ExpertGlossary terms starting with S

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  1. shift operator See left shift operator and right shift operator.
  2. shift register A storage device, usually in a central processing unit (CPU), in which device a serially ordered set of data may be moved, as a unit, into a discrete…
  3. shiitake mushroom (shee-TAH-kee ...) A dark oriental mushroom widely used as a food. Several anticancer substances have been found in shiitake mushrooms, including…
  4. Shill A casino employee who pretends to be a player. Shills often play at empty tables in order to attract action.
  5. Shills A young lady, who works for the casino, used to lure players to the Baccarat table.
  6. shinbone The larger of two bones between the knee and ankle. Also called tibia.
  7. Shine-Dalgarno sequence A conserved sequence of prokaryotic mRNAs that is complementary to a sequence near the 5' terminus of the 16S ribosomal RNA and is involved in the…
  8. Shiner A member of the shiner family often used for bait. The most common in Arizona is the gold shiner.
  9. Shingle A unit composed of wood, cement, asphalt compound, slate, tile or the like, employed in an overlapping series to cover roofs and walls.
  10. ship Earth station A mobile Earth station in the maritime mobile-satellite service located on board ship. [NTIA] [RR]
  11. ship station A mobile station in the maritime mobile service located on board a vessel which is not permanently moored, other than a survival craft station. [NTIA] [RR]
  12. ship's emergency transmitter A ship's transmitter to be used exclusively on a distress frequency for distress, urgency or safety purposes. [NTIA] [RR]
  13. SHIPALT Ship Alteration.
  14. Shipments Traffic moving from one location to another where the origin is within the limits of the subject port.
  15. Shipper The consumer or business providing goods for shipment. A NVOCC also is a shipper in relationship to a VOCC.
  16. SHLW Shallow
  17. Sho-saiko-to A Japanese formulation of seven Chinese herbs that is being studied as a treatment for cancer.
  18. shoal A submerged ridge, bank, or bar.
  19. shock excitation Synonym impulse excitation.
  20. shock spectrum Synonym response spectrum.
  21. Shoe this is the wooden box that is used for holding and dispensing playing cards to be dealt.
  22. Shoe game A blackjack game dealt from a shoe. Multiple deck games are almost always shoe games, while single deck games are often dealt by hand.
  23. shoot apex See: shoot tip.
  24. shoot differentiation The development of growing points, leaf primordia and finally shoots from a shoot tip, axial bud, or callus surface.
  25. shoot tip The terminal bud (0.1 - 1.0 mm) of a plant, which consists of the apical meristem (0.05 - 0.
  26. Shoot-Back The technique of defending a space asset by shooting at an attacker. 264
  27. Shoot-Look-Shoot (SLS) A tactic used to achieve Defense Engagement Options (DEOs), such as assured kill by shooting at the target, looking to see if it was killed, and shooting…
  28. shoot-tip graft A shoot tip or meristem tip grafted onto a prepared seedling or micropropagated rootstock in culture.
  29. Shooter Another nickname for the bank.
  30. shopping basket In electronic commerce (also called "e-commerce"), an application allowing users of a commercial Web site to select products from the screen display as…
  31. SHORAD Short-Range Air Defense.
  32. Shore excursion A land tour, usually available at ports of call, sold by cruise lines or tour operators to cruise passengers.
  33. Shore ice An ice sheet in the form of a long border attached to the bank or shore; border ice.
  34. shore-fishing, shore-fish Fishing from the shore, as opposed to fishing from a boat or wading.
  35. Shoring Temporary bracing to hold the sides of an excavation from caving.
  36. short A Java keyword used to define a variable of type short.
  37. Short Circuit An electric current taking a shorter or different path than intended.
  38. Short Circuit Current The current flowing freely through an external circuit that has no load or resistance; the maximum current possible.
  39. Short Circuit Test Line The term "Short Circuit Test Line" denotes an arrangement in an end office which provides for an ac short circuit termination of a trunk or line by means…
  40. Short End The side of the bet that has to pay off less than it will win.
  41. short haul toll traffic A general term applied to message toll traffic between nearby points. In common usage, this term is ordinarily applied to message toll traffic between…
  42. Short interest Short interest is the total number of shares of a particular stock that investors have sold short in anticipation of a decline in the share price and have…
  43. short interruption event (SIE) An event beginning with the occurrence of a bit error ratio (BER) of 10-2 or worse, continuously for each of three or more consecutive seconds, which can…
  44. short interspersed nuclear element (Abbreviation: SINE ). Families of short (150-300 bp), moderately repetitive DNA elements of eukaryotic genomes.
  45. short message service (SMS) A service in GSM mobile telephony systems that allows the user to send and receive short (maximum 160-character) messages independently of voice calls; a…
  46. Short Odds Less than the true odds payoff for a bet.
  47. Short position If you sell stock short and have not yet repurchased shares to replace the ones you borrowed, you are said to have a short position in that stock.
  48. Short Range Air Launch Target Single-stage, air-launched, solid propellant theater target with threat representative reentry vehicle.
  49. Short Range Ballistic Missile (SRBM) A ballistic missile with a range capability of 30 km to 1,000 km. (USSPACECOM)
  50. Short rate cancellation Cancellation by the insured of an insurance policy for which the returned unearned premium is diminished by administration costs incurred when the…
  51. Short rotation energy plantation Plantings established and managed under short-rotation intensive culture practices.
  52. Short rotation intensive culture Intensive management and harvesting at 2 to 10 year intervals of cycles of specially selected fast- growing hardwood species for the purpose of producing…
  53. Short Run The limited amount of time during any given session when probability theory will seemingly be skewed by streaks and fluctuations. Also called Short-Term.
  54. Short Sale when the servicer allows the homeowner to list and sell the mortgaged property with the understanding that the net proceeds from the sale may be less than…
  55. short sales The sale of shares which the seller does not own. The seller is speculating that the price will fall, in the hope of later purchasing the same number of…
  56. Short Service The three methods of service described above each must be completed at least seven days before the first court hearing, but no earlier than fourteen days…
  57. Short Stack A number of chips that is not very many compared to the other players at the table.
  58. short strike When a fish hits at a lure and misses it.
  59. Short Term Forecast A product used to convey information regarding weather or hydrologic events in the next few hours.
  60. Short Ton 2000 pounds. A ton, as commonly used in the U.S. and Canada.
  61. Short Track NASCAR racetracks that are less than one mile long.
  62. Short Wave Fade (SWF) In solar-terrestrial terms, a particular ionospheric solar flare effect under the broad category of sudden ionospheric disturbances (SIDs) whereby…
  63. short wavelength In optical communication, optical radiation having a wavelength less than approximately 1 m.
  64. Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR) Thermal radiation emitted by a source in the electromagnetic spectrum encompassing infrared wavelengths of 0.75 to 3 microns.
  65. short-circuit operator An operator in which only as many operands are evaluated as are needed to determine the final result of the operation.
  66. short-day plant A plant which will not flower until triggered to do so by exposure to one or a number of dark periods equal to or longer than its critical period.
  67. Short-Fuse Warning A warning issued by the NWS for a local weather hazard of relatively short duration.
  68. Short-term placement Short-term placement allows an H-1B nonimmigrant to work at any worksite(s) in an area of employment not listed on the employer's approved LCA(s) provided…
  69. short-term retention retention of a record for less than ten (10) years.
  70. Short-throated flumes Short-throated flumes are considered short because they control flow in a region that produces curvilinear flow.
  71. shortcut key A key-press associated with a component in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that provides an alternative to selecting the component's operation with a…
  72. Shortwave Also known as Shortwave Trough; a disturbance in the mid or upper part of the atmosphere which induces upward motion ahead of it.
  73. shortwave irradiance The rate at which radiant energy, at wavelengths between 0.4 and 4 µm, is being transferred across an area of a surface (real or imaginary) in a…
  74. shortwave net radiation The difference between upwelling and downwelling broadband shortwave radiation.
  75. shortwave radiance A measure of the intrinsic radiant energy flux intensity, at wavelengths between 0.
  76. Shortwave Radiation In solar-terrestrial terms, shortwave radiation is a term used to describe the radiant energy emitted by the sun in the visible and near-ultraviolet…
  77. shortwave spectral irradiance The rate at which radiant energy, at specrally-resolved wavelengths between 0.4 and 4 µm, is being emitted upwards and downwards into a radiation field…
  78. Shortwave Trough Also called Shortwave; A disturbance in the mid or upper part of the atmosphere which induces upward motion ahead of it.
  79. Shoskeles An animated ad that moves across the browser, usually with sound effects. It animates only long enough to play a message before settling into a stationary…
  80. shot noise The noise caused by random fluctuations in the motion of charge carriers in a conductor.
  81. shotgun genome sequencing A strategy for sequencing a whole genome, in which the genomic DNA is initially fragmented into pieces small enough to be sequenced.
  82. Shotgun method Sequencing method that involves randomly sequenced cloned pieces of the genome, with no foreknowledge of where the piece originally came from.
  83. shotgun sequencing An approach used to decode an organism's genome by shredding it into smaller fragments of DNA which can be sequenced individually.
  84. SHOTL Simulated Hot Launch (missile engineering term).
  85. Shoulder (shell) The upstream and downstream parts of the cross section of an embankment dam on each side of the core or core wall.
  86. Shoulder season Those periods between the peak and off season when destination demand is moderate.
  87. Shouldered Arch An arch composed of a square-headed lintel supported at each end by a concave corbel.
  88. Showalter Index (Abbrev. SWI) - a stability index used to determine thunderstorm potential. The SWI is calculated by lifting an air parcel adiabatically from 850 mb to…
  89. Showdown The point at which all players remaining in the hand turn their cards over and determine who has the best hand - i.e.
  90. Shower A descriptor, SH, used to qualify precipitation characterized by the suddenness with which they start and stop, by the rapid changes of intensity, and…
  91. shp Shaft Horsepower.
  92. SHRA Rain showers
  93. SHRAS showers
  94. Shrink-swell potential The extent to which soil shrinks or swells with changes in soil moisture content.
  95. Shrinkage Loss of bulk of soil when compacted in a fill.
  96. Shrinkage index (SI) The numerical difference between the plastic and shrinkage limits.
  97. Shrinkage limit (SL) The maximum water content at which a reduction in water content will not cause a decrease in volume of the soil mass.
  98. Shrinkage ratio (R) The ratio of a given volume change, expressed as a percentage of the dry volume, to the corresponding change in moisture content above the shrinkage…
  99. Shrouded RVs Reentry vehicles enclosed in a material designed to shield its thermal and other characteristics.
  100. SHRT Short