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  • comprehensibility — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
  • computer compiler — 1.   (language)   A proposed language for compiler design. 2. A discussion of various applications of computers to the design and production of computers.
  • computer literacy — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • computer literate — basic, nontechnical knowledge about computers and how to use them; familiarity and experience with computers, software, and computer systems.
  • computer terminal — a keyboard and computer monitor connected to a computer
  • computer-literate — If someone is computer-literate, they have enough skill and knowledge to be able to use a computer.
  • consolation prize — A consolation prize is a small prize which is given to a person who fails to win a competition.
  • consumer sampling — a research technique in which targeted consumers are polled or tested for their receptiveness to a product or service
  • corel corporation — (company)   A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. In January 1989, however they entered the software publishing market with the introduction of CorelDraw. Corel became the second largest maker of personal productivity software in January 1996 when they purchased the WordPerfect family of software from Novell, Inc..
  • corporate village — an area close to the workplace where many everyday facilities are provided for a company's workers
  • council of europe — an association of European states, established in 1949 to promote unity between its members, defend human rights, and increase social and economic progress
  • counter-complaint — an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure, resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding: his complaint about poor schools.
  • criminal contempt — any seriously disrespectful act committed against the dignity or authority of a court.
  • cryptocrystalline — (of rocks) composed of crystals that can be distinguished individually only by the use of a polarizing microscope
  • dark-complexioned — (of a person) having a dark complexion
  • david copperfield — a novel (1850) by Charles Dickens.
  • depersonalisation — Alternative spelling of depersonalization.
  • depersonalization — the act or an instance of depersonalizing
  • dephosphorylation — the removal of a phosphate group from an organic compound, as in the changing of ATP to ADP.
  • deprofessionalise — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
  • deprofessionalize — to remove from professional control, influence, manipulation, etc.
  • desktop publisher — desktop publishing
  • dialect geography — linguistic geography
  • dielectrophoresis — Dielectrophoresis is the movement of uncharged particles (= ones with no electrical charge) when a changing electric field is applied.
  • disorderly person — a person guilty of disorderly conduct.
  • double pair royal — a set of four cards of the same denomination, worth 12 points.
  • droplet infection — infection spread by airborne droplets of secretions from the nose, throat, or lungs.
  • ehelp corporation — (company)   A vendor of Microsoft Windows application development tools such as RoboHELP and RoboDemo. EHelp were formerly (around 1997) Blue Sky Software. Address: 7777 Fay Avenue, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Telephone: +1-800-793-0364, +1 (619) 459 6365. Fax: +1 (619) 459 6366.
  • electrodeposition — The deposition of a metal on a cathode during electrolysis; used as a method of purification.
  • electromyographic — Using electromyography.
  • electrophysiology — The branch of physiology that deals with the electrical phenomena associated with nervous and other bodily activity.
  • electropositivity — (uncountable) the condition of being electropositive.
  • emotional cripple — someone who is unable to feel or show true emotion and so cannot form relationships with other people
  • empirical formula — a chemical formula indicating the proportion of each element present in a molecule
  • employer-provided — Employer-provided insurance is arranged or funded by the organization for which the policyholder works.
  • epicycloidal gear — a gear of an epicyclic train
  • equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
  • exception handler — Special code which is called when an exception occurs during the execution of a program. If the programmer does not provide a handler for a given exception, a built-in system exception handler will usually be called resulting in abortion of the program run and some kind of error indication being returned to the user. Examples of exception handler mechanisms are Unix's signal calls and Lisp's catch and throw.
  • explosive forming — a rapid method of forming a metal object in which components are made by subjecting the metal to very high pressures generated by a controlled explosion
  • fingerling potato — a finger-shaped potato
  • fingertip control — control exercised through your fingertips, e.g. by touching a touchscreen
  • flexible response — a military strategy that enables the response to an attack to be adapted to the nature and strength of the attack
  • floppy disk drive — disk drive
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • frederick pollock — Sir Frederick, 1845–1937, English legal scholar and author.
  • french provincial — noting, pertaining to, or resembling a style of furnishings and decoration originating in the provinces of France in the 18th century, derived from but less ornate than styles then current in Paris and featuring simply carved wood furniture, often with decorative curved moldings.
  • front-line player — a regular player on a sports team or one who plays in the farthest forward position
  • full linear group — the group of all nonsingular linear transformations mapping a finite-dimensional vector space into itself.
  • garden heliotrope — the common valerian, Valeriana officinalis, especially when cultivated as an ornamental.
  • geographical mile — nautical mile.
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