Glossary

(IEEE) A storage allocation technique in which programs or data are divided into fixed length blocks called pages, main storage/memory is divided into blocks of the same length called page frames, and pages are stored in page frames, not necessarily contiguously or in logical order, and pages are transferred between main and auxiliary storage as needed.

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Polyamide Imide

Personnel Airlocks

Programmable Array Logic

The study of the fossil record of past geological periods and of the phylogenetic relationships between extinct and contemporary plant and animal species.

Originally a word, sentence or verse that reads the same from right to left as it does from left to right. In biotechnology, the term is applied to a segment of DNA in which the base-pair sequence reads the same in both directions from a central point of symmetry.

Peptidyl-glycine alpha-Amidating Monooxygenase

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Patogen-associated Molecular Pattern

Polyacrylonitrile

An epidemic over an especially wide geographic area.

Pan American Network on Drug Regulatory Harmonization

Polyaniline

Polyalphaolefin

A synthetic oil used in lieu of DOP for HEPA filter testing.

Proven Acceptable Range

Polyarylamide

(IEEE) Pertaining to the simultaneous processing of individual parts of a whole, such as the bits of a character or the characters of a word, using separate facilities for the various parts.

(IEEE) Pertaining to the simultaneity of two or more processes.

Term describing simultaneous transmission of the bits making up a character, usually eight bits (one byte).

The development of different organisms along similar evolutionary paths due to similar selection pressures acting on them.

(ISO) Testing a new or an altered data processing system with the same source data that is used in another system. The other system is considered as the standard of comparison. Synonymous: Parallel Run.