Away mode is a new feature included in Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 that allows the computer to appear off to the user while it continues to perform tasks that do not require user input, such as recording television and viewing Media Center Extender sessions.
parosteal. Definitions: 1. Relating to the tissues immediately adjacent to the periosteum of a bone. The definition information for parosteal is provided by Stedman's.
adj. 1  1. Lying on the back or having the face upward. 2  2. Having the palm upward. 3  3. Marked by or showing lethargy, passivity, or blameworthy indifference: No other colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried (Theodore Roosevelt).