in technical parlance
1Design by committee — is a term referring to a style of design and its resultant output when a group of entities comes together to produce something (often the design of technological systems or standards), particularly in the presence of poor leadership. The defining …
2Likelihood function — In statistics, a likelihood function (often simply the likelihood) is a function of the parameters of a statistical model, defined as follows: the likelihood of a set of parameter values given some observed outcomes is equal to the probability of …
3Behavior settings — are theorized entities that help explain the relationship between individuals and the environment particularly the social environment. This topic is typically indexed under the larger rubric of Ecological (or Environmental) Psychology . However,… …
4Pronunciation respelling for English — Pronunciation respelling is a type of notation system used to convey pronunciation of words, in a language which doesn t have a phonemic orthography (such as English). Respelling systems are meant to be easy for native readers to understand, but… …
5Insect wing — Original veins and wing posture of a dragonfly. Hoverflies hovering to mate …
6PIGA accelerometer — A PIG accelerometer (Pendulous Integrating Gyroscopic Accelerometer) is a type of accelerometer that can measure acceleration and simultaneously integrates this acceleration against time to produce a speed measure as well. The PIGA s main use is… …
7ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… …
8Trusted system — In the security engineering subspecialty of computer science, a trusted system is a system that is relied upon to a specified extent to enforce a specified security policy. As such, a trusted system is one whose failure may break a specified… …
9Assault weapon — The term Assault weapon is derived from the term assault rifle, itself a translation of the German word Sturmgewehr , literally storm rifle . In its technical sense, the term Assault weapon refers to a military weapon used to aid in military… …
10The Holocaust — Holocaust and Shoah redirect here. For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). Selection on …
