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  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • job's comforters — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • letter of marque — license or commission granted by a state to a private citizen to capture and confiscate the merchant ships of another nation.
  • lithium fluoride — a fine, white, slightly water-soluble powder, LiF, used chiefly in the manufacture of ceramics.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • make a virtue of — If you make a virtue of something, you pretend that you did it because you chose to, although in fact you did it because you had to.
  • man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
  • man-of-the-earth — a morning glory, Ipomoea pandurata, of eastern North America, having white flowers and a very large, tuberous root.
  • margin of safety — therapeutic index.
  • matter of course — an event or result that is natural or inevitable
  • matter of record — a fact or statement that appears on the record of a court and that can be proved or established by producing such record.
  • matter-of-course — occurring or proceeding in or as if in the logical, natural, or customary course of things; expected or inevitable.
  • matter-of-factly — adhering strictly to fact; not imaginative; prosaic; dry; commonplace: a matter-of-fact account of the political rally.
  • matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
  • metallofullerene — (chemistry) A fullerene containing an enclosed metal atom.
  • microsoft access — 1.   (database)   A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2.   (communications)   A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
  • microsoft office — (product)   Microsoft's bundles of productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Team Manager, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Small Business Financial Manager, Automap Streets Plus. Editions of Office include Microsoft Office Professional Edition, Microsoft Office Standard Edition, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, Microsoft Office Developer Edition. Different editions contain different subsets of the above applications. Current version, as of 2004-08-30: Office 2003.
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
  • motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
  • multifariousness — (uncountable) The characteristic of being multifarious.
  • multilinear form — a function or functional of several variables such that when all variables but one are held fixed, the function is linear in the remaining variable.
  • multiple factors — polygene.
  • new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
  • non-manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • outsmart oneself — to have one's efforts at cunning or cleverness result in one's own disadvantage
  • over-familiarity — thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
  • performance test — a test requiring little or no use of language, the test materials being designed to elicit manual or behavioral responses rather than verbal ones.
  • permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
  • platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
  • post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • powerpc platform — (architecture, standard)   (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
  • ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
  • refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
  • rich text format — (RTF) An interchange format from Microsoft for exchange of documents between Word and other document preparation systems.
  • self-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
  • self-enforcement — of or having the capability of enforcement within oneself or itself; self-regulating.
  • self-improvement — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • self-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • something fierce — desperately, intensely
  • stonecrop family — the plant family Crassulaceae, characterized by succulent herbaceous plants and shrubs with simple, fleshy leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, dehiscent fruit, and including hen-and-chickens, houseleek, kalanchoe, live-forever, orpine, sedum, and stonecrop.
  • street performer — busker or entertainer in a public place
  • systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
  • take a page from — to follow the example of; imitate
  • terms of payment — The terms of payment of a sale state how and when an invoice is to be paid.
  • terms of service — the contract for acceptable use of digital media as defined by the developer. Abbreviation: TOS, ToS.
  • texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
  • the story of mel — The story of Mel, a Real Programmer
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