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  • editio princeps — first edition.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • elections judge — someone who oversees an election
  • electrodeposits — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electrodeposit.
  • electrodialyses — Plural form of electrodialysis.
  • electrodialysis — Dialysis in which the movement of ions is aided by an electric field applied across the semipermeable membrane.
  • electrodynamics — The branch of mechanics concerned with the interaction of electric currents with magnetic fields or with other electric currents.
  • endocannibalism — A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • episodic memory — the recollection of events within their historical setting
  • eric s. raymond — (person)   One of the authors of the Hacker's Jargon File. Eric was involved in the JOLT project and GNU Emacs as well as maintaining several FAQ lists. He is a keen advocate of open source. E-mail: <[email protected]>
  • esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
  • eureka stockade — a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament
  • exclusion order — law: ban spouse from home
  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • frederick soddy — Frederick, 1877–1956, English chemist: Nobel prize 1921.
  • gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
  • geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
  • geodetic survey — a land area survey in which the curvature of the surface of the earth is taken into account.
  • get one's cards — to be told to leave one's employment
  • go the distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • gold prospector — a person who searches for the natural occurrence of gold
  • goldilocks zone — a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.
  • graduate school — a school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree.
  • gross indecency — sexual offence
  • hamamelidaceous — belonging to the Hamamelidaceae, the witch hazel family of plants.
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • hedgehog cactus — any of various rounded, usually spiny cacti of the genus Echinocereus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having bell-shaped flowers that close at night.
  • hedonic damages — compensation based on what the victim of a crime might have earned in the future
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • hernando cortes — Hernando [er-nahn-daw] /ɛrˈnɑn dɔ/ (Show IPA), Hernán [er-nahn] /ɛrˈnɑn/ (Show IPA), 1485–1547, Spanish conqueror of Mexico.
  • heterodactylous — having the first and fourth toes directed backward, and the second and third forward, as in trogons.
  • heteroscedastic — (of several distributions) having different variances
  • holiday clothes — the clothes worn and bought for travelling on holiday, such as swimwear, skiwear, or clothes for hot or cold weather, etc
  • homochlamydeous — (of a plant) having a perianth in which the sepals and petals are fused together and indistinguishable
  • horned screamer — a screamer, Anhima cornuta, of tropical South America, having a long, slender hornlike process projecting from the forehead.
  • house detective — an employee of a department store, hotel, etc., employed to prevent thefts, violations of regulations, or other forms of misconduct on the part of patrons.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • identifications — Plural form of identification.
  • implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
  • inconsiderately — In an inconsiderate manner.
  • inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
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