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  • device control — (character)   One of the four ASCII characters, DC1, DC2, DC3, and DC4, once used to remotely control equipment (e.g. a paper tape reader) via electromagnetic switches. The characters were usually paired, DC1/DC3 turning one device on/off, and DC2/DC4 another.
  • dialect survey — a survey carried out in order to ascertain which dialect forms are used in which area
  • diverticulated — having diverticula
  • diverticulitis — inflammation of one or more diverticula, characterized by abdominal pain, fever, and changes in bowel movements.
  • diverticulosis — the presence of saclike herniations of the mucosal layer of the colon through the muscular wall, common among older persons and usually producing no symptoms except occasional rectal bleeding.
  • do violence to — to inflict harm upon; damage or violate
  • elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • extravehicular — Of or relating to an activity performed in space outside a spacecraft.
  • gastric lavage — the washing out of the stomach; lavage.
  • gothic revival — a Gothic style of architecture popular between the late 18th and late 19th centuries, exemplified by the Houses of Parliament in London (1840)
  • group velocity — the velocity of finite numbers of waves undergoing simple harmonic motion, equal to the phase velocity when it does not vary with the wavelengths of the waves. The group velocity of the set of waves produced in water when a stone is dropped is less than the velocity of the individual waves.
  • health service — system of medical care
  • hemipelvectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
  • inconveniently — not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
  • insusceptively — in an insusceptive manner
  • integral curve — a curve that is a geometric representation of a functional solution to a given differential equation.
  • interval scale — a scale of measurement of data according to which the differences between values can be quantified in absolute but not relative terms and for which any zero is merely arbitrary: for instance, dates are measured on an interval scale since differences can be measured in years, but no sense can be given to a ratio of times
  • irrespectively — without regard to something else, especially something specified; ignoring or discounting (usually followed by of): Irrespective of my wishes, I should go.
  • irrevocability — not to be revoked or recalled; unable to be repealed or annulled; unalterable: an irrevocable decree.
  • italian clover — crimson clover.
  • juvenile court — a law court having jurisdiction over youths, generally of less than 18 years.
  • liver chestnut — chestnut (def 9).
  • living picture — tableau (def 3).
  • logistic curve — a curve, shaped like a letter S , defined as an exponential function and used to model various forms of growth.
  • macroevolution — major evolutionary transition from one type of organism to another occurring at the level of the species and higher taxa.
  • microevolution — evolutionary change involving the gradual accumulation of mutations leading to new varieties within a species.
  • multiplicative — tending to multiply or increase.
  • music festival — a festival, often an annual event, at which a lot of different performers play
  • non-collective — formed by collection.
  • non-cultivable — capable of being cultivated.
  • non-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • non-reflective — not capable of or not designed to reflect light
  • noncausatively — In a noncausative manner.
  • nonconvertible — Not convertible; that cannot be exchanged for an equivalent.
  • noncorrelative — Not correlative.
  • nondeclarative — serving to declare, make known, or explain: a declarative statement.
  • nonspeculative — not speculative
  • novelistically — In a novelistic way.
  • objective caml — (language)   (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML [in what sense?]. It has first-class functions, static type inference with polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and product types, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary run-time system. The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the Yacc parser generator, pretty-printing tools, high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a complete library. in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new implementation called CAML Light, freeing the previous implementation from too many experimental high-level features, and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end. Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to Objective CAML. In 2000, Jacques Garrigue added labeled and optional arguments and anonymous variants.
  • objective lens — objective (def 3).
  • objective-lens — something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
  • overallocation — Excess allocation.
  • overanalytical — too analytical
  • overcapitalize — to fix the total amount of securities of a corporation in excess of the limits set by law or by sound financial policy.
  • overcautiously — in such a way as to be too cautious, wary, or careful
  • overcentralize — to centralize excessively
  • overcomplicate — to make complex, intricate, involved, or difficult: His recovery from the operation was complicated by an allergic reaction.
  • overparticular — precise beyond necessity
  • oversolicitous — too solicitous: oversolicitous concerning one's health.
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