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  • duchesse brisee — See under duchesse.
  • elastic rebound — a theory of earthquakes that envisages gradual deformation of the fault zone without fault slippage until friction is overcome, when the fault suddenly slips to produce the earthquake
  • eustachian tube — part of the ear
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • hercules beetle — a large Neotropical rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules.
  • hillbilly music — folk music combined with elements of popular music in which the banjo, fiddle, and guitar are principal instruments: a type of music that originated in mountain regions of the southern U.S.
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • humpback salmon — a pink salmon inhabiting North Pacific waters: so-called because of the hump that appears behind the head of the male when it is ready for spawning.
  • incentive bonus — an extra payment made to an employee to reward good work
  • incommensurable — not commensurable; having no common basis, measure, or standard of comparison.
  • incommensurably — In an incommensurable manner; immeasurably.
  • inexcusableness — The quality of being inexcusable.
  • ingush republic — a constituent republic of S Russia: part of the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic from 1936 until 1992. Capital: Magas (formerly at Nazran). Pop: 468 900 (2002). Area: 3600 sq km (1390 sq miles)
  • inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
  • intersubjective — comprehensible to, relating to, or used by a number of persons, as a concept or language.
  • isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
  • jukebox musical — a musical play or film that is based around a series of well-known popular songs
  • lambda calculus — a formalized description of functions and the way in which they combine, developed by Alonzo Church and used in the theory of certain high-level programming languages
  • lambda-calculus — (mathematics)   (Normally written with a Greek letter lambda). A branch of mathematical logic developed by Alonzo Church in the late 1930s and early 1940s, dealing with the application of functions to their arguments. The pure lambda-calculus contains no constants - neither numbers nor mathematical functions such as plus - and is untyped. It consists only of lambda abstractions (functions), variables and applications of one function to another. All entities must therefore be represented as functions. For example, the natural number N can be represented as the function which applies its first argument to its second N times (Church integer N). Church invented lambda-calculus in order to set up a foundational project restricting mathematics to quantities with "effective procedures". Unfortunately, the resulting system admits Russell's paradox in a particularly nasty way; Church couldn't see any way to get rid of it, and gave the project up. Most functional programming languages are equivalent to lambda-calculus extended with constants and types. Lisp uses a variant of lambda notation for defining functions but only its purely functional subset is really equivalent to lambda-calculus. See reduction.
  • luncheon basket — a basket that you put food in and take somewhere for a picnic
  • mass-producible — to produce or manufacture (goods) in large quantities, especially by machinery.
  • microbusinesses — Plural form of microbusiness.
  • micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
  • mount suribachi — a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II
  • mourners' bench — a front row of seats at a revival meeting, for those who are to profess penitence
  • mucous membrane — a lubricating membrane lining an internal surface or an organ, as the alimentary, respiratory, and genitourinary canals.
  • municipal bonds — a bond issued by a state, county, city, or town, or by a state authority or agency to finance projects.
  • new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick
  • no-claims bonus — law: insurance premium reduction
  • non combustible — not flammable.
  • non-combustible — not flammable.
  • non-putrescible — liable to become putrid.
  • non-susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
  • oblique section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane that is other than parallel or perpendicular to its longest axis.
  • obstacle course — a military training area having obstacles, as hurdles, ditches, and walls, that must be surmounted or crossed in succession.
  • obstructionists — Plural form of obstructionist.
  • obstructiveness — The characteristic of being obstructive.
  • parti québécois — (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • prism binocular — Usually, prism binoculars. Optics. binocular (def 1).
  • procrustean bed — a plan or scheme to produce uniformity or conformity by arbitrary or violent methods.
  • pubic symphysis — the fixed joint at the front of the pelvic girdle where the halves of the pubis meet.
  • public interest — the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth: health programs that directly affect the public interest.
  • public nuisance — act, thing: anti-social
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • public-spirited — having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public-spirited citizen.
  • publicity stunt — something done to attract publicity
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