finger trouble n.— «The same quality has been designated “systematic diligence” elsewhere. Some radar observers exhibit “finger trouble” in tuning…» —by Stuart W. Cook Psychological research on...
IED petting zoo n.— «A special training ground has been set up at Fort Drum where soldiers headed for Iraq and Afghanistan are being trained how to spot improvised explosive devices blamed for causing most of the casualties suffered by U...
greynet n.— «FaceTime categorizes IM applications as “greynets”—a term for a class of applications that enter the enterprise via the end user and exhibit evasive behavior over the network (including peer-to-peer sharing, VoIP...
smile n.— «The pattern of implied volatilities form a “smile” shape, which is called a volatility smile. Most derivatives markets exhibit persistent patterns of volatilities varying by strike…In practice, either the...
reconservadox n.— «For Michelson, who borrows a friend’s terminology to describe himself as “reconservadox,” Nimoy’s work explores the sensuality in spirituality and the spirituality in sensuality.» —“Controversial Nimoy...