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  • duff's device — The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C, invented by Tom Duff when he was at Lucasfilm. Trying to bum all the instructions he could out of an inner loop that copied data serially onto an output port, he decided to unroll it. He then realised that the unrolled version could be implemented by *interlacing* the structures of a switch and a loop: register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */ switch (count % 8) { case 0: do { *to = *from++; case 7: *to = *from++; case 6: *to = *from++; case 5: *to = *from++; case 4: *to = *from++; case 3: *to = *from++; case 2: *to = *from++; case 1: *to = *from++; } while (--n > 0); } Shocking though it appears to all who encounter it for the first time, the device is actually perfectly valid, legal C. C's default fall through in case statements has long been its most controversial single feature; Duff observed that "This code forms some sort of argument in that debate, but I'm not sure whether it's for or against."
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • ebola (virus) — an RNA virus (family Filoviridae) that causes fever, internal bleeding, and, often, death
  • effectiveness — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
  • effectivities — adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result: effective teaching methods; effective steps toward peace.
  • energy saving — the fact of saving energy, or amount of energy saved
  • enteroviruses — Plural form of enterovirus.
  • equivocalness — The state of being equivocal; ambiguity.
  • equivocations — Plural form of equivocation.
  • escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
  • evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
  • eve's pudding — a baked sponge pudding with a layer of apple at the bottom
  • evening class — An evening class is a course for adults that is taught in the evening rather than during the day.
  • evening dress — formal clothing
  • evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • eventualities — Plural form of eventuality.
  • everlastingly — In an everlasting manner; so as to be everlasting.
  • evil-smelling — having an very offensive smell
  • evocativeness — The state or condition of being evocative.
  • ex-serviceman — An ex-serviceman is a man who used to be in a country's army, navy, or air force.
  • excessiveness — The property of being excessive.
  • exclusiveness — The state of being exclusive; exclusivity.
  • excursiveness — The quality of being discursive.
  • expansiveness — The state of being expansive.
  • expensiveness — The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.
  • explosiveness — The state of being explosive.
  • extensiveness — The degree or property of being extensive.
  • extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
  • extravasation — The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
  • extroversions — Plural form of extroversion.
  • false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
  • family values — belief in traditional family unit
  • fast dissolve — a transition that fades out one scene and replaces it with another, merging the two scenes imperceptibly
  • favrile glass — a type of iridescent glass developed by L.C. Tiffany
  • festival hall — a concert hall in London, on the South Bank of the Thames: constructed for the 1951 Festival of Britain; completed 1964–65
  • festivalgoers — Plural form of festivalgoer.
  • fever blister — cold sore.
  • field service — military service performed in the field
  • field servoid — (jargon, abuse)   /fee'ld ser'voyd/ A play on "android", a derogatory term for a representative of a field service organisation (see field circus), suggesting an unintelligent rule-driven approach to servicing computer hardware.
  • fifty-seventh — next after the fifty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 57.
  • film festival — a festival devoted to film
  • fingal's cave — a cave on the island of Staffa, in the Hebrides, Scotland. 227 feet (69 meters) long; 42 feet (13 meters) wide.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • forgivingness — disposed to forgive; indicating forgiveness: a forgiving soul; a forgiving smile.
  • fosamprenavir — (pharmaceutical drug) An anti-retroviral prodrug of the protease inhibitor amprenavir. It is used to treat HIV infected patients.
  • friendsgiving — a gathering of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with a feast, falling near or on Thanksgiving Day, in contrast to the traditional celebrations that typically involve family.
  • frivolousness — characterized by lack of seriousness or sense: frivolous conduct.
  • gas reversion — Gas reversion is a process which combines thermal cracking or reforming of naphtha with thermal polymerization or alkylation of hydrocarbon gases, which is carried out in the same reaction place.
  • german silver — any of various alloys of copper, zinc, and nickel, usually white and used for utensils, drawing instruments, etc.; nickel silver.
  • gesticulative — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
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