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  • paleoanthropologist — the study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species, using fossils and other remains.
  • parthenogenetically — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • particle technology — Particle technology is knowledge and study which relates to particles, and is used in industry.
  • pastoral counseling — the use of psychotherapeutic techniques by trained members of the clergy to assist parishioners who seek help for personal or emotional problems.
  • polyethylene glycol — any of a series of polymers of ethylene glycol, having a molecular weight of from about 200 to 6000, obtained by condensation of ethylene glycol or of ethylene oxide and water, used as an emulsifying agent and lubricant in ointments, creams, etc.
  • polyphonic ringtone — (in mobile phones) a ringtone in which more than one musical note is played at the same time
  • popular sovereignty — the doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with the general will.
  • population genetics — the branch of genetics concerned with the hereditary makeup of populations.
  • preferential voting — a system of voting designed to permit the voter to indicate an order of preference for the candidates on the ballot.
  • priority scheduling — (operating system)   Processes scheduling in which the scheduler selects tasks to run based on their priority as opposed to, say, a simple round-robin. Priorities may be static or dynamic. Static priorities are assigned at the time of creation, while dynamic priorities are based on the processes' behaviour while in the system. For example, the scheduler may favour I/O-intensive tasks so that expensive requests can be issued as early as possible. A danger of priority scheduling is starvation, in which processes with lower priorities are not given the opportunity to run. In order to avoid starvation, in preemptive scheduling, the priority of a process is gradually reduced while it is running. Eventually, the priority of the running process will no longer be the highest, and the next process will start running. This method is called aging.
  • psychotechnological — of or relating to psychotechnology
  • queen's regulations — (in Britain and certain other Commonwealth countries when the sovereign is female) the code of conduct for members of the armed forces
  • register allocation — (compiler, algorithm)   The phase of a compiler that determines which values will be placed in registers. Register allocation may be combined with register assignment. This problem can be shown to be isomorphic to graph colouring by relating values to nodes in the graph and registers to colours. Values (nodes) which must be valid simultaneously are linked by edges and cannot be stored in the same register (coloured the same). See also register dancing and register spilling.
  • relational language — (language)   Any kind of programming language that specifies output in terms of some property and some arguments. For example, if Tom has two brothers, Dick and Harry, a relational language will respond to the query "Who is Tom's brother?" with either Dick or Harry. Notice that unlike functional languages, relational languages do not require a unique output for each predicate/argument pair. Prolog is the best known relational language.
  • relief organization — humanitarian group
  • religious education — religion as school subject
  • resign oneself (to) — to submit or become reconciled (to); accept (something) passively
  • right circular cone — a cone whose surface is generated by lines joining a fixed point to the points of a circle, the fixed point lying on a perpendicular through the center of the circle.
  • right-eyed flounder — any of several flatfishes of the family Pleuronectidae, having both eyes on the right side of the head.
  • run-length encoding — A kind of compression algorithm which replaces sequences ("runs") of consecutive repeated characters (or other units of data) with a single character and the length of the run. This can either be applied to all input characters, including runs of length one, or a special character can be used to introduce a run-length encoded group. The longer and more frequent the runs are, the greater the compression that will be achieved. This technique is particularly useful for encoding black and white images where the data units would be single bit pixels.
  • santiago del estero — a city in N Argentina.
  • screen actors guild — a labor union for motion-picture performers, founded in 1933. Abbreviation: SAG.
  • self-congratulating — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-congratulation — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-congratulatory — the expression or feeling of uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's own accomplishment, good fortune, etc.; complacency.
  • self-levelling foot — (on furniture, washing-machines, etc) a foot that adjusts to let the item in question stand in a steady position
  • sexual stereotyping — the formation or promotion of a fixed general idea or image of how men and women will behave
  • shopping facilities — shops or other retail services
  • shovelnose sturgeon — a small sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorhynchus, of the Mississippi River, having a broad, flat snout.
  • single edge contact — (hardware)   (SEC) The type of cartridge in which a Pentium II is packaged.
  • single-cell protein — a protein produced or derived from the culture of a single-celled organism, used as a food supplement or substitute. Abbreviation: SCP.
  • social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
  • spaghetti bolognese — Italian dish of pasta and tomato sauce
  • splinterproof glass — glass that is designed not to form sharp splinters should it be shattered
  • split-second timing — timing that depends on minute precision
  • streaming potential — the potential produced in the walls of a porous membrane or a capillary tube by forcing a liquid through it.
  • sulfureted hydrogen — hydrogen sulfide.
  • suspensory ligament — any of several tissues that suspend certain organs or parts of the body, especially the transparent, delicate web of fibrous tissue that supports the crystalline lens.
  • talleyrand-perigord — Charles Maurice de [sharl moh-rees duh] /ʃarl moʊˈris də/ (Show IPA), Prince de Bénévent [duh bey-ney-vahn] /də beɪ neɪˈvɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1754–1838, French statesman.
  • tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • the golden triangle — an opium-producing area of SE Asia, comprising parts of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand
  • the oceanic feeling — a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the feeling experienced by people who have religious faith
  • the song of solomon — a book of the Old Testament consisting of a collection of dramatic love poems traditionally ascribed to Solomon
  • the-song-of-solomon — a book of the Bible. Abbreviation: Sol.
  • therapeutic cloning — the permitted creation of cloned human tissues for surgical transplant
  • three-point landing — an aircraft landing in which the two wheels of the main landing gear and the tail or nose wheel touch the ground simultaneously.
  • threshold agreement — an agreement between an employer and employees or their union to increase wages by a specified sum if inflation exceeds a specified level in a specified time
  • to go blackberrying — to go on an outing to collect blackberries
  • to hold your tongue — If you hold your tongue, you do not say anything even though you might want to or be expected to, because it is the wrong time to say it.
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