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  • extrinsic factor — vitamin B12
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • feel constrained — If you feel constrained to do something, you feel that you must do it, even though you would prefer not to.
  • ferroelectricity — (physics) The electric polarization of a substance (spontaneous presence of a dipole moment) that is analagous to ferromagnetism.
  • fertility factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fictitious force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
  • finance director — financial manager
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • fish or cut bait — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.
  • flame cultivator — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flight indicator — artificial horizon (def 3).
  • floridean starch — the storage polysaccharide of red algae.
  • flotation collar — an inflatable device worn around the neck to keep the wearer afloat when in danger of drowning
  • food intolerance — an intolerance of a specific type of food, causing an adverse reaction
  • forced vibration — Forced vibration is a type of vibration in which a force is repeatedly applied to a mechanical system.
  • formation packer — A formation packer is a substance that is used as a seal between the casing and the borehole so that part of the hole can be tested.
  • francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • free association — the uncensored expression of the ideas, impressions, etc., passing through the mind of the analysand, a technique used to facilitate access to the unconscious.
  • french community — a cultural and economic association of France, its overseas departments and territories, and former French territories that chose to maintain association after becoming independent republics: formed 1958.
  • french directory — the body of five directors in power in France from 1795 until their overthrow by Napoleon in 1799
  • friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
  • friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
  • friendly society — law: mutual group providing benefits
  • front projection — a display system that projects an enlarged television picture on the front surface of a reflective screen.
  • functional group — a group of atoms responsible for the characteristic behavior of the class of compounds in which the group occurs, as the hydroxyl group in alcohols.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • funeral director — a person, usually a licensed embalmer, who supervises or conducts the preparation of the dead for burial and directs or arranges funerals.
  • gazetted officer — (in India) a senior official whose appointment is published in the government gazette
  • gold certificate — a former U.S. paper currency issued by the federal government for circulation from 1865 to 1933, equal to and redeemable for gold to a stated value.
  • heat of reaction — the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a product is formed at constant pressure
  • hyper-conformity — action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
  • imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
  • in the course of — If something happens in the course of a particular period of time, it happens during that period of time.
  • infinite product — a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are multiplied together.
  • information pack — a set of leaflets giving information about something
  • informed consent — a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
  • infostreet, inc. — (company)   An Internet consulting and development company dedicated to assisting companies in establishing an Internet presence. InfoStreet develope Internet strategies, design and create web pages, and host and maintain websites. InfoStreet, has been recognized by PC/Computing as the "Best of the Top Home Page Services" (August 1996) and has been featured in Netguide magazine and the Wiley and Son's Electronic Marketing book.
  • intrinsic factor — a glycoprotein, secreted by the gastric mucosa, that is involved in the intestinal absorption of vitamin B 12 .
  • inverse function — the function that replaces another function when the dependent and independent variables of the first function are interchanged for an appropriate set of values of the dependent variable. In y = sin x and x = arc sin y, the inverse function of sine is arc sine.
  • isoplastic graft — syngraft.
  • letter of advice — a notification from a consignor to a consignee giving specific information as to a shipment, the name of the carrier, the date shipped, etc.
  • letter of credit — an order issued by a banker allowing a person named to draw money to a specified amount from correspondents of the issuer.
  • make a pitch for — to give verbal support to
  • microsoft access — 1.   (database)   A relational database running under Microsoft Windows. Data is stored as a number of "tables", e.g. "Stock". Each table consists of a number of "records" (e.g. for different items) and each record contains a number of "fields", e.g. "Product code", "Supplier", "Quantity in stock". Access allows the user to create "forms" and "reports". A form shows one record in a user-designed format and allows the user to step through records one at a time. A report shows selected records in a user-designed format, possibly grouped into sections with different kinds of total (including sum, minimum, maximum, average). There are also facilities to use links ("joins") between tables which share a common field and to filter records according to certain criteria or search for particular field values. Version: 2 (date?). 2.   (communications)   A communications program from Microsoft, meant to compete with ProComm and other programs. It sucked and was dropped. Years later they reused the name for their database.
  • microsoft office — (product)   Microsoft's bundles of productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Front Page, Microsoft Team Manager, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Schedule+, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Small Business Financial Manager, Automap Streets Plus. Editions of Office include Microsoft Office Professional Edition, Microsoft Office Standard Edition, Microsoft Office Small Business Edition, Microsoft Office Developer Edition. Different editions contain different subsets of the above applications. Current version, as of 2004-08-30: Office 2003.
  • miraculous fruit — miracle fruit.
  • misconfiguration — An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
  • montgomery clift — Montgomery, 1920–66, U.S. actor.
  • motoring offence — a crime committed which concerns driving
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