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  • counter-strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
  • counterarguments — Plural form of counterargument.
  • counterespionage — Counterespionage is the same as counterintelligence.
  • countersignature — second signature
  • crossopterygians — Plural form of crossopterygian.
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • database manager — a person in charge of designing, maintaining, and controlling a database
  • dearborn heights — city in SE Mich.: suburb of Detroit: pop. 58,000
  • dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
  • degenerate state — a state of a system characterized by a set of quantum numbers and represented by an eigenfunction. The energy of each state is precise within the limits imposed by the uncertainty principle but may be changed by applying a field of force. States that have the same energy are called degenerate
  • departure signal — a piece of equipment beside a railway which indicates to train drivers whether they should depart or not
  • destroying angel — a white slender very poisonous basidiomycetous toadstool, Amanita virosa, having a pronounced volva, frilled, shaggy stalk, and sickly smell
  • devil's triangle — Bermuda Triangle.
  • digital research — (company)   The company which developed CP/M, the operating system used on many of the first generation 8-bit microprocessor-based personal computers. Digital Research also produced DR-DOS. Address: Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • disappearing act — magic trick
  • 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
  • double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
  • dressing station — a post or center that gives first aid to the wounded, located near a combat area.
  • 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.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • 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.
  • electrolytic gas — a mixture of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen by volume, formed by the electrolysis of water
  • electromagnetics — Electricity and magnetism, collectively, as a field of study.
  • electromagnetism — The interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields.
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • english heritage — an organization, partly funded by government aid, that looks after ancient monuments and historic buildings in England
  • external storage — storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it: Secondary storage for this system is contained on videodisk.
  • fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
  • father-surrogate — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • federal register — a bulletin, published daily by the U.S. federal government, containing the schedule of hearings before Congressional and federal agency committees, together with orders, proclamations, etc., released by the executive branch of the government.
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • fire regulations — rules intended to make sure that people and property stay safe in the event of a fire
  • first generation — 1.   (architecture)   first generation computer. 2.   (language)   first generation language.
  • first-generation — being the first generation of a family to be born in a particular country.
  • flabbergastation — (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
  • flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
  • focused strategy — a business strategy in which an organization divests itself of all but its core activities, using the funds raised to enhance the distinctive abilities that give it an advantage over its rivals
  • four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
  • galactic cluster — a comparatively young, irregularly shaped group of stars, often numbering up to several hundred, and held together by mutual gravitation; usually found along the central plane of the Milky Way and other galaxies.
  • garfield heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • garment district — an area in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, including portions of Seventh Avenue and Broadway between 34th and 40th Streets and the streets intersecting them, that contains many factories, showrooms, etc., related to the design, manufacture, and wholesale distribution of clothing.
  • gastro-resistant — A gastro-resistant tablet is designed to temporarily withstand attack by stomach acid.
  • gastroenterology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of digestive organs.
  • gastroesophageal — Of or relating to the stomach and to the esophagus.
  • gastrointestinal — of, relating to, or affecting the stomach and intestines.
  • gaudeamus igitur — let us therefore rejoice
  • gaussian integer — a complex number of the form a + bi where a and b are integers.
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