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  • enterobacterium — (microbiology) Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
  • epsilon squared — (jargon)   A quantity even smaller than epsilon, as small in comparison to epsilon as epsilon is to something normal; completely negligible. If you buy a supercomputer for a million dollars, the cost of the thousand-dollar terminal to go with it is epsilon, and the cost of the ten-dollar cable to connect them is epsilon squared. Compare lost in the underflow, lost in the noise.
  • evens favourite — the favourite to win a race and on which the bookmakers are offering even odds.
  • excommunicatory — Relating to excommunication.
  • excursion train — a train that is laid on for a special occasion such as a sports or cultural event
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • finno-russo war — the war (1939–40) between Finland and the Soviet Union.
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
  • formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • freak of nature — a person or animal that is born or grows with abnormal physical features.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • frozen daiquiri — a cocktail consisting of rum, lemon or lime juice, and sugar, vigorously beaten together with finely crushed ice and served with a straw.
  • fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
  • funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
  • funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
  • general journal — A general journal is a journal recording all of the transactions of a business.
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • gesta romanorum — a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • glucuronic acid — Biochemistry. an acid, C 6 H 10 O 7 , formed by the oxidation of glucose, found combined with other products of metabolism in the blood and urine.
  • glycuronic acid — glucuronic acid.
  • go for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulitization — the process whereby metamorphism acts on a rock and reduces it to crystalline grains
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
  • great synagogue — (according to Jewish tradition) a council of 120 members, established by Ezra, that directed the Jews chiefly in religious matters, c450–c200 b.c., and made significant contributions to the Jewish liturgy and Bible.
  • greater omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
  • green mountains — a mountain range in E North America, extending from Canada through Vermont into W Massachusetts: part of the Appalachian system. Highest peak: Mount Mansfield, 1338 m (4393 ft)
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