technical vocabulary
91legalese — n. A style of writing or speaking heavily emphasizing the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law, to the point where a speech or document may be incomprehensible to non specialists. [WordNet 1.5] …
92Computer-generated imagery — An example of a computer generated, natural looking, static fractal landscape. Computer generated imagery (CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in art, video… …
93Jean-Jacques Rousseau — This article is about the philosopher. For the post impressionist painter, see Henri Rousseau. For other uses, see Rousseau (disambiguation). Jean Jacques Rousseau Rousseau in 1753, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour Born 28 June 1712 …
94Systemic functional grammar — (SFG) or systemic functional linguistics (SFL) is a model of grammar that was developed by Michael Halliday in the 1960s. [http://www.isfla.org/Systemics/Definition/definition.html, accessed 30 July 2008] It is part of a broad social semiotic… …
95Idiom dictionary — The h word idiom was itself derived from the Greek “ἰδίωμα (idioma), which can be variously translated as peculiarity, property, or peculiar phraseology. Hence the word has come to be used to describe the form of speech peculiar to a people or… …
96Fourth Way — For P.D. Ouspensky s book titled The Fourth Way see Fourth Way (book). For the jazz group, see The Fourth Way (band). In his early lectures G.I. Gurdjieff described his approach to self development as a Fourth Way. [P.D. Ouspensky (1949), In… …
97Stent — For people named Stent, see Stent (surname). Stent Intervention MeSH D015607 In the technical vocabulary of medicine, a stent is an artificial tube inserted into a natural passage/conduit in the …
98Fractional-reserve banking — is the banking practice in which banks keep only a fraction of the value of their bank notes and demand deposits in reserve and invest the balance in interest earning assets while maintaining the obligation to redeem all bank notes and demand… …
99Pearl Poet — The Pearl Poet , or the Gawain Poet , is the name given to the author of Pearl , an alliterative poem written in Middle English. Its author appears also to have written the poems Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Patience , and Cleanness ; some… …
100Lak language — Infobox Language name=Lak nativename=лакку маз ( lakku maz ) region=Southern Dagestan speakers=120,000 script=Cyrillic (Lak variant) familycolor=Caucasian fam1=North Caucasian (controversial) fam2=Northeast Caucasian iso2=cau|iso3=lbeLak language …
