#script
- Historical audience — An archaic, historical, or regional variant for the noun 'audiență'; the act of listening to or receiving someone solemnly; an official interview granted by a public or ecclesiastical authority, reflecting old administrative linguistic transitions.
- To auto-calculate — To perform a calculation automatically and independently, without direct human user intervention, by means of a predefined algorithm or software script. In modern data management systems or spreadsheets, it describes a variable's capacity to update its value instantly.
- Self-description — The act of self-describing and its result; a detailed presentation, portrayal, or characterization that a person makes of their own physical, moral, psychological, or professional traits. In computer science, it describes the structural property of a data format or software object to contain its own definition metadata, allowing external systems to understand its structure without extra schemas.
- Self-description — A neologistic, rare, or literary variant for self-description; the formal act of specifying, framing, or describing one's own identity or structural parameters, performed based on a rigorous internal analytical analysis. It is primarily used when working with theoretical models of consciousness or in semiotics.
- Film self-adaptation — The film adaptation of a literary work carried out as a director or screenwriter by the author of the original writing themselves; an autonomous cinematic transposition where the writer assumes total artistic control over adapting their own text for the screen.
- Autograph — A handwritten signature, short text, or dedication written by a person's own hand (especially a prominent personality from arts, sports, or science), offered as a memento or token of esteem. As an adjective, the term designates a manuscript, document, or letter written entirely by the author themselves, guaranteeing its historical authenticity.
- Autoradiographic — Relating to or concerning autoradiography or an autoradiograph; executed, detected, or documented through the use of photographic emulsions or sensors sensitive to endogenous isotopic emissions. In a structural sense, it defines laboratory techniques, analyses, images, or protocols based on the self-exposure of radioactive samples onto visual recording media, used for the precise localization of labeled molecules within cells or tissues.
- Autumnal — Belonging to autumn, relating to autumn; specific to this season through climatic, chromatic, or atmospheric characteristics; melancholic, nostalgic, or pale, suggesting the decline of nature or the specific ambiance of autumn months.
- Chaos — A state of total disorder, chaotic mixture, jumble, or generalized confusion in which things, ideas, or people are piled together without any rule or logic. Figuratively, it describes a tumultuous agitation, a tangled vision, or a rapid and uncontrolled succession of events or thoughts that overwhelm an individual's capacity of perception.
- Avaricious — Manifesting avarice; a person dominated by exaggerated stinginess, who hoards wealth with fierce selfishness and stubbornly refuses to share or consume what they possess. Used as an adjective, it describes a behavior, gesture, or character marked by the obsessive withholding of material resources and a complete lack of generosity.
- Fitted — Having fitted, harmonized, or come into agreement within a specific situation; additionally, the adjectival meaning can indicate something appropriate, convenient, or well-timed at an opportune moment. As a past participle of the archaic verb 'aveni', it describes the state of an object precisely crafted to interlock with another or a local agreement successfully settled according to rural customs.
- Adventurer — A person who stubbornly seeks adventures, risks, and unpredictable situations, often living an unstable life or traveling through unknown places; in a pejorative sense, it describes an unscrupulous individual, an impostor, or a speculator who takes advantage of uncertain circumstances or the good faith of others to obtain material gain or unmerited social standing. As an adjective, it qualifies a spirit, behavior, or action marked by a taste for risk and hazard.
- Aventurist — A person who acts with levity, irresponsibility, and a spirit of hazard, engaging in dangerous projects without the necessary resources or a coherent plan; used as an adjective, it describes a decision, policy, or attitude marked by irresponsibility and useless risks. In a historical and ideological context, the term denotes those leaders who rely solely on speculative strokes of theater to advance.
- Averroist — A person who adheres to the principles of Averroism or closely studies the commentaries of Averroes; as an adjective, it describes a work, idea, school of thought, or argumentation closely linked to radical medieval rationalism and Ibn Rushd's Aristotelian interpretations. Representatives of this group often advocated for the autonomy of reason in relation to official theology.
- Averroist — A person who adheres to the principles of Averroism or closely studies the commentaries of Averroes on Aristotelian works; as an adjective, it describes a work, idea, school of thought, or argumentation closely linked to radical medieval rationalism and Ibn Rushd's interpretations. Representatives of this group often advocated for the full autonomy of human reason in relation to official theology within medieval universities.
- Avestan — The feminine gender form for the adjective 'avestic'; it directly denotes the Avestan language (as a feminine noun), the Eastern Iranian idiom used in antiquity for drafting the Zoroastrian scriptures. As an adjective, it qualifies a writing, doctrine, historical stage, or a cultural and phonetic feature closely linked to the early Persian civilization and the texts included in the Avesta.
- Aviform — Having the shape of a bird, structurally resembling a bird, or presenting exterior morphological characteristics specific to the avian class; a term used in comparative anatomy, paleontology (for describing certain dinosaur fossils), and in design or art to qualify objects or structures mimicking a bird's profile, silhouette, or details.
- Demeaned — Having been demeaned, degraded, humiliated, or deprived of dignity, value, and prestige; a person brought into a deplorable state, despised, or marginalized by society. As a past participle of the obsolete verb 'a avili' (derived from the French 'avilir'), it describes the process of moral, material, or social depreciation of an individual, an institution, or an abstract concept.
- Avranches — A historical town, commune, and former bishopric in the Manche department, Normandy region, situated in northwestern France. Perched on a strategic hill offering a spectacular panorama over the Mont-Saint-Michel bay, the town is famous in world history for housing the precious medieval manuscripts of the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey, for its role in the reconciliation of King Henry II of England after the murder of Thomas Becket, and for its tactical importance in the Allied military breakthrough during World War II (Operation Cobra).
- Avrutd — An archaic hypercorrect graphic form, corrupted, or paleographic transcription error found in medieval manuscripts for names in the 'Abrud / Avrud' family. It represents a parasitic hybrid consonantal insertion (the 'td' group), specific to the orthographic hesitations of copyists in old chancelleries who tried to render local phonetisms through foreign spellings.