idiot savant
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ person who is mentally retarded in general but who displays remarkable aptitude in some limited field (usually involving memory)
international scale
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees
image scanner
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer
iris scanning
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ biometric identification by scanning the iris of the eye; "the structure of the iris is very distinctive"
Ixodes scapularis
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
incentive scheme
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something
infant school
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ British school for children aged 5-7
information science
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information
Isles of Scilly
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an archipelago of small islands off the southwestern coast of England near the entrance to the English Channel; formerly a haven for smugglers and pirates
Irish Sea
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland
Ionian Sea
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy
Inland Sea
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima
inverse secant
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the inverse function of the secant; the angle that has a secant equal to a given number
Interior Secretary
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the position of the head of the Department of the Interior; "the position of Interior Secretary was created in 1849"
Interior Secretary
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department; "President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior"
internal secretion
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect
International Relations and Security Network
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations
Indian senna
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ erect shrub having racemes of tawny yellow flowers; the dried leaves are used medicinally as a cathartic; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
interrogative sentence
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations"
immune serum globulin
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response