Key terms & definitions

A one-input logic gate that reverses the input state: LOW becomes HIGH and HIGH becomes LOW.

Observing or paying attention. In the play, watching and overhearing repeatedly lead characters to interpret appearances incorrectly.

Someone who has recently become wealthy, often described with an implication that their wealth exceeds their accepted social standing or refined manners.

A short prose narrative, longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.

A narrative in which social behaviour, customs and relationships are central to the plot and its criticism of society.

A hostile label used for German politicians associated with accepting the November 1918 armistice and the subsequent peace settlement.

Latin for ‘final words’; in this succession dispute, a king’s deathbed declaration naming his successor.

The National Organisation for Women, founded in 1966 to campaign for women's equality through changes in laws and institutions.

A non-player character controlled by the game rather than directly by a player.

A fertiliser containing compounds that supply nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

The National Socialist German Workers’ Party, usually called the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler.

Non-starch polysaccharides: plant carbohydrates, other than starch, that human digestive enzymes cannot break down.

A temperature-sensitive resistor whose resistance falls as its temperature rises.

A temperature-dependent resistor with a negative temperature coefficient: its resistance decreases as its temperature increases.

A rule that gives a term directly from its position number $n$.

A rule that gives a term directly from its position number $n$.

A rule that calculates a term directly from its position number $n$.

Prophethood: the belief that Allah chooses prophets to communicate his guidance to humanity.

The electrostatic attraction between the positively charged nucleus and a negatively charged electron.

A sequence of nuclear fissions in which neutrons released by one fission cause further nuclei to split.

The positive electric charge of a nucleus, produced by its protons.

The total positive charge of an atomic nucleus, determined by its number of protons.

The argument that possessing nuclear weapons discourages an enemy from attacking because it fears devastating retaliation.

Preventing an attack by making an opponent fear nuclear retaliation.

Energy released from atomic nuclei and used to generate electricity. Nuclear fuel is finite, so nuclear energy is non-renewable.

An energy store associated with the arrangement and interactions of particles within an atomic nucleus.

An equation that represents a change in an atomic nucleus, with mass numbers and atomic numbers balanced on both sides.

An equation representing a change in a nucleus, showing the original nucleus and the nucleus and radiation produced.

A family consisting of two parents and their children.

A couple and their child or children.