Month: November 2020

  • Freemartin

    A sexually underdeveloped female calf bom twined with a male.  

  • Free floating anger

    A generalized displacement of anger to objects or persons that are neutral or that are unrelated to the true source of frustration, displacement of anger.  

  • Freedom from coercion

    In research, an ethical principle that requires that potential volunteers be free to participate or to decline participation in research without threat or punishment.  

  • Freebasing

    A chemical process of changing common, white cocaine powder into a purer, more potent, smokable form of cocaine base, which the user then smokes in a glass water pipe that is heated by a butane lighter or small blowtorch. The inhalation of a form of cocaine called free base.  

  • Freebase

    The most potent part of cocaine, obtained by heating the drug with ether. A highly addictive form of cocaine consumed by smoking. It is prepared by alkalinizing the hydrochloride salt, extracting it with an organic solvent such as ether, and then heating the extract to 90°C. The inhaled material is rapidly absorbed from the lung.…

  • Free answer test

    A test in which the learner uses his or her own words to respond to a relatively small number of questions.  

  • Freckle

    A dense pigmented area of the skin. A harmless small brownish patch on the skin that becomes more noticeable after exposure to the sun. Freckles are often found in people with fair hair. Small, flat, brown or tan discoloration on the skin, usually resulting from exposure to the sun; the tendency to freckle is hereditary…

  • Fraudulent

    Something that is not truthful.  

  • Fraternal twins

    Two offspring developed from two separate ova usually fertilized at the same time by two different sperm cells are no more genetically similar than ordinary siblings.  

  • Framing of questions

    In research and evaluation, stating a question in such a way that the respondent understands and reacts to the question exactly as intended, validity; reliability.