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  • investment account — a bank account in which money is saved long-term to accrue interest
  • involuntary muscle — muscle: contracts involuntarily
  • isthmus of corinth — a narrow strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf: crossed by the Corinth Canal making navigation possible between the gulfs
  • jump discontinuity — a discontinuity of a function at a point where the function has finite, but unequal, limits as the independent variable approaches the point from the left and from the right. Compare jump (def 52).
  • justice department — the United States federal department for enforcing federal laws
  • loschmidt's number — the number of molecules in one cubic centimeter of an ideal gas at standard temperature and pressure, equal to 2.687 × 10 19.
  • luminous emittance — luminous flux emitted per unit area.
  • maclaurin's series — an infinite sum giving the value of a function f(x) in terms of the derivatives of the function evaluated at zero: f(x) = f(0) + (f′(0)x)/1! + (f″(0)x2)/2! + …
  • magnesium silicate — a white powder, 3MgSiO 3 ⋅5H 2 O, with variable hydration, insoluble in water or alcohol, used as a rubber filler, a bleaching agent, an odor absorbent, and in the manufacture of paints and resins.
  • malicious wounding — the intentional violent wounding or injuring of someone
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • microencapsulation — the process of enclosing chemical substances in microcapsules.
  • miniature pinscher — one of a German breed of toy dogs resembling a smaller version of the Doberman pinscher, having a flat skull, a smooth coat, erect ears, and a docked tail, bred originally as a watchdog.
  • mix communications — (MIX) Providers of Internet access and presentation services for businesses and individuals in the Milwaukee, WI, USA metropolitan area. MIX started providing Internet access services to the Milwaukee area in 1990. It was the first business in Milwaukee to provide Internet access services to the public. MIX Communications is owned and operated by Dean Roth. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 (414) 351 1868 (Office), +1 (414) 351 1139 (BBS). Address: MIX Communications, P.O. Box 17166, Milwaukee, WI 53217, USA.
  • molecular genetics — a subdivision of genetics concerned with the structure and function of genes at the molecular level.
  • mortgage insurance — policy to compensate for property loan payments
  • multicast backbone — (MBONE) A virtual network on top of the Internet which supports routing of IP multicast packets, intended for multimedia transmission. MBONE gives public access desktop video communications. The quality is poor with only 3-5 frames per second instead of the 30 frames per second of commercial television. Its advantage is that it avoids all telecommunications costs normally associated with teleconferencing. An interesting innovation is the use of MBONE for audio communications and an electronic "whiteboard" where the computer screen becomes a shared workspace where two physically remote parties can draw on and edit shared documents in real-time.
  • multiple collision — an accident in which several cars crash into each other
  • musical instrument — music
  • neuropsychodynamic — Of or pertaining to neuropsychodynamics.
  • nocturnal emission — the release of semen during sleep, often during a sexual dream.
  • non-circumstantial — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
  • nonstriated muscle — smooth muscle
  • numerical analysis — the branch of mathematics dealing with methods for obtaining approximate numerical solutions of mathematical problems.
  • oil of catechumens — holy oil used in baptism, the ordination of a cleric, the coronation of a sovereign, or in the consecration of a church.
  • pernicious anaemia — Pernicious anaemia is a very severe blood disease.
  • precious moonstone — moonstone (def 1).
  • publishing company — a firm which publishes books
  • pulmonic airstream — a current of lung air set in motion by the respiratory muscles in the production of speech.
  • quantum statistics — the branch of statistical mechanics that incorporates quantum mechanics.
  • quinacrine mustard — a nitrogen mustard derived from mepacrine and used as a stain for chromosomes
  • resuscitation room — an intensive care unit
  • sampling frequency — sample rate
  • second triumvirate — the coalition and joint rule of the Roman Empire by Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian, begun in 43 bc
  • security agreement — business: contract
  • selenium rectifier — a rectifier consisting of laminated plates of metal, usually iron, that have been coated with selenium on one side, with rectification taking place because the flow of electrons from the conductive metal to the selenium occurs more readily than the flow in the opposite direction.
  • semicircular canal — any of the three curved tubular canals in the labyrinth of the ear, associated with the sense of equilibrium.
  • semiprecious stone — See at semiprecious.
  • shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • sodium bicarbonate — a white, crystalline, water-soluble solid, in powder or granules, NaHCO 3 , usually prepared by the reaction of soda ash with carbon dioxide or obtained from the intermediate product of the Solvay process by purification: used chiefly in the manufacture of sodium salts, baking powder, and beverages, as a laboratory reagent, as a fire extinguisher, and in medicine as an antacid.
  • sodium thiocyanate — a white powder or colorless, deliquescent crystals, NaSCN, used chiefly in organic synthesis and in medicine in the treatment of hypertension.
  • spackling compound — spackle
  • specimen signature — a signature to be compared to an original signature in order to verify someone's identity
  • squirting cucumber — a Mediterranean plant, Ecballium elaterium, of the gourd family, whose ripened fruit forcibly ejects the seeds and juice.
  • submarine sandwich — a sandwich made with a long cylindrical bread roll
  • subsidiary company — a company whose controlling interest is owned by another company.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • summary proceeding — a mode of trial authorized by statute to be held before a judge without the usual full hearing.
  • survival mechanism — something you or your body does automatically, in order to survive in a dangerous or unpleasant situation
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