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  • goldschmidt — Richard Benedikt. 1878–1958, US geneticist, born in Germany. He advanced the theory that heredity is determined by the chemical configuration of the chromosome molecule rather than by the qualities of the individual genes
  • gonochorism — (biology) The situation in which the individuals of a species are of one of two distinct sexes, and retain that sexuality throughout their lives.
  • gopherspace — (networking)   The sum of all files that can be reached using gopher.
  • grass cloth — a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp
  • grouchiness — The characteristic or quality of being grouchy.
  • haemostatic — That promotes haemostasis.
  • hagioscopes — Plural form of hagioscope.
  • half-closed — having or forming a boundary or barrier: He was blocked by a closed door. The house had a closed porch.
  • half-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • halocarbons — Plural form of halocarbon.
  • hammerlocks — Plural form of hammerlock.
  • hand scroll — a roll of parchment, paper, copper, or other material, especially one with writing on it: a scroll containing the entire Old Testament.
  • handscrolls — Plural form of handscroll.
  • hard sector — (storage)   An archaic floppy disk format employing multiple synchronisation holes in the media to define the sectors.
  • harmolodics — the technique of each musician in a group simultaneously improvising around the melodic and rhythmic patterns in a tune, rather than one musician improvising on its underlying harmonic pattern while the others play an accompaniment
  • harmonicist — Someone who plays the harmonica.
  • harmonistic — pertaining to a harmonist or harmony.
  • harpsichord — a keyboard instrument, precursor of the piano, in which the strings are plucked by leather or quill points connected with the keys, in common use from the 16th to the 18th century, and revived in the 20th.
  • hash coding — (programming, algorithm)   (Or "hashing") A scheme for providing rapid access to data items which are distinguished by some key. Each data item to be stored is associated with a key, e.g. the name of a person. A hash function is applied to the item's key and the resulting hash value is used as an index to select one of a number of "hash buckets" in a hash table. The table contains pointers to the original items. If, when adding a new item, the hash table already has an entry at the indicated location then that entry's key must be compared with the given key to see if it is the same. If two items' keys hash to the same value (a "hash collision") then some alternative location is used (e.g. the next free location cyclically following the indicated one). For best performance, the table size and hash function must be tailored to the number of entries and range of keys to be used. The hash function usually depends on the table size so if the table needs to be enlarged it must usually be completely rebuilt. When you look up a name in the phone book (for example), you typically hash it by extracting its first letter; the hash buckets are the alphabetically ordered letter sections. See also: btree, checksum, CRC, pseudorandom number, random, random number, soundex.
  • heat source — sth that generates warmth
  • hectoliters — Plural form of hectoliter.
  • hectometers — Plural form of hectometer.
  • hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
  • hederaceous — (rare) Of, pertaining to, or resembling ivy.
  • helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
  • helicospore — a coiled cylindrical fungal spore.
  • helioscopic — of or relating to observations of the sun
  • heliostatic — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.
  • hemisection — to cut into two equal parts; to bisect, especially along a medial longitudinal plane.
  • hemostatics — arresting hemorrhage, as a drug; styptic.
  • henchperson — a loyal supporter, follower, or subordinate
  • hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
  • hepatoscopy — medical examination of the liver.
  • hercogamous — (of flowers) incapable of self-fertilization
  • heteroecism — the development of different stages of a parasitic species on different host plants.
  • heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
  • heteroscian — a name applied to the people who live in temperate zones, so given because in these areas shadows created by the sun at noon will fall in opposite directions
  • hexastichon — hexastich.
  • hicky-horse — a seesaw.
  • high school — a school attended after elementary school or junior high school and usually consisting of grades 9 or 10 through 12.
  • highschools — Plural form of highschool.
  • hills cloud — a hypothetical dense, disc-shaped area within the Oort cloud
  • hippocampus — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
  • hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
  • hircocervus — (in classical and medieval fable) a mythical creature that is half goat and half stag
  • histiocytes — Plural form of histiocyte.
  • histiocytic — Pertaining to connective tissue containing large white blood cells.
  • historicise — to interpret something as a product of historical development.
  • historicism — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
  • historicist — a theory that history is determined by immutable laws and not by human agency.
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