21-letter words containing s, i, m, f, e, r
- affine transformation — (mathematics) A linear transformation followed by a translation. Given a matrix M and a vector v, A(x) = Mx + v is a typical affine transformation.
- afro-american english — Black English (def 1).
- afro-american studies — black studies.
- anti-aircraft missile — a missile intended to destroy enemy aircraft
- apres-midi d'un faune — L'Après-midi d'un Faune.
- articles of agreement — a contract between the captain of a ship and a crew member regarding stipulations of a voyage, signed prior to and upon termination of a voyage.
- axial-flow compressor — a device for compressing a gas by accelerating it tangentially by means of bladed rotors, to increase its kinetic energy, and then diffusing it through static vanes (stators), to increase its pressure
- butterfly common lisp — A parallel version of Common LISP for the BBN Butterfly computer.
- by fair means or foul — If someone tries to achieve something by fair means or foul, they use every means possible in order to achieve it, and they do not care if their behaviour is dishonest or unfair.
- chief master sergeant — a solider of the highest enlisted rank in the US Air Force
- chinese forget-me-not — an eastern Asian plant, Cynoglossum amabile, of the borage family, having lance-shaped leaves and clustered, showy, blue, pink, or white flowers.
- clostridium difficile — Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes severe diarrhoea. It is commonly found in hospitals. C.diff is also used.
- collins street farmer — a businessman who invests in farms, land, etc
- comfortably-furnished — containing comfortable furniture
- composition of forces — the combination, by vector algebra, of two or more forces into a single equivalent force (the resultant)
- confirm a reservation — If you confirm a reservation, you inform someone who has booked a room at a hotel that the reservation is definite.
- cosmological redshift — the part of the redshift of celestial objects resulting from the expansion of the universe.
- count of monte cristo — a novel (1844–45) by Alexandre Dumas père.
- customer satisfaction — When customers are pleased with the goods or services they have bought, you can refer to customer satisfaction.
- dark-field microscope — ultramicroscope
- department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
- dumfries and galloway — a region in S Scotland. 2460 sq. mi. (6371 sq. km).
- feline leukemia virus — a retrovirus, mainly affecting cats, that depresses the immune system and leads to opportunistic infections, lymphosarcoma, and other disorders. Abbreviation: FeLV, FLV.
- ferric sodium oxalate — an emerald-green, crystalline, extremely water-soluble salt, used in photography and blueprinting.
- flip someone the bird — give someone the finger (see phrase under finger)
- for someone's benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- 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.
- freedom of expression — the unrestrained right to voice ideas, opinions, etc
- general of the armies — a special rank held by John J. Pershing, equivalent to general of the army.
- highest common factor — greatest common divisor. Abbreviation: H.C.F.
- in the course of time — eventually
- infectious ectromelia — ectromelia (def 2).
- information scientist — someone who works in information science
- isolation transformer — An isolation transformer is a transformer with physically separate primary and secondary windings, that prevent it from transferring unwanted noise from the input circuit to the output windings.
- knock someone for six — to upset or overwhelm someone completely; stun
- lady windermere's fan — a comedy (1892) by Oscar Wilde.
- lafayette, marquis de — Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier [ma-ree zhaw-zef pawl eev rawk zheel-ber dy maw-tyey] /maˈri ʒɔˈzɛf pɔl iv rɔk ʒilˈbɛr dü mɔˈtyeɪ/ (Show IPA), Marquis de. Also, La Fayette. 1757–1834, French soldier, statesman, and liberal leader, who served in the American Revolutionary Army as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and took a leading part in the French revolutions of 1789 and 1830.
- law of thermodynamics — any of three principles variously stated in equivalent forms, being the principle that the change of energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the heat transferred minus the work done (first law of thermodynamics) the principle that no cyclic process is possible in which heat is absorbed from a reservoir at a single temperature and converted completely into mechanical work (second law of thermodynamics) and the principle that it is impossible to reduce the temperature of a system to absolute zero in a finite number of operations (third law of thermodynamics)
- linear transformation — linear map
- make up for lost time — compensate for past inaction
- manufacturing process — chain of production
- mayor of casterbridge — a novel (1886) by Thomas Hardy.
- minister of the crown — any Government minister of cabinet rank
- mistress of the robes — (in Britain) a lady of high rank in charge of the Queen's wardrobe
- network filing system — (spelling) Misnomer for Network File System.
- nightmare file system — Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network File System (NFS). In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the others often freeze up. Some machine tries to access the down one, and (getting no response) repeats indefinitely. This causes it to appear dead to some messages (what is actually happening is that it is locked up in what should have been a brief excursion to a higher spl level). Then another machine tries to reach either the down machine or the pseudo-down machine, and itself becomes pseudo-down. The first machine to discover the down one is now trying both to access the down one and to respond to the pseudo-down one, so it is even harder to reach. This situation snowballs very quickly, and soon the entire network of machines is frozen - worst of all, the user can't even abort the file access that started the problem! Many of NFS's problems are excused by partisans as being an inevitable result of its statelessness, which is held to be a great feature (critics, of course, call it a great misfeature). ITS partisans are apt to cite this as proof of Unix's alleged bogosity; ITS had a working NFS-like shared file system with none of these problems in the early 1970s. See also broadcast storm.
- no smoke without fire — the evidence strongly suggests something has indeed happened
- nominative of address — a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.
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