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  • counterdemonstrations — Plural form of counterdemonstration.
  • crankcase compression — Crankcase compression is the method of starting some smaller two-stroke engines, where the mixture charge is compressed in a sealed crankcase by the descending piston before passing to the combustion chamber.
  • credit card insurance — Credit card insurance is coverage for situations in which someone fraudulently uses your credit card.
  • credit life insurance — insurance guaranteeing payment of the unpaid portion of a loan if the debtor should die.
  • criminal conversation — (formerly) a common law action brought by a husband by which he claimed damages against an adulterer
  • croscarmellose sodium — Croscarmellose sodium is a substance used in tablets and capsules as a disintegrant.
  • cross-cousin marriage — marriage between the children of a brother and sister.
  • customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
  • dark-field microscope — ultramicroscope
  • decompression chamber — a chamber in which the pressure of air can be varied slowly for returning people from abnormal pressures to atmospheric pressure without inducing decompression sickness
  • deep scattering layer — any of the stratified zones in the ocean which reflect sound during echo sounding, usually composed of marine organisms which migrate vertically from c. 250 to 800 m (c. 820 to 2,625 ft)
  • democratic centralism — the Leninist principle that policy should be decided centrally by officials, who are nominally democratically elected
  • department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
  • deprovincialization's — to make provincial in character.
  • differential calculus — the branch of mathematics that deals with differentials and derivatives.
  • discretionary account — an account in which the stockbroker is allowed complete control over the purchase and sale of securities on the customer's behalf.
  • dissociative disorder — a mental disorder, as multiple personality, characterized by sudden temporary alteration in consciousness, identity, or motor behavior.
  • distinctiveness ratio — the ratio of the relative frequency of some event in a given sample to that in the general population or another relevant sample
  • dwarf japanese quince — a low, shrubby, Japanese flowering quince, Chaenomeles japonica, of the rose family, having salmon-to-orange flowers and yellow fruit.
  • eccles-jordan circuit — flip-flop
  • electric displacement — the electric flux density when an electric field exists in free space into which a dielectric is introduced
  • electromagnetic pulse — a surge of electromagnetic radiation, esp one resulting from a nuclear explosion, which can disrupt electronic devices and, occasionally, larger structures and equipment
  • embarras de richesses — a superfluous abundance of options, from which one finds it difficult to select
  • emotional correctness — pressure on an individual to be seen to feel the same emotion as others
  • endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
  • entrance requirements — the grades in school examinations required for admission to university
  • ethics of the fathers — a treatise of the Mishnah that comprises six chapters and consists chiefly of proverbs, aphorisms, and principles of ethics, law, and religion.
  • exposure compensation — the act of overriding a camera's automatic exposure in order to achieve a particular effect or due to difficult lighting conditions
  • ferric sodium oxalate — an emerald-green, crystalline, extremely water-soluble salt, used in photography and blueprinting.
  • first-dollar coverage — insurance that provides payment for the full loss up to the insured amount with no deductibles.
  • food conversion ratio — a ratio expressing the weight of food required to produce a unit gain in the live weight of an animal
  • forensic anthropology — the branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law.
  • fort lesley j. mcnair — a military reservation in SW Washington, D.C., on the Potomac River, SW of the Capitol.
  • framing specification — A specification of the "protocol bits" that surround the "data bits" on a communications channel to allow the data to be "framed" into chunks, like start and stop bits in EIA-232. It allows a receiver to synchronize at points along the data stream.
  • franco-belgian system — French system.
  • fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
  • french fried potatoes — a more formal name for chips
  • gas analysis recorder — A gas analysis recorder is a device which samples, records, and analyses gas.
  • gastrohepatic omentum — lesser omentum.
  • great victoria desert — a desert in SW central Australia. 125,000 sq. mi. (324,000 sq. km).
  • greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
  • guaranteed scheduling — (algorithm)   A scheduling algorithm used in multitasking operating systems that guarantees fairness by monitoring the amount of CPU time spent by each user and allocating resources accordingly.
  • harriet beecher stowe — Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
  • have the inside track — If you say that someone has the inside track, you mean that they have an advantage, for example special knowledge about something.
  • hierarchical database — (database)   A kind of database management system that links records together like a family tree such that each record type has only one owner, e.g. an order is owned by only one customer. Hierarchical structures were widely used in the first mainframe database management systems. However, due to their restrictions, they often cannot be used to relate structures that exist in the real world.
  • highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
  • hindu-arabic numerals — Arabic numeral.
  • historic places trust — (in New Zealand) the statutory body concerned with the conservation of historic buildings, esp with ancient Māori sites
  • hypercholesterolaemia — the condition of having a high concentration of cholesterol in the blood
  • identical proposition — a proposition in which the subject and predicate have the same meaning, as, “That which is mortal is not immortal.”.
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