19-letter words containing en
- concertina movement — a principle of table construction in which hinged sections of the frame, ordinarily folded inward out of sight, can be pulled into line with the parts of the frame ordinarily seen to permit the addition of leaves.
- concurrentsmalltalk — (language) A concurrent variant of Smalltalk.
- confidence interval — an interval of values bounded by confidence limits within which the true value of a population parameter is stated to lie with a specified probability
- connection-oriented — (networking) (Or connection-based, stream-oriented). A type of transport layer data communication service that allows a host to send data in a continuous stream to another host. The transport service will guarantee that all data will be delivered to the other end in the same order as sent and without duplication. Communication proceeds through three well-defined phases: connection establishment, data transfer, connection release. The most common example is Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), another is ATM. The network nodes at either end needs to inform all intermediate nodes about their service requirements and traffic parameters in order to establish communication. Opposite of connectionless, datagram. See also circuit switching, packet switching, virtual circuit.
- conscience-stricken — feeling anxious or guilty
- consultant engineer — an engineer who works as a consultant to a project or company
- consumer confidence — If there is consumer confidence, people generally are willing to spend money and buy things.
- continental climate — a climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent
- continental cuisine — a style of cooking that includes the better-known dishes of various western European countries.
- continental glacier — a glacier that spreads out from a central mass
- continental seating — a theater seating plan in which there is no center aisle, but with wide spacing between each row of seats to allow for ease of passage.
- contingency reserve — a sum of money set aside for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- conventional memory — (storage) The first 640 kilobytes of an IBM PC's memory. Prior to EMS, XMS, and HMA, real mode application could use only this part of the memory.
- conventional weapon — a nonnuclear weapon.
- conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
- conventionalization — to make conventional.
- convergent boundary — a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.
- convergent sequence — fundamental sequence.
- convergent thinking — analytical, usually deductive, thinking in which ideas are examined for their logical validity or in which a set of rules is followed, e.g. in arithmetic
- convergent-sequence — an infinite sequence, x 1 , x 2 , …, whose terms are points in Ek, in which there exists a point y such that the limit as n goes to infinity of xn = y if and only if for every ε>0, there exists a number N such that i > N and j > N implies | xi − xj |< ε. Also called Cauchy sequence, convergent sequence. Compare complete (def 10b).
- cooccurrence matrix — (mathematics) Given a position operator P(i,j), let A be a nxn matrix whose element A[i][j] is the number of times that points with grey level (intensity) g[i] occur, in the position specified by P, relative to points with grey level g[j]. Let C be the nxn matrix that is produced by dividing A with the total number of point pairs that satisfy P. C[i][j] is a measure of the joint probability that a pair of points satisfying P will have values g[i], g[j]. C is called a cooccurrence matrix defined by P. Examples for the operator P are: "i above j", "i one position to the right and two below j", etc.
- cordillera oriental — the eastern ranges of the Andes, in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.
- corporal punishment — Corporal punishment is the punishment of people by hitting them.
- corporate venturing — the provision of venture capital by one company for another in order to obtain information about the company requiring capital or as a step towards acquiring it
- correspondence card — a piece of card, often with the sender's name and address printed on the top, designed to be used for sending brief notes to people through the post
- counterinsurgencies — Plural form of counterinsurgency.
- counterintelligence — Counterintelligence consists of actions that a country takes in order to find out whether another country is spying on it and to prevent it from doing so.
- countertransference — in psychotherapy, transference in which the psychoanalyst or other psychotherapist substitutes the client for the original object of his or her own repressed impulses
- course requirements — the qualifications that are required for acceptance onto a degree course
- court correspondent — (in Britain) a journalist who covers stories about the royal family
- creative department — the department of a company or organization responsible for the design and creation of advertisements and marketing materials
- creeping bent grass — a grass, Agrostis stolonifera, grown as a pasture grass in Europe and North America: roots readily from the stem
- criminal negligence — negligence which is punishable under the law
- crown green bowling — (in Britain) bowls played on a crown green
- cumulative evidence — additional evidence reinforcing testimony previously given
- current expenditure — expenditure taking place within the financial year in question
- current liabilities — business liabilities maturing within a year
- current transformer — A current transformer is a transformer that is designed to give an accurate current ratio for the purpose of measurement and control.
- customer experience — Customer experience is what customers feel while shopping, affected by such factors as how a store is laid out, the level of service they receive, and how easy it is to find products.
- customer preference — Customer preference is what type of product an individual customer likes and dislikes.
- cyclohexadienedione — (organic chemistry) benzoquinone.
- dance attendance on — to be always near so as to wait on, lavish attention on, etc.
- data driven machine — (language) (DDM) A dataflow language.
- data encryption key — (DEK) Used for the encryption of message text and for the computation of message integrity checks (signatures). See cryptography.
- database management — the maintenance of information stored in a computer system
- de-compartmentalize — to divide into categories or compartments.
- defence expenditure — the amount that a country spends on military measures or resources
- deficiency judgment — a judgment in favor of a mortgagee for the remainder of a debt not completely cleared by foreclosure and sale of the mortgaged property
- dendrochronological — Pertaining to dendrochronology.
- dendrogeomorphology — (geology) the science that uses dendrochronology to study changes to the Earth's surface over time.