backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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fecundity | (noun) the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
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(noun) the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination | Synonyms: fruitfulness |
(noun) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | Synonyms: fertility |
foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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founding | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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funding | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: financing |
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(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, support |
grounding | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: earthing |
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(noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: foundation |
impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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infundibulum | (noun) any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk) | - |
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jaguarundi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi cat |
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jaundice | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, tartness, thorniness |
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(noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: icterus |
jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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pounding | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pound |
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(noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: buffeting |
(noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: throb, throbbing |
profundity | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profoundness |
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(noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profoundness |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness |
(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness |
pundit | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, savant |
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rotundity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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(noun) the fullness of a tone of voice | Synonyms: roundness |
rounding | (noun) (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals | Synonyms: rounding error |
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salmagundi | (noun) cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing | - |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety |
secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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sounding | (noun) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) | - |
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(noun) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line | - |
sundial | (noun) timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial | - |
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surroundings | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surround |
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(noun) the environmental condition | Synonyms: milieu |
undies | (noun) women's underwear | - |
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undine | (noun) any of various female water spirits | - |
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undiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: indiscipline |
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wounding | (noun) the act of inflicting a wound | Synonyms: wound |
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