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- advance ratio — the ratio of wind speed along the axis of a rotor or propeller to the speed of the blade tip
- advantage gen — (language, software) A CASE tool for rapid application development which generates code from graphical business process models. Formerly called Information Engineering Facility (IEF) and produced by Texas Instruments, it was then bought by Sterling Software, Inc. who renamed it to COOL:Gen to fit into their COOL line of products. Computer Associates International, Inc. then acquired Sterling Software, Inc., and renamed the tool "Advantage Gen". In 2003, CA are supporting Advantage Gen and adding support for J2EE/EJB, enhanced web enablement, Web services and .Net.
- advantageable — being of advantage; advantageous
- advection fog — fog caused by the movement of warm, moist air over a cold surface.
- advent sunday — the first of the four Sundays of Advent, and the one that falls nearest to November 30
- adventuresome — Adventuresome means the same as adventurous.
- adventuresses — Plural form of adventuress.
- adventuristic — relating to adventurism
- adventurously — inclined or willing to engage in adventures; enjoying adventures.
- adverb clause — a subordinate clause that functions as an adverb within a main clause.
- adverb phrase — An adverb phrase or adverbial phrase is a group of words based on an adverb, such as 'very slowly' or 'fortunately for us.' An adverb phrase can also consist simply of an adverb.
- adversarially — In an adversarial way.
- adversariness — the state of being adversarial
- adversatively — in an adversative manner
- advertisement — An advertisement is an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about something such as a product, event, or job.
- advertizement — a paid announcement, as of goods for sale, in newspapers or magazines, on radio or television, etc.
- advice column — In a newspaper or magazine, the advice column contains letters from readers about their personal problems, and advice on what to do about them.
- advisableness — The state or quality of being advisable.
- advising bank — a bank that advises the intended beneficiary of a letter of credit that it has received the letter of credit, checks documents presented by the beneficiary with the issuing bank, and issues funds to the beneficiary
- advocacy tank — a research and development institution that works to lobby government officials to adopt the institution's viewpoints.
- aerial ladder — a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engine
- aggradational — (geology) Pertaining to or formed by aggradation.
- ahead of time — If you do something ahead of time, you do it before a particular event or before you need to, in order to be well prepared.
- airheadedness — The quality of being airheaded.
- all-pervading — spreading through or into everything
- ambassadorial — Ambassadorial means belonging or relating to an ambassador.
- amino radical — the univalent group, −NH 2 .
- anadama bread — a kneaded yeast bread containing cornmeal and, usually, molasses
- angle of lead — the phase difference, expressed in degrees, by which one sinusoidal function is moving ahead of a second having the same period, as alternating voltage moving ahead of the alternating current.
- animadversion — criticism or censure
- animadverting — Present participle of animadvert.
- annotated ada — (language, specification) (Anna) A specification language developed at Stanford University ca. 1980 for formally specifying Ada programs. It has a Specification Analyzer and a Consistency Checking System. It adds semantic assertions in the form of Ada comments.
- anti-academic — of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
- antiradiation — Countering radiation.
- approach road — an access road to a house, station, airport, village etc
- autoradiogram — autoradiograph
- back-end load — the final charges of commission and expenses made by an investment trust, insurance policy, etc, when the investor is paid out
- bad godesberg — official name of Godesberg.
- badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
- baily's beads — the brilliant points of sunlight that appear briefly around the moon, just before and after a total eclipse
- ballad stanza — a four-line stanza, often used in ballads, in which the second and fourth lines rhyme and have three stresses each and the first and third lines are unrhymed and have four stresses each
- balloon shade — a window shade that when raised is gathered into a series of puffy festoons created by inverted pleats in the fabric.
- bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
- barbados aloe — a tropical aloe, Aloe barbadensis (or A. vera), of the lily family, having clusters of yellow flowers: its juice is used medicinally.
- bead and reel — a convex molding having the form of elongated beads alternating with disks placed edge-on, or with spherical beads, or with both.
- beaded lizard — a large, stout-bodied, venomous lizard, Heloderma horridum, inhabiting western Mexico, having black, beadlike scales with yellow to pinkish spots and splotches.
- beetle-headed — a stupid person; blockhead.
- berchtesgaden — a town in Germany, in SE Bavaria: site of the fortified mountain retreat of Adolf Hitler. Pop: 7667 (2003 est)
- bhagavad gita — a portion of the Mahabharata, having the form of a dialogue between the hero Arjuna and his charioteer, the avatar Krishna, in which a doctrine combining Brahmanical and other elements is evolved.
- bhagavad-gita — a sacred Hindu text composed about 200 bc and incorporated into the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic