| film festival | a cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year) |
magnetic resonance imaging
MRI | the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images |
functional magnetic resonance imaging
fMRI | a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain |
blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging
BOLD FMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation |
moviemaking
movie making
film making | the production of movies |
film editing
cutting | the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film |
magnetic levitation
maglev | high-speed rail technology, train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction |
| access memory access | (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information |
| cache memory cache | (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated, used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics |
CD-ROM
compact disc read-only memory | a compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system), a large amount of digital information can be stored and accessed but it cannot be altered by the user |
| core magnetic core | (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data, now superseded by semiconductor memories, each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit |
erasable programmable read-only memory
EPROM | (computer science) a read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data |
| film | a thin coating or layer, the table was covered with a film of dust |
| film photographic film | photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion, used to make negatives or transparencies |
| film plastic film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things |
| film advance | a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector |
| flash memory | nonvolatile storage that can be electrically erased and programmed anew |
| magnetic bottle | container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions |
| magnetic bubble memory | a nonvolatile storage device that holds information in the form of bubbles on a thin film of magnetic silicate, no longer used in most computers |
| magnetic compass | compass based on an indicator (as a magnetic needle) that points to the magnetic north |
magnetic core memory
core memory | (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores, now superseded by semiconductor memories |
magnetic disk
magnetic disc
disk disc | (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored |
| magnetic head | an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface and later retrieved |
| magnetic mine | (nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship) |
| magnetic needle | a slender magnet suspended in a magnetic compass on a mounting with little friction, used to indicate the direction of the earth's magnetic pole |
| magnetic recorder | recorder consisting of equipment for making records on magnetic media |
| magnetic stripe | a short strip of magnetic tape attached to a credit card or debit card, it contains data that will tell a reading device who you are and what your account number is, etc. |
magnetic tape
mag tape
tape | memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide, used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information, he took along a dozen tapes to record the interview |
memory
computer memory
storage computer storage
store memory board | an electronic memory device, a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached |
| memory chip | a RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memory |
memory device
storage device | a device that preserves information for retrieval |
motion-picture film
movie film
cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
movie projector
cine projector
film projector | projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures |
negative magnetic pole
negative pole
south-seeking pole | the pole of a magnet that points toward the south when the magnet is suspended freely |
| orthochromatic film | a photographic film sensitive to green and blue and violet light |
| panchromatic film | photographic film sensitive to light of all colors (including red) |
| pole magnetic pole | one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated |
positive pole
positive magnetic pole
north-seeking pole | the pole of a magnet that points toward the north when the magnet is suspended freely |
random-access memory
random access memory
random memory
RAM read
write memory | the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on, an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible |
read-only memory
ROM
read-only storage
fixed storage | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed |
| read-only memory chip | a memory chip providing read-only memory |
| roll film | photographic film wound on a spool |
cling film
clingfilm
Saran Wrap | a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself, used for wrapping food |
| soap film | a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap |
| sound film | motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it |
virtual memory
virtual storage | (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory, the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses |
| Xay film | photographic film used to make Xay pictures |
magnetic field strength
magnetic intensity
magnetic induction
magnetic flux density | the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow |
memory
retention
retentiveness
retentivity | the power of retaining and recalling past experience, he had a good memory when he was younger |
amnesia
memory loss
blackout | partial or total loss of memory, he has a total blackout for events of the evening |