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- head normalisation theorem — Under the typed lambda-calculus, beta/delta reduction of the left-most redex (normal order reduction) is guaranteed to terminate with a head normal form if one exists. See also Church-Rosser theorem.
- headline rate of inflation — a basic rate of inflation before distorting factors have been removed
- high definition television — a television system having twice the standard number of scanning lines per frame and producing a sharper image, and greater picture detail. Abbreviation: HDTV.
- high-definition television — a television system having twice the standard number of scanning lines per frame and producing a sharper image, and greater picture detail. Abbreviation: HDTV.
- horse of a different color — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- hydraulic torque converter — an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing a different torque in the other shaft.
- hydrogenated vegetable oil — a vegetable oil that has undergone hydrogenation
- in a cold sweat/in a sweat — If someone is in a cold sweat or in a sweat, they feel frightened or embarrassed.
- in the eye of the beholder — If you say that something such as beauty or art is in the eye of the beholder, you mean that it is a matter of personal opinion.
- individualized instruction — a teaching method tailored to the skills, abilities, and interests of the individual student
- inflammatory bowel disease — any intestinal inflammatory disease, especially Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, of unknown cause. Abbreviation: IBD.
- intermediate-value theorem — the theorem that a function continuous between two points and having unequal values, a and b, at the two points takes on all values between a and b.
- intermodulation distortion — (electronics, communications) (IMD) Nonlinear distortion in a system or transducer, characterised by the appearance in the output of frequencies equal to the sums and differences of integral multiples of the two or more component frequencies present in the input waveform.
- international grand master — a chess player in the highest class of ability, as determined through specified types of international competitions.
- international screw thread — a metric system for screw threads relating the pitch to the diameter
- knights of the round table — a legendary order of knights created by King Arthur.
- law of action and reaction — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
- law of diminishing returns — diminishing returns (def 2).
- leave to one's own devices — to allow to do as one wishes
- made one's bed...lie in it — If you say that someone has made their bed and must lie in it, you mean that since they have chosen to do a particular thing, they must now accept the unpleasant results of their action.
- many-worlds interpretation — an interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the idea that every possible event exists in its own world
- methylene dioxyamphetamine — Pharmacology. MDA.
- michigan algorithm decoder — (language) (MAD) An early programming language, based on IAL, developed at the University of Michigan by R. Graham, Bruce Arden, and Bernard Galler in 1959. MAD was one of the first extensible languages: the user could define his own operators and data types. MAD ran on the IBM 704, IBM 709 and IBM 7090. It was ported to the IBM 7040 at the City College of New York by Robert Teitel and also to Philco, Univac and CDC computers.
- mongolian hordes technique — (programming, jargon) (Or "Chinese Army technique") Assigning a large number of inexperienced programmers to a job which would better performed by a few skilled ones. The term was first used by Dr. Fred Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man-Month", Chapter 3. According to Dr. Brooks, he had in mind the vision of the Mongol Hordes sweeping across Asia and Europe when he created the term.
- monochrome display adapter — (hardware, graphics) (MDA) One of IBM's earliest hardware video display standards for use in IBM PC. MDA can display only monochrome 80*25 text (IBM PC video mode 7). It is now obsolete.
- most-favored-nation clause — a clause in a commercial treaty or contract by which each signatory agrees to give the other the same treatment that is or will be accorded any other nation.
- mutual assured destruction — a U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack.
- national database language — (database, standard) (NDL) A US standard for portability of database definitions and application programs.
- newfoundland standard time — one of the standard times used in Canada, three and a half hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
- object modelling technique — (programming) (OMT) An object-oriented methodology.
- obscene publications squad — a division of the police force which deals with illegal books, pictures, or films which are judged obscene because they deal with sex or violence in a way that is considered offensive to the general public
- official production system — (language) (OPS) The first production system (i.e. rule based) programming language, developed at CMU in 1970 and used for building expert systems. OPS was originally written in Franz Lisp and later ported to other LISP dialects.
- period-luminosity relation — the relationship between the period of light variation and of the absolute magnitude of Cepheid variable stars.
- personal digital assistant — a handheld computer, often pen-based, that provides especially organizational software, as an appointment calendar, and communications hardware, as a fax modem. Abbreviation: PDA.
- pin the tail on the donkey — a children's party game in which a blindfolded player, holding a paper tail, is turned around several times before a large picture of a tailless donkey that the player then attempts to locate in order to pin the tail in place.
- plain old telephone system — Public Switched Telephone Network
- pokémon exception handling — (programming, humour) A humourous term for a try-catch exception handling construct with no constraint on which exceptions will be caught, for when you just "Gotta Catch 'Em All." (a slogan used in the Pokémon media empire). Pokémon is a trademark of the Pokémon Company of Japan.
- postprandial thermogenesis — the rate at which food is broken down after a meal and used by your body
- privately held corporation — A privately held corporation is a company whose shares cannot be bought by the general public.
- pulse-amplitude modulation — modulation of the amplitude of a train of electric pulses used to carry signals (pulse carrier) Abbreviation: PAM.
- quasi-stellar radio source — a quasar having detectable radio emission. Abbreviation: QSS.
- recombinant dna technology — any of various techniques for separating and recombining segments of DNA or genes, often employing a restriction enzyme to cut a gene from a donor organism and inserting it into a plasmid or viral DNA for transplantation into a host organism, where the gene causes the production of a desired substance either for harvesting or for the benefit of the host organism itself.
- retained object complement — an object complement that is kept in its predicative position following the verb when the verb is transformed into the passive voice, as genius in He was considered a genius from (They) considered him a genius.
- reticuloendothelial system — the aggregate of the phagocytic cells, including certain cells of the bone marrow, lymphatic system, liver, and spleen, that have reticular and endothelial characteristics and function in the immune system's defense against foreign bodies. Abbreviation: RES.
- santiago de los caballeros — a city in the N central Dominican Republic.
- service discovery protocol — (protocol) (SDP) A Bluetooth protocol in the Core Protocol Stack that allows devices to connect to other services.
- sixty-four-dollar question — the critical or basic question or problem: Whether the measure will get through Congress this session or not is the sixty-four-dollar question.
- song of the three children — a book of the Apocrypha, included as part of the third chapter of Daniel in the Douay Bible.
- staffordshire bull terrier — one of an English breed of strong, stocky, muscular dogs having a broad skull and a smooth coat, in combinations of red, white, black, or blue, originally raised for bullbaiting and later dogfighting, but now bred as a companion dog.
- statistical-thermodynamics — the science that deals with average properties of the molecules, atoms, or elementary particles in random motion in a system of many such particles and relates these properties to the thermodynamic and other macroscopic properties of the system.