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  • focal-plane shutter — a camera shutter situated directly in front of the film.
  • follow-up interview — a second interview following an initial interview
  • forensic accountant — an accountant who specializes in applying accountancy skills to the purposes of the law
  • foundation subjects — the subjects studied as part of the National Curriculum, including the compulsory core subjects
  • four colour theorem — four colour map theorem
  • fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
  • frameshift mutation — a mutation caused by frameshift.
  • fraternal insurance — insurance underwritten by a fraternal society, under either a legal reserve plan or an assessment plan.
  • freeze-frame button — a control button on a remote control device, used to stop a moving image to view it as a still
  • freezing injunction — an order enabling the court to freeze the assets of a defendant, esp to prevent him or her taking them abroad
  • friend of the court — amicus curiae.
  • full-wave rectifier — a rectifier that transmits both halves of a cycle of alternating current as a direct current.
  • functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
  • functional database — (database, language)   A database which uses a functional language as its query language. Databases would seem to be an inappropriate application for functional languages since, a purely functional language would have to return a new copy of the entire database every time (part of) it was updated. To be practically scalable, the update mechanism must clearly be destructive rather than functional; however it is quite feasible for the query language to be purely functional so long as the database is considered as an argument. One approach to the update problem would use a monad to encapsulate database access and ensure it was single threaded. Alternative approaches have been suggested by Trinder, who suggests non-destructive updating with shared data structures, and Sutton who uses a variant of a Phil Wadler's linear type system. There are two main classes of functional database languages. The first is based upon Backus' FP language, of which FQL is probably the best known example. Adaplan is a more recent language which falls into this category. More recently, people have been working on languages which are syntactically very similar to modern functional programming languages, but which also provide all of the features of a database language, e.g. bulk data structures which can be incrementally updated, type systems which can be incrementally updated, and all data persisting in a database. Examples are PFL [Poulovassilis&Small, VLDB-91], and Machiavelli [Ohori et al, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998].
  • functional language — (language)   A language that supports and encourages functional programming.
  • functional medicine — individualized medical care that recognizes the interactions between genetic and environmental factors and between the body's interconnected systems.
  • future date testing — (testing)   The process of setting a computer's date to a future date to test a program's (expected or unexpected) date sensitivity. Future date testing only shows the effects of dates on the computer(s) under scrutiny, it does not take into account knock-on effects of dates on other connected systems.
  • gastrocolic omentum — the peritoneal fold attached to the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
  • general linguistics — the study of the characteristics of language in general rather than of a particular language; theoretical, rather than applied, linguistics.
  • genetic counselling — the provision of advice for couples with a history of inherited disorders who wish to have children, including the likelihood of having affected children and the course and management of the disorder, etc
  • geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
  • geomagnetic equator — an imaginary line on the earth's surface, the plane of which passes through the center and is midway between the geomagnetic poles.
  • get one's dander up — to become or to cause someone to become annoyed or angry
  • give your eye teeth — If you say that you would give your eye teeth for something, you mean that you want it very much and you would do anything to get it.
  • glorious revolution — the events of 1688–89 in England that resulted in the ousting of James II and the establishment of William III and Mary II as joint monarchs
  • gloucester old spot — a hardy rare breed of pig, white with a few black markings, that originally lived off windfalls in orchards in the Severn valley
  • go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
  • go jump in the lake — a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
  • go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • go through the hoop — to be subjected to an ordeal
  • go through the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
  • go under the hammer — to be offered for sale by an auctioneer
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • goldbach conjecture — an unproved theorem that every even integer greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.
  • gray-cheeked thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus minimus, having olive upper parts and grayish cheeks.
  • great-granddaughter — a granddaughter of one's son or daughter.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • greenstick fracture — an incomplete fracture of a long bone, in which one side is broken and the other side is still intact.
  • gulf of carpentaria — a shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea, in N Australia between Arnhem Land and Cape York Peninsula
  • gulf of tehuantepec — an inlet of the Pacific on the south coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in S Mexico
  • handlebar moustache — a man's moustache having long, curved ends that resemble the handlebars of a bicycle.
  • hate someone's guts — to hate someone intensely
  • hatfield-mccoy feud — a blood feud between two mountain clans on the West Virginia–Kentucky border, the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky, that grew out of their being on opposite sides during the Civil War and was especially violent during 1880–90.
  • haul over the coals — a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.
  • haute vulgarisation — vulgarization, or popularization, on a higher level, esp. as done by academics, scholars, etc.
  • have the last laugh — to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
  • heart in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
  • heat of sublimation — the heat absorbed by one gram or unit mass of a substance in the process of changing, at a constant temperature and pressure, from a solid to a gaseous state. Compare sublime (def 10).
  • henry david thoreau — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
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