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  • intrusive testing — (testing)   Testing that collects timing and processing information during program execution that may change the behaviour of the software from its behavior in a real environment. Intrusive testing usually involves additional code embedded in the software being tested or additional processes running concurrently with software being tested on the same processor.
  • iron constitution — a particularly strong and resistant physical make-up
  • irrational number — a number that cannot be exactly expressed as a ratio of two integers.
  • 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.
  • juazeiro do norte — a city in Bahia state, NE Brazil.
  • judgment of paris — the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera.
  • junior technician — a rank in the RAF senior to aircraftman: comparable to that of private in the army
  • jurisprudentially — In terms of jurisprudence.
  • jus primae noctis — droit du seigneur.
  • 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.
  • last-in first-out — stack
  • latent strabismus — the tendency, controllable by muscular effort, for one or both eyes to exhibit strabismus.
  • latitudinarianism — Tolerance of other people's views, particularly in religious context.
  • lebesgue integral — an integral obtained by application of the theory of measure and more general than the Riemann integral.
  • legendre equation — a differential equation of the form (1− x 2) d2y/dx2 − 2 xdy/dx + a (a + 1) y = 0, where a is an arbitrary constant.
  • liberal education — an education based primarily on the liberal arts, emphasizing the development of intellectual abilities as opposed to the acquisition of professional skills.
  • liquid propellant — a rocket propellant in liquid form.
  • lithium carbonate — a colorless crystalline compound, Li 2 CO 3 , slightly soluble in water: used in ceramic and porcelain glazes, pharmaceuticals, and luminescent paints.
  • little blue heron — a small heron, Egretta caerulea, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere, having bluish-gray plumage.
  • louisiana tanager — western tanager.
  • low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
  • lumpenproletariat — the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers, vagrants, and criminals and characterized by a lack of class identification and solidarity.
  • macro-linguistics — a field of study concerned with language in its broadest sense and including cultural and behavioral features associated with language.
  • macroevolutionary — Pertaining to, or as a result of macroevolution.
  • macroinstructions — Plural form of macroinstruction.
  • manual typewriter — a keyboard machine, operated entirely by hand, for writing mechanically in characters resembling print
  • manufacturability — The condition of being manufacturable.
  • mare fecunditatis — (Sea of Fertility) a dark plain in the fourth quadrant and extending into the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 160,000 sq. mi. (415,000 sq. km).
  • mensural notation — a system of musical notation of the 13th to the late 16th centuries, marked by the use of note symbols such as the longa and brevis, the absence of bar lines and ties, and the equivalence in value of one note to either two or three of the next smaller degree.
  • methylidyne group — the trivalent group ≡CH.
  • microconstituents — a microscopically small constituent of a metal or alloy.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • microevolutionary — Of or pertaining to microevolution.
  • microinstructions — Plural form of microinstruction.
  • micromanipulation — the technique of performing mechanical operations under high magnification through the use of specialized tools.
  • micromanipulators — Plural form of micromanipulator.
  • microminiaturized — Simple past tense and past participle of microminiaturize.
  • microreproduction — a photographic image too small to be read by the unaided eye.
  • mill construction — heavy, fire-resistant timber construction within masonry walls, all vertical communication being within masonry towers provided with fire doors.
  • milton work count — a system of hand valuation in which aces count 4, kings 3, queens 2, and jacks 1
  • misunderstandable — Capable of being misunderstood.
  • misunderstandings — Plural form of misunderstanding.
  • montagu's harrier — a brownish European bird of prey, Circus pygargus, with long narrow wings and a long tail: family Accipitridae (hawks, harriers, etc)
  • motion of censure — a motion by opposition parties criticizing the government
  • mount fairweather — a mountain in W North America, on the border between Alaska and British Columbia. Height: 4663 m (15 300 ft)
  • mount kirkpatrick — a mountain in Antarctica, in S Victoria Land in the Queen Alexandra Range. Height: 4528 m (14 856 ft)
  • multi-directional — extending or operating in several directions at the same time; functioning or going in more than one direction: a multidirectional stereo speaker system.
  • multi-millionaire — a person who possesses a fortune that amounts to many millions of dollars, francs, etc.
  • multicollinearity — (statistics) A phenomenon in which two or more predictor variables in a multiple regression model are highly correlated, so that the coefficient estimates may change erratically in response to small changes in the model or data.
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