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  • chameleons: group of specialised Old World lizards with the ability to change the colour of the skin according to external stimuli
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • coleopter: an aircraft having an annular wing,with the engine and body mounted within the annulus,and designed to take-off and land vertically
    Category: Transport

  • Coleoptera: beetles,the largest order(approx.40 per cent of all species)of insects
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • coleoptile: the(single)cotyledon of a grass seedling,which develops a sheath surrounding the plumule
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • Leo: July 23-August 23 (astrology); ca. June 20-ca. July 20 (astronomy)
    Category: Religion and philosophy

  • leonard: the Leonard control principle employs a motorgenerator set with alternating current power input and direct current propulsion power output on a common shaft.Rotating speed control is accomplished by varying the armature voltage in the direct current motor
    Category: Environment

  • leonine: stipulation reserving all or nearly all the profits to one of the partners
    Category: Law

  • leos: non-geostationary satellites in low-earth orbits.LEO concepts play a particular role in current proposals for satellite-based personal communications services
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • McLeod: a short-handled combination hoe or cutting tool and rake,with or without removable blades
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • mileometer: revolution counter for vehicles,and usually graduated in linear units
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • mononucleosis: an abnormal increase in the number of agranulocytes in the circulating blood.
    Category: Medicine

  • napoleon: a French twenty franc gold piece with the picture of Napoleon I or III
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • nucleolus: a small dense body(sub organelle)within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells,visible by phase contrast and interference microscopy in live cells throughout interphase.Contains RNA and protein and is the site of synthesis of ribosomal RNA.The nucleolus surrounds a region of one or more chromosomes(the nucleolar organiser)in which are repeated copies of the DNA coding for ribosomal RNA
    Category: Medicine

  • nucleon: proton or neutron forming part of the atomic nucleus
    Category: Physics

  • nucleoprotein: chromosomes consist largely of nuclei acids and proteins,joined here as complexes called nucleoproteins.
    Category: Medicine

  • nucleosome: The fundamental subunit of chromatin structure.Each nucleosome contains a central part,the chromatosome,in which two turns of the DNA duplex,each about 83 base pairs long,are wrapped in a superhelix around an eight-molecule complex of histones.
    Category: Medicine

  • oleo: a telescopic structural member designed to dissipate the energy at landing by the passage of oil under pressure through an orifice
    Category: Transport

  • oleoresin: a group of soft natural resins,consisting of a viscous mixture of essential oil(e.g.turpentine)and non-volatile solids(e.g.rosin)secreted by the resin-forming cells of the Pines and certain other coniferous and broad-leaved trees
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • paleoclimate: climate of a prehistoric period whose main characteristics may be inferred, for example, from geological and paleobiological evidence.
    Category: The cosmos

  • paleoclimatology: study of paleoclimates.
    Category: The cosmos

  • paleontology: science that deals with the life of past geological periods
    Category: History, ethnology, manners and customs

  • pleonast: variety of spinel
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • teleoperator: A device having sensors and actuators for mobility and/or manipulation,remotely controlled by a human operator.A teleoperator allows an operator to extend his sensory-motor function to remote or hazardous environments.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • ward-leonard: method of controlling the speed and direction of rotation of a direct current motor by varying and,if necessary,reversing its armature voltage by the control of the field current of a direct current generator supplying the motor armature
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ward-leonard: method of controlling the speed and direction of rotation of a direct-current motor which consists in feeding its armature with a variable voltage from a generator with separate excitation,the field current of which can be varied or reversed.This generator is part of a motor-generator set
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ward-leonard: a set consisting of one or more Ward-Leonard generators and one or more driving motors
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy



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