25-letter words containing ta
- on the understanding that — with the condition that; providing
- personal flotation device — a life preserver, life jacket, or other device for keeping a person afloat in the water. Abbreviation: PFD.
- pick/take up the gauntlet — If you pick up the gauntlet or take up the gauntlet, you accept the challenge that someone has made.
- portable network graphics — (file format) /ping/ (PNG) An extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. Indexed-colour, greyscale and truecolour images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits. PNG is designed for on-line viewing applications, such as the World Wide Web, so it is fully streamable with a progressive display option. PNG is robust, providing both full file integrity checking and simple detection of common transmission errors. Also, PNG can store gamma correction and chromaticity data for improved colour matching on heterogeneous platforms.
- positional representation — (mathematics) The conventional way of writing numbers as a string of digits in which each digit, D, has value D * R^I, where R is the radix or (number) base and I is the digit's position counting leftward from zero at the least significant (right-hand) end. Each digit can be zero to R-1. Each position has a weight or significance R times greater than the position to its right and the right-most place has a weight of one. Decimal numbers are radix ten, binary numbers are radix two, octal radix eight and hexadecimal radix 16. Positional representation makes arithmetic operations on large numbers much easier than, say, roman numerals. It is fundamental to the binary representation used by digital computers.
- potassium sodium tartrate — a colorless or white, water-soluble solid, KNaC 4 H 4 O 6 ⋅4H 2 O, used in silvering mirrors, in the manufacture of Seidlitz powders and baking powder, and in medicine as a laxative.
- profit and loss statement — A profit and loss statement is a statement that is compiled at the end of a financial year showing that year's revenue and expense items and indicating gross and net profit or loss.
- programmed data processor — (computer) (PDP) Early (1960's?) Digital Equipment Corporation family of minicomputers. The best known ranges were the PDP-10 and PDP-11. PAL was the assembly language.
- regimental sergeant major — the senior Warrant Officer I in a British or Commonwealth regiment or battalion, responsible under the adjutant for all aspects of duty and discipline of the warrant officers, NCOs, and men
- registered representative — an employee of a member firm of a stock exchange, authorized to execute orders for the clients of the firm.
- rehabilitation department — a government department set up after World War II to assist ex-servicemen
- representative government — a person or thing that represents another or others.
- rotational quantum number — the quantum number that distinguishes the angular momentum states associated with the rotational motion of a molecule.
- sitting and standing room — places designated both for sitting and standing (customers), as in a concert hall, etc
- spark annotation language — (language) (SAL) ICL, Ltd. Used in the verification of SPARK programs against Z specifications.
- stand in a person's light — to stand so as to obscure a person's vision
- standard ml of new jersey — (SML/NJ) An implementation of SML by Andrew Appel at Princeton <[email protected]> and Dave MacQueen at AT&T. Version 0.93. Versions for Unix, Mac. ftp://cs.yale.edu/pub/ml, ftp://research.att.com/dist/ml. Mailing list: [email protected]
- state services commission — (in New Zealand) a government-appointed body in charge of the public service
- statement savings account — a savings account in which transactions are confirmed periodically by a bank statement.
- statistically independent — (of events or values) having the probability of their joint occurrence equal to the product of their individual probabilities.
- take advantage of someone — If someone takes advantage of you, they treat you unfairly for their own benefit, especially when you are trying to be kind or to help them.
- take sth under advisement — If someone in authority takes a matter under advisement, they decide that the matter needs to be considered more carefully, often by experts.
- take the queen's shilling — to enlist in the army
- take the sting out of sth — If something takes the sting out of a situation, it makes it less unpleasant.
- take up the cudgels (for) — to come to the defense (of)
- tetragonal trisoctahedron — Geometry. a trisoctahedron the faces of which are quadrilaterals; trapezohedron.
- thank one's (lucky) stars — to be thankful for what appears to be good luck
- the empire state building — a very high skyscraper in New York City
- the protestant work ethic — a belief in the moral value of work, associated with Protestant Christianity
- to take something as read — If you take something as read, you accept it as true or right and therefore feel that it does not need to be discussed or proved.
- to thank your lucky stars — If you say that someone should thank their lucky stars that something is the case, you mean that they should be very grateful that it is the case, because otherwise their situation would be a lot worse.
- total internal reflection — the effect that occurs when light meets the interface between the medium in which it is traveling and a medium of smaller refractive index at an angle of incidence greater than the critical angle, all light being reflected back to the first medium.
- trading standards officer — a person who works for a trading standards office
- transcendental meditation — a technique, based on ancient Hindu writings, by which one seeks to achieve a relaxed state through regular periods of meditation during which a mantra is repeated. Abbreviation: TM.
- transcendental-philosophy — transcendental character, thought, or language.
- transient ischemic attack — a brief vascular spasm in which a partially blocked artery impedes blood flow to the brain, resulting in symptoms such as impaired vision, dizziness, numbness, or unconsciousness. Abbreviation: TIA.
- uniform resource citation — (web) (URC) A set of attribute/value pairs describing an object. Some of the values may be URIs of various kinds. Others may include, for example, athorship, publisher, datatype, date, copyright status and shoe size. A URC is not normally considered as a string, but a set of fields and values with some defined free formatting.