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  • lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
  • mallow rose — a rose mallow of the genus Hibiscus.
  • marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
  • marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
  • mars yellow — a medium to deep orange-yellow color.
  • marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
  • master-work — masterpiece.
  • masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
  • meadowlarks — Plural form of meadowlark.
  • moore's law — (architecture)   /morz law/ The observation, made in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore while preparing a speech, that each new memory integrated circuit contained roughly twice as much capacity as its predecessor, and each chip was released within 18-24 months of the previous chip. If this trend continued, he reasoned, computing power would rise exponentially with time. Moore's observation still holds in 1997 and is the basis for many performance forecasts. In 24 years the number of transistors on processor chips has increased by a factor of almost 2400, from 2300 on the Intel 4004 in 1971 to 5.5 million on the Pentium Pro in 1995 (doubling roughly every two years). Date Chip Transistors MIPS clock/MHz ----------------------------------------------- Nov 1971 4004 2300 0.06 0.108 Apr 1974 8080 6000 0.64 2 Jun 1978 8086 29000 0.75 10 Feb 1982 80286 134000 2.66 12 Oct 1985 386DX 275000 5 16 Apr 1989 80486 1200000 20 25 Mar 1993 Pentium 3100000 112 66 Nov 1995 Pentium Pro 5500000 428 200 ----------------------------------------------- Moore's Law has been (mis)interpreted to mean many things over the years. In particular, microprocessor performance has increased faster than the number of transistors per chip. The number of MIPS has, on average, doubled every 1.8 years for the past 25 years, or every 1.6 years for the last 10 years. While more recent processors have had wider data paths, which would correspond to an increase in transistor count, their performance has also increased due to increased clock rates. Chip density in transistors per unit area has increased less quickly - a factor of only 146 between the 4004 (12 mm^2) and the Pentium Pro (196 mm^2) (doubling every 3.3 years). Feature size has decreased from 10 to 0.35 microns which would give over 800 times as many transistors per unit. However, the automatic layout required to cope with the increased complexity is less efficient than the hand layout used for early processors. See also Parkinson's Law of Data.
  • narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
  • radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
  • rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • shower head — nozzle of a shower attachment
  • snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
  • snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.
  • soap powder — soap produced and packaged in powdered form.
  • soft sawder — flattery; compliments
  • software ag — (company)   A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
  • solar power — energy generated by the sun
  • spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
  • swarm spore — zoospore
  • sweatercoat — a coat knitted like a bulky sweater.
  • sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • texas tower — an offshore radar-equipped platform supported by foundations sunk into the floor of the ocean, formerly used as part of a system for warning against air attacks.
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • throw shade — to make a public show of contempt
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
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