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  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • autolithography — a lithographic technique by which the artist draws or traces with a brush and pen directly on a stone or plate.
  • automata theory — the formal study of the power of computation of abstract machines
  • automatic drive — an automotive transmission requiring either very little or no manual shifting of gears.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • automorphically — in an automorphic manner
  • autoradiographs — Plural form of autoradiograph.
  • autoradiography — the technique or process of making autoradiographs.
  • autorhythmicity — The quality of being autorhythmic, or generating its own rhythm, as for example the cells of the cardiac muscle do.
  • autostereoscopy — The display of stereoscopic images without the use of special viewing equipment.
  • autotetraploidy — the generation of the tetraploid state, created by the fusing of two nuclei from the same species
  • autotransformer — a transformer in which part of the winding is common to both primary and secondary circuits
  • autotransfusion — a process in which a patient receives some of his or her own blood in a transfusion rather than a donor's blood
  • autotransplants — Plural form of autotransplant.
  • autotrophically — through an autotrophic process
  • auxiliary rotor — the tail rotor of a helicopter, used for directional and rotary control
  • backup rotation — (operating system)   Any system for re-using backup media, e.g. magnetic tape. One extreme would be to use the same media for every backup (e.g. copy disk A to disk B), the other extreme would be to use new media every time. The trade-off is between the cost of buying and storing media and the ability to restore any version of any file. One example is the Grandfather, Father, Son (GFS) scheme.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
  • badminton court — the court on which games of badminton are played
  • banking product — one of the various services offered by a bank to its customers: mortgages, loans, insurance etc
  • bargain counter — a store counter on which goods are displayed for sale at reduced prices
  • barium chromate — a yellow, crystalline compound, BaCrO 4 , used as a pigment (barium yellow)
  • barry mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria: part of the Australian Alps
  • basic autocoder — Early system on IBM 7070. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • beam-power tube — a vacuum tube in which the stream of electrons flowing to the plate is focused by the action of a set of auxiliary, charged elements, giving an increase in output power.
  • beast of burden — A beast of burden is an animal such as an ox or a donkey that is used for carrying or pulling things.
  • bernoulli trial — one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success, such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
  • bioastronautics — the study of the effects of space flight on living organisms
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • brachystomatous — having a short proboscis, as certain insects.
  • branchiostegous — branchiostegal.
  • breach of trust — a violation of duty by a trustee or any other person in a fiduciary position
  • break the mould — If you say that someone breaks the mould, you mean that they do completely different things from what has been done before or from what is usually done.
  • break-out group — a group of people who detach themselves from a larger group or meeting in order to hold separate discussions
  • bronchial tubes — the bronchi or their smaller divisions
  • bucket elevator — a chain of buckets for raising liquids or materials to a higher level
  • buffalo currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes odoratum, of the central U.S., having showy, drooping clusters of fragrant yellow flowers and edible black fruit.
  • bullock's heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • bullock's-heart — the large, edible fruit of a tropical American tree, Annona reticulata.
  • button mangrove — a tropical tree, Conocarpus erectus, having small, reddish, conelike fruits and bark used in tanning.
  • calcareous tufa — tufa
  • call-out charge — a set amount charged for a repairman to come to one's house, or to a broken-down vehicle, which is added to the cost of the actual repair
  • carpometacarpus — a bone in the wing of a bird that consists of the metacarpal bones and some of the carpal bones fused together
  • cartesian doubt — willful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.
  • cast around for — If you cast around for something or cast about for it, you try to find it or think of it.
  • casters-up mode — [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).
  • catholic church — any of several Churches claiming to have maintained continuity with the ancient and undivided Church
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
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