or at which it is at its minimum ionization.
  • john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
  • kensington palace — a royal residence in Kensington Gardens, in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea; dating from the 17th century, it was improved and extended by Sir Cristopher Wren
  • knock oneself out — to make great efforts; exhaust oneself
  • kvatro telecom as — (company)   The company that maintains Mary. Address: Trondheim, Norway.
  • lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • legal aid society — an organization providing free legal guidance and service to persons who cannot afford a lawyer.
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • lexical insertion — the process in which actual morphemes of a language are substituted either for semantic material or for place-fillers in the course of a derivation of a sentence
  • liberal democrats — (in Britain) a political party with centrist policies; established in 1988 as the Social and Liberal Democrats when the Liberal Party merged with the Social Democratic Party; renamed Liberal Democrats in 1989
  • liberty of speech — freedom of speech.
  • lick the boots of — to be servile, obsequious, or flattering towards
  • limestone lettuce — a variety of lettuce derived from Bibb lettuce.
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • local anaesthesia — the use of anaesthetics that affect a particular area of the body
  • local anaesthetic — sth injected to numb a body part for pain relief
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