He had to look up acronyms that suddenly seemed new and nonintuitive.

Their level of accuracy, however, did not differ from that of nonintuitive subjects.

The latter interpretation is the viable, if nonintuitive, option.

Likewise, the side-view mirrors adjust in a nonintuitive manner.

"The regulatory environment is rather nonintuitive," Personick at Bellcore says mildly.

"Well, Windows is nonintuitive . . . counterintuitive, sometimes.

Nevertheless, rollouts whose results are consistently nonintuitive occur, and their results are usually accepted by most backgammon players.

Women who eat intuitively have lower BMIs than nonintuitive eaters; they also report higher levels of appreciation for their own bodies.

Yet this is as nonintuitive an activity for most autistics as, say, long multiplication is for most NT's.

When the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem is applied to first-order set theories, the nonintuitive consequences are known as Skolem's paradox.

"It's a nonintuitive idea, patterning fluids as Dr. Folch has done," Dr. Whitesides said.

This is so nonintuitive that a Microsoft spokesperson was unable to "squirt" me a demo song because he couldn't find a way to enter my underscored e-mail address properly.

Kiranti verbs are not easily segmentable, due in large part to the presence of portmanteau morphemes, crowded affix strings, and extensive (and often nonintuitive) allomorphy.

In fact, this combination of E-mail software with a contact manager, scheduler, electronic stick-'em notes and to-do list remains Office's weak link; it's confusing and very nonintuitive.

But when Ford Motor rolls out its extensive new advertising campaign this month for the completely redesigned 2002 Explorer, the company will be dealing with the safety issue in a nonintuitive way - by largely ignoring it.

Passwords that are nonintuitive enough to keep private information private can be a bother if you routinely visit secure Web sites (for shopping online, say) or if you use computers that are accessible to others.

The idea is that something nonintuitive occurs when any randomly fluctuating weak signal - the scientific term is "noise" - is fed into any highly variable system like a changing climate or a heavy person tottering on skinny legs.

Ignorance of beauty on the part of computer programmers, writes Mr. Gelernter, stemming from a combination of bad training and a pervasive attitude that to be concerned with beauty is somehow irrelevant to the supposedly nonintuitive demands of technology.

For example, the contact manager is also the E-mail address book, but adding an address from within the E-mail program is so nonintuitive that I often end up opening the contact manager to add an address that is sitting in an open piece of E-mail right in front of me.