Google thwarted me on another technical term. I tried in vain to get it to give me examples of 'cross product' outside the field of vector algebra. SOL's search facility found one usage, in Ryan Sylander's 'Shutter Release'. Unfortunately the preview didn't actually contain the term 'cross product' itself, so wasn't immediately obvious in what context it was used.
ETA a Google site search found it more precisely. It's in Chapter 59:
"Indeed, I was taken back to a vision center that was far away from here, where the cross-product of blindness and talent had led to unbelievable work, but also had delivered incapacitating panic..."
I remember the term from business data mining, but I think it appears in statistical analysis too.
Teacher: "What's a cross product?"
Jimmy: "Angry Birds."
AJ