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  • dominance hierarchy — a system or set of relationships in animal groups that is based on a hierarchical ranking, usually established and maintained by behavior in aggressive encounters: one or a few members hold the highest rank and the others are submissive to those ranking higher and dominant to those ranking lower.
  • drawing-room comedy — a light, sophisticated comedy typically set in a drawing room with characters drawn from polite society.
  • drill-down analysis — drill down
  • dynamic positioning — Dynamic positioning is the use of computers to control the position of a semi-submersible rig.
  • dynamic translation — (architecture)   A virtual machine implementation approach, used to speed up execution of byte-code programs. To execute a program unit such as a method or a function, the virtual machine compiles its bytecodes into (hardware) machine code. The translated code is also placed in a cache, so that next time that unit's machine code can be executed immediately, without repeating the translation. This technique was pioneered by the commercial Smalltalk implementation currently known as VisualWorks, in the early 1980s. Currently it is also used by some implementations of the Java Virtual Machine under the name JIT (Just In Time compilation).
  • dynatron oscillator — type of oscillator
  • electrohydrodynamic — (physics) Of or pertaining to electrohydrodynamics.
  • electromagnetically — By means of electromagnetism.
  • electromechanically — In an electromechanical way.
  • electronic keyboard — a typewriter keyboard used to operate an electronic device such as a computer, word processor, etc
  • elementary particle — any of several entities, such as electrons, neutrons, or protons, that are less complex than atoms and are regarded as the constituents of all matter
  • employment tribunal — (in England, Scotland, and Wales) a tribunal that rules on disputes between employers and employees regarding unfair dismissal, redundancy, etc
  • enabling technology — technology that enables the user to perform a task or to improve his or her overall performance: e.g. the internet
  • energy conservation — concerted formal or government action or policy to make sure that energy is not wasted
  • engineering factory — a factory where engineering products are made
  • english toy spaniel — breed of dog
  • entry qualification — the qualifications and conditions required to join an organization, club, etc
  • environmental lobby — a group of people who promote environmental issues to government, the public, and business
  • evaluation strategy — reduction strategy
  • exhibitionistically — In an exhibitionistic manner.
  • expeditionary force — An expeditionary force is a group of soldiers who are sent to fight in a foreign country.
  • expressionistically — In an expressionistic manner.
  • fallacy of division — the fallacy of inferring that a property of the whole is also a property of parts or members of the whole (opposed to fallacy of composition).
  • family practitioner — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
  • fault tree analysis — (programming)   A form of safety analysis that assesses hardware safety to provide failure statistics and sensitivity analyses that indicate the possible effect of critical failures.
  • february revolution — Russian Revolution (def 1).
  • february-revolution — Also called February Revolution. the uprising in Russia in March, 1917 (February Old Style), in which the Czarist government collapsed and a provisional government was established.
  • fertility treatment — the application of any of various methods or procedures to a woman or man to increase the woman's chances of conceiving a baby
  • feynman, richard p. — Richard P. Feynman
  • finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
  • flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
  • forensic psychiatry — the use of psychiatric knowledge and techniques in questions of law, as in determining legal insanity.
  • fractional currency — coins or paper money of a smaller denomination than the basic monetary unit.
  • free alongside quay — (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the quay without charge to the buyer
  • functional analysis — the branch of mathematics that deals with the theory of vector spaces and linear functionals.
  • functional currency — Functional currency is the main currency used by a business.
  • generic array logic — (hardware, integrated circuit)   (GAL) A newer kind of Programmable Array Logic based on EEPROM storage cells, been pioneered by Lattice. GALs can be erased and reprogrammed and usually replace a whole set of different PALs (hence the name).
  • glyceryl trinitrate — nitroglycerin.
  • goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
  • green mountain boys — the members of the armed bands of Vermont organized in 1770 to oppose New York's territorial claims. Under Ethan Allen they won fame in the War of American Independence
  • hairdryer treatment — (esp in sport) the practice of shouting at someone at close quarters in order to express one's displeasure at something he or she has done
  • have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • heart in your mouth — If your heart is in your mouth, you feel very excited, worried, or frightened.
  • henry david thoreau — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • henry the navigator — Prince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
  • heptachlorobiphenyl — (organic compound) Either of twenty-four isomers of the polychlorinated biphenyl containing seven chlorine atoms.
  • high-bush cranberry — cranberry bush
  • highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
  • holiday entitlement — the number of days of paid holiday in a year that a worker is entitled to take
  • holy innocents' day — December 28, a day of religious observance commemorating the slaughter of the children of Bethlehem by Herod's order.
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