ExpertGlossary terms starting with H

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  1. HMPC Hazardous Maintenance Procedure Code.
  2. HMSC Hughes Missile System Corporation.
  3. HND Hundred
  4. HNPCC An inherited disorder in which affected individuals have a higher-than-normal chance of developing colorectal cancer and certain other types of cancer…
  5. hnRNA See Heterogeneous nuclear RNA.
  6. HNSC House National Security Committee, formerly the House Armed Services Committee. See HASC.
  7. HO Forms Homeowners insurance polices are sometimes referred to by the kind of form used and the specific perils they cover.
  8. Hoar Frost A deposit of interlocking crystals formed by direct sublimation on objects, usually those of small diameter freely exposed to the air, such as tree…
  9. Hoarfrost Hoarfrost A deposit of interlocking ice crystals (hoar crystals) formed by direct sublimation on objects, usually those of small diameter freely exposed…
  10. HOB Height of Burst.
  11. Hoc With or this.
  12. Hoca Early version of roulette.
  13. hockey puck A polishing fixture used to facilitate the manual finishing of the endfaces of certain types of optical fiber connectors.
  14. Hodgkin disease (HOJ-kin dih-ZEEZ) A cancer of the immune system that is marked by the presence of a type of cell called the Reed-Sternberg cell.
  15. Hodgkin lymphoma (HOJ-kin lim-FOH-muh) A cancer of the immune system that is marked by the presence of a type of cell called the Reed-Sternberg cell.
  16. Hodograph A polar coordinate graph which shows the vertical wind profile of the lowest 7000 meters of the atmosphere.
  17. HOE A shovel that digs by pulling a broom-and-stick-mounted bucket toward itself.
  18. Hoechst dye A dye used to identify hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
  19. Hog fuel or hogged fuel Wood residues processed through a chipper or mill to produce coarse chips normally used for fuel.
  20. Hogback Ridge formed by erosion of resistant, steeply inclined sedimentary layers.
  21. Hogbacks An eroded steep ridge of resistant rocks produced by erosion of the broken edges of highly tilted strata.
  22. Hogness box Synonym for TATA box.
  23. Hoist The mechanism by which a bucket or blade is lifted, or the process of lifting it.
  24. HOL High Order Language. 128
  25. Hold Used to indicate that a certain amount of a customer's balance may not be withdrawn until an item has been collected, or until a specific check or debit…
  26. hold notice See legal hold.
  27. hold-in frequency range The range of frequencies over which a phase-locked loop can vary and still maintain frequency lock.
  28. hold-in range See hold-in frequency range.
  29. Holder Also the person or company which receives the financial payment or the mortgage either directly from the borrower or from a mortgage servicer.
  30. holding area Structure that habitually attracts and holds bass.
  31. Holding company By acquiring enough voting stock in another company, a holding company, also called a parent company, can exert control over the way the target company is…
  32. Holding period A holding period is the length of time you keep an investment. In some cases, a specific holding period is required in order to qualify for some benefit.
  33. holding station Place on a lake where inactive fish spend most of their time.
  34. holding time The total length of time that a call makes use of a trunk or channel. Note: Holding time is usually measured in seconds. 2.
  35. holdings overall volume and type of records stored in a records center or other repository
  36. Holdover Provision (Article XVI, Section 17, Texas Constitution) “All officers within this State shall continue to perform the duties of their offices until their successors shall be duly qualified.”
  37. Hole The vacancy where an electron would normally exist in a solid; behaves like a positively charged particle.
  38. Hole Card The dealer's face down card.
  39. Hole Cards Cards dealt face-down to a player - most commonly used when describing the first two player cards in Hold'em and the first four player cards in Omaha.
  40. hollow fibre A tube of porous material, with an internal diameter of a fraction of a millimetre, making its ratio of surface area to internal volume very large.
  41. Hollow gravity dam (cellular gravity dam) A dam which has the outward appearance of a gravity dam but is of hollow construction.
  42. Hollow-jet valve A valve having a closing member that moves upstream to shut off the flow. The hollow-jet valve discharges a hollow or annular jet dispersed over a wide…
  43. holmium Ho 166 DOTMP A drug containing a radioactive isotope that is used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
  44. holocellulose The total carbohydrate fraction of wood; cellulose plus hemicellulose.
  45. Holocene The past 10,000 years of geologic time. The most recent epoch of the Quaternary period.
  46. Holocene epoch an epoch of the Quaternary period dating from the end of the Pleistocene approximately 11,500 years ago until the present.
  47. holoenzyme See: apoenzyme.
  48. holometabolous An insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis to the adult from a morphologically distinct larval stage.
  49. holoprosencephaly A birth defect where the forebrain does not separate properly into two halves during early fetal life.
  50. Holorith encoded data on aperture cards or old-style punch cards that contained encoded data.
  51. holy thistle (... THIH-sel) A plant whose leaves, stems, and flowers have been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems.
  52. Home The location tied to your Hearthstone, changable only by talking to an innkeeper.
  53. Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program (HAFA) a program that provides opportunities for homeowners who can no longer afford to stay in their home but want to avoid foreclosure to transition to more…
  54. Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) A program that provides eligible homeowners the opportunity to modify their mortgages to make them more affordable. See www.MakingHomeAffordable.gov.
  55. Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) A program that provides homeowners with loans owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac an opportunity to refinance into more affordable monthly…
  56. Home Affordable Unemployment Program (UP) a program that provides homeowners a temporary forbearance, which is a temporary period of time during which a regular monthly mortgage payment is reduced…
  57. Home and Community Based Care A category of eligible services that States may fund under Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
  58. Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Services and support provided by most state Medicaid programs in your home or community that gives help with such daily tasks as bathing or dressing.
  59. Home care Care provided in a person’s home. Home care can be health services such as bathing, assisting someone to walk or more skilled services such as drawing…
  60. home copy a copy of an international application filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty maintained by the receiving Office where the international application…
  61. home directory The directory you are put into when you log in. On a Unix system, the name is often placed into $ENV{HOME} or $ENV{LOGDIR} by login, but you can also find…
  62. Home Energy Rating Systems (HERS) A nationally recognized energy rating program that gives builders, mortgage lenders, secondary lending markets, homeowners, sellers, and buyers a precise…
  63. home equity The difference between what you paid for your home and what you get when you sell.
  64. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) A special type of mortgage-developed and insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that enables older home owners to convert the equity they…
  65. Home Equity Line of Credit A type of revolving loan, that enables a home owner to obtain multiple advances of the loan proceeds at his or her own discretion, up to an amount that…
  66. Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) A line of credit secured by the equity in a consumer's home. It can be used for home improvements, debt consolidation, and other major purchases.
  67. Home Equity Loan A home equity loan allows you to tap into your home's built-up equity, which is the difference between the amount that your home could be sold for and the…
  68. Home Equity Loan (HEL) A home equity loan allows you to tap into your home's built-up equity, which is the difference between the amount that your home could be sold for and the…
  69. home handle An object that can be used to obtain a reference to the home interface. A home handle can be serialized and written to stable storage and deserialized to…
  70. Home Health Care Health care provided in your home.
  71. Home Improvement Loan A home improvement loan is (a) any dwelling-secured loan to be used, at least in part, for repairing, rehabilitating, remodeling, or improving a dwelling…
  72. Home improvement scams A contractor talks you into costly or unnecessary repairs, steers you to a high-cost mortgage lender to finance the job, and arranges for the loan…
  73. Home Inspection A professional inspection of a home to determine the condition of the property.
  74. Home Inspector You hire and pay for this individual to analyze the home's physical condition before you buy it.
  75. home interface One of two interfaces for an enterprise bean. The home interface defines zero or more methods for managing an enterprise bean.
  76. Home Inventory A detailed list of personal possessions and any information, including pictures or videos, that could help identify lost or destroyed items.
  77. home network The carrier's own Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) network. [T1.226-1992]
  78. Home ownership The state of living in a structure that one owns.
  79. Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA) Lenders are required to report whether a loan is subject to the provisions of the HOEPA.
  80. Home Owners’ Loan Act Enacted in 1933, this Act established the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and authorized steps to: provide emergency relief with respect to home mortgage…
  81. home page Main page of a Web site. Usually has hyperlinks to other pages, both inside and outside the site.
  82. Home Purchase Loan A home purchase loan is any loan secured by and made for the purpose of purchasing a dwelling. See the definition of "dwelling."
  83. Home Rule City As contrasted with a General Law City, a home rule city is governed by its charter (in addition to the general laws of the state, though a charter will…
  84. home server The Exchange server that contains a user's mailbox.
  85. Home Warranty Offers protection for mechanical systems and attached appliances against unexpected repairs not covered by homeowner's insurance; coverage extends over a…
  86. Homeless Persons from countries that do not have a U.S. Embassy or Consulate where they can apply for immigrant visas are “homeless”. For example, the U.S.
  87. Homeobox A highly conserved 180 bp DNA sequence that controls body part-, organ- or tissue-specific gene expression, most particularly involved in segmentation in…
  88. homeodomain See: homeobox.
  89. homeopathic medicine An alternative approach to medicine based on the belief that natural substances, prepared in a special way and used most often in very small amounts…
  90. homeopathy An alternative approach to medicine based on the belief that natural substances, prepared in a special way and used most often in very small amounts…
  91. Homeostasis (HOH-mee-oh-STAY-sis) A state of balance among all the body systems needed for the body to survive and function correctly.
  92. homeostatic (HOH-mee-oh-STA-tik) Having to do with homeostasis, which is a state of balance among all the body systems, needed for the body to function correctly.
  93. homeotic genes Genes that act in concert to determine fundamental patterns of development.
  94. homeotic mutation A mutation that causes a body part to develop in an inappropriate position in an organism, such as the mutation in Drosophila melanogaster that causes…
  95. Homeowner's Insurance Homeowners insurance is a contract between an insurance company and a homeowner to cover certain types of damage to the property and its contents, theft…
  96. Homeowner's Warranty (HOW) Insurance offered by a seller that covers certain home repairs and fixtures for a specified period of time.
  97. Homeowners' Association An organization of homeowners residing within a particular area whose principal purpose is to ensure the provision and maintenance of community facilities…
  98. Homeownership Education Classes Classes that stress the need to develop a strong credit history and offer information about how to get a mortgage approved, qualify for a loan, choose an…
  99. Homepage A homepage is the main page of a website. Like a cover of a book or the front of a store, its function is to welcome people and to inform them of the…
  100. Homestead Credit Property tax credit program, offered by some state governments, that provides reductions in property taxes to eligible households.