#argon

• Abort — An emergency command, action, or procedure used in computer science, programming, and aerospace technology to forcibly and immediately terminate a process, code execution, software application, or operational mission before its natural completion; (in medicine, literary) a rare term borrowed from English or Latin used as a synonym for abortion or the premature halt of an embryo's development or a pathological process.
• Absyrtus — In Greek mythology, a Colchian prince, son of King Aeëtes and brother of Medea. He is chiefly known for his tragic role in the myth of the Argonauts; during Medea's flight with Jason on the ship Argo, she killed and dismembered Absyrtus, scattering his remains in the sea to delay her pursuing father, who stopped to gather them for burial.
• Acastus — A Greek mythological hero and king of Iolcus, son of Pelias and Anaxibia. He participated in the famous Argonauts' expedition in search of the Golden Fleece (going against his father's will) and took part in the Calydonian Boar hunt. Following his father's murder instigated by Medea, Acast ascended the throne, expelled Jason and Medea, and organized grand funeral games, a legendary episode widely celebrated in ancient poetry and art.
• Acastus — The Latinate and international variant of the name of the Greek mythological hero Acast, son of King Pelias of Iolcus. As a legendary figure, Acastus is celebrated for his participation in the Argonauts' expedition for the Golden Fleece and the Calydonian Boar hunt, later ascending the throne and becoming entangled in dramatic conflicts with Peleus and Jason as recorded by Ovid and Apollonius of Rhodes.
• Adapto- — A combining form or scientific prefix used in international technical vocabulary to introduce the concept of adaptation, fitting, adjustment, or structural accommodation. It serves as a morphological base for forming complex neologisms in fields such as physiology, medicine, psychology, or complex systems engineering.
• Adjudicated — Definitively assigned through an auction, court decision, or administrative ruling; an asset or contract that has passed into the ownership or responsibility of the highest bidder. In auction terminology, the word is also used as an interjection to mark the closing of the transaction.
• Admetus — The traditional Romanian form for the name of Admetus, the legendary king of Pherae in Thessaly, famous in Greek mythology for being served for a year by the god Apollo and for the devotion of his wife, Alcestis, who agreed to die in his place to save his life.
• Adolescentism — A variant or synonym for adolescentinism; a collection of behavioral characteristics, affective states, and thinking patterns specific to the age of adolescence; a tendency to prolong juvenile manifestations into adult behavior. In linguistics, it can denote the excessive use of youth jargon or slang in standard public discourse.
• Dispatching — The act of addressing or dispatching and its result; the formal sending, directing, or registering of a letter, petition, or administrative notice to a specific recipient. The term represents a noun of action utilized within hybrid chancellery speech during transitional periods of the Romanian language, reflecting the formalization processes of official correspondence.
• Adulting — A sociological and behavioral concept adopted from Anglo-Saxon urban slang, used by younger generations (Millennials and Gen Z) to describe the act of behaving like a responsible adult and performing mundane or mandatory daily tasks, such as paying bills, cleaning, cooking meals, or managing a budget. It is often used on social media in a self-deprecating tone to highlight the psychological effort involved in transitioning to adulthood.
• Aeetes — Mythological king of Colchis, son of the sun god Helios and the nymph Perseis, brother of the sorceress Circe and father of Medea. He is celebrated in Greek legends as the original owner of the Golden Fleece, which he guarded with a monstrous dragon that never slept, becoming the primary antagonist of Jason and the invading Argonauts.
• Rookie pilot — A slangy, ironic, or pejorative term used in aviation communities or Romanian military jargon to designate a young, inexperienced pilot, a flight school student, or a novice who displays an overly confident or reckless attitude during flight.
• Aesonides — A Latin patronymic form utilized in ancient epic poems to designate a 'son of Aeson', being the structural literary title attributed exclusively to the hero Jason, leader of the Argonauts. This appellation emphasizes his legitimate Thessalian royal lineage and is frequently used by poets like Apollonius of Rhodes or Valerius Flaccus for stylistic textual variation.
• Aethalides — A character in Greek mythology, son of the god Hermes and Eupolemeia, the legendary herald of the Argonauts during the quest for the Golden Fleece. He was endowed by his father with an absolutely infallible and eternal structural memory, which did not fade even after death or after crossing the river Lethe, allowing his soul to remember all successive reincarnations undergone during its cosmic migration.
• Affiliate marketing — A hybrid concept heavily used in the Romanian online environment to describe the performance-based advertising system where a promoter receives a commission for generated sales; affiliate marketing. Although the inverted phrase 'marketing afiliat' is common, the hyphenated compound form 'afiliat-marketing' frequently appears as a technical term in advertising contracts, software modules, and SEO guides, not being listed in dexonline.
• Away from keyboard — Acronym borrowed from the English jargon 'away from keyboard', widely used in Romanian virtual communities, video games, and messaging platforms to indicate that the user is temporarily away from the computer or unavailable to respond. Although used as a standalone word in the current speech of young people, it is not included in classical academic Romanian dictionaries.
• Tone-deaf — A person lacking musical ear, unable to correctly perceive sound pitch or reproduce a melody; medically, it refers to an individual affected by aphonia (loss of voice). Informally, it describes someone completely incompetent or ignorant in a specific field.
• After — A term recently borrowed from English, used in modern urban jargon, advertising, educational contexts, or events, usually as a short form for 'after-school' (educational program after classes) or 'after-party' (a social gathering held after a main event). As an invariable adjective or adverb, it indicates a direct temporal succession.
• After hours — A neologistic phrase borrowed from English, initially used in economics and finance to denote stock market trading conducted outside official operating hours. In current urban slang, the phrase has expanded to designate parties, clubs, or social events that start late at night or at dawn, after classic venues have closed.
• Afterbeat — A neologistic musical term, borrowed from English, denoting a rhythmic accent placed on the weak beats of a measure (beats two and four in a four-beat measure). This structural technique is fundamental in musical genres such as jazz, reggae, ska, rhythm and blues, or electronic music, giving the composition a dynamic syncopated effect or continuous pulsation.