| aliasing | Electronics. The imperfect or faulty copying or reproduction of a sampled signal which… | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| autocorrelogram | A graphical representation of an autocorrelation. | 1948 | Go To Quotation |
| autoregressive | Relating to or involving autoregression. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| communitas | A community; a body of people acting collectively; (Law) = corporation n. 3a. hist. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| Fastens | | 1616 | Go To Quotation |
| lod | The logarithm of the odds in favour of or against a given event; (also) the logarithm of… | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| Malikite | = Maliki n. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| Markovian | Having the properties of a Markov process (see Markov n. 1); of, relating to, or of the nature of a Markov process. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| mark sensing | The process by which a device detects or reads data in the form of a sequence of marks. See mark-sensing adj. | 1946 | Go To Quotation |
| Messageries Maritimes | A French sea freight service (also used as the name of a shipping line). | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| metallism | Advocacy of a particular metal as a basis of currency. Obs. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| mezzadro | A tenant farmer working under the mezzadria system. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Middle America | A geographical region comprising Central America, Mexico, and the Antilles. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| mil | In various schemes proposed for the decimalization of the British currency: a coin of the… | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| mile-a-minute | Travelling at a rate of a mile a minute; (fig.) extremely rapid. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Mincing Lane | Allusively: the auction room for tea and other commodities originally situated in this street; (hence) the market in these goods. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| misdevelopment | Inadequate, faulty, or misdirected development; an instance of this. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| misdistribution | Inefficient, unfavourable, or unfair distribution; an instance of this. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| mixtil | A mixture of various grains, esp. rye and wheat; = maslin n. 1. Cf. mixed corn n. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| monorganic | Med. Of a disease: affecting a single organ or organ system. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| monozygote | A monozygotic twin (or triplet, etc.); = monozygotic n. | 1929 | Go To Quotation |
| Mont de Piété | In France: a lending house or pawnshop funded by the Church or State; = Mount of Piety n. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| multicopying | The reprographic production of multiple copies of a document, etc.; multiple photocopying. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| multiserver | Math. Of a queue: served by more than one server or facility. | 1956 | Go To Quotation |
| narikin | In Japan: a wealthy parvenu. | 1918 | Go To Quotation |
| national health | Health as it concerns a nation as a whole. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| non-condensing | Not involving the condensation of steam; spec. designating a steam engine in which the… | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| non-political | Not political, not involved in politics. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| non-randomness | The property or state of being non-random. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| non-regulation | Of a province in India during British rule: in which the ordinary laws are not in force. Now hist. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| non-tropical | Not characteristic of the tropics; not located in or native to the tropics; (of a… | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| oblast | In Russia: a province or region; a major administrative division of the Soviet Union and… | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| Oddfellowship | The organization, principles, and practices of the Odd Fellows; the status of an Odd Fellow. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| out-county | Situated, or coming from, outside a particular county. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| out-relief | Aid to the poor that is not tied to residence in a workhouse or similar institution. Cf. outdoor adj. 3. Also fig. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| overbuilding | The action of overbuild v. (in various senses). Also occas.: an instance of this. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| overcapitalized | Of a business, etc.: having too high a capital value; provided with too much capital. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| over-density | Excessive or undesirable density (esp. of population). | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| overfish | trans. To deplete the stock of fish, shellfish, etc., in (a body of water) by too much… | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| overfishing | The action of overfish v. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| overline | A horizontal line drawn or printed above a line of text, mathematical symbol, etc. Cf. underline n. 2a. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| overlined | Having a line drawn or printed above; having a translation, correction, etc., inserted… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| overprotective | Excessively protective, esp. of a child. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| Paretan | = Paretian adj. | 1932 | Go To Quotation |
| Pareto | attrib. and in the genitive. Designating any of the theories or methods of Pareto… | 1905 | Go To Quotation |
| parlour-jumper | A person who robs from rooms, esp. by entering through a window. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| part-timer | A person who works part-time; a part-time worker, student, etc. | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| Pattinsonized | Of lead: that has been subjected to Pattinson's process. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| Pearsonian | Of or originated by Karl Pearson, esp. with reference to Pearson's family of curves… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| preferentially | In a preferential manner, by preference. | 1858 | Go To Quotation |
| preharvest | Occurring before a crop is harvested or gathered. | 1910 | Go To Quotation |
| pre-war | Belonging to, dating from, or characteristic of the period before a war, now usually the Second World War (1939 – 45). | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| Prussianist | Of or relating to Prussianism. | 1920 | Go To Quotation |
| quantitation | The action or process of measuring or expressing the quantity or extent of… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| randomizing | The action or procedure of randomizing something. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| reclassification | The action or fact of reclassifying something; an instance of this, a new or revised classification. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| recode | trans. To assign a different code to; to put into or represent by a different code. Also in extended use. Occas. also intr. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| recoding | The action or process of recode v.; an instance of this. | 1923 | Go To Quotation |
| re-enlister | A person who re-enlists in the armed forces. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| social psychology | The study of social interactions, including their origins and effects on individuals and groups. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| step-parent | A stepfather, a stepmother. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| technography | The observation, description, and study of technologies and their application, esp.… | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
