things 1

supersampling - used in games for anti-aliasing and texture filtering
kerning - when you squash letters together to make them look better
pitch tunneling - want all of your different pitches to be similar as possible until reaching batter
escrow - third party that holds funds until transaction is finalized
gomböc shape - has no steady balance point
expletive construction - it is... there are...
intersecting chords theorem - when two chords of a circle intersect, the product of the segments of one chord is equal to the product of the segments of the other chord
wet board - board w many possibilities for drawing a good hand
efficiency wage - the wage firm pays workers so that being fired actually hurts
masseter muscle - one of the muscles for chewing
cusip - nine digit num/alphanum that identifies NA stock
centibillionaires - 100 billion
khaen - bamboo mouth pan pipes
password salting - addition of unique random str of chars to password (usually in front) before it is hashed
CPL filter - used for reducing unwanted light reflection when take pictures through a window
ABE - Asus2
polysemy - same grammatical label but different meanings (paper and paper)
norway - has merged vowels
didgeridoo - wind instrument played by cont. vibrating lips to produce continuous drone using circular breathing
wet down - spraying water on ground for nighttime cinematic glow
elliot wave analysis - stocks go up and down based on fibonacci patterns
doublewide - mobile home consisting of two units that has been fastened together along its length
embarrassingly parallel - little or no effort needed to separate problem into number of parallel tasks
sanforization - denim treatment
ablaut reduplication - pattern by which vowels change in a repated word to form a new word or phrase (i.e. hiphop, tic tac toe, chit-chat)
Gödel's incompleteness theorems - in any reasonable math system there will always be true statements that cannot be proved
tschuss - bye in German
uniwidth font - same width across diff weights (light, normal, bold, etc)
non-traditional diamond shapes - ashoka, losange, kite, hexagon + elongated, step-cut elongated pear
back vent on a coat - was a way for military men to ride comfortably on horseback

a list of interesting things, part one (with explanation).
began collection in dec 2020.