Testing
* are examinations
  - experiments
  - human activities
  - performance testing
* describes the use of tests for some purpose.
* discipline that is as important or more so than design or development.
* is an experience where the child is actively involved
  - important part of martial arts training
  - especially important in systems where bacteria is found
* is one of the basic tools of scientific and applied psychology
  - formal steps used to gather information
* is the integrity of any program to attack addiction
  - key factor in diabetes
  - principal engine of nuclear proliferation
* is the process of creating, implementing and evaluating tests
  - executing software with the intent of finding errors
  - trying to discover every conceivable fault or weakness in a work product
  - word everyone loves to hate
* method for strengthening things.
* process of executing a program with the intent of finding an error
  - verifying that a program does what it is supposed to do
  - that can be conducted in a manual or an automated fashion
* technique for obtaining information in an organized, reliable, and valid manner.
* thermometer for the health of education.
* way of measuring differences in treatment.

Unfaithfulness
* can hurt a relationship.
* is democratic by nature
  - harmful to society
  - quality

Urban myth
* abound about the birds being able to disembowel a man with their claws
  - in modern culture
* are a common feature of our society.

Utopian
* are impractical idealists or dreamers removed from reality
  - reformers
* have a very strict control on society.
* measure their months by the lunar cycle, and their years by the solar cycle.

Usability
* branch of software engineering and needs to be approached in an organized manner.
* can increase trust in a system, brand or product.
* combination of factors that effect the user s experience with the product.
* concern in the design of any product used by humans.
* continuous process.
* discrete discipline.
* is about knowing that the best feedback is often no feedback
  - psychological research, data collection, and data analysis
  - all about making information discoverable
  - at the state of using a stick to goad an ox in a certain direction
  - critical to the success of computer systems and products
  - defined by a product being easy to use, easy to learn and easy to remember
  - everything when it comes to editing digital video
  - gravy, earns little and risks much
  - important to thesuccess of hardware as well as software products
  - necessarily the next level in the Web's evolution
  - related to accessibility
* is the ability of a person to use something
  - concept of making things easy to use and understand
  - degree to which a user can successfully learn and use a product to achieve a goal
  - measure of the quality of the user's experience when interacting with a web site
  - usefulness
* means the ease of learning and using a software system.
* measure of ease of use and feature effectiveness.
* measure of the experience of the user when interacting with something
  - success of the design in supporting or enhancing human performance
* process, a product attribute, and a state of mind.
* refers to design features and how they stack up against human factors in site usage
  - ease of reading and chunking
  - the ease of use of the curriculum
* term that indicates the degree of user-friendliness of a system.
* very important area of engineering.

Urate
* are off-white, cream colored or slightly yellowish, and are opaque.
* are the result of digestion and metabolism of proteins in the bird's system
  - soft but solid white chunks that get passed usually along with feces

Urial
* can live even higher up.
* feed mainly on grass but are able to eat leaves of trees and bushes if needed.

Unlimited access
* is being connected and actively engaged in legitimate activity.
* user being at the computer using the internet or downloading media.