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  • resonant circuit — A resonant circuit combines an inductor and capacitor to make a circuit that responds to a frequency.
  • return on equity — the amount of profit computed by dividing net income before taxes less preferred dividends by the value of stockholders' equity, usually expressed as a percentage. Abbreviation: ROE.
  • returned soldier — a soldier who has served abroad
  • riccati equation — a differential equation, dy/dx + fy 2 + gy + h = 0, where f, g, and h are functions of x.
  • right honourable — (in Britain and certain Commonwealth countries) a title of respect for a Privy Councillor or an appeal-court judge
  • right outer join — outer join
  • romeo and juliet — a tragedy (produced between 1591 and 1596) by Shakespeare.
  • round the wrekin — the long way round
  • run interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
  • run-time library — (operating system, programming, library)   A file containing routines which are linked with a program at run time rather than at compile-time. The advantage of such dynamic linking is that only one copy of the library needs to be stored, rather than a copy being included with each executable that refers to it. This can greatly reduce the disk space occupied by programs. Furthermore, it means that all programs immediately benefit from changes (e.g. bug fixes) to the single copy of the library without requiring recompilation. Since the library code is normally classified as read-only to the memory management system, it is possible for a single copy of the library to be loaded into memory and shared by all active programs, thus reducing RAM and virtual memory requirements and program load time.
  • run-time support — run-time system
  • russian roulette — a game of high risk in which each player in turn, using a revolver containing one bullet, spins the cylinder of the revolver, points the muzzle at the head, and pulls the trigger.
  • saint petersburg — Also called Russian Empire. Russian Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Capital: St. Petersburg (1703–1917).
  • saturation level — carrying capacity.
  • secondary tissue — tissue derived from cambium.
  • security analyst — a person who specializes in evaluating information regarding stocks and bonds.
  • security blanket — a blanket or other familiar item carried especially by a young child to provide reassurance and a feeling of psychological security.
  • security council — the division of the United Nations charged with maintaining international peace, composed of five permanent members (U.S., Russian Federation, France, United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China) and ten temporary members, each serving for two years.
  • security manager — The security manager of a store is the person responsible for organizing all security in the store and to whom security guards report.
  • security vetting — the process of investigating somebody to establish their trustworthiness
  • self-destruction — the destruction or ruination of oneself or one's life.
  • self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • semisubterranean — half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.
  • senior executive — someone in a senior position in a business, who makes decisions and puts them into action
  • service industry — business providing a service
  • sexual relations — sexual intercourse; coitus.
  • sheltering trust — a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.
  • shotgun marriage — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • smelting furnace — an industrial oven used to heat ore in order to extract metal
  • sodium carbonate — Also called soda ash. an anhydrous, grayish-white, odorless, water-soluble powder, Na 2 CO 3 , usually obtained by the Solvay process and containing about 1 percent of impurities consisting of sulfates, chlorides, and bicarbonates of sodium: used in the manufacture of glass, ceramics, soaps, paper, petroleum products, sodium salts, as a cleanser, for bleaching, and in water treatment.
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • speaking trumpet — a trumpet-shaped instrument used to carry the voice a great distance or held to the ear by a deaf person to aid his hearing
  • specious present — a short time span in which change and duration are alleged to be directly experienced.
  • spiritual incest — marriage or a sexual relationship between persons related by spiritual affinity or with a person under a solemn vow of chastity
  • sports equipment — gear used to play sport
  • stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
  • state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
  • stocking stuffer — a small, usually inexpensive gift that is placed with others in a Christmas stocking.
  • street furniture — pieces of equipment, such as streetlights and pillar boxes, placed in the street for the benefit of the public
  • studio apartment — an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
  • subsistence crop — a food plant which is grown by a farmer for consumption by himself and his family, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • substantive rank — a permanent rank in the armed services obtained by length of service, selection, etc
  • summer complaint — an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.
  • summer lightning — distant sheet lightning without audible thunder, which typically occurs on a summer evening
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • sun-dried tomato — tomato dried in the sun
  • sunrise industry — any of the high-technology industries, such as electronics, that hold promise of future development
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