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  • esterification — A reaction of an alcohol with an acid to produce an ester and water.
  • eta conversion — (theory)   In lambda-calculus, the eta conversion rule states \ x . f x <--> f provided x does not occur as a free variable in f and f is a function. Left to right is eta reduction, right to left is eta abstraction (or eta expansion). This conversion is only valid if bottom and \ x . bottom are equivalent in all contexts. They are certainly equivalent when applied to some argument - they both fail to terminate. If we are allowed to force the evaluation of an expression in any other way, e.g. using seq in Miranda or returning a function as the overall result of a program, then bottom and \ x . bottom will not be equivalent. See also observational equivalence, reduction.
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
  • extension cord — an extra length of cable that can be added to an electric lead
  • extraprostatic — (anatomy) Outside or independent of the prostate.
  • extravagancies — Plural form of extravagancy.
  • extrinsicality — The quality of being extrinsic.
  • femtochemistry — (chemistry) the study of chemical reactions on a very short time scale, often using pulsed lasers.
  • fencing master — an expert in, and teacher of, the art and sport of fencing
  • fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
  • ferroelectrics — Plural form of ferroelectric.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
  • first classman — a fourth-year student at a U.S. military academy.
  • first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
  • fitness center — A fitness center in a hotel is a large room, usually containing special equipment, where people go to do physical exercise and get fit.
  • fitness centre — a place which has gym equipment
  • floriculturist — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
  • forest service — a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created in 1905, that protects and develops the national forests and grasslands.
  • form criticism — a method of textual analysis, applied especially to the Bible, in which the origin and history of certain passages are traced by isolating their literary forms, as miracle story, saying, or apothegm, on the assumption that they were fixed by oral tradition prior to compilation in written form.
  • fortifications — Plural form of fortification.
  • fractionalised — Simple past tense and past participle of fractionalise.
  • free-associate — to engage in free association.
  • frictionlessly — In a frictionless way; without friction.
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • futuristically — of or relating to the future: a futuristic view of the world.
  • garlic mustard — a plant, Alliaria petiolata, of N temperate regions, with small white flowers and an odour of garlic: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • gerontocracies — Plural form of gerontocracy.
  • glans-clitoris — the head of the penis (glans penis) or of the clitoris (glans clitoris)
  • grammaticaster — (derogatory) A pedantic, inferior grammarian.
  • graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
  • gratifications — Plural form of gratification.
  • greetings card — A greetings card is a folded card with a picture on the front and greetings inside that you give or send to someone, for example on their birthday.
  • grief-stricken — overwhelmed by grief; deeply afflicted or sorrowful.
  • guest services — Guest services at a hotel are the services, amenities and help that the hotel provides for its guests.
  • gunter's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • handicraftsman — a person skilled in a handicraft; craftsman.
  • harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.
  • health service — system of medical care
  • heart-stricken — deeply grieved or greatly dismayed
  • heracliteanism — the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.
  • herald's trick — a conventional method of indicating a tincture, as by printing or carving without color.
  • hermeneuticist — One who studies hermeneutics.
  • heterochronism — a change in the stage at which developmental processes take place relative to members of the same species
  • heterospecific — belonging to a different species or group
  • heterostrophic — (of a shell) twisting or turning in a different direction
  • histochemistry — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
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