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  • driver education — a course of study, as for high-school students, that teaches the techniques of driving a vehicle, along with basic vehicle maintenance, safety precautions, and traffic regulations and laws.
  • dry distillation — destructive distillation.
  • dual nationality — dual citizenship (def 1).
  • dual-nationality — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • dysfunctionality — (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
  • eager evaluation — Any evaluation strategy where evaluation of some or all function arguments is started before their value is required. A typical example is call-by-value, where all arguments are passed evaluated. The opposite of eager evaluation is call-by-need where evaluation of an argument is only started when it is required. The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaning to eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallel architectures whereas eager evaluation is used of both sequential and parallel evaluators. Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argument evaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively (all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may be done by the caller just before the function is entered. The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker <[email protected]> and used in their paper ["The Incremental Garbage Collection of Processes", Sigplan Notices, Aug 1977. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/Futures.html]. It was named after their "eager beaver" evaluator. See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation, strict evaluation.
  • easter communion — the act of receiving communion in church on Easter Day - considered special because of the primacy of Easter among Christian festivals and because many people regard taking Easter communion as a basic token of membership of their church
  • editorialization — The act of editorializing, or something editorialized.
  • educational park — a group of elementary and high schools, usually clustered in a parklike setting and having certain facilities shared by all grades, that often accommodates students from a large area.
  • electromigration — (physics) the transport of small particles under the influence of an electric charge.
  • electroreception — The detection by an aquatic animal of electric fields or currents.
  • electrostriction — the change in dimensions of a dielectric occurring as an elastic strain when an electric field is applied
  • elimination game — In sports, an elimination game is a game that decides which team or player will take part in the next stage of a particular competition.
  • emancipationists — Plural form of emancipationist.
  • embarkation card — an official document that allows travellers to leave a country by boarding a ship or plane
  • emotional labour — work that requires good interpersonal skills
  • equation of time — the difference between apparent solar time and mean solar time, being at a maximum in February (over 14 minutes) and November (over 16 minutes)
  • equational logic — (logic)   First-order equational logic consists of quantifier-free terms of ordinary first-order logic, with equality as the only predicate symbol. The model theory of this logic was developed into Universal algebra by Birkhoff et al. [Birkhoff, Gratzer, Cohn]. It was later made into a branch of category theory by Lawvere ("algebraic theories").
  • equidistribution — An equal distribution.
  • error correction — the automatic correction of errors in data that arise from missing or distorted digital pulses
  • evacuation route — An evacuation route is a way to get out of a building if there is an emergency, such as a fire.
  • event television — television programmes focusing on events that attract media attention and high ratings
  • examination room — the room designated for a particular examination to take place
  • exceptionalities — Plural form of exceptionality.
  • exclamation mark — (character)   The character "!" with ASCII code 33. Common names: bang; pling; excl (/eks'kl/); shriek; ITU-T: exclamation mark, exclamation point (US). Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; soldier; INTERCAL: spark-spot. The Commonwealth Hackish, "pling", is common among Acorn Archimedes owners. Bang is more common in the USA. The occasional CMU usage, "shriek", is also used by APL fans and mathematicians, especially category theorists. Exclamation mark is used in C and elsewhere as the logical negation operation (NOT).
  • exclusion clause — (in a contract) something that serves to limit liabilities
  • exemplifications — Plural form of exemplification.
  • exemption clause — a clause in a contract that exempts one party from liability for something
  • exhibition match — a sports match which is not part of a competition but instead serves the function of demonstrating the skills of the players
  • exhumation order — a legal instruction to exhume a body
  • expansion bottle — a tank collecting coolant from a radiator while an engine is heated, and from which the coolant returns to the radiator when the engine cools
  • experimentations — Plural form of experimentation.
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • expressionlessly — Without expression; in an expressionless way.
  • extension ladder — a ladder that can be made longer by pulling out an extra section
  • extradimensional — (jargon, science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.
  • face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
  • faction fighting — dissension
  • falsificationism — (epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
  • fashion business — the business dealing with style in clothes, cosmetics, behaviour, etc, esp the latest or most admired style
  • fashion designer — creator of clothing designs
  • fashion industry — the industry that deals with the world of fashion
  • fashion magazine — periodical about trendy clothing
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • feulgen reaction — a reaction in which an aldehyde combines with a modified Schiff's reagent to produce a purplish compound: used especially to test for the presence of DNA
  • fictionalisation — Alternative spelling of fictionalization.
  • fictionalization — to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of: to fictionalize a biography.
  • fifth-generation — denoting developments in computer design to produce machines with artificial intelligence
  • file composition — A typesetting language.
  • file compression — (algorithm)   The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements.
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