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32-letter words containing p, r, i, c

  • advanced peer-to-peer networking — (networking, product)   (APPN) IBM data communications support that routes data in a network between two or more APPC systems that need not be adjacent.
  • algebraic specification language — 1.   (language)   (ASL) 2.   (language)   (ASF) A language for equational specification of abstract data types.
  • application control architecture — (programming)   (ACA) DEC's implementation of ORB.
  • applications development manager — (job)   (Or "Director") The person in a company who plans and oversees multiple projects and project managers. The Applications Development Managers works with the CIO and senior management to determine systems development strategy and standards. He or she administers department budget and reviews project managers.
  • as low as reasonably practicable — (legal)   (ALARP) A term from UK health and safety law that mandates reducting the risk to workers to the point where the cost of further reduction is grossly disproportionate to the benefit.
  • autobiography of alice b. toklas — a memoir (1933) by Gertrude Stein.
  • automatische rechenplanfertigung — (language)   A programming language published in 1952 by Heinz Rutishauser (1918-70).
  • azimuthal equidistant projection — a projection in which the shortest distance between any point and a central point is a straight line, such a line representing a great circle through the central point.
  • bardeen-cooper-schrieffer theory — BCS theory.
  • beggar belief/beggar description — If something beggars belief, it is impossible to believe it. If something beggars description, it is impossible to describe it.
  • black data processing associates — (body)   (BDPA) A non-profit professional association, founded in 1975 to promote positive influence in the information technology (IT) industry and how it affects African Americans. The BDPA facilitates African American professional participation in local and national activities keeping up with developing IT trends. BDPA offers a forum for exchanging information and ideas about the computer industry. It provides numerous networking opportunities through monthly program meetings, seminars, and workshops and the annual national conference. Membership is open to anyone interested in IT. The Foundation provides scholarships to students who compete in an annual Visual Basic competition. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: Ms. Pat Drumming, +1 (800) 727-BDPA.
  • bolivarian republic of venezuela — a republic in South America, on the Caribbean: colonized by the Spanish in the 16th century; independence from Spain declared in 1811 and won in 1819 after a war led by Simón Bolívar. It contains Lake Maracaibo and the northernmost chains of the Andes in the northwest, the Orinoco basin in the central part, and the Guiana Highlands in the south. Exports: petroleum, iron ore, and coffee. Official language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: bolívar. Capital: Caracas. Pop: 26 170 000 (2004 est). Area: 912 050 sq km (352 142 sq miles)
  • british broadcasting corporation — the full name of the BBC, the official public broadcasting organization in the UK, which is funded by licence fees paid by everyone who uses a television receiver
  • certified professional secretary — a person holding an official certificate, issued by the National Secretaries Association, attesting to the holder's having specific secretarial knowledge and skills. Abbreviation: CPS.
  • chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a progressive degenerative neurological disease caused by repeated cerebral concussion or milder traumatic brain injury and characterized by memory loss, behavioral disturbances, speech problems, slowed movement, etc. The disease was first identified in boxers. Abbreviation: CTE.
  • client-server analyst programmer — (job)   A person who analyses and designs application programs for a client-server architecture. Typical skills include ODBC, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, Novell, OS/2, Unix, and RPC.
  • community of sovereign republics — a political and economic union formed in 1996 by Russia and Belarus
  • complex instruction set computer — (CISC) A processor where each instruction can perform several low-level operations such as memory access, arithmetic operations or address calculations. The term was coined in contrast to Reduced Instruction Set Computer. Before the first RISC processors were designed, many computer architects were trying to bridge the "semantic gap" - to design instruction sets to support high-level languages by providing "high-level" instructions such as procedure call and return, loop instructions such as "decrement and branch if non-zero" and complex addressing modes to allow data structure and array accesses to be compiled into single instructions. While these architectures achieved their aim of allowing high-level language constructs to be expressed in fewer instructions, it was observed that they did not always result in improved performance. For example, on one processor it was discovered that it was possible to improve the performance by NOT using the procedure call instruction but using a sequence of simpler instructions instead. Furthermore, the more complex the instruction set, the greater the overhead of decoding an instruction, both in execution time and silicon area. This is particularly true for processors which used microcode to decode the (macro) instruction. It is easier to debug a complex instruction set implemented in microcode than one whose decoding is "hard-wired" in silicon. Examples of CISC processors are the Motorola 680x0 family and the Intel 80186 through Intel 486 and Pentium.
  • computer generation incorporated — (company)   (CGI) A US software development company and systems integrator. E-mail: Paul G. Smith <[email protected]> Telephone: +1 (404) 705 2800 Address: Bldg. G, 4th Floor, 5775 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., Atlanta, GA 30342, USA.
  • cross someone's palm with silver — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
  • customer relationship management — the practice of building a strong relationship between a business and its customers and potential customers
  • democratic-republic-of-the-congo — People's Republic of the, a republic in central Africa, W of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: formerly an overseas territory in French Equatorial Africa; now an independent member of the French Community. 132,046 sq. mi. (341,999 sq. km). Capital: Brazzaville. Formerly French Congo, Middle Congo.
  • direct client to client protocol — (networking)   (DCC) An IRC protocol created to allow users to chat privately and to send and receive files directly instead of having to go thorugh the IRC servers. DCC protects users from being monitored by IRC Server operators that have enabled conversation logging. It also allows much more efficient use of available bandwidth as the data does not need to be broadcast all over the world just to reach a specific user. The available DCC commands include DCC CHAT (direct user to user chat), DCC SEND (direct user to user file send) and DCC GET (file acknowledgement from a receiver).
  • eli compiler construction system — (tool)   A compiler generation package which integrates off-the-shelf tools and libraries with specialised language processors to generate complete compilers quickly and reliably. It simplifies the development of new special-purpose languages, implementation of existing languages on new hardware and extension of the constructs and features of existing languages. It runs on Sun-4 SunOS 4, 5, Ultrix/MIPS, RS/6000, HP-UX, SGI, Linux. Mailing list: <[email protected]>. E-mail: <[email protected]>, Developers <[email protected]>, Users <[email protected]>.
  • general purpose graphic language — ["A General Purpose Graphic Language", H.E. Kulsrud, CACM 11(4) (Apr 1968)].
  • heisenberg uncertainty principle — uncertainty principle.
  • high speed circuit switched data — (communications)   (HSCSD) A planned feature of GSM Phase 2 defining a standard for circuit switched data transmission over a GSM link at up to 57.6 (78.8?) kbps. This is achieved by concatenating up to four consecutive GSM timeslots, each of which is capable of 14.4 kbit/s. It uses multiplexing and compression or filtering. The following services toward the fixed network are supported: V.34 up to 28.8 kbps and V.110 with rate adaptation up to 38.4 kbps. HSCSD is aimed at mobile workstation users. As it is circuit switched, it is suited to streaming applications such as video conferencing and multimedia. Bursty applications like electronic mail, are more suited to packet switched data (as in GPRS).
  • hit/come up against a brick wall — If you hit a brick wall or come up against a brick wall, you are unable to continue or make progress because something stops you.
  • in this respect/in many respects — You use expressions like in this respect and in many respects to indicate that what you are saying applies to the feature you have just mentioned or to many features of something.
  • internet message access protocol — (protocol, messaging)   (IMAP) A protocol allowing a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server. It permits manipulation of remote message folders (mailboxes), in a way that is functionally equivalent to local mailboxes. IMAP includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming mailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removing messages; searching; and selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and portions thereof. It does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is handled by a mail transfer protocol such as SMTP. See RFC 2060, RFC 2061, and others. Compare: POP.
  • internet research steering group — (body, standard)   (IRSG) The "governing body" of the Internet Research Task Force.
  • joint photographic experts group — (image, body, file format, standard)   (JPEG) The original name of the committee that designed the standard image compression algorithm. JPEG is designed for compressing either full-colour or grey-scale digital images of "natural", real-world scenes. It does not work so well on non-realistic images, such as cartoons or line drawings. JPEG does not handle compression of black-and-white (1 bit-per-pixel) images or moving pictures. Standards for compressing those types of images are being worked on by other committees, named JBIG and MPEG. See also PJPEG.
  • kazakh soviet socialist republic — a republic of the U.S.S.R.: now Kazakhstan
  • lisp extended algebraic facility — (language)   (LEAF)
  • lymphadenopathy-associated virus — See under AIDS virus. Abbreviation: LAV.
  • lymphokine-activated killer cell — LAK cell.
  • major histocompatibility complex — MHC.
  • manager of business applications — (job)   A person who plans and oversees multiple projects and project managers. He works with the CIO and senior management to determine systems development strategy and standards. He administers the department budget and reviews project managers.
  • manufacturers' recommended price — the retail price that a manufacturer recommends for selling their product
  • microsoft data access components — (database)   (MDAC) Microsoft's umbrella term for their ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), OLE DB, and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) libraries. Together, these provide access to a variety of data sources, both relational (SQL) and nonrelational. MDAC is the technology that supports Universal Data Access, Microsoft's strategy for providing access to information across the enterprise.
  • nondeterministic polynomial time — (complexity)   (NP) A set or property of computational decision problems solvable by a nondeterministic Turing Machine in a number of steps that is a polynomial function of the size of the input. The word "nondeterministic" suggests a method of generating potential solutions using some form of nondeterminism or "trial and error". This may take exponential time as long as a potential solution can be verified in polynomial time. NP is obviously a superset of P (polynomial time problems solvable by a deterministic Turing Machine in polynomial time) since a deterministic algorithm can be considered as a degenerate form of nondeterministic algorithm. The question then arises: is NP equal to P? I.e. can every problem in NP actually be solved in polynomial time? Everyone's first guess is "no", but no one has managed to prove this; and some very clever people think the answer is "yes". If a problem A is in NP and a polynomial time algorithm for A could also be used to solve problem B in polynomial time, then B is also in NP. See also Co-NP, NP-complete.
  • office of defense transportation — the World War II federal agency (1941–45) that regulated the transport over public routes of goods considered vital to the war effort. Abbreviation: ODT.
  • open document interchange format — (standard)   (ODIF) Part of the ODA standard.
  • oracle co-operative applications — (tool, product)   Packaged client/server software from Oracle for accounting, manufacturing, distribution, human resources and project control.
  • orbiting geophysical observatory — OGO.
  • password authentication protocol — (networking)   (PAP) An authentication scheme used by PPP servers to validate the identity of the originator of the connection. PAP applies a two-way handshaking procedure. After the link is established the originator sends an id-password pair to the server. If authentication succeeds the server sends back an acknowledgement; otherwise it either terminates the connection or gives the originator another chance. PAP is not a strong authentication method. Passwords are sent over the circuit "in the clear" and there is no protection against playback or repeated "trial and error" attacks. The originator is in total control of the frequency and timing of the attempts. Therefore, any server that can use a stronger authentication method, such as CHAP, will offer to negotiate that method prior to PAP. The use of PAP is appropriate, however, if a plaintext password must be available to simulate a login at a remote host. PAP is defined in RFC 1334.
  • plesiochronous digital hierarchy — (communications)   (PDH) A transmission system for voice communication using plesiochronous synchronisation. PDH is the conventional multiplexing technology for network transmission systems. The transmitter adds dummy information bits to allow multiple channels to be bit interleaved. The receiver discards these bits once the signals have been demultiplexed. PDH combines multiple 2 Mb/s (E1) channels in Europe and 1.544 Mb/s (DS1) channels in the US and Japan. PDH is being replaced by SONET and other SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) schemes.
  • point-to-point protocol over atm — (networking)   (PPPoA) A network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames in ATM AAL5. It is used mainly with cable modem, DSL and ADSL services. PPPoA offers standard PPP features such as authentication, encryption, and compression. It is very slightly more efficient than PPPoE and, like PPPoE, supports VC-MUX and LLC encapsulation. PPPoA is specified in RFC 2364.
  • portable common tool environment — (tool)   (PCTE) An ECMA standard framework for software tools developed in the Esprit programme. It is based on an entity-relationship Object Management System and defines the way in which tools access this.
  • professional liability insurance — Professional liability insurance is insurance for a company or a professional person against claims or financial losses that may occur as a result of their negligence.

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