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Landau Symbols:

Let n be a integer variable which tends to infinity and let x be a continuous variable tending to some limit.
Also, let or be a positive function and f(n) or f(x) any function.
Then the symbols O(x) (sometimes called "big-O") and o(x) (sometimes called "little-o" are known as the Landau symbols.

Fafnir

Unconsentaneous....... not in agreement. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />

Stumberline. A Smashing Pumpkins song. I whonder which one it is...

Übereil

Exgorgitation ........ vomited material.

Nul ..... as in subject <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Loxophthalmus......... squint. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

sophrologist

Tardive ...... dyskinesia is a serious neurological disorder

Excrementitial ......... of or pertaining to excrement, Merde. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Lantiseptic:

Lanolin-based products for use in the prevention and treatment of a variety of skin conditions.

Fafnir

Cafard...... depression; the blues . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Dactyliomancy:

Derived from the Greek dakterlios ('finger ring') and manteia ('divination'), and it is applied to a number of methods of divining the future with the aid of rings.


Fafnir

Yarnwindle....... tool for winding yarn into a ball.

Exmoor:

Also known as Beast of Bodmin Moor. A large cat-like creature reportedly responsible for the killing of many farm animals in South Molton, Devonshire, England.


Fafnir

Rubik ......... Erno,
a Hungarian obsessed with 3D geometry started visualising his 3D cube in late 1974. Initially it seemed that constructing a working model would be nearly impossible. None of the designs at the time could solve the complex interaction of the elements. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/freak.gif" alt="" />

Knob......Fafnir, the beast of Bodmin is on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, but you are right , there is another beast on Dartmoor,Devon that slaughters lots of Sheep each year, just 10 miles from my humble abode!!

Bath-kol:

A heavenly or divine voice announcing the will of God.
Also the name of what was probably a method of divination among the ancient Jews.
It is said that the first words uttered after the appeal to Bath-kol were taken as being oracular: the words in Hebrew means approximately 'daughter of the voice', or 'echo'.


Fafnir <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hypertrichologist.......... person who treats unsightly facial hair.

Typist ..... definitely not me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Tasseography:

Most commonly known as teacup reading, it is divination by using tea leaves, or the interpretation of the shapes and forms that are made by tea leaves that remain in the cup after the tea has been drunk.
Another name for it is Tasseomancy.


Fafnir