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  • absorbency: the ability of a paper or board to take up and retain a liquid with which it is in contact.Either the degree of absorbency or the rate of absorbency may be measured by standard methods of test
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • absorptance: the ratio of the absorbed radiant or luminous flux to the incident flux
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorptance: ratio of the radiant energy flow rate absorbed by a surface to the energy flow rate received
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • abundance: the mean concentration of an element in a geochemical reservoir
    Category: The cosmos

  • acceptance: the act of an individual or population of favourably accepting a product
    Category: Chemistry

  • acceptance: a declaration in a bill,made and signed by the drawee that he will obey the order for payment made upon him by the drawer
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • acceptance: the acceptance is an accepted bill of exchange
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • acceptance: acceptance of wines by the purchaser after tasting or analysing them
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • acceptance: consent to take submitted materials or product
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • acceptance: an agreeing,either expressly or by conduct,by the contracting officer to the offer or bid of a bidder for doing a particular work whereafter a contract is concluded and the parties become bound
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • acceptance: the procedure by which objects(e.g.software)are promoted from a 'test' status to one where they are allowed to be used in a different context,e.g.transferred into live operation or accepted for integration into a larger development
    Category: General

  • acceptance: procedure during which,according to a test plan,a system and its vehicles are tested for compliance with the specifications and applicable regulations
    Category: Transport

  • acutance: a measure of the ability of a lens to reproduce edges sharply
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adjacency: a relationship between two network devices,e.g.routers,which are connected by one media segment so that a packet sent by one can reach the other without going through another network device
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • adjacency: 1.Relates to character recognition and printing conditions.Reference lines designate spacing between two consecutive characters.2.a condition in character recognition in which two consecutive characters,either printed or handwritten,are closer than the specified distance
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adjunct: a treatment that is given in addition to the main or primary treatment
    Category: Medicine

  • adjunct: a modifier attached to a 'head',upon which it is dependent and from which it can be 'detached' without syntactic change in the sentence
    Category: Language and literature

  • admittance: the property of an electric circuit which enables current to flow under the action of potential difference
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • advance: Distance travelled by centre of gravity of a ship in a direction parallel to original course after the instant the rudder is put over.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • advance: contract under which money or fungible goods are transferred to the borrower and an equivalent sum or quantity of goods of the same nature and quality must be returned to the lender
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • advanced: a sum paid at the outset of a period by a member of a Protection and Indemnity Club for his right to indemnity by the Club
    Category: Insurance

  • advanced: term used in reference to ignition timing that describes the ignition event taking place before the piston reaches top dead centre
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • advanced: higher stage of development in certain applied sciences
    Category: Transport

  • advanced: a base located in or near a theatre of operations whose primary mission is to support military operations
    Category: Defense

  • advanced: a round shaped construction feature defined by several round sets (segments of the round feature) and used when more control over the resulting round geometry is needed
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • advanced: the leading element of an advancing force.the primary mission is to insure the uninterrupted advance of the main body.It has the following functions:a.to find and exploit gaps in the enemy`s defensive system b.to prevent the main body of the advancing force running blindly into enemy opposition c.to clear away minor opposition or,if major opposition is met,to cover the deployment of the main body
    Category: Defense

  • advanced: a state with a high level of national income per head, such as the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
    Category: Economics

  • advanced: any of the later thinnings in a stand
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • advanced: refinancing before maturity, to take advantage of favourable market conditions
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • advanced: the synchronising of activities of multiple organisations in the logistics chain and feeding back necessary information to organisations in production and/or physical distribution sectors on a real time basis, by fully utilising information technology and digital communication networks
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • advancement: money or property given by a parent to his child or, sometimes, presumptive heir, or expended by the former for the latter`s benefit, by way of anticipation of the share which the child will inherit in the parent`s estate and intended to be deducted therefrom.(Black`s,5th ed.,1979,p.48)
    Category: Law

  • advancing: a rotor blade moving,at any given instant,in the same direction as the aircraft,i.e.,upwind
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • advancing: In firefighting,extending the hose line to given area of action from the point where the hose carrying equipment has stopped
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • advancing: blade in a helicopter`s main rotor system moving forward in the same direction as the aircraft
    Category: Transport

  • advancing: moving the hose line toward a given area from the point where the hose-carrying apparatus has stopped
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • advancing: the period of combustion when a fire is spreading,usually accompanied by flaming combustion that releases heat to sustain the convection column
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • aerenchyma: a parenchymatous tissue of thin-walled cells with large intercellular spaces,serving for aeration and/or giving buoyancy
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • agency: abstract description of those functions of a local system environment which are needed to support the job transfer and manipulation(JTM)service
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • agency: D.that relationship between principal and agent which arises out of a contract...wherein an agent is employed and authorized by a principal to do certain acts on his behalf in dealing with a thir d party.
    Category: Law

  • alencon: needlepoint lace
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • alliance: the unit of next higher rank than the association in the Braun-Blanquet classification of plant communities
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • ALLOWANCE: An allowance allows you to receive part of your income free of tax.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • ALLOWANCE: the difference between the minimum limit of size of the hole and the maximum limit of size of the shaft.It is the minimum clearance(positive allowance)or maximum interference(negative allowance)between such parts
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • allowance: additional material left on tooth flank for finish machining
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • aluminium-zinc: aluminium alloy the chief alloy element of which is zinc,in amounts approximating to 5%
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • ambience: the background-sound quality of a listening room,surround processor,and/or recording
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anabranch: an effluent of a stream that rejoins the main stream,forming an island between the two watercourses
    Category: The cosmos

  • anc: a calling using telephone numbers consisting of numerals only
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • anc: the maximum ability of a substance to accept free protons,thus contributing to a decrease in the concentration of free protons in solution or to the stability of a chemical system upon the addition of acid
    Category: Environment

  • anchor: used for mooring ships of all tonnages,buoys,beacons,floating mines,etc.
    Category: Iron and steel industries



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