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111Glossary of contract bridge terms — These terms are used in Contract bridge[1][2] , or the earlier game Auction bridge, using duplicate or rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in Whist, Bid whist, and other trick taking games. This glossary supplements the Glossary of card… …
112radioactivity — /ray dee oh ak tiv i tee/, n. Physics, Chem. the phenomenon, exhibited by and being a property of certain elements, of spontaneously emitting radiation resulting from changes in the nuclei of atoms of the element. Also called activity. [1895… …
113Discrete sine transform — In mathematics, the discrete sine transform (DST) is a Fourier related transform similar to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), but using a purely real matrix. It is equivalent to the imaginary parts of a DFT of roughly twice the length,… …
114Roulette — For other uses, see Roulette (disambiguation). Spinning Roulette wheel with ball …
115Rounding — This article is about numerical rounding. For lip rounding in phonetics, see Labialisation. For other uses, see Rounding (disambiguation). Rounding a numerical value means replacing it by another value that is approximately equal but has a… …
116Randolph College — Motto Vita Abundantior Motto in English Life More Abundant Established 1891 …
117Difference engine — For the novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, see The Difference Engine. The London Science Museum s difference engine, built from Babbage s design. The design has the same precision on all columns, but when calculating converging… …
118One-pass compiler — In computer programming, a one pass compiler is a compiler that passes through the source code of each compilation unit only once. In other words, a one pass compiler does not look back at code it previously processed. Another term sometimes used …
119Pythagoreanism — /pi thag euh ree euh niz euhm/, n. the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, esp. the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios. [1720 30; PYTHAGOREAN + ISM] * * * Philosophical school,… …
120roulette — /rooh let /, n., v., rouletted, rouletting. n. 1. a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the… …
