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19-letter words containing nc

  • functional database — (database, language)   A database which uses a functional language as its query language. Databases would seem to be an inappropriate application for functional languages since, a purely functional language would have to return a new copy of the entire database every time (part of) it was updated. To be practically scalable, the update mechanism must clearly be destructive rather than functional; however it is quite feasible for the query language to be purely functional so long as the database is considered as an argument. One approach to the update problem would use a monad to encapsulate database access and ensure it was single threaded. Alternative approaches have been suggested by Trinder, who suggests non-destructive updating with shared data structures, and Sutton who uses a variant of a Phil Wadler's linear type system. There are two main classes of functional database languages. The first is based upon Backus' FP language, of which FQL is probably the best known example. Adaplan is a more recent language which falls into this category. More recently, people have been working on languages which are syntactically very similar to modern functional programming languages, but which also provide all of the features of a database language, e.g. bulk data structures which can be incrementally updated, type systems which can be incrementally updated, and all data persisting in a database. Examples are PFL [Poulovassilis&Small, VLDB-91], and Machiavelli [Ohori et al, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998].
  • functional language — (language)   A language that supports and encourages functional programming.
  • functional medicine — individualized medical care that recognizes the interactions between genetic and environmental factors and between the body's interconnected systems.
  • geneva nomenclature — an internationally accepted system for naming organic carbon compounds.
  • governing principle — a fundamental moral rule that guides and influences how something is done
  • grievance committee — a group of representatives chosen from a labor union or from both labor and management to consider and remedy workers' grievances.
  • grievance procedure — the established series of steps to be taken in dealing with a grievance raised with an employer by an employee
  • guerrilla financing — the use of unconventional and marginally legal means to capitalize enterprises
  • hang in the balance — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • helsinki conference — Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
  • hester lynch piozzi — Hester Lynch (Hester Lynch Piozzi) 1741–1821, Welsh writer and friend of Samuel Johnson.
  • highland clearances — in Scotland, the removal, often by force, of the people from some parts of the Highlands to make way for sheep, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • horizontal encoding — (processor)   An instruction set where each field (a bit or group of bits) in an instruction word controls some functional unit or gate directly, as opposed to vertical encoding where instruction fields are decoded (by hard-wired logic or microcode) to produce the control signals. Horizontal encoding allows all possible combinations of control signals (and therefore operations) to be expressed as instructions whereas vertical encoding uses a shorter instruction word but can only encode those combinations of operations built into the decoding logic. An instruction set may use a mixture of horizontal and vertical encoding within each instruction. Because an architecture using horizontal encoding typically requires more instruction word bits it is sometimes known as a very long instruction word (VLIW) architecture.
  • house of councilors — the upper house of the Japanese diet.
  • household insurance — an arrangement in which you pay money to a company, and they pay money to you if your household goods are stolen or damaged
  • hydrostatic balance — a balance for finding the weight of an object submerged in water in order to determine the upthrust on it and thus determine its relative density
  • hyperbolic function — a function of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances from a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes, as hyperbolic sine or hyperbolic cosine: often expressed as combinations of exponential functions.
  • hyperfocal distance — the distance, at a given f number, between a camera lens and the nearest point (hyperfocal point) having satisfactory definition when focused at infinity.
  • imperial preference — a proposed system whereby free trade and levelled tariffs would exist between nations belonging to the British Commonwealth, in order to increase the prosperity of and unity between these nation
  • imperial presidency — a U.S. presidency that is characterized by greater power than the Constitution allows.
  • in (all) conscience — in fairness; on any reasonable ground
  • in conjunction with — together with, in association with
  • in consequence (of) — as a result (of)
  • incidental expenses — costs outside those budgeted
  • incommensurableness — (rare) Incommensurability.
  • incomplete abortion — a miscarriage in which some fetal or placental tissue remains in the uterus.
  • incomplete fracture — a fracture extending partly across the bone.
  • incomprehensibility — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • incomprehensiveness — The condition of being incomprehensive.
  • inconsequentialness — The quality or state of being inconsequential.
  • incontrovertibility — The state or characteristic of being incontrovertible, of not being debatable; incontestability.
  • incremental plotter — a device that plots graphs on paper from computer-generated instructions
  • indemnity insurance — insurance covering against damage or loss
  • inductive inference — grammatical inference
  • inductive reactance — the opposition of inductance to alternating current, equal to the product of the angular frequency of the current times the self-inductance. Symbol: X L.
  • information science — the study of the nature, collection, and management of information and of its uses, especially involving computer storage and retrievals.
  • intelligence agency — a government department charged with obtaining intelligence, or information, especially for use by the armed forces.
  • intelligence office — intelligence agency.
  • internal resistance — the resistance within a battery, or other voltage source, that causes a drop in the source voltage when there is a current.
  • internuncial neuron — interneuron
  • introduction agency — a company whose business is to match romantic partners for a fee
  • judicial conference — a conference of judges held to discuss improvements in methods or judicial procedure through court rules or otherwise.
  • jump to conclusions — to come to a conclusion prematurely, without sufficient thought or on incomplete evidence
  • junction transistor — a bipolar transistor consisting of two p-n junctions combined to form either an n-p-n or a p-n-p transistor, having the three electrodes, the emitter, base, and collector
  • keep one's distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
  • keep up appearances — If you keep up appearances, you try to behave and dress in a way that people expect of you, even if you can no longer afford it.
  • king's remembrancer — (in Great Britain) a judiciary official who collects debts owed to the king.
  • lagrangian function — kinetic potential.
  • land of enchantment — New Mexico (used as a nickname).
  • legislative council — the upper house of a bicameral legislature.
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