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  • equal opportunity — policies that bar discrimination
  • esprit d'escalier — clever repartee one thinks of too late
  • exhibition centre — a large building in which major trade fairs are held
  • explicit function — a function whose values may be computed directly, as y = x2 + 1
  • false bread-fruit — ceriman.
  • far be it from me — I would not presume; on no account
  • farming community — a community where farming is the main industry
  • father substitute — a male who replaces an absent father and becomes an object of attachment.
  • feasibility study — (systems analysis)   Part of the systems develpment life cycle which aims to determine whether it is sensible to develop some system. The most popular model of feasibility study is "TELOS", standing for Technical, Economic, Legal, Operational, Schedule. Technical Feasibility: does the technology exist to implement the proposed system? Is it a practical proposition? Economic Feasibility: is the system cost-effective? Do benefits outweigh costs? Legal Feasibility: is there any conflict between the proposed system and legal requirements, e.g. the Data Protection Act? Operational Feasibility: are the current work practices and procedures adequate to support the new system? Schedule Feasibility: can the system be developed in time? After the feasibility study, the requirements analysis should be carried out.
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • find fault (with) — to seek and point out faults (of); complain (about); criticize
  • finite difference — difference (def 9c).
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • flight of capital — When people lose confidence in a particular economy or market and withdraw their investment from it, you can refer to a flight of capital from that economy or market.
  • florentine stitch — a straight stitch worked in a high and low relief pattern to form a variety of zigzag or oblique designs.
  • frostbite sailing — the sport of sailing in temperate latitudes during the winter despite cold weather.
  • galactic latitude — the angular distance from the galactic equator of a point on the celestial sphere.
  • genetic algorithm — (GA) An evolutionary algorithm which generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" or "genome". Chromosomes are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. "Crossover", the kind of recombination of chromosomes found in sexual reproduction in nature, is often also used in GAs. Here, an offspring's chromosome is created by joining segments choosen alternately from each of two parents' chromosomes which are of fixed length. GAs are useful for multidimensional optimisation problems in which the chromosome can encode the values for the different variables being optimised.
  • george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
  • get (right) on it — to begin doing a task (immediately)
  • get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
  • grapefruit league — a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).
  • great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
  • great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
  • guardian ad litem — a person appointed by a court as guardian of an infant or other person to act on his or her behalf in a particular action or proceeding.
  • haitian solenodon — a rare shrewlike nocturnal mammal of the Caribbean, Solenodon paradoxus, having a long hairless tail and an elongated snout: family Solenodontidae, order Insectivora (insectivores)
  • hanging committee — a group of people that selects and hangs works of art to exhibit
  • have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
  • have it in for sb — If someone has it in for you, they dislike you and try to cause problems for you.
  • hepatitis b virus — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • heritage industry — an industry that manages the historical sites, buildings, and museums in a particular place, with the aim of encouraging tourism
  • hermaphrodite rig — jackass rig.
  • heteronormativity — The view that all human beings are either male or female, both in sex and in gender, and that sexual and romantic thoughts and relations are normal only when between people of different sexes.
  • high-density disk — a computer storage disk capable of holding more than 720 kilobytes of data
  • higher arithmetic — arithmetic (def 2).
  • hit for the cycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
  • hit over the head — to strike on the head
  • hit the headlines — be prominently featured in the news
  • hollerith, herman — Herman Hollerith
  • homeland security — national defence
  • horatio kitchener — Horatio Herbert (1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome) 1850–1916, English field marshal and statesman.
  • hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
  • hospitality suite — a suite or room, as in a hotel or convention center, rented by a business firm, political candidate, or the like, to meet and entertain clients, potential customers, etc.
  • hydraulic circuit — a circuit through which water or another liquid, instead of electric current, flows, but which otherwise operates in the same way as an electric circuit
  • hyperconnectivity — Hyperconnectivity is the use of many systems and devices so that you are always connected to social networks and other sources of information.
  • hyperexcitability — an excessive reaction to stimuli.
  • hyperirritability — extreme irritability.
  • hyposensitization — The state or process of being reduced in sensitivity especially to an allergen.
  • icositetrahedrons — Plural form of icositetrahedron.
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