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  • pre-classical — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
  • pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
  • press charges — make formal accusation
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • principalness — the quality or position of being principal
  • priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
  • proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
  • process table — (operating system, process)   A table containing all of the information that must be saved when the CPU switches from running one process to another in a multitasking system. The information in the process table allows the suspended process to be restarted at a later time as if it had never been stopped. Every process has an entry in the table. These entries are known as process control blocks and contain the following information: process state - information needed so that the process can be loaded into memory and run, such as the program counter, the stack pointer, and the values of registers. memory state - details of the memory allocation such as pointers to the various memory areas used by the program resource state - information regarding the status of files being used by the process such as user ID. Accounting and scheduling information. An example of a UNIX process table is shown below. SLOT ST PID PGRP UID PRI CPU EVENT NAME FLAGS 0 s 0 0 0 95 0 runout sched load sys 1 s 1 0 0 66 1 u init load 2 s 2 0 0 95 0 10bbdc vhand load sys SLOT is the entry number of the process. ST shows whether the process is paused or sleeping (s), ready to run (r), or running on a CPU (o). PID is the process ID. PGRP is the process Group. UID is the user ID. PRI is the priority of the process from 127 (highest) to 0 (lowest). EVENT is the event on which a process is paused or sleeping. NAME is the name of the process. FLAGS are the process flags. A process that has died but still has an entry in the process table is called a zombie process.
  • processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
  • procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
  • psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
  • random-access — direct-access.
  • rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • rayleigh disc — a small light disc suspended in the path of a sound wave, used to measure the intensity of the sound by analysing the resulting deflection of the disc
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • real presence — the doctrine that the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present in the Eucharist.
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