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  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • opisthography — the practice of writing on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
  • orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
  • oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
  • photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • physiographic — the science of physical geography.
  • physiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
  • shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shopping list — a list made by a shopper of items or goods to be bought.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • shopping trip — visit to the shops
  • show-stopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • spot lighting — Spot lighting is lighting directed towards and used to draw attention to a product or display.
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • thigmotropism — oriented growth of an organism in response to mechanical contact, as a plant tendril coiling around a string support.
  • to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
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