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Ace: A serve where the tennis ball served is served in and not touched by the receiver, aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near the one of the corners at the back of the service box.

Surface Grinding: The process of grinding flat surfaces on a surface grinding machine. With special setups, angular and form surfaces may also be ground.

Swap Space: Disk space used by the kernel as “virtual” RAM. It is slower than RAM, but because disk space is cheaper, swap is usually more plentiful. Swap space is useful to the kernel for holding lesse . . . View Full Definition

Private Placement: If securities are sold directly to an institutional investor, such as a corporation or bank, the transaction is called a private placement. Unlike a public offering, a private placement does . . . View Full Definition

Face-Centered Cubic (FCC): One of the common types of unit cells in which atoms are located on each corner and the center of each face of a cube. Among the common FCC metals are aluminum, copper, nickel and austenitic . . . View Full Definition

Post-Placement Visits: Investigation and interviews with an adoptive family once a child has been placed with them.

Surface Plate: An accurately machined and scraped flat metal piece (usually of cast iron) used to check the flatness of surfaces.

Face Detection: Face detection is a recent technology commonly found in point-and-shoot cameras. It recognizes one or more human faces in your frame, and sets focus priority on the people in your shot. Let' . . . View Full Definition

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI): It is pronounced 'scuzzy,' and is a parallel interface standard used by Apple Macintosh computers, PCs, and many UNIX systems for the purpose of attaching peripheral devices to computer syst . . . View Full Definition

Aspherical Surface: Lens surface with more than one radius of curvature, i.e. The surface does not form part of a sphere.