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  • disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
  • dispersing agent — a surface-active substance added to a suspension, usually a colloid, to improve the separation of particles and to prevent settling or clumping
  • district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
  • division algebra — a linear algebra in which each element of the vector space has a multiplicative inverse.
  • double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • drag coefficient — a measure of the drag of an object in a moving fluid, esp air
  • drainage channel — a channel along which drained water flows away
  • dredging machine — dredge1 (def 1).
  • dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
  • drinking problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drinking-up time — (in Britain) a short time allowed for finishing drinks before closing time in a public house
  • eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
  • earnings-related — An earnings-related payment or benefit provides higher or lower payments according to the amount a person was earning while working.
  • earth-shattering — earthshaking.
  • eastern kingbird — any of several American tyrant flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus, especially T. tyrannus (eastern kingbird) of North America, known for their pugnacious disposition toward predators.
  • eclipsing binary — a variable star whose changes in brightness are caused by periodic eclipses of two stars in a binary system.
  • economic embargo — a legal stoppage of commerce, usually taken by one nation or group of nations to harm the economy of another nation or group, often to force a political change
  • economic migrant — person: seeks work abroad
  • edinburgh prolog — Prolog dialect which eventually developed into the standard, as opposed to Marseille Prolog. (The difference is largely syntax.) Clocksin & Mellish describe Edinburgh Prolog. Version: C-Prolog.
  • eigenfrequencies — Plural form of eigenfrequency.
  • eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
  • electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
  • electronic organ — an electrophonic instrument played by means of a keyboard, in which sounds are produced and amplified by any of various electronic or electrical means
  • elegiac quatrain — a poetic stanza consisting of four lines of iambic pentameter rhyming alternately.
  • embourgeoisement — (chiefly UK) The taking-up of middle-class attitudes or values; bourgeoisification; the process of becoming affluent.
  • encephalographic — Relating to, or employing encephalography.
  • ending inventory — An ending inventory is all of the goods, services, or materials that a business has available for use or sale at the end of an accounting period.
  • endocrinologists — Plural form of endocrinologist.
  • energy-efficient — A device or building that is energy-efficient uses relatively little energy to provide the power it needs.
  • energy-intensive — using large amount of energy
  • engineer officer — a ship's officer who is qualified to be in charge of the vessel's propulsion and other machinery
  • engineer's chain — a unit of length equal to 100 feet
  • english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
  • entrenching tool — a small, collapsible spade used by a soldier in the field for digging foxholes and the like.
  • eternal triangle — You use the eternal triangle to refer to a relationship involving love and jealousy between two men and a woman or two women and a man.
  • ethnographically — Regarding the ethnography (of a region).
  • evening primrose — flowering plant
  • exciting current — the current in a field winding.
  • extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • facial neuralgia — paroxysmal darting pain and muscular twitching in the face, evoked by rubbing certain points of the face.
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • feather geranium — a Eurasian weed, Chenopodium botrys, of the amaranth family, having clusters of inconspicuous flowers and unpleasant smelling, lobed leaves.
  • feeping creature — [feeping creaturism] An unnecessary feature; a bit of chrome that, in the speaker's judgment, is the camel's nose for a whole horde of new features.
  • ferruginous duck — a common European duck, Aythyra nyroca, having reddish-brown plumage with white wing bars
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
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