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  • angelus silesius — (Johannes Scheffler) 1627–77, German poet.
  • anglo-australian — belonging, relating to, or involving England and Australia, or the people of the two countries.
  • angular diameter — the angle that the apparent diameter of a celestial object subtends at the eye of the observer.
  • angular velocity — the velocity of a body rotating about a specified axis measured as the rate of change of the angle subtended at that axis by the path of the body
  • animal husbandry — the science of breeding, rearing, and caring for farm animals
  • animal sanctuary — a place where animals are brought to live and be protected
  • annular ligament — any of various ligaments that encircle a part, such as the wrist, ankle, or trachea
  • annus horribilis — a terrible year
  • anomalous monism — the philosophical doctrine that although all mental states consist merely in states of the brain, there exist no regular correspondences between classes of mental and physical states, and so no psychophysical laws
  • antepenultimates — Plural form of antepenultimate.
  • anti-consumerism — a modern movement for the protection of the consumer against useless, inferior, or dangerous products, misleading advertising, unfair pricing, etc.
  • antianxiety drug — any of various substances, as benzodiazepines, that are primarily used to treat various forms of anxiety and psychosomatic conditions.
  • antibureaucratic — Lb politics Opposed to bureaucracy.
  • antihumanitarian — Opposing humanitarianism.
  • antilles current — a warm ocean current flowing NW along the N coast of the Greater Antilles and joining the Florida Current off the SW coast of Florida.
  • antimony sulfate — a white, crystalline, deliquescent, water-insoluble solid, Sb 2 (SO 4) 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of explosives.
  • antimony sulfide — antimony pentasulfide.
  • antitorque rotor — (on certain helicopters) a small rotor on the tail, turning in the vertical plane and providing a thrust whose torque opposes and compensates for the torque of the main rotor.
  • anxiety neurosis — a relatively mild form of mental illness characterized by extreme distress and agitation, often occurring without any obvious cause
  • appeals tribunal — a tribunal that hears appeals
  • apple-touch-icon — (programming)   (apple-touch-icon.png) Apple's default icon (image) used to represent a website, e.g. when saved as a bookmark or on the home screen of an iOS device such as an iPhone or iPad. Apple's scheme allows a site to offer images of different sizes so the client can choose the most appropriate one according to its screen size and resolution. Apple devices and applications completely ignore the favicon.ico de facto standard which, while somewhat quirky in its use of the ico format, has been pretty much universally adopted elsewhere. Conversely, apple-touch-icon.png will be ignored by non-Apple devices, possibly because its 16x16 resolution would look pretty shabby on most smart phones.
  • aquidneck island — an island in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
  • aratus of sicyon — 271–213 b.c, Greek general: leader of the Achaean League.
  • armed neutrality — military preparedness without commitment, especially as the expressed policy of a neutral nation in wartime; readiness to counter with force an invasion of rights by any belligerent power.
  • arthus' reaction — a severe, local immune reaction to the injection of an antigen in a sensitized host.
  • ashurnasirpal ii — ("the Merciless") died 859? b.c, warrior king of Assyria 884?–859 b.c.
  • assembly routine — assembler (def 2a).
  • assigned counsel — any private lawyer designated by a city or county court to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases at public expense.
  • assigned numbers — (standard)   The RFC STD 2 documenting the currently assigned values from several series of numbers used in network protocol implementations. This RFC is updated periodically and, in any case, current information can be obtained from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). If you are developing a protocol or application that will require the use of a link, socket, port, protocol, etc., you should contact the IANA to receive a number assignment.
  • assurnasirpal ii — Ashurnasirpal II.
  • at one's leisure — when one has free time
  • atomic mass unit — a unit of mass used to express atomic and molecular weights that is equal to one twelfth of the mass of an atom of carbon-12. It is equivalent to 1.66 × 10–27 kg
  • atrioventricular — of, relating to, or affecting both the atria and the ventricles of the heart
  • attitude of mind — Your attitude of mind is your general way of thinking and feeling.
  • attributive noun — a noun that occurs before and modifies another noun, as toy in toy store or tour in tour group.
  • auckland islands — a group of six uninhabited islands, south of New Zealand. Area: 611 sq km (234 sq miles)
  • auction pinochle — a variety of pinochle for three to five players in which, for every hand, there are three active players, each dealt 15 cards, with the highest bidder winning the contract and playing against the other two active opponents.
  • audience chamber — a room where a monarch or head of state conducts formal interviews
  • audience figures — the number of people regularly watching a television programme or listening to a radio programme
  • audio conference — a meeting that is conducted by the use of audio telecommunications
  • aulnay-sous-bois — a town in N central France, a suburb NE of Paris.
  • aung san suu kyi — born 1945, Burmese politician; cofounder (1988) and general secretary (1988–91 and from 1995) of the National League for Democracy: Nobel peace prize 1991; released (2010) from a lengthy house arrest; elected to the Burmese House of Representatives in 2012
  • australian crawl — a stroke in which the feet are kicked like paddles while the arms reach forward and pull back through the water
  • australian rules — a game resembling rugby football, played in Australia between teams of 18 men each on an oval pitch, with a ball resembling a large rugby ball. Players attempt to kick the ball between posts (without crossbars) at either end of the pitch, scoring six points for a goal (between the two main posts) and one point for a behind (between either of two outer posts and the main posts). They may punch or kick the ball and run with it provided that they bounce it every ten yards
  • austro-hungarian — of or relating to the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918)
  • authentification — The process of making, or establishing as, authentic.
  • authoritarianism — Authoritarianism is the state of being authoritarian or the belief that people with power, especially the State, have the right to control other people's actions.
  • autoethnographic — Using ethnographic techniques to describe one's own life, or events in which one is a participant.
  • autoimmunization — antibody production by an organism in response to and against any of its own tissues, cells, or cell components.
  • autointoxication — self-poisoning caused by absorption of toxic products originating within the body
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