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  • eigenfrequency — One of the natural resonant frequencies of a system.
  • electrocutions — Plural form of electrocution.
  • electroneutral — (physics) Having no net electric charge.
  • emergency fund — a sum of money set aside by a country, group, or organization for use in an emergency
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • encouragements — Plural form of encouragement.
  • endurance race — long-distance motor sport competition
  • endurance test — a test to measure the ability of a person, machine, system, etc to deal with physical activity, use, etc
  • equiponderance — The state of being equal in weight; equipoise.
  • equiponderancy — Archaic form of equiponderance.
  • escape routine — a means of leaving a computer-program sequence before its end, in order to commence another sequence
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • euclidean norm — (mathematics)   The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • exchequer bond — a type of short-term government bond
  • exclaustration — The release of a monk (or nun) from his religious vows and his subsequent return to the outside world.
  • exclusionarily — In an exclusionary manner; so as to exclude.
  • excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
  • excruciatingly — In an excruciating manner or to an excruciating degree; in a manner causing great pain or anguish.
  • facinorousness — the quality of being facinorous
  • fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
  • farey sequence — the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1.
  • ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • fine structure — a group of lines that are observed in the spectra of certain elements, as hydrogen, and that are caused by various couplings of the azimuthal quantum number and the angular momentum quantum number.
  • fire insurance — insurance covering any loss or damage caused by fire.
  • flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
  • food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
  • fortune cookie — a thin folded wafer containing a prediction or maxim printed on a slip of paper: often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants.
  • founder effect — the accumulation of random genetic changes in an isolated population as a result of its proliferation from only a few parent colonizers.
  • fragrant sumac — a sprawling shrub, Rhus aromatica, of the cashew family, native to eastern North America, having aromatic foliage and greenish-yellow flowers in small spikes.
  • francois guise — François de Lorraine [frahn-swa duh law-ren] /frɑ̃ˈswa də lɔˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
  • free churchman — (sometimes initial capital letters) a member of a free church.
  • french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
  • french cruller — cruller (def 2).
  • french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
  • french-cruller — a rich, light cake cut from a rolled dough and deep-fried, usually having a twisted oblong shape and sometimes topped with sugar or icing.
  • frequency band — band2 (def 9).
  • frozen account — A frozen account is a bank account that cannot have money withdrawn from it, because of a court order.
  • frozen custard — a smooth-textured, soft, frozen-food product of whole milk, and sometimes cream, egg yolk, etc., sweetened and variously flavored, often served in an ice-cream cone.
  • fructification — act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
  • function creep — the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, esp when this leads to potential invasion of privacy
  • fusion reactor — Physics. a reactor for producing atomic energy by nuclear fusion. Compare reactor (def 4).
  • galvanocautery — a cautery heated by a galvanic current.
  • gamine haircut — a boyish or elfish hairstyle, esp on a woman
  • garden produce — cultivated or farm-produced goods, such as fruit and vegetables
  • gaudi i cornet — Antoni [ahn-taw-nee] /ɑnˈtɔ ni/ (Show IPA), 1852–1926, Spanish architect and designer.
  • gaussian curve — normal curve.
  • geiger counter — an instrument for detecting ionizing radiations, consisting of a gas-filled tube in which electric-current pulses are produced when the gas is ionized by radiation, and of a device to register these pulses: used chiefly to measure radioactivity.
  • gene frequency — the frequency of occurrence of a particular allele in a population
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