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  • production system — (programming)   A production system consists of a collection of productions (rules), a working memory of facts and an algorithm, known as forward chaining, for producing new facts from old. A rule becomes eligible to "fire" when its conditions match some set of elements currently in working memory. A conflict resolution strategy determines which of several eligible rules (the conflict set) fires next. A condition is a list of symbols which represent constants, which must be matched exactly; variables which bind to the thing they match and "<> symbol" which matches a field not equal to symbol. Example production systems are OPS5, CLIPS, flex.
  • production values — the quality of a media production (such as a film) in regards to elements such as colours, quality, style, etc
  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • professional foul — In football, if a player commits a professional foul, they deliberately do something which is against the rules in order to prevent another player from scoring a goal.
  • program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
  • progressive party — a political party formed in 1912 under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, advocating popular control of government, direct primaries, the initiative, the referendum, woman suffrage, etc.
  • project assurance — The process of specifying the support system: techniques, internal standards, measurements, tools, and training for a project; counselling the project team in the application of these elements and monitoring the adherence to the standards.
  • prolonged-release — A prolonged-release drug delivers a dose of a medication over an extended period of time.
  • proof of purchase — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have purchased or bought something
  • proof-of-purchase — a sales slip, label, box top, or other item associated with a product that is presentable as evidence of actual purchase, as for claiming a refund or rebate.
  • property mistress — a female member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • prosperity gospel — a modern version or, according to some, perversion of the gospel according to which the full blessings of God available to those who approach Him in faith and obedience include wealth, health and power
  • prostatic utricle — a small pouch near the prostate gland that opens into the urethra.
  • protected species — a species of animal or plant which it is forbidden by law to harm or destroy
  • protective system — protectionism (def 1).
  • protein synthesis — the process by which amino acids are linearly arranged into proteins through the involvement of ribosomal RNA, transfer RNA, messenger RNA, and various enzymes.
  • protocol analyser — (communications, hardware, networking, testing, tool)   Any device that captures and interprets the network traffic between two or more connected computer systems. The traffic can then be decoded so that it is possible to see what processes are occurring. By examining the flow of traffic, protocol analysers can be used to find out where problems (such as bottlenecks or the failure of a network device) are on a LAN. Advanced protocol analysers can also provide statistics on the traffic that can help to identify trends that may in future lead to further problems with the network.
  • proton microscope — a powerful type of microscope that uses a beam of protons, giving high resolution and sharp contrast
  • pseudo-aggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • pseudo-democratic — pertaining to or of the nature of democracy or a democracy.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • pseudo-moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
  • psychometric test — a test designed to test a person's mental state, personality and thought processes
  • psychotherapeutic — psychotherapy.
  • pterygoid process — either of two long bony plates extending downwards from each side of the sphenoid bone within the skull
  • public prosecutor — an officer charged with the conduct of criminal prosecution in the interest of the public.
  • purple of cassius — a purple pigment precipitated as a sol by the interaction of gold chloride and a solution of stannic acid and stannous chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of ruby glass, ceramic glazes, and enamels.
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • pyroligneous acid — a yellowish, acidic, water-soluble liquid, containing about 10 percent acetic acid, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood: used for smoking meats.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • quantity surveyor — A quantity surveyor is a person who calculates the cost and amount of materials and workers needed for a job such as building a house or a road.
  • rack one's brains — to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
  • radio-transparent — transparent to radiation; invisible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiopaque).
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • rattle one's dags — to hurry up
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • reconstructionism — a 20th-century movement among U.S. Jews, founded by Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan, advocating that Judaism, being a culture and way of life as well as a religion, is in sum a religious civilization requiring constant adaptation to contemporary conditions so that Jews can identify more readily and meaningfully with the Jewish community.
  • reconstructionist — an advocate or supporter of Reconstruction or Reconstructionism.
  • recording session — a period of time devoted to recording music in a studio
  • recovery position — a position in which an unconscious person can be lain on the floor, which minimises them from further risk
  • recreationalist's — recreationist.
  • recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
  • recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • red-osier dogwood — Also called red-osier dogwood. a North American dogwood, Cornus sericea (or C. stolonifera), having red twigs and branches and white fruits.
  • redistributionist — a person who believes in, advocates, or supports income redistribution.
  • reduce to silence — If someone or something reduces you to silence, they make you feel so upset or confused that you cannot speak.
  • reformed spelling — a revised orthography intended to simplify the spelling of English words, especially to eliminate unpronounced letters, as by substituting thru for through, tho for though, slo for slow, etc.
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