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  • airmail: in May, 1918, the first -- route in the United States was established between Washington, D.C., and New York City.
    Category: Transport

  • blackmail: A specific case of extortion in which a person by giving notice that he will make known,report or reveal information which is disadvantageous to another person or another who is closely related to that other person,causes that other person to purchase his silence for a financial consideration.
    Category: Law

  • camaieu: drawing or print in two shades of the same colour as in a cameo
    Category: General

  • chain-mail: apron consisting of a mesh of small interlocking metal rings for protection against cuts and other cutting accidents
    Category: Labour

  • chain-mail: extra sleeves of small interlocking metal rings,which are pulled over the sleeves of the work clothes for protection of the arms from cuts and abrations
    Category: Labour

  • domain: a moveable magnetised area in a magnetised material
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • domain: a number of servers grouped together and named to simplify network administration and security
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • domain: In IBM`s Systems Network Architecture,a host-based Systems Services Control Point(SSCP)and the physical units(PUs),logical units(LUs),links,link stations,and all the associated resources that the host(SSCP)has the ability to control.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • domain: the set of objects that currently may be accessed by a principal
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • domain: within a magnetic material,a usually microscopic region which has a spontaneous magnetisation which is substantially uniform in magnitude and direction
    Category: Physics

  • domain: a group of nodes on a network that form an administrative entity
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • domain: a region within a piece of semiconductor in which the electric field is relatively homogeneous,although it differs markedly from that in a contiguous region
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • domain: that part of a network in which the data processing resources are under common control
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • domain: set theory:set of values of a same semantic type.The heading of a relation column is the domain name
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • greenmail: an antitakeover manoeuvre in which the target firm purchases the raider`s stock at a price above that available to other stockholders. The funds for the purchase are often borrowed; other stockholders are ordinarily excluded from the transaction
    Category: Economics

  • housemaid: inflammation and swelling of the bursa anterior to the patella,due to traumatism in those who are much on their knees
    Category: Medicine

  • jamaican: inhabitant of Jamaica
    Category: The cosmos

  • Mai: the total increment of a tree or stand(standing crop plus thinnings)up to a given age divided by that age
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • maiden: a seedling that has been neither lopped,pollarded nor coppiced
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • mailbox-type: a facility in which a message from an originating user is stored until the destination user requests delivery of that message
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • mailgram: Telegram delivered to the addressee through the post (USA).
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • mailing: a prepared list which contains the names and addresses of the persons to whom publicity or other material is to be sent
    Category: Statistics

  • mailing: in textprocessing,a special form of standard correspondence which needs no variable additions
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • mainlining: injecting heroin into the main vein of the arm or other vein.
    Category: Medicine

  • mainly: any member whose production of olive oil and of table olives in the olive-oil crop years and table-olive crop years 1980/81 to 1983/84 inclusive was, when converted into its olive-oil equivalent by the application of a conversion coefficient of 20 per cent, greater than its imports for the calendar years 1981 to 1984 inclusive
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • mainly: any member whose production of olive oil and of table olives in the olive-oil crop years and table-olive crop years 1980/81 to 1983/84 inclusive was,when converted into its olive-oil equivalent by the application of a conversion coefficient of 20 per cent,less than its imports for the calendar years 1981 to 1984 inclusive,or any member for which no production in either respect was recorded during these crop years
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • mainly-importing: any member whose production of olive oil and of table olives in the olive-oil crop years and table-olive crop years 1980/81 to 1983/84 inclusive was,when converted into its olive-oil equivalent by the application of a conversion coefficient of 20 per cent,less than its imports for the calendar years 1981 to 1984 inclusive,or any member for which no production in either respect was recorded during these crop years
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • mainly-producing: any member whose production of olive oil and of table olives in the olive-oil crop years and table-olive crop years 1980/81 to 1983/84 inclusive was, when converted into its olive-oil equivalent by the application of a conversion coefficient of 20 per cent, greater than its imports for the calendar years 1981 to 1984 inclusive
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • mainsail: fore-and-aft sail set on the after side of the mainmast.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • mainstream: smoke passing through the main body of the cigarette and through the filter(if there is one)
    Category: Medicine

  • maint: a teleprinter operating mode which allows the operator to change the service states of electronic mobile exchange hardware and reload the standby processor from the active processor
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • maintainability: a) the ease with which software can be maintained; b) the ease with which maintenance of a functional unit can be performed in accordance with prescribed requirements; c) ability of an item under stated conditions of use to be retained in, or restored to, within a given period of time, a specified state in which it can perform its required functions when maintenance is performed under stated conditions and while using prescribed procedures and resources
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • maintained: a command in which the output signal to operational equipment is maintained until the change of state is executed or until the end of a predetermined delay longer than the response of the slowest operational equipment
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • maintained: footcandles(minimum,maximum or average)calculated through application of a light loss factor
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • maintained: when the actuator is moved to the 'ON' position,a switch which makes and retains the circuit contact until the actuator is manually moved to the 'OFF' position
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • maintaining: the tube voltage drop within the range of current over which the voltage drop is substantially independent of current
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • maintenance: all inspections, servicing, modification and repair throughout the life of an aircraft needed to ensure that the aircraft remains in compliance with the type certification and offers a high level of safety in all circumstances; this shall include in particular modifications imposed by the authorities party to the arrangements referred to in (h) in accordance with airworthiness checking concepts
    Category: Transport

  • maintenance: all the operations concerned with maintaining circuits and switching equipments in a good functional state.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • maintenance: Treating addiction by supplying an addict with the minimum quantity of a drug necessary to support his habit
    Category: General

  • maintenance: a set minimum margin(per outstanding futures contract)that a customer must maintain in his margin account
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • maintenance: the process of inspecting or checking a unit or system to ensure it is functioning correctly,or to determine why it is not operating correctly.Repairing or renewing defective or damaged components,adjusting settings and controls to maintain the required or specified performance
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • maintenance: any activity intended to retain a functional unit in,or to restore it to,a state in which it can perform its required function
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • maintenance: payments(private or public)to cover the disabled person`s basic living expenses and other subsistence expenses essential to reaching his rehabilitation objective
    Category: Law

  • maintenance: the operations performed in preserving irrigation or drainage canals,hydraulic structures,service roads,and works in good or near-original condition without increasing its/their capital costs.Repairs are part of maintenance
    Category: Building industry

  • MAINTENANCE: D.the labor of keeping something (as buildings or equipment) in a state of repair or efficiency.
    Category: Building industry

  • maintenance-free: a battery that need not be refilled with water under normal circumstances
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • maitenance: a lead-acid battery in which the electrolyte is held in place in a gel or microglass mat(AGM)
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • maitenance-free: a lead-acid battery in which the electrolyte is held in place in a gel or microglass mat(AGM)
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • maitre: Floor manager or head waiter at a restaurant or catered function.
    Category: General

  • maize: a tall cereal grass(Zea mays)bearing kernels and typically large ears and long cultivated in America
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries



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