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  • internationalness — The state or condition of being international.
  • interprofessional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
  • interrelationship — reciprocal relation.
  • interrupt handler — (software)   A routine which is executed when an interrupt occurs. Interrupt handlers typically deal with low-level events in the hardware of a computer system such as a character arriving at a serial port or a tick of a real-time clock. Special care is required when writing an interrupt handler to ensure that either the interrupt which triggered the handler's execution is masked out (inhibitted) until the handler exits, or the handler is re-entrant so that multiple concurrent invocations will not interfere with each other. If interrupts are masked then the handler must execute as quickly as possible so that important events are not missed. This is often arranged by splitting the processing associated with the event into "upper" and "lower" halves. The lower part is the interrupt handler which masks out further interrupts as required, checks that the appropriate event has occurred (this may be necessary if several events share the same interrupt), services the interrupt, e.g. by reading a character from a UART and writing it to a queue, and re-enabling interrupts. The upper half executes as part of a user process. It waits until the interrupt handler has run. Normally the operating system is responsible for reactivating a process which is waiting for some low-level event. It detects this by a shared flag or by inspecting a shared queue or by some other synchronisation mechanism. It is important that the upper and lower halves do not interfere if an interrupt occurs during the execution of upper half code. This is usually ensured by disabling interrupts during critical sections of code such as removing a character from a queue.
  • intersectionalism — The study of minorities within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
  • intersectionality — the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual (often used attributively): Her paper uses a queer intersectionality approach.
  • intertranslatable — to turn from one language into another or from a foreign language into one's own: to translate Spanish.
  • interval estimate — the interval used as an estimate in interval estimation; a confidence interval.
  • interval training — an exercise and training program in which each session consists of periods of intense exertion alternating with periods of rest or lighter exertion.
  • intradepartmental — Within a department.
  • intragovernmental — Within a government.
  • intraspecifically — Between individuals of the same species.
  • invincible armada — Armada.
  • iontophoretically — By means of iontophoresis.
  • irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
  • irreconcilability — incapable of being brought into harmony or adjustment; incompatible: irreconcilable differences.
  • irrecoverableness — The quality of being irrecoverable.
  • it's your funeral — If someone says to you 'It's your funeral', they think your decision or your actions will have bad consequences for you, but they are unwilling to interfere.
  • italian greyhound — one of an Italian breed of toy dogs resembling a greyhound.
  • iterated integral — a double integral that is evaluated by first integrating the integrand with respect to one variable with the second variable being held constant and then integrating the resulting function with respect to the second variable.
  • ivan the terrible — ("Ivan the Terrible") 1530–84, first czar of Russia 1547–84.
  • japanese slippers — (in Malaysia) casual sandals; flip-flops
  • john of lancaster — Duke of Bedford, 1389–1435, Bedford, John of Lancaster, Duke of.
  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • karelian republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia between the White Sea and Lakes Onega and Ladoga. Capital: Petrozavodsk. Pop: 716 700 (2002). Area: 172 400 sq km (66 560 sq miles)
  • karitane hospital — a hospital for young babies and their mothers
  • keep your balance — If you keep your balance, for example when standing in a moving vehicle, you remain steady and do not fall over. If you lose your balance, you become unsteady and fall over.
  • kerguelen islands — an archipelago in the S Indian Ocean: a possession of France. 2394 sq. mi. (6200 sq. km).
  • kidney transplant — surgery to replace a kidney
  • ladder tournament — a tournament in which the entrants are listed by name and rank, advancement being by means of challenging and defeating an entrant ranked one or two places higher.
  • lago de nicaragua — Spanish name of Lake Nicaragua.
  • lagrange's method — a procedure for finding maximum and minimum values of a function of several variables when the variables are restricted by additional conditions.
  • lake waikaremoana — a lake in the North Island of New Zealand in a dense bush setting. Area: about 55 sq km (21 sq miles)
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • lan kanal adapter — (networking)   (LKA) A sort of external LAN interface for a BS200 computer.
  • lancashire heeler — a small sturdy dog of a breed with a short thick black or liver-coloured coat with tan markings, often used for herding cattle
  • lance of courtesy — a lance having a blunt head to prevent serious injury by a jouster to an opponent.
  • landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
  • landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
  • langerhans islets — islets of Langerhans
  • langmuir isotherm — A Langmuir isotherm is a classical relationship between the concentrations of a solid and a fluid, used to describe a state of no change in the sorption process.
  • language transfer — transfer (def 20).
  • lanthanide series — the series of rare-earth elements of atomic numbers 57 through 71 (lanthanum through lutetium).
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • lares and penates — household gods
  • larmor precession — the precession of charged particles, as electrons, placed in a magnetic field, the frequency of the precession (Larmor frequency) being equal to the electronic charge times the strength of the magnetic field divided by 4π times the mass.
  • laryngopharyngeal — of, relating to, or involving the larynx and pharynx.
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • latter-day saints — a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • laurent's theorem — the theorem that a function that is analytic on an annulus can be represented by a Laurent series on the annulus.
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