Words starting with a-l-k
Maybe these words will be useful:
- a-line dress — a dress that gradually becomes wider from top to bottom, similar to an A in shape
- a-life — Artificial Life
- a-line — (of a garment, esp a skirt or dress) flaring slightly from the waist or shoulders
- a-list — An A-list celebrity is a celebrity who is very famous indeed.
- a-language — (language) An early ALGOL-like surface syntax for Lisp.
- a-law — (standard) The ITU-T standard for nonuniform quantising logarithmic compression. The equation for A-law is | A | ------- (m/mp) |m/mp| =< 1/A | 1+ln A y = | | sgn(m) | ------ (1 + ln A|m/mp|) 1/A =< |m/mp| =< 1 | 1+ln A Values of u=100 and 255, A=87.6, mp is the Peak message value, m is the current quantised message value. (The formulae get simpler if you substitute x for m/mp and sgn(x) for sgn(m); then -1 <= x <= 1.) Converting from u-LAW to A-LAW introduces quantising errors. u-law is used in North America and Japan, and A-law is used in Europe and the rest of the world and international routes.
- a-road — In some countries, an A-road is a major road. A-roads are narrower than motorways but are wider and straighter than B-roads.
- a-arm — An A-arm is part of a vehicle's suspension that consists of two rods in the shape of a letter A.
- a-post — An A-post is part of the bodywork of a vehicle that supports the roof at the front corner of the passenger compartment next to the windshield.
- a-proposition — a universal affirmative proposition