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  • lake winnipegosis — a lake in S Canada, in W Manitoba. Area: 5400 sq km (2086 sq miles)
  • lambda expression — (mathematics)   A term in the lambda-calculus denoting an unnamed function (a "lambda abstraction"), a variable or a constant. The pure lambda-calculus has only functions and no constants.
  • landscape painter — artist who depicts natural scenery
  • landscaped garden — a garden that has been artistically designed
  • laplace transform — a map of a function, as a signal, defined especially for positive real values, as time greater than zero, into another domain where the function is represented as a sum of exponentials.
  • lares and penates — household gods
  • larmor precession — the precession of charged particles, as electrons, placed in a magnetic field, the frequency of the precession (Larmor frequency) being equal to the electronic charge times the strength of the magnetic field divided by 4π times the mass.
  • least fixed point — (mathematics)   A function f may have many fixed points (x such that f x = x). For example, any value is a fixed point of the identity function, (\ x . x). If f is recursive, we can represent it as f = fix F where F is some higher-order function and fix F = F (fix F). The standard denotational semantics of f is then given by the least fixed point of F. This is the least upper bound of the infinite sequence (the ascending Kleene chain) obtained by repeatedly applying F to the totally undefined value, bottom. I.e. fix F = LUB {bottom, F bottom, F (F bottom), ...}. The least fixed point is guaranteed to exist for a continuous function over a cpo.
  • least upper bound — an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbr.: lub.
  • legal proceedings — court case
  • leizhou peninsula — a peninsula of SE China, in SW Guangdong province, separated from Hainan Island by Hainan Strait
  • level compensator — an automatic gain control device used in the receivers of telegraphic circuits.
  • lisp machine lisp — (language)   An extension of Maclisp, now called Zetalisp.
  • load displacement — the weight, in long tons, of a cargo vessel loaded so that the summer load line touches the surface of the water.
  • lymphadenopathies — Plural form of lymphadenopathy.
  • maintainer script — (Debian)   One of the scripts (preinst, prerm, postinst, postrm) that may be included in a Debian binary package. These scripts may create and/or remove symlinks, files or directories that, for some reason, could not be done directly by dpkg. Maintainer scripts frequently create or update the symlinks in the /etc/rc?.d directories and start, stop, or restart daemons.
  • make no apologies — If you say that you make no apologies for what you have done, you are emphasizing that you feel that you have done nothing wrong.
  • malayo-polynesian — a family of languages extending from Madagascar to the central Pacific, including Malagasy, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Polynesian
  • mariner's compass — a compass used for navigational purposes, consisting of a pivoted compass card in a gimbal-mounted, nonferrous metal bowl.
  • mascarpone cheese — a very rich, white cream cheese of Italy
  • mean piston speed — The mean piston speed is the distance traveled by a piston in a specified amount of time.
  • mean-spiritedness — the quality of being mean-spirited
  • meat and potatoes — If you refer to the meat and potatoes of something, you mean its most basic, simple, and essential parts.
  • meat-and-potatoes — fundamental; down-to-earth; basic: What are the meat-and-potatoes issues of the election?
  • meissen porcelain — Dresden china.
  • melissopalynology — The study of honey and its composition.
  • merchant shipping — shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, etc)
  • metalloproteinase — (enzyme) Any of several proteinases that have a metal atom (often zinc) at their active centre.
  • microencapsulated — Encapsulated using microencapsulation.
  • midsagittal plane — a plane passing through the nasion when the skull is oriented in the Frankfurt horizontal.
  • misinterpretation — An instance of misinterpreting.
  • misrepresentation — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
  • misrepresentative — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
  • mode of transport — means of travel
  • mom and pop store — a small retail business, typically family-operated
  • moon and sixpence — a novel (1919) by W. Somerset Maugham.
  • morphic resonance — the idea that, through a telepathic effect or sympathetic vibration, an event or act can lead to similar events or acts in the future or an idea conceived in one mind can then arise in another
  • net present value — an assessment of the long-term profitability of a project made by adding together all the revenue it can be expected to achieve over its whole life and deducting all the costs involved, discounting both future costs and revenue at an appropriate rate
  • neuropsychiatrist — A medical doctor specializing in neuropsychiatry; a medical doctor dealing with disorders that have both neurological and psychiatric features.
  • newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
  • non-stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • non-thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • nonaccomplishment — Something that does not achieve the intended goal.
  • nonrepresentative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • northeast passage — a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.
  • northern sporades — a group of Greek islands in the Aegean, lying northeast of Euboea
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • not spare oneself — to exert oneself to the full
  • old age pensioner — An old age pensioner is a person who is old enough to receive an pension from their employer or the government.
  • olympic peninsula — a large peninsula of W Washington
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