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  • campaign: the period during which a blast furnace is in continuous operation; the period between the blow-in and the blow-out of a blast furnace
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • campaign: a series of operations in which material of the same origin or for the same purpose is processed in a fabrication plant or reprocessing plant
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • campaign: the working life of a furnace between major repairs.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • champagne: preparation of sparkling wine by refermentation under pressure in bottles
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • champagne: bottle similar to the Burgundy type,with very thick walls and an average capacity of 8 decilitres
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • chimpanzee: a man-like ape of tropical West and Central Africa
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • circumpacific: the known seismic faults along the eastern and western shores of the Pacific ocean, causing earthquakes and tsunamis in most of the countries concerned
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • circumpacific: the circumpacific and Indonesian belts of volcanoes correspond with zone of active orogeny
    Category: The cosmos

  • compact: a body produced by the compression of metallic or non-metallic powders in a die
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • compact: the cadmium sulphide cell is particularly --, usually even smaller than a barrier layer cell, and is thus suitable for building into cameras.
    Category: General

  • compacted: snow which has been compressed into a solid mass that resists further compression and will hold together or break up into chunks if picked up; specific gravity:0.5 and over
    Category: The cosmos

  • compacted: compacted waste is hauled to the dumping site and spread on the ground
    Category: Environment

  • compacted: close, clear-cut ice edge compacted by wind or current: usually on the windward side of an area of pack ice
    Category: The cosmos

  • compacted: compaction of natural subgrade soil below bed and sides of the canal with the object of utilizing the natural bond between soil particles to achieve a soil structure of greater strength
    Category: Building industry

  • compacted: measurement of soil or rock after it has been placed and compacted in a fill
    Category: The cosmos

  • compacted: in addition to these process wastes mentinoned in Table I,approx.200 m3(7000 ft3)of compacted trash consisting of paper,rags,wood,and machine-shop scrap is generated annually,which also requires disposal
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • compacter: machines or equipment(rollers or tampers)used for developing suitable compaction of earth-fill in embankments,rolled-fill dams,etc.
    Category: Building industry

  • compacting: deformation of the billet to completely fill the container prior to extrusion
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • compacting: pieces of floating ice are said to be compacting when they are subjected to a converging motion, which increases ice concentration and/or produces stresses which may result in ice deformation
    Category: The cosmos

  • compaction: reduction of the hollow space volume, for example, in waste as a result of added load
    Category: Environment

  • compaction: compaction involves the close-packing of the individual grains mainly by the elimination of pore-space and expulsion of entrapped water; this is normally brought about by the weight of t he overlying sediments
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • compaction: the artificial increase of the dry density of a granular soil by mechanical means such as rolling the surface layers,or for deep compaction driving sand piles,vibroflotation,or impact methods
    Category: Building industry

  • compaction: increasing the dry density of a granular material,particularly soil,by means such as impact or by rolling the surface layers
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • compaction: a series of techniques used for the reduction of space,bandwidth,cost,transmission,generating time,and the storage of data
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • compactness: extent to which a programming language contains no superfluous informations and is characterised by a power of expression
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • compactness: rocks occur in nature having varying degrees of --.
    Category: Building industry

  • compand: a combination of a compression process and an expansion process carried out successively on the same signal at two different points of a transmission path
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compand: a mathematically defined non-linear transfer characteristic used for companding
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • compand: in a telephone set:digital input-output bit stream converted to the equivalent analogue values by a codec
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compand: an a/d and d/a converter which employs a logarithmic transfer function to expand and then compress the analog signal range
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • companded: in a telephone set:digital input-output bit stream converted to the equivalent analogue values by a codec
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • companding: a combination of a compression process and an expansion process carried out successively on the same signal at two different points of a transmission path
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compandor: a combination of a compressor at one point in a communication path,followed by an expander at another point
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • companion: A steel or wooden hood with doors built over a small hatchway on a weather deck,house top or cockpit,for covering and making weathertight an entrance to the deck below.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • companionway: Steps leading from a companion hatchway to the deck below.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • company: a legal association of persons with a certain specified object; almost always for the purpose of profit
    Category: Law

  • comparability: the value below which the absolute difference between two single test results obtained under different conditions(different operators,different apparatus and/or different laboratories and/or different time)may be expected to lie within a specified probability
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • comparable: standards on the same product,processes or services,approved by different standardizing bodies,in which different requirements are based on the same characteristics and assessed by the same methods,thus permitting unambiguous comparison of differences in the requirements
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • comparative: licence award procedure based on the review and comparison of the quality of the projects against defined criteria.This method is widely used throughout the European Union
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • comparative: the product of the halt life 't' of a beta disintegration and a function 'f' that expresses the probability per unit of time that a beta transition will take place in a given nucleus(El sevier`s dictionary of nuclear science and technology)
    Category: Physics

  • comparative: relation between concepts involving their respective characteristics
    Category: Documentation and information

  • comparative: comparative study of educational theories and practices in various countries
    Category: Education

  • comparative: a statement prepared in a manner allowing the comparison of two or more given sets of figures
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • comparative: The study of diverse literatures and their interrelations leading to an understanding of literature as a totality in spite of the natural language differences.(1)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • comparative: Study of languages from the point of view of their history and their relationship to other languages.(1)Also training in the description of languages.(1)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • comparative: this is a variant of the comparative mortality figure and is a weighted average death rate,where the weights are the mean of the actual(current)population and the standard population both expressed in proportions on a common basis of absolute size.In this sense it is an index number of the Marshall-Edgeworth-Bowley form
    Category: Statistics

  • comparative: the ratio of the standardised death rate to the crude death rate in a standard population
    Category: Statistics

  • comparative: the principle that,under given technological conditions,specialisation in a product or service by the nation or other regional area enjoying a comparative advantage over all others in its costs of production,and the exchange of such a product or service,will do more for the common good than regional self-sufficiency
    Category: Economics

  • comparative: a message generator which is used to answer why-choice queries.It examines and compares the rank elements produced by evaluation functions to determine what roles they play in the selection of the chosen component,and then it creates appropriate messages
    Category: General

  • comparative: coverage of the same area or object taken at different times,to show any changes in details
    Category: Defense



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