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  • universal time coordinated — incorrect term for coordinated universal time.
  • unlisted securities market — a market on the London Stock Exchange, established in 1980 and discontinued in 1996, for trading in shares of smaller companies, who did not wish to comply with the requirements for a full listing
  • upper side-band modulation — (communications)   (USB) A kind of modulation applied to a sinusoidal carrier.
  • victoria and albert museum — a museum of the fine and applied arts in London, originating from 1856 and given its present name and site in 1899
  • vitamin deficiency disease — an illness caused by a lack of a particular vitamin or vitamins
  • what someone is driving at — If you ask someone what they are driving at, you are asking what they are trying to say or what they are saying indirectly.
  • wilcoxon mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
  • zermelo fränkel set theory — (mathematics)   A set theory with the axioms of Zermelo set theory (Extensionality, Union, Pair-set, Foundation, Restriction, Infinity, Power-set) plus the Replacement axiom schema: If F(x,y) is a formula such that for any x, there is a unique y making F true, and X is a set, then {F x : x in X} is a set. In other words, if you do something to each element of a set, the result is a set. An important but controversial axiom which is NOT part of ZF theory is the Axiom of Choice.
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