QUINE
A computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.
VICEGERENT
Acting in place of another; having delegated authority.
MERAKI
To do something with passion and creativity; to leave something of yourself in your work.
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KUNDALINI
Described as a sleeping, dormant potential force in the human organism; a form of corporeal energy. Some use “Kundalini syndrome” to refer to physical or psychological problems arising from experiences traditionally associated with Kundalini awakening.
KARUNA
Compassion; part of the spiritual path.
QUANTUM FOAM
The smallest scale of virtual particles that inhabit the universe appearing and disappearing. Imagine a swimming pool full of boiling water. Up close, you can see frothing and bubbles bursting, but if you viewed a satellite photo of the pool, the surface would appear unbroken.
ACRONYCHAL
Refers to something happening in the evening or at nightfall. Also refers to the rising or setting of a star at the same time as the sun sets.
AITION
Cause. Often used to explain the reason for something, particularly how an object or custom came into existence.
GJENGANGER
A corpeal entity that rises from the grave to complete some incomplete piece of work. May be violent or nonviolent. Similar in certain aspects to the Wiedergänger.
BELLE EXPERIMENT
A series of experiments that produced the first potential confirmation of exotic hadrons, a four quark particle not classified by traditional quark models. Exotic Hadrons were recently confirmed by LHC experiments (particle Z(4430) ).
SATISFICING
A decision-making strategy that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met.
HAT UP
Military slang used to indicate a change in location. To leave, go.
INCIPIENT
Beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage.
ADAR RHIANNON
Creatures whose song can wake the dead and lull the living to sleep.
EVOLUTIONARY TRAP
Occurs when rapid environmental change triggers organisms to make maladaptive behavioral decisions. Within evolutionary biology refers to an adaptive trait at has suddenly become maladaptive leading to the extinction of the species.
ZENZIZENZIZENZIC
Mathematical notation representing the eighth power of a number.
ATHANASIA
Deathlessness. Is not a scholiastic athanasy better than none? - Lowell
ATHAZAGORAPHOBIA
Fear of being forgotten.
KEY ESCROW
A cryptographic key exchange process in which a key is held in escrow, or stored, by a third party.
CLIPPER CHIP
A chipset developed and promoted by the US Government. Intended for implementation in voice equipment, such as crypto phones, and required users to give their cryptographic keys in escrow to the government.
TEMPEST
An NSA codename referring to spying on information systems through leaking emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations. The TEMPEST standards mandate elements such as equipment distance from walls, amount of shielding, distance separating wires carrying classified vs. unclassified materials, and more.
KERCKHOFF'S PRINCIPLE
A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge. Sometimes called Shannon's Maxim: “the enemy knows the system”
RADOME
A contraction of radar and dome, it is a structural, weatherproof enclosure that protects a microwave antenna. The material that minimally attenuates the em signal transmitted or received by the antenna. The Menwith Hill electronic surveillance base has many radome structures.
KRIEGSMARINE TABLES
The German Kriegsmarine (Navy) used a variety of codebooks in combination with their M4 Enigma machine. The codebooks of the U-Boot department were printed with red water-solvable ink; when left behind in a sinking U-Boot, the codebooks would wipe themselves automatically.
BOMBE
An electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma machine encrypted secret messages during World War II. Initial design was produced in 1939 by Alan Turing and refined by Gordon Welchman.
CHTHONIC
Subterranean; of or relating to the underworld.
MANIFESTO
A published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.
EKAM
1) Represents The Ultimate Oneness. From this Ekam all objects of the universe formed.
2) Ekam (“make” backwards) is a build system which automatically figures out what to build and how to build it purely based on the source code; it needs no rule files.
CONTRONYM
A word that depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings. Example - Bolt: To secure, or to flee. Anabasis - military advance, military retreat.