11-letter words containing t, i, g, r
- quitchgrass — Elymus repens.
- radiologist — the science dealing with x-rays or nuclear radiation, especially for medical uses.
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- rasterising — (algorithm) A transformation that can be applied to an image to prepare it for printing. Rasterising reduces resolution by a factor of typically four to eight. It also reduces sensitivity to paper properties. Rasterising can be combined with dithering.
- rasterizing — rasterising
- rat-running — the practice of driving through residential side streets to avoid congested main roads
- ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
- ray casting — (graphics) A simplified form of ray tracing. A ray is fired from each pixel in the view plane, and information is accumulated from all the voxels in the volume data it intersects. Each voxel is first given an associated colour and opacity. The ray is sampled at a fixed number of evenly spaced locations and the colour and opacity are trilinearly interpolated from the eight nearest voxels. These are then composed linearly back to front to give a single colour for the pixel. Ray casting was invented by John Carmack for the game Wolfenstein 3D. It is faster and lower quality than ray tracing, and is ideal for interactive applications. It parallelises well, although random access is needed to the voxels.
- ray tracing — (graphics) A technique used in computer graphics to create realistic images by calculating the paths taken by rays of light entering the observer's eye at different angles. The paths are traced backward from the viewpoint, through a point (a pixel) in the image plane until they hit some object in the scene or go off to infinity. Objects are modelled as collections of abutting surfaces which may be rectangles, triangles, or more complicated shapes such as 3D splines. The optical properties of different surfaces (colour, reflectance, transmitance, refraction, texture) also affect how it will contribute to the colour and brightness of the ray. The position, colour, and brightness of light sources, including ambient lighting, is also taken into account. Ray tracing is an ideal application for parallel processing since there are many pixels, each of whose values is independent and can thus be calculated in parallel. Compare: radiosity.
- realignment — an adjustment to a line; arrangement in a straight line.
- recarpeting — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- recognition — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- redesignate — to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
- redigestion — the act or process of redigesting
- redshirting — a high-school or college athlete kept out of varsity competition for one year to develop skills and extend eligibility. a child held back from starting kindergarten for one year, the practice of which is believed by some parents to give the child academic, athletic, and social advantages.
- refactoring — (object-oriented, programming) Improving a computer program by reorganising its internal structure without altering its external behaviour. When software developers add new features to a program, the code degrades because the original program was not designed with the extra features in mind. This problem could be solved by either rewriting the existing code or working around the problems which arise when adding the new features. Redesigning a program is extra work, but not doing so would create a program which is more complicated than it needs to be. Refactoring is a collection of techniques which have been designed to provide an alternative to the two situations mentioned above. The techniques enable programmers to restructure code so that the design of a program is clearer. It also allows programmers to extract reusable components, streamline a program, and make additions to the program easier to implement. Refactoring is usually done by renaming methods, moving fields from one class to another, and moving code into a separate method. Although it is done using small and simple steps, refactoring a program will vastly improve its design and structure, making it easier to maintain and leading to more robust code.
- refrigerant — refrigerating; cooling.
- refrigerate — to make or keep cold or cool, as for preservation.
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- regimentals — of or relating to a regiment.
- registrable — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
- registrated — to select and combine pipe organ stops.
- regurgitant — to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.
- regurgitate — to surge or rush back, as liquids, gases, undigested food, etc.
- reintegrate — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- reiterating — to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.
- rejectingly — in a rejecting way or manner
- religionist — excessive or exaggerated religious zeal.
- religiosity — the quality of being religious; piety; devoutness.
- remigration — the act or process of returning or migrating back to the place of origin
- renegotiate — to negotiate again, as a loan, treaty, etc.
- repentingly — in a repenting fashion; repentantly
- resentingly — in a resenting manner; resentfully
- resignation — the act of resigning.
- resistingly — in a resisting manner
- restringent — (of medicines and chemicals) causing contraction of body tissues, checking blood flow, or restricting secretions of fluids
- resultingly — as a result.
- retroengine — a small rocket on a spacecraft which is fired to alter its course or slow it down
- revaluating — to make a new or revised valuation of; revalue.
- rh negative — See under Rh factor.
- rh-negative — See under Rh factor.
- riding boot — a knee-high boot of black or brown leather, without fastenings, forming part of a riding habit.
- right about — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- right angle — the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one quarter of the circle; the angle formed by two perpendicular lines that intersect; an angle of 90°.
- right brace — (character) "}". ASCII character 125. Common names: close brace; right brace; right squiggly; right squiggly bracket/brace; right curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: closing brace. Rare: unbrace; uncurly; rytit ("" = leftit); right squirrelly; {INTERCAL: bracelet ("" = embrace). Paired with {left brace
- right brain — the right cerebral hemisphere of the human brain, which includes areas associated with abstraction, artistic ability, and emotional response
- right field — the area of the outfield to the right of center field, as viewed from home plate.
- right heart — the half of the heart, containing the right ventricle and right atrium, which supplies dark-red, oxygen-deficient venous blood to the lungs for oxygenation
- right money — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- right stage — the part of the stage that is right of center as one faces the audience.