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  • argonne forest — a wooded region in NE France: battles, World War I, 1918; World War II, 1944.
  • argumentations — Plural form of argumentation.
  • arkansas stone — a type of stone used as a whetstone for metal objects, especially knives.
  • arrondissement — the largest administrative subdivision of a department
  • art collection — a collection of art works
  • art exhibition — an exhibition of works of art such as pictures
  • arthroconidium — A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
  • assassinations — Plural form of assassination.
  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • assemblyperson — a member of a legislative assembly, especially a member of the lower house of the legislature in certain states of the U.S.
  • assert oneself — to insist on one's rights, or on being recognized
  • associationism — a theory that all mental activity is based on connections between basic mental events, such as sensations and feelings
  • associationist — a person who is a member of a group or organization
  • astronavigator — One who performs astronavigation; an astronaut or space pilot.
  • astronomically — of, relating to, or connected with astronomy.
  • asynchronicity — (uncountable) The state of being asynchronous.
  • asynchronistic — Not synchronistic.
  • asynchronously — In an asynchronous manner.
  • at one's elbow — within easy reach
  • at one's heels — just behind or following closely
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • at one's peril — If you say that someone does something at their peril, you are warning them that they will probably suffer as a result of doing it.
  • at one's worst — When someone is at their worst, they are as unpleasant, bad, or unsuccessful as it is possible for them to be.
  • at second hand — If you experience something at second hand, you are told about it by other people rather than experiencing it yourself.
  • attention line — a line of text after the address on a piece of correspondence, directing it to a particular person or department.
  • attention span — the period of time during which someone's attention is held by something in particular
  • attrition rate — the rate at which customers or subscribers switch from one supplier to another
  • auction bridge — a variety of bridge, now generally superseded by contract bridge, in which all the tricks made score towards the game
  • audio response — a computer response that is audible rather than textual or graphical
  • auger-electron — a nonradiative process in which an atom in an excited state undergoes a transition to a lower state by the emission of a bound electron (Auger electron) rather than by the emission of an x-ray.
  • authentication — to establish as genuine.
  • authorisations — Plural form of authorisation.
  • authorizations — Plural form of authorization.
  • autoactivation — (biochemistry) autocatalysis.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • autoionization — the process in which spontaneous decay of excited atoms or molecules results in emission of electrons, rather than photons
  • automatization — to make automatic.
  • autoregression — (mathematics) An autoregressive process that is used to model many types of natural behaviour.
  • autoregulation — the continual automatic adjustment or self-regulation of a biochemical, physiological, or ecological system to maintain a stable state.
  • autoresponders — Plural form of autoresponder.
  • autosuggestion — a process of suggestion in which the person unconsciously supplies or consciously attempts to supply the means of influencing his own behaviour or beliefs
  • auxiliary tone — a melodic ornamental tone following a principal tone by a step above or below and returning to the principal tone; embellishment.
  • aviation badge — wings.
  • aviation cadet — one who trains to become an officer in an air force.
  • aviation-badge — Also called aviation badge. Military Informal. a badge bearing the image of a spread pair of bird's wings with a distinctive center design, awarded to an aircrewman on completion of certain requirements.
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • axial skeleton — the bones that together comprise the skull and the vertebral column
  • axiomatisation — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • axiomatization — the process of reducing down to a system of basic truths, or axioms
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
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