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  • a-contact: the control or auxiliary contact which is closed when the main contacts of the mechanical switching device are closed and open when they are open
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accommodating: policy where what is already happening e.g. a rise on prices, is allowed to continue
    Category: Economics

  • accommodation: shelter and board provided to destitute or vulnerable people,where these services cannot be classified under another function.This may be short term in reception centres,shelters and so on or on a more regular basis in special institutions,boarding houses,reception families and so on
    Category: Statistics

  • accommodation: provision of lodging and sometimes board to retired people either in specialised institutions(old people`s homes,nursing homes)or staying with families.The provision can be of temporary or indefinite duration
    Category: Statistics

  • accommodation: shelter and board provided to children and families on a permanent basis(such as in nursing homes and foster families)
    Category: Statistics

  • accommodation: a measure of the degree to which adjacent faces of adjoining peds are molds of each other
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • accommodation: it may occur that a test piece stressed beyond its elastic limit and not recovering after unloading its initial length,on being subjected to a series of loads and unloadings stabilizes at a length slightly different from the initial one.This occurrence is referred to as 'accommodation' and is observed with cast iron
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • accommodation: the adjustment of the eye,generally spontaneous,made for the purpose of looking at an object situated at a given distance
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodation: depends very much on the type of fishing,the vessel and its size.Inshore fishing vessels are always cramped,sometimes extremely so,and the workers on board are surrounded by the same conditions(for example,noise and vibration)both at work and at rest
    Category: General

  • accommodation: the ability of the eye to change its focus from distant to near objects
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodation: the ability of the eye to adjust or accommodate to different visual distances
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodation: lodging, food and services.
    Category: Domestic economy

  • accommodative: squint due to excessive accommodation in hypermetropes
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodative: the manifestation of esophoria or of that portion of total esophoria,resulting from accommodative convergence
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodative: 2.the ratio of accommodative convergence(A.C.)to accommodation(A.)usually expressed as the quotient of accommodative convergence in prism diopters divided by the accommodative response in diopters
    Category: Physics

  • accomplishment: the act of accomplishing: completion, fulfillment.
    Category: Language and literature

  • accordion: a portable wind instrument,with bellows-operated by hand,free metal reeds and two keyboards fitted with keys and buttons
    Category: General

  • accordion: a retractile cable with a series of equally-spaced transverse folds
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accordion: a type of printed-circuit connector contact in which the spring is given a corrugated or 'Z' shape
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • account: relationship between a financial institution and a customer
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • account: a stock exchange period,usually a fortnight,at the end of which transactions made during the account period must be settled,i.e.on the settlement day
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • account-only: a check which, due to the addition of one or several crossing marks, is limited in the way in which payment can be effected, with either the number of payees restricted or payment being possible only by a credit in an account; may not be cashed, but may only be paid into a current account; on the front of the cheque the words `account payee` are written
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accountability: duty imposed on an audited person or entity to show that he/it has administered or controlled the funds entrusted to him/it in accordance with the terms on which the funds were provided
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accountability: the quality or state that enables violations or attempted violations of ADP systems security to be traced to individuals who may then be held responsable
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • accountability: the quality or state which enables violations or attempted violations of an ADP system security to be traced to individuals who may then be held responsible
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • accountability: the concept underlying democratic responsible government that elected officials are responsible to the people for their actions.
    Category: Law

  • accountability: the obligation of a subordinate to answer to his superior for the exercice of authority in line with his delegated responsibility, for the performance of duties assigned to him.
    Category: Economics

  • Accountants: a clause entitling the insured to have a claim prepared by his own accountants
    Category: Insurance

  • accounting: charge
    Category: The European Communities

  • acorea: absence of the pupil
    Category: Medicine

  • acoustically: ../a record player includes..a speed-changing device to give angular velocities of 78 r.p.m. for coarse groove and 45 or 33 1-3 r.p.m. for fine groove records.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • acoustically: ..in separate, acoustically treated booths, the students...hear the program more clearly because they are freed to a greater degree from extraneous noise..
    Category: Building industry

  • acoustooptics: the study and application of the interrelation of acoustics and optics
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Adcock: an aerial consisting of a pair of horizontally-spaced vertical members connected,or coupled,differentially to a single output circuit and designed to minimise the response to the horizontally polarised electric component of the field
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • Adcock: a form of spaced-aerial direction finder for bearing determination,embodying one or more pairs of spaced vertical aerials,the members of each pair being differentially interconnected by transmission lines
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • address-complete: a backward register signal indicating that it is no longer necessary to send another address signal either causes immediate passage to the speech position to enable the calling subscriber to hear a tone or a recorded announcement of the national incoming network,or announces the transmission of a signal indicating the condition of the called subscriber`s line
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • air-conditioning: System that controls or reduces the temperature and humidity of the air in a room.
    Category: General

  • alcoholic: a person who is dependent on alcohol and shows personality and behavioural changes as result
    Category: Medicine

  • alcoholics: is an organization of individuals who have conquered their own habitual drinking.
    Category: Medicine

  • alcoholism: a chronic behavioral disorder manifested by repeated drinking of alcoholic beverages in excess of the dietary and social uses of the community.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • alcoholometer: hydrometer for measuring the alcohol content of a liquid
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • alcoholometer: an instrument for determining the amount of alcohol present.
    Category: Medicine

  • alcoholometry: determination of the alcohol content of liquids by physical or chemical methods
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • alcove: a large,deep niche formed by a stream of water in a precipitous face of approximately horizontal strata
    Category: The cosmos

  • alencon: needlepoint lace
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • Algol-compiler: compiler to convert a source program written in Algol into a target program
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • alnico: an alloy used for permanent magnets usually made up of nickel 18%,aluminium 10%,cobalt 12%,copper 6%,and iron 54%
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • amblyoscope: reflecting mirror haploscopic device consisting essentially of two angled tubes,help in front of the eyes like opera glasses,which can be turned on a swivel to any degree of convergence or divergence
    Category: Medicine

  • analytico-synthetic: a classification combining the principles of analytic and synthetic classification, i.e. dividing the subject field into some main classes and splitting the main classes into facets
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • anemoscope: instrument for checking existence and direction of slow air currents
    Category: Transport



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