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  • schoolmistress — a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.
  • scintillometer — a device for detecting and measuring radioactivity, having a crystal scintillator, a photoelectric cell sensitive to the light from scintillations, and an amplifier.
  • sclerotization — the state of being sclerotized.
  • scorched earth — military policy: destroying enemy crops
  • scotch furnace — ore hearth.
  • scotch terrier — Scottish terrier.
  • scotch verdict — a verdict of not proven: acceptable in certain cases in Scottish criminal law.
  • scrape through — only just succeed
  • scratch monkey — (humour)   As in "Before testing or reconfiguring, always mount a scratch monkey", a proverb used to advise caution when dealing with irreplaceable data or devices. Used to refer to any scratch volume hooked to a computer during any risky operation as a replacement for some precious resource or data that might otherwise get trashed. This term preserves the memory of Mabel, the Swimming Wonder Monkey, star of a biological research program at the University of Toronto. Mabel was not (so the legend goes) your ordinary monkey; the university had spent years teaching her how to swim, breathing through a regulator, in order to study the effects of different gas mixtures on her physiology. Mabel suffered an untimely demise one day when a DEC engineer troubleshooting a crash on the program's VAX inadvertently interfered with some custom hardware that was wired to Mabel. It is reported that, after calming down an understandably irate customer sufficiently to ascertain the facts of the matter, a DEC troubleshooter called up the field circus manager responsible and asked him sweetly, "Can you swim?" Not all the consequences to humans were so amusing; the sysop of the machine in question was nearly thrown in jail at the behest of certain clueless droids at the local "humane" society. The moral is clear: When in doubt, always mount a scratch monkey. A corespondent adds: The details you give are somewhat consistent with the version I recall from the Digital "War Stories" notesfile, but the name "Mabel" and the swimming bit were not mentioned, IIRC. Also, there's a very detailed account that claims that three monkies died in the incident, not just one. I believe Eric Postpischil wrote the original story at DEC, so his coming back with a different version leads me to wonder whether there ever was a real Scratch Monkey incident.
  • scsi reconnect — (hardware)   The ability of a SCSI initiator to initiate new transactions before earlier ones have completed. A target or initiator can disconnect from the bus when it experiences a delay in completing a task so that another device can use the bus. It can reconnect later and complete the task.
  • seaside resort — coastal holiday town
  • secret history — a version of historical events which differs from the official or commonly accepted record and purports to be the true version
  • secret society — an organization, as a fraternal society, the members of which take secret initiation oaths, share secret passwords and rites, and are bound to assist each other.
  • secularization — to make secular; separate from religious or spiritual connection or influences; make worldly or unspiritual; imbue with secularism.
  • securitization — the use of such securities as eurobonds to enable investors to lend directly to borrowers with a minimum of risk but without using banks as intermediaries
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • segregationist — one who favors, encourages, or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
  • selection rule — any of several rules designating allowed transitions between quantum states in terms of the quantum numbers associated with the states.
  • self-adornment — something that adds attractiveness; ornament; accessory: the adornments and furnishings of a room.
  • self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
  • self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • self-forgetful — forgetful or not thinking of one's own advantage, interest, etc.
  • self-formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • self-important — having or showing an exaggerated opinion of one's own importance; pompously conceited or haughty.
  • self-laudatory — containing or expressing praise: overwhelmed by the speaker's laudatory remarks.
  • self-operating — automatic.
  • self-operative — automatic.
  • self-promotion — advancement in rank or position.
  • self-restoring — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
  • self-righteous — confident of one's own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others.
  • semi-nocturnal — active at night (opposed to diurnal): nocturnal animals.
  • semistarvation — the state of being nearly starved.
  • senior citizen — an elderly or aged person, especially one who is retired.
  • senior partner — high-ranking firm partner
  • seniority rule — the custom in Congress providing for the assignment of a committee chairpersonship to that member of the majority party who has served on the committee the longest.
  • sensor network — a network of tiny autonomous devices embedded in everyday objects or sprinkled on the ground, able to communicate using wireless links
  • sensory cortex — the region of the cerebral cortex concerned with receiving and interpreting sensory information from various parts of the body.
  • sequestrectomy — the removal of dead spicules or portions, especially of bone.
  • serbo-croatian — a Slavic language spoken in Serbia and Croatia, usually written with Cyrillic letters in Serbia but with Roman letters in Croatia.
  • sergeant major — U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative assistant in a unit headquarters.
  • sericitization — the process of transforming into sericite
  • serodiscordant — pertaining to a relationship with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
  • serratirostral — having a serrated beak or bill; sawbilled
  • service sector — the sector of the economy that provides services rather than products, etc
  • set on its ear — to cause excitement, upheaval, etc. in
  • settle a score — to avenge a wrong
  • seventy-fourth — next after the seventy-third; being the ordinal number for 74.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
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