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  • rectilinearity — the state or quality of being rectilinear
  • recursive type — A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in Haskell: data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a) which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list (the "tail"). Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following Haskell types are illegal: type Bad = (Int, Bad) type Evil = Bool -> Evil whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
  • referentiality — the quality or state of being referential or containing references
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • refund annuity — an annuity providing for a lump-sum payment or installment payments to the beneficiary for the amount remaining of the purchase price at the death of the annuitant.
  • registrability — a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
  • relocatability — constructed so as to be movable; portable, prefabricated, or modular: relocatable classroom units.
  • rental library — lending library.
  • replaceability — to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing): Electricity has replaced gas in lighting.
  • repressibility — the quality or condition of being repressible
  • respectability — the state or quality of being respectable.
  • responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
  • retirement pay — a pension; the pay a retired person gets
  • retractability — to withdraw (a statement, opinion, etc.) as inaccurate or unjustified, especially formally or explicitly; take back.
  • retrievability — to recover or regain: to retrieve the stray ball.
  • rhythm section — band instruments, as drums or bass, that supply rhythm rather than harmony or melody.
  • richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
  • road stability — the extent to which a motor vehicle is stable and does not skid, esp at high speeds, or on sharp bends or wet roads
  • rocking rhythm — a rhythmic pattern created by a succession of metrical feet each of which consists of one accented syllable between two unaccented ones.
  • root directory — (file system)   The topmost node of a hierarchical file system.
  • rotary printer — a machine for printing from a revolving cylinder, or a plate attached to one, usually onto a continuous strip of paper
  • routing policy — (networking)   Rules implemented on a router or other network device to select routes from peers, customers, and upstream providers; select and modify routes you send to peers, customers and upstream providers and identify routes within your own Autonomous System.
  • rsa encryption — (cryptography, algorithm)   A public-key cryptosystem for both encryption and authentication, invented in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. Its name comes from their initials. The RSA algorithm works as follows. Take two large prime numbers, p and q, and find their product n = pq; n is called the modulus. Choose a number, e, less than n and relatively prime to (p-1)(q-1), and find its reciprocal mod (p-1)(q-1), and call this d. Thus ed = 1 mod (p-1)(q-1); e and d are called the public and private exponents, respectively. The public key is the pair (n, e); the private key is d. The factors p and q must be kept secret, or destroyed. It is difficult (presumably) to obtain the private key d from the public key (n, e). If one could factor n into p and q, however, then one could obtain the private key d. Thus the entire security of RSA depends on the difficulty of factoring; an easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers would break RSA.
  • ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
  • running myrtle — the periwinkle, Vinca minor.
  • sacramentality — of, relating to, or of the nature of a sacrament, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist.
  • sacred history — history that is retold with the aim of instilling religious faith and which may or may not be founded on fact
  • safety circuit — a type of electronic circuit that prevents malfunction by stopping the flow of current or sounding an alert.
  • safety curtain — a sheet of asbestos or other fireproof material that can be lowered just inside the proscenium arch in case of fire, sealing off the backstage area from the auditorium.
  • safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
  • salvation army — an international Christian organization founded in England in 1865 by William Booth, organized along quasi-military lines and devoted chiefly to evangelism and to providing social services, especially to the poor.
  • sanitary towel — sanitary napkin.
  • satisfactorily — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
  • sauropterygian — any of various Mesozoic marine reptiles of the superorder Sauropterygia, including the suborder Plesiosauria.
  • scarcity value — increased value due to the inadequate supply of something
  • scrutinizingly — in a scrutinizing manner
  • secret history — a version of historical events which differs from the official or commonly accepted record and purports to be the true version
  • secret society — an organization, as a fraternal society, the members of which take secret initiation oaths, share secret passwords and rites, and are bound to assist each other.
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • security check — the process of checking that a person is not armed, or carrying something dangerous
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • security video — a video recording taken by a security camera
  • seniority rule — the custom in Congress providing for the assignment of a committee chairpersonship to that member of the majority party who has served on the committee the longest.
  • seronegativity — the quality or state of being seronegative
  • seropositivity — the quality or state of being seropositive
  • serpentiningly — in a winding or sinuous manner
  • serviceability — capable of or being of service; useful.
  • shirley temple — Shirley (Shirley Temple Black) 1928–2014, U.S. film actress, famous for child roles during the 1930s, and diplomat.
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