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- nonprescription — (of drugs, medication, etc.) legally available for purchase without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter.
- nonsolicitation — Being or pertaining to a particular kind of noncompetition agreement that forbids a former employee from attempting to recruit the employer's colleagues or customers.
- north arlington — a city in NE New Jersey.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- objectification — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- oblique section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane that is other than parallel or perpendicular to its longest axis.
- odd permutation — a permutation of a set of n elements, x 1 , x 2 , …, xn, which permutes the product of all differences of the form (xi – xj), where i is less than j, into the negative of the product.
- old age pension — An old age pension is a regular amount of money that people receive from the government when they have retired from work.
- oligomerisation — Alternative spelling of oligomerization.
- oligomerization — (chemistry) The formation of an oligomer from a monomer.
- omnibus edition — a television or radio programme consisting of two or more programmes broadcast earlier in the week
- on prescription — If a medicine is available on prescription, you can only get it from a chemist or pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it.
- open convention — a party convention at which delegates are free to vote for the candidate of their choice.
- over-correction — correction beyond what is needed or customary, especially when leading to error; overadjustment: The pilot made an overcorrection for headwinds.
- over-distention — the act of distending or the state of being distended.
- over-estimation — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- over-extraction — an act or instance of extracting: the extraction of a molar.
- over-irrigation — the artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.
- over-population — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- over-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- overapplication — excessive application
- overconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
- overcultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- overexpectation — excessive expectation
- overpreparation — the act or instance of preparing excessively
- overspeculation — the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- overstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- overutilization — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
- ozone depletion — harmful effects to the ozone layer
- pair production — Physics. the simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle by a nucleus or particle in an excited state, as when a photon is absorbed.
- paleoencephalon — paleencephalon.
- panzer division — an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.
- parallel motion — a mechanism arranged so as to impart rectilinear motion to a rod connected to a lever that moves through an arc.
- parametrization — a parametric representation; the act of representing as or defining parameters
- pastoralization — to make pastoral or rural.
- peak production — the maximum production
- pentium ii xeon — (processor) The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- period-rotation — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.
- periodic motion — any motion that recurs in identical forms at equal intervals of time.
- personalization — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
- phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
- phoneticization — the representation of speech in writing using a system in which individual symbols reflect speech sounds in a regular manner
- phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
- photo-secession — an association of photographers founded in New York City in 1902 by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen that advocated the development and public recognition of photography as a fine art.
- photoactivation — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- photoconduction — of, relating to, or exhibiting photoconductivity.
- photoexcitation — the creation of an increase in energy in atoms, molecules or ions caused by the absorption of a photon
- photoionization — the phenomenon in which the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by an atom in a gas induces the atom to emit a bound electron and thereby become ionized.