Terminology — Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Module

On the Subject of Terminology

"Optimization" (noun) - an act, process, or methodology of making something (such as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible

The process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as an increase by external addition or accumulation (as by adhesion of external parts or particles)
Actions or devices designed to negate or offset another
Containing repetition
In a coincidental manner; by coincidence
Stealing stealthily in small amounts and often again and again
A support for the arm
The state or fact of being incompetent
A substance that colors, dyes, or stains
Something that corrects or counteracts
One or more notes or tones preceding the first downbeat of a musical phrase; upbeat
To build, fit, or alter according to individual specifications
One who installs, maintains, operates, or repairs electrical equipment Arid land with usually sparse vegetation, especially such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of sporadic rainfall annually
An impervious material (such as a sheet of paper, thin wax, or woven fabric) perforated with lettering or a design through which a substance (such as ink, paint, or metallic powder) is forced onto a surface to be printed

An institution for the care of orphans
Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately
A thin watery or blood-tinged discharge
An empty or patently ridiculous act, proceeding, or situation A severe trial or experience
Having little or no education; especially being unable to read or write
Irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner
Failure to understand or interpret something correctly
An act or instance of exploiting
Belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development; crude, rudimentary
Not separated into parts or pieces; existing as a single whole; not divided
An act of quoting, especially the citing of a previously settled case at law
A part (as of an instrument) that goes in the mouth or to which the mouth is applied
A view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
A tool for turning screws
Divided or shared, usually used with "up"
An interference with or alteration in a planned, ordered, or usual procedure, state, or habit

A medicinal concoction
A movable bar attached to the fingerboard of a fretted instrument to uniformly raise the pitch of all the strings
To reduce to bankruptcy
Reduced to a state of financial ruin; impoverished
Of, relating to, or according to the methods or principles of geometry
To laugh with repeated short catches of the breath
Being out of order or having gone wrong
To cause (something, such as a particle and its antiparticle) to vanish or cease to exist by coming together and changing into other forms of energy (such as photons)
To confront with assured power of resistance: disregard
An accumulation of fragments of rock in geology
Something apparent to sense but with no substantial existence; apparition
Government by the people; rule of the majority
To put (a matrix) in a form with all the nonzero elements along the diagonal from upper left to lower right
To shut down and restart (a computer or program)
A person convicted of and under sentence for a crime
To find or prove to be guilty

To make (someone) ashamed or embarrassed
Characterized by placement of an operator after its operand or after its two operands if it is a binary operator
Not ambiguously; clearly, precisely
Sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed, or unhappy
To understand profoundly and intuitively
Easily broken or destroyed
Lewdly or profanely indecent
A supplying or being supplied with the necessaries of life
A compound of cyanogen with a more electropositive element or group
A coherent series of reasons, statements, or facts intended to support or establish a point of view
Groups or sets of three
The capacity (as of a military unit) to deliver effective fire on a target
A vehicle equipped for transporting the injured or sick
Easily broken or destroyed; fragile
Being evasive, unclear, or confusing
To weave together

A usually small part, member, or trace remaining
Having no home or permanent place of residence
The house or hall of an estate; mansion
A method or device for detecting and locating objects especially underwater by means of sound waves sent out to be reflected by the objects
Filled with or characterized by boredom
To reduce to one half
One of the independent variables upon whose value that of a function depends in mathematics
The act or process of calibrating: the state of being calibrated
A female partner in a marriage
Refused to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use
A small wind instrument in which sound is produced by the forcible passage of breath through a slit in a short tube
Something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified
To give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing
To allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction
To suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end
Tending to yield one outcome more frequently than others in a statistical experiment

A device used for printing, especially a machine for printing from photographic negatives
To cause intense suffering to; torment
A severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder
One that assumes false identity or title for the purpose of deception
One that programs, such as a person who prepares and tests programs for devices (such as computers)
In a poor condition or manner, especially in an inferior or imperfect way; badly
A vehicle that is supported above the surface of land or water by a cushion of air produced by downwardly directed fans
The practice or activity of betting; the practice of risking money or other stakes in a game or bet
The act, process, or means of keeping something within limits
The chance that something will happen; probability
One that serves merely for wages, especially a soldier hired into foreign service
Being like or similar to
The ability to create
The four-dimensional analogue of a cube

To an increasing degree
The difference between a value in a frequency distribution and a fixed number (such as the mean)
Not authorized; without authority or permission
To cause to cease to exist; to do away with entirely so that nothing remains
The top prize in a game or contest (such as a lottery) that is typically a large fund of money formed by the accumulation of unwon prizes
Of, relating to, or shaped like a torus or toroid; doughnut-shaped
Following in sequence
Of third rank, importance, or value
The quality or state of being proximate; closeness
Fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity; leaving no question as to meaning or intent
A mechanism that is relatively self-operating
Either of a pair of numbers (such as 2/3 and 3/2 or 9 and 1/9) whose product is one
The detailed plan or arrangement of an electric circuit
The name borne in common by members of a family
Relating to, characterized by, or based on competition
One that composes, especially a person who writes music

The product of all the positive integers from 1 to n
Having a common center
A picture, especially a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face
To claim, represent, or assert falsely
Free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject
The part of a fraction that is above the line and signifies the number to be divided by the denominator
A point at or near the center or middle
The act of aligning or state of being aligned, especially the proper positioning or state of adjustment of parts (as of a mechanical or electronic device) in relation to each other
At regular intervals of time
To get as one's own; to come into possession or control of often by unspecified means
A small part, piece, or thing, especially a brief, quotable passage
Altered from the original or correct form or version
In an explicit manner; clearly and without any vagueness or ambiguity
To acknowledge or take notice of in some definite way
To move or pass along or through

In an accidental or unintended manner; by accident
In a continuous manner; without interruption
An itemized list of current assets: such as a list of goods on hand
Moving or shining irregularly or unsteadily
Not relevant; inapplicable
Of, relating to, or being a cycle
Consisting of both letters and numbers and often other symbols (such as punctuation marks and mathematical symbols)
To pay no attention to; treat as unworthy of regard or notice