26-letter words containing ns
- alternation of generations — the production within the life cycle of an organism of alternating asexual and sexual reproductive forms. It occurs in many plants and lower animals
- analytical solutions forum — (body, standard) (ASF) The business intelligence trade body that, in October 1999, replaced the ineffective OLAP Council intending to produce standards for OLAP. The ASF managed the remarkably achievement of being even less effective and eventually disappeared, its only achievement having been the issuing of a press release announcing its formation.
- asynchronous transfer mode — a set of rules for transferring data, sound, and images in small, fixed groups at very high rates of speed over computer networks
- australopithecus afarensis — an extinct species of early hominid whose fossil remains were discovered in Ethiopia and have been dated at between 3.5 and 4 million years of age.
- baron jons jakob berzelius — Jöns Jakob [yœns yah-kawp] /yœns ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), Baron, 1779–1848, Swedish chemist.
- bose einstein condensation — a phase of matter in which all bosons in a given physical system have been cooled to a temperature near absolute zero and enter the same quantum state.
- braxton hicks contractions — painless intermittent contractions of the womb that occur in pregnancy, becoming stronger towards full term
- chief inspector of schools — a high-ranking official of the British government who is responsible for overseeing the quality of education
- communications decency act — (legal) (CDA) An amendment to the U.S. 1996 Telecommunications Bill that went into effect on 1996-02-08. The law, originally proposed by Senator James Exon to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, ended up making it punishable by fines of up to $250,000 to post indecent language on the Internet anywhere that a minor could read it. Thousands of outraged Internet users turned their web pages black in protest or displayed the Electronic Frontier Foundation's special icons. On 1996-06-12, a three-judge panel in Philadelphia ruled the CDA unconstitutional and issued an injunction against the United States Justice Department forbidding them to enforce the "indecency" provisions of the law. Internet users celebrated by displaying an animated "Free Speech" fireworks icon to their web pages, courtesy of the Voters Telecommunications Watch. The Justice Department appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- compassionate conservative — a political conservative who is motivated by concern for the needy but supports policies based on personal responsibility and limited government: George W. Bush ran for president as a compassionate conservative.
- compassionate-conservatism — a political conservative who is motivated by concern for the needy but supports policies based on personal responsibility and limited government: George W. Bush ran for president as a compassionate conservative.
- computer-aided instruction — (application, education) (CAI, or "- assisted", "- learning", CAL, Computer-Based Training CBT, "e-learning") The use of computers for education and training. The programs and data used in CAI, known as "courseware", may be supplied on media such as CD-ROM or delivered via a network which also enables centralised logging of student progress. CAI may constitute the whole or part of a course, may be done individually or in groups ("Computer Supported Collaborative Learning", CSCL), with or without human guidance.
- concurrent versions system — a system that allows more than one person to work on the same file at the same time, merging their changes but keeping records of the different versions
- consolidated balance sheet — a statement that shows the financial position of a parent company and its subsidiary companies at a specified date by listing the asset balances and the claims on such assets
- constantine xi palaeologus — (Dragases) 1404–53, last Byzantine emperor 1449–53.
- constitutional union party — the political party formed in 1859 chiefly by former Whigs to rally moderates desirous of preserving the Union. In 1860 it nominated John Bell for president and Edward Everett for vice president.
- convertible term insurance — A convertible term insurance is a life insurance policy which pays out if the policyholder dies within a specified period of time, but also allows them to convert to another type of plan.
- critical illness insurance — Critical illness insurance is an insurance policy which pays out if the policyholder is diagnosed with a serious medical condition, such as a stroke, cancer, or heart disease.
- discrete fourier transform — (mathematics) (DFT) A Fourier transform, specialized to the case where the abscissas are integers. The DFT is central to many kinds of signal processing, including the analysis and compression of video and sound information. A common implementation of the DFT is the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). See also discrete cosine transform.
- einstein's mass-energy law — the principle that mass (m) and energy (E) are equivalent according to the equation E = mc2, where c is the velocity of light
- excess of loss reinsurance — Excess of loss reinsurance is a type of reinsurance whereby an insurer pays the amount of the loss for a particular risk up to an agreed limit.
- extensible markup language — (language, text) (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the web.
- feast of st peter's chains — a former festival in England, held on August 1, in which bread made from the first harvest of corn was blessed.
- first marquis of lansdowne — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- gnu general public license — General Public License
- grammar-translation method — a traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.
- hanging gardens of babylon — ornamental gardens planted on the terraces of the ziggurats of ancient Babylon.
- individualized instruction — a teaching method tailored to the skills, abilities, and interests of the individual student
- insulin-dependent diabetes — See under diabetes.
- interactive voice response — (communications) (IVR)
A telecommunications system, prevelant with PBX and voice mail systems, that uses a prerecorded database of voice messages to present options to a user, typically over telephone lines. User input is retrieved via DTMF tone key presses. When used in conjunction with voice mail, for example, these systems typically allow users to store, retrieve, and route messages, as well as interact with an underlying database server which may allow for automated transactions and data processing. (15 Sept 1997) - intimations of immortality — (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood), a poem (1807) by Wordsworth.
- law of diminishing returns — diminishing returns (def 2).
- mainstream corporation tax — (in Britain) the balance of the corporation tax formerly paid by a company for an accounting period after the advance corporation tax had been deducted
- mercalli (intensity) scale — a numerical scale for measuring the destructive power and major physical effects of an earthquake, ranging from number I (detectable only by seismographs) to number XII (causing extensive landslides, destruction of nearly all buildings, etc.)
- mushroom slab construction — beamless reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing columns with widely flaring heads having horizontal rings of reinforcement to support the floor or roof slab.
- national extension college — a non-profit organization that allows people of all ages to continue their education through distance and online learning, etc
- nature conservancy council — (in Britain) a body set up by act of parliament in 1973 to establish and manage nature reserves, identify SSSIs, and provide information and advice about nature conservation. In 1991–92 it was replaced by English Nature, Scottish Natural Heritage, and the Countryside Council for Wales
- network address translator — Network Address Translation
- object constraint language — (language) (OCL) A formal specification language extension to UML. The Object Constraint Language is a precise text language that provides constraint and object query expressions on an object-oriented model that cannot otherwise be expressed by diagrammatic notation. OCL supplements UML by providing expressions that have neither the ambiguities of natural language nor the inherent difficulty of using complex mathematics. OCL is a descendent of Syntropy, a second-generation object-oriented analysis and design method. The OCL 1.4 definition specified a constraint language. In OCL 2.0, the definition has been extended to include general object query language definitions.
- obscene publications squad — a division of the police force which deals with illegal books, pictures, or films which are judged obscene because they deal with sex or violence in a way that is considered offensive to the general public
- orthogonal instruction set — (architecture) An instruction set where all (or most) instructions have the same format and all registers and addressing modes can be used interchangeably - the choices of op code, register, and addressing mode are mutually independent (loosely speaking, the choices are "orthogonal"). This contrasts with some early Intel microprocessors where only certain registers could be used by certain instructions. Examples include the PDP-11, 680x0, ARM, VAX.
- paraconsistent probability — (logic) A notion introduced by Florentin Smarandache: The probability (T, I, F) that an event occurs is calculated from different sources which may be contradictory or may overlap information; here T, I, F are real subsets representing the truth, indeterminacy, and falsity percentages respectively, and n_sup = sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) > 100. See neutrosophic probability
- permanent health insurance — a form of insurance that provides up to 75 per cent of a person's salary, until retirement, in case of prolonged illness or disability
- physical transport network — (communications) (PTN) The actual hardware through which data transfer devices are connected.
- post-and-beam construction — wall construction in which beams rather than studs are used to support heavy posts.
- public-liability insurance — insurance covering the insured against risks involving liability to the public for damages arising from negligence.
- refinery’s own consumption — Refinery's own consumption is the gas and fuel which is burnt to operate the units in a refinery and generate electricity and steam.
- register transfer language — (RTL) 1. A kind of hardware description language (HDL) used in describing the registers of a computer or digital electronic system, and the way in which data is transferred between them. 2. An intermediate code for a machine with an infinite number of registers, used for machine-independent optimisation. RTL was developed by Chris Fraser <[email protected]> and J. Davidson <[email protected]> at the University of Arizona in the early 1980s. RTL is used by the GNU C compiler, gcc and by Davidson's VPCC (Very Portable C compiler).
- replacement cost insurance — Replacement cost insurance is insurance in which the cost of replacing property is calculated without a reduction for depreciation.
- resistance transfer factor — R factor.
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