16-letter words containing inte
- reinterpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
- riemann integral — integral (def 8a).
- run interference — an act, fact, or instance of interfering.
- second intention — See under intention (def 5b).
- self-integrating — to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole.
- self-integration — an act or instance of combining into an integral whole.
- self-maintenance — the act of maintaining: the maintenance of proper oral hygiene.
- special interest — special-interest group (def 1).
- surface integral — the limit, as the norm of the partition of a given surface into sections of area approaches zero, of the sum of the product of the areas times the value of a given function of three variables at some point on each section.
- visual interface — (tool, text) (vi) /V-I/, /vi:/, *never* /siks/ A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release. vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favourite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984. It tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (one correspondent accordingly reports that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/). Nevertheless it is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even some Emacs fans resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of Emacs). See holy wars.
- weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.
- well-intentioned — well-meaning.
- winter crookneck — any of several winter varieties of squash, Cucurbita moschata, having elongated, curved necks.
- zone of interior — the part of a theater of war not included in the theater of operations.