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		bigger_cheese 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmers and software developers lost the plot ... Physics has "Strangeness" and "Charm Quarks" My own field Materials Engineering has: "Hardness", "Toughness", Resilience", etc. which all describe different properties. "Ferromagnetic" or "Ferrimagnetic best believe those are different.

Oreb 6 days ago | [–]

And astrophysics has MACHOs and WIMPs.

sweetjuly 6 days ago | [–]

and, of course, can't forget the derivatives of position after jerk being snap, crackle, and pop [1] after, you know, Rice Krispies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...

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