damage
harm
hurt
scathe | the act of damaging something or someone |
wrong
legal injury
damage | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right |
| damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
| leather carp | scaleless domestic carp |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
computer system
computing system
automatic data processing system
ADP system
ADPS | a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage |
leatherette
imitation leather | fabric made to look like leather |
| leather strip | implement consisting of a strip of leather |
| piece of leather | a separate part consisting of leather |
saddle soap
leather soap | a mild soap for cleansing and conditioning leather |
information science
informatics
information processing
IP | the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information |
natural language processing
NLP
human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
natural language processor
natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
word processor
word processing system | an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer |
LISP
list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
| damage equipment casualty | loss of military equipment |
battle damage
combat casualty | loss of military equipment in battle |
operational damage
operational casualty | loss of military equipment in field operations |
| collateral damage | (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations |
damage
harm impairment | the occurrence of a change for the worse |
| leather flower Clematis versicolor | woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
leather flower vase-fine
vase vine
Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
leather fern leatherleaf fern
ten-day fern
Rumohra adiantiformis
Polystichum adiantiformis | widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds |
| golden fern leather fern Acrostichum aureum | stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides |
damages
amends
indemnity
indemnification
restitution
redress | a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury |
actual damages
compensatory damages
general damages | (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated |
| nominal damages | (law) a trivial sum (usually $.) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract) |
punitive damages
exemplary damages
smart money | (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct) |
| double damages | twice the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to |
| treble damages | three times the amount that a court would normally find the injured party entitled to |
price
terms
damage | the amount of money needed to purchase something, the price of gasoline, he got his new car on excellent terms, how much is the damage? |
administrative data processing
business data processing | data processing in accounting or business management |
automatic data processing
ADP | data processing by a computer |
background processing
backgrounding | the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system |
| batch processing | the serial execution of computer programs |
| data processing | (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information |
distributed data processing
remote-access data processing
teleprocessing | data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities |
electronic data processing
EDP | automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes |
foreground processing
foregrounding | the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system |
integrated data processing
IDP | automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system |
| list processing | processing data that is given in the form of chained lists |
mineral extraction
mineral processing
mineral dressing
ore processing
ore dressing
beneficiation | crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques |
multiprocessing
parallel processing | simultaneous processing by two or more processing units |
| priority processing | data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities |
| processing | preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure, the processing of newly arrived immigrants, the processing of ore to obtain minerals |
real-time processing
real-time operation | data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process |
| serial processing | sequential processing by two or more processing units |
| word processing | rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing |
attention deficit disorder
ADD
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
ADHD
hyperkinetic syndrome
minimal brain dysfunction
minimal brain damage
MBD | a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders |