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  • apollo computer — (company)   A company making workstations often used for CAD. From 1980 to 1987, Apollo were the largest manufacturer of network workstations. Apollo workstations ran Aegis, a proprietary operating system with a Posix-compliant Unix alternative frontend. Apollo's networking was particularly elegant, among the first to allow demand paging over the network, and allowing a degree of network transparency and low sysadmin-to-machine ratio that is still unmatched. Apollo's largest customers were Mentor Graphics (electronic design), GM, Ford, Chrysler, and Boeing (mechanical design). Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989, and gradually closed down over the period 1990-1997.
  • appeal tribunal — An appeal tribunal is a special court or committee that is formed to reconsider a decision made by another court or committee.
  • appellate court — In the United States, an appellate court is a special court where people who have been convicted of a crime can appeal against their conviction.
  • architecturally — of or relating to architecture: architectural metals.
  • argumentatively — fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
  • argyll and bute — a council area in W Scotland on the Atlantic Ocean: in 1975 the historical counties of Argyllshire and Bute became part of Strathclyde region; in 1996 they were reinstated as a single unitary authority. Argyll and Bute is mountainous and includes the islands of Bute, Mull, Islay, and Jura. Administrative centre: Lochgilphead. Pop: 91 300 (2003 est). Area: 6930 sq km (2676 sq miles)
  • artificial turf — any of various synthetic, carpetlike materials made to resemble turf and used as a playing surface for football and baseball fields, to cover patios, etc.
  • astronautically — In an astronautic way.
  • at full stretch — If you are at full stretch, your arm is straight and extended as far as possible, usually because you are trying to reach something that is almost too far away.
  • atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
  • atlas mountains — a mountain system of N Africa, between the Mediterranean and the Sahara. Highest peak: Mount Toubkal, 4165 m (13 664 ft)
  • atrabiliousness — The state or quality of being characterized by melancholy or glumness.
  • auditor general — (in Canada) a federal official responsible for auditing government departments and making an annual report
  • australian alps — a mountain range in SE Australia, in E Victoria and SE New South Wales. Highest peak: Mount Kosciuszko, 2195 m (7316 ft)
  • australian mist — a breed of medium-sized cat with a short spotted or marbled coat
  • australian pine — casuarina
  • authenticatable — to establish as genuine.
  • authoritatively — having due authority; having the sanction or weight of authority: an authoritative opinion.
  • autocannibalism — The eating of part of one's own body.
  • autocollimation — the process used in an autocollimator.
  • autocorrelation — the condition occurring when successive items in a series are correlated so that their covariance is not zero and they are not independent
  • autocorrelative — Relating to autocorrelation.
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • autoinoculation — the inoculation of microorganisms (esp viruses) from one part of the body into another, usually in the form of a vaccine
  • autolithography — a lithographic technique by which the artist draws or traces with a brush and pen directly on a stone or plate.
  • automatic pilot — An automatic pilot or an autopilot is a device in an aircraft that automatically keeps it on a particular course.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • automorphically — in an automorphic manner
  • autotetraploidy — the generation of the tetraploid state, created by the fusing of two nuclei from the same species
  • autotransplants — Plural form of autotransplant.
  • autotrophically — through an autotrophic process
  • auxiliary rotor — the tail rotor of a helicopter, used for directional and rotary control
  • ball ammunition — live small-arms ammunition
  • bangtail muster — a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted
  • banqueting hall — a large building or room used for feasts
  • barium sulphate — a white insoluble fine dense powder, used as a pigment, as a filler for paper, rubber, etc, and in barium meals. Formula: BaSO4
  • bateau neckline — a wide, high neckline that follows the curve of the collarbone and ends in points on the shoulder seams.
  • bathurst island — an island off the coast of N Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago: present south of the North Magnetic Pole nearby. 7609 sq. mi. (19,707 sq. km).
  • be just as well — If you say that something that has happened is just as well, you mean that it is fortunate that it happened in the way it did.
  • bearded vulture — lammergeier
  • beat oneself up — to reproach oneself
  • benzyl butyrate — a liquid, C 11 H 14 O 2 , having a fruitlike odor, used as a plasticizer and in flavoring.
  • bernoulli trial — one of a sequence of independent experiments each of which has the same probability of success, such as successive throws of a die, the outcome of which is described by a binomial distribution
  • bioaccumulation — the process in which industrial waste, toxic chemicals, etc. gradually accumulate in living tissue
  • bituminous coal — a soft black coal, rich in volatile hydrocarbons, that burns with a smoky yellow flame. Fixed carbon content: 46–86 per cent; calorific value: 1.93 × 107 – 3.63 × 107 J/kg
  • black guillemot — a common guillemot, Cepphus grylle: its summer plumage is black with white wing patches and its winter plumage white with greyish wings
  • black mountains — a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)
  • blue cattle dog — an Australian breed of dog with a bluish coat, developed for herding cattle
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • bluegrass state — Kentucky (used as a nickname).
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