19-letter words containing gen
- agency spokesperson — a spokesperson for a government agency
- behavioral genetics — an interdisciplinary field studying the effects of genetics and hereditary factors on animal and human behavior.
- character generator — a device used in television studios to incorporate text or other symbols into the television screen image.
- comptroller general — the director of the General Accounting Office
- contingency reserve — a sum of money set aside for use in an emergency or to cover unforeseen expenses
- 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).
- 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.
- criminal negligence — negligence which is punishable under the law
- emergency telephone — a public telephone intended for use in emergencies: for example, at the side of a motorway
- gender reassignment — the alteration, by surgery and hormone treatments, of a person's physical sex characteristics to approximate those of the opposite sex: Born male, she now lives as a woman but has no plans for a sex change.
- general anaesthesia — the use of a general anaesthetic
- general anaesthetic — sth administered to induce unconsciousness
- general linguistics — the study of the characteristics of language in general rather than of a particular language; theoretical, rather than applied, linguistics.
- general of the army — the highest ranking military officer; the next rank above general.
- general partnership — a partnership in which each of the partners is fully liable for the firm's debts.
- general post office — (in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO.
- 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).
- generic programming — (programming) A programming technique which aims to make programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic programs are often quite rich in structure. For example they may be other programs, types or type constructors or even programming paradigms.
- genetic counselling — the provision of advice for couples with a history of inherited disorders who wish to have children, including the likelihood of having affected children and the course and management of the disorder, etc
- genetic engineering — the development and application of scientific methods, procedures, and technologies that permit direct manipulation of genetic material in order to alter the hereditary traits of a cell, organism, or population.
- genetic fingerprint — DNA fingerprinting.
- genetic programming — (programming) (GP) A programming technique which extends the genetic algorithm to the domain of whole computer programs. In GP, populations of programs are genetically bred to solve problems. Genetic programming can solve problems of system identification, classification, control, robotics, optimisation, game playing, and pattern recognition. Starting with a primordial ooze of hundreds or thousands of randomly created programs composed of functions and terminals appropriate to the problem, the population is progressively evolved over a series of generations by applying the operations of Darwinian fitness proportionate reproduction and crossover (sexual recombination).
- geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
- gentile da fabriano — 1370?–1427, Italian painter.
- gentleman-pensioner — (formerly) a gentleman-at-arms.
- go off at a tangent — If someone goes off at a tangent, they start saying or doing something that is not directly connected with what they were saying or doing before.
- go off on a tangent — If someone goes off on a tangent, they start saying or doing something that is not directly connected with what they were saying or doing before.
- hildegard of bingen — Hildegard von (Hildegard of Bingen"Sibyl of the Rhine") 1098–1178, German nun, healer, writer, and composer.
- intelligence agency — a government department charged with obtaining intelligence, or information, especially for use by the armed forces.
- intelligence office — intelligence agency.
- introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
- iphigenia in tauris — a drama (413? b.c.) by Euripides.
- mail transfer agent — Message Transfer Agent
- motor generator set — A motor generator set is an alternating current motor that is attached to a generator.
- new general catalog — a catalog of star clusters, galaxies, and other non-stellar objects, published in 1888
- outplacement agency — an agency that provides counselling and careers advice, esp to redundant executives, which is paid for by their previous employer
- parliamentary agent — (in Britain) a person who is employed to manage the parliamentary business of a private group
- parthenogenetically — development of an egg without fertilization.
- population genetics — the branch of genetics concerned with the hereditary makeup of populations.
- sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
- social intelligence — the ability to form rewarding relationships with other people
- sulfureted hydrogen — hydrogen sulfide.
- synthetic detergent — any synthetic substance, other than soap, that is an effective cleanser and functions equally well as a surface-active agent in hard or soft water.
- tangential-velocity — the component of the linear motion of a star with respect to the sun, measured along a line perpendicular to its line of sight and expressed in miles or kilometers per second.
- the genuine article — If you describe something as the genuine article, you are emphasizing that it is genuine, and often that it is very good.
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