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  • cost driver attribute — (programming)   Factors affecting the productivity of software development. These include attributes of the software, computers, personnel, and project.
  • cottony-cushion scale — a small scale insect, Icerya purchasi, that is a pest of citrus trees in California: it is controlled by introducing an Australian ladybird, Rodolia cardinalis, into affected areas
  • counsel of perfection — excellent but unrealizable advice
  • count of monte cristo — a novel (1844–45) by Alexandre Dumas père.
  • countably compact set — a set for which every cover consisting of a countable number of sets has a subcover consisting of a finite number of sets.
  • counterdemonstrations — Plural form of counterdemonstration.
  • court of common pleas — (formerly) a superior court exercising jurisdiction in civil actions between private citizens
  • 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.
  • cut-through switching — (networking)   The application of wormhole routing to packets in a packet switching system so that forwarding of a packet starts as soon as its destination is known, before the whole packet has arrived. Compare store and forward.
  • delusions of grandeur — If someone has delusions of grandeur, they think and behave as if they are much more important or powerful than they really are.
  • department of justice — the department of the U.S. federal government charged with the responsibility for the enforcement of federal laws. Abbreviation: DOJ.
  • diffusion coefficient — the rate at which a diffusing substance is transported between opposite faces of a unit cube of a system when there is unit concentration difference between them
  • discretionary account — an account in which the stockbroker is allowed complete control over the purchase and sale of securities on the customer's behalf.
  • discriminant function — a linear function of measurements of different properties of an object or event that is used to assign the object or event to one population or another (discriminant analysis)
  • disruptive technology — A disruptive technology is a new technology, such as computers and the Internet, which has a rapid and major effect on technologies that existed before.
  • distinguished-looking — having a dignified and attractive appearance
  • distributed processes — (DP) The first concurrent language based on remote procedure calls.
  • distribution function — (of any random variable) the function that assigns to each number the probability that the random variable takes a value less than or equal to the given number.
  • distributive property — Mathematics. the property that terms in an expression may be expanded in a particular way to form an equivalent expression.
  • double predestination — the doctrine that God has foreordained both those who will be saved and those who will be damned.
  • double spanish burton — a tackle having one standing block and two running blocks, giving a mechanical advantage of five, neglecting friction.
  • draft once reuse many — (jargon)   (DORUM) Reusing parts of a document to produce parts of an entirely new document. The term normally refers to text documents but the practise is equally common in programming.
  • duccio di buoninsegna — c1255–1319? Italian painter.
  • dumfries and galloway — a region in S Scotland. 2460 sq. mi. (6371 sq. km).
  • dusky seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
  • eastern european time — a standard time used by some countries in Eastern Europe, such as Finland, Romania, etc and also some countries of the Middle East and North Africa
  • eccles-jordan circuit — flip-flop
  • ecological succession — succession (def 6).
  • ecological-succession — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.
  • educational sociology — the application of sociological principles and methods to the solution of problems in an educational system.
  • eiffel source checker — A compiler front-end for Eiffel 3 by Olaf Langmack <[email protected]> and Burghardt Groeber. It was generated automatically with the Karlsruhe toolbox for compiler construction according to the most recent public language definition. The parser derives an easy-to-use abstract syntax tree, supports elementary error recovery and provides a precise source code indication of errors. It performs a strict syntax check and analyses 4000 lines of source code per second on a Sun SPARC workstation.
  • 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
  • electronic publishing — Electronic publishing is the publishing of documents in a form that can be read on a computer, for example as a CD-ROM.
  • endoplasmic reticulum — an extensive intracellular membrane system whose functions include synthesis and transport of lipids and, in regions where ribosomes are attached, of proteins
  • environmental studies — a university course studying the environment and related issues
  • epidermolysis bullosa — type of genetic skin disorder
  • european space agency — an organization dedicated to space exploration with 18 European countries as members
  • 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.
  • finite state automata — Finite State Machine
  • first baron ashburton — Alexander, 1st Baron Ashburton, 1774–1848, British statesman.
  • first-round financing — First round financing is the first time a new company raises money from investors.
  • fluorophosphoric acid — any of three acids containing fluorine and phosphorus, HPF 6 , HPO 2 F 2 , or H 2 PO 3 F.
  • foot-in-mouth disease — the habit of making inappropriate, insensitive, or imprudent statements.
  • foreground processing — a type of processing that supports interaction between interactive and batch operations
  • fraudulent conversion — conversion committed with the intent to defraud
  • frequent wash shampoo — a shampoo whose mildness allows it to be used frequently
  • game of cat and mouse — In a fight or contest, if one person plays cat and mouse, or a game of cat and mouse, with the other, the first person tries to confuse or deceive the second in order to defeat them.
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