This is another short group with a few common entries and a few misconceptions; in medias res, I thought was the middle of a legal matter, irredentism had a paper index card for it so that should have been well known but it wasn't, ipse dixit I thought was a toe, inveterate I thought lacked a backbone, intrinsic value is self explanatory, injunction and ineffable are common words and indubitable I learned from the cartoons, inchoate and indemnify are also rather common. I don't know what was wrong with me those days. Maybe my other self looked up those words or maybe I was stoned. Their presence is puzzling.
* ibi erit fletus et stridor dentium: Matthew 13:42 There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
* ichor: Greek Mythology The rarefied fluid said to run in the veins of the gods. Pathology A watery, acrid discharge from a wound or ulcer.
* ignoratio elenchi: also known as irrelevant conclusion, is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may or may not be logically valid, but fails nonetheless to address the issue in question. Ignoratio elenchi falls into the broad class of relevance fallacies. It is one of the fallacies identified by Aristotle in his Organon. In a broader sense he asserted that all fallacies are a form of ignoratio elenchi.
* il était une fois: once upon a time.
* illegitimi non carborundum: a mock-Latin aphorism jokingly taken to mean "don't let the bastards grind you down".
* immanentize the eschaton: trying to bring about the eschaton (the final, heaven-like stage of history) in the immanent world. It has been used by conservative critics as a pejorative reference to what they perceive as utopian schemes, such as socialism, communism etc. In all these contexts it means "trying to make that which belongs to the afterlife happen here and now (on Earth)" or "trying to create heaven here on Earth." Eric Voegelin in The New Science of Politics in 1952. Conservative spokesman William F. Buckley popularized Voegelin's phrase as "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" Buckley's version became a political slogan of Young Americans for Freedom during the 1960s and 1970s. And other nerds.
* impecunious: hard up: not having enough money to pay for necessities. Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
* impell: to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force, to impart motion to. His interest in the American Civil War impelled him to make repeated visits to Gettysburg.
* imperator: an absolute or supreme ruler. (in Imperial Rome) emperor. (in Republican Rome) a temporary title accorded a victorious general.
* impuissance: powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains active" helplessness, weakness impotence, impotency, powerlessness - the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
* in medias res: "into the midst of affairs (lit. into mid-affairs", refers to a literary and artistic technique where the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning (ab ovo or ab initio). The characters, setting, and conflict are often introduced through a series of flashbacks or through characters relating past events to each other. Probably originating from an oral tradition, the technique is a convention of epic poetry, one of the earliest and most prominent examples in Western literature being Homer's Odyssey and Iliad.[1] Other epics beginning in medias res include the Indian Mahābhārata, the Portuguese The Lusiads, the Spanish Cantar de Mio Cid, Germany's Nibelungenlied (The Song of the Nibelungs), and the Finnish Kalevala. Several Arabian Nights tales such as "Sinbad the Sailor" and "The Three Apples" also employ this technique. Virgil's Aeneid began the tradition in literature of imitating Homer,continued in Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, John Milton's Paradise Lost and "Inferno" from Dante's Divine Comedy.A modern example is George Lucas's Star Wars saga.
*in silico: (literally Latin for "in silicon", alluding to the mass use of silicon for semiconductor computer chips) is an expression used to mean "performed on computer or via computer simulation."
* inamorato: n. A man with whom one is in love or has an intimate relationship.
* inchoately: In an initial or early stage; incipient. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea. just beginning; incipient undeveloped; immature; rudimentary (Law) (of a legal document, promissory note, etc.) in an uncompleted state; not yet made specific or validi
* indemnify: compensate (someone) for harm or loss. secure (someone) against legal responsibility for their actions."the newspaper could not be forced to indemnify the city for personal-injury liability"
* indubitable: too apparent to be doubted; unquestionable.
* ineffable: incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable <ineffable joy> b : unspeakable <ineffable disgust>. not to be uttered : taboo ,the ineffable name of ...
* infra dig: (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (postpositive) Informal beneath one's dignity
* injunction: a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act. an act or instance of enjoining. a command; order; admonition: the injunctions of the Lord.
* instantiate: To represent (an abstract concept) by a concrete or tangible example: "Two apples ... both instantiate the single universal redness" (J. Holloway). (Philosophy / Logic) Logic a. the process of deriving an individual statement from a general one by replacing the variable with a name or other referring expression b. the valid inference of an instance from a universally quantified statement, as David is rational from all men are rational
* integument: natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind. any covering, coating, enclosure, etc.
* intermezzo: a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term has had several different usages, which fit into two general categories: the opera intermezzo and the instrumental intermezzo.
* interstitial: The space between cells. Meaning in between, an advertisement that appears in a separate browser window while you wait for a Web page to load. Situated in the spaces of a tissue. an advertisement that loads between two content pages.
* intrinsic value: oxymoron. In finance, intrinsic value refers to the value of a company, stock, currency or product determined through fundamental analysis without reference to its market value. It is also frequently called fundamental value. The actual value of a company or an asset based on an underlying perception of its true value including all aspects of the business, in terms of both tangible and intangible factors. This value may or may not be the same as the current market value.
intrinsic; belonging naturally; essential "access to the arts is intrinsic to a high quality of life"
value: the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something. a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life.
I don't know why that guy said intrinsic value is an oxymoron.
* inveterate: Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change he was an inveterate gambler
* Ipse dixit: he himself said it.
* irenic: aiming or aimed at peace.
* irrealis (irrealis moods) the main set of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to have happened as the speaker is talking. Every language has a formula for the unreal. The Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest have as many as five levels of "unreality", which are of real and practical use in a hunting society.
* irredentism: Italian irredento, "unredeemed" is any position advocating annexation of territories administered by another state on the grounds of common ethnicity or prior historical possession, actual or alleged. Some of these movements are also called pan-nationalist movements. A revitalization movement to reclaim a lost homeland.
* islamodespicio: despise, made up.
* iterative: relating to or involving iteration, especially of a mathematical or computational process. Linguistics
denoting a grammatical rule that can be applied repeatedly. Grammar
another term for frequentative.
* IVR: Interactive voice response
* Izvestia: a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper in Russia. The word "izvestiya" in Russian means "delivered messages"
2 comments:
At the time of its conception, the term in silico was meant to contrast to in vitro and in vivo experiments.
In vivo [in living] experiments were conducted in living organisms. In vitro {Latin vitrium, glass] were experiments in test tubes. In silico experiments became feasible when computers got "smart" enough to do them. Global warming modeling is a well-know example of in silico experimental modeling.
There is a fourth glass of experiments invented by Einstein which never got defined in Latin: Gedankenexperimenten: "thought experiments."
Impudence. I just know it's a word. I don't remember what it means right now.
In case anything happens to me I'm leaving ChipA in command.
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