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  • attosecond: a billionth of a billionth of a second
    Category: General

  • bisect: a diagram of the above-ground portions of plants and also showing the whole plants,i.e.roots and shoots,in one or more vertical profiles
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • cheesecloth: a very lightweight unsized cotton fabric loosely woven in plain weave and used...in cheese-making and...also for surgical gauze, costumes, curtains, and wrapping for food.
    Category: Domestic economy

  • cheesecloth: a lightweight, thin, loosely woven, carded cotton cloth made in a plain weave...the material is sized and stiffened in finishing..
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • consecration: one used with others in the ceremony of consecrating a church
    Category: General

  • Consecutive: pertaining to the occurrence of two sequential events without the intervention of any other such event
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • cosec: antenna which gives a narrow vertical fan-shaped beam such that the power flux density radiated(and received)in any direction,within a certain angular range,is proportional to the square of the cosecant of the angle above or below the horizontal plane through the origin of the beam.Commonly used in airborne reconnaissance radar because it gives approximately uniform signal intensity for echoes received from near and distant targets on the Earth`s surface and within the azimuthal coverage of the beam
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • cosecant: a narrow vertical fan-shaped beam such that the power flux density radiated in any direction within a certain angular range is proportional to the square of the cosecant of the angle above or below the horizontal plane through the origin of the beam
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • cross-section: graphical representation of the meteorological conditions observed simultaneously in a vertical section of the atmosphere, taken along a selected horizontal line.
    Category: The cosmos

  • cross-section: the measure of the probability of a specified interaction between an incident radiation and a target particle or system of particles.It is the reaction rate per target particle for a specified process divided by the flux density of the incident radiation or microscopic cross-section
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • cross-section: The section of a stream perpendicular to the main direction of flow.
    Category: Building industry

  • cross-sectional: a set of data involving observations taken at one point in time
    Category: Statistics

  • cross-sectional: a study conducted at a single point in time by,so to speak,taking a slice(a cross section)of a population at a particular time
    Category: Statistics

  • cross-sectional: an analysis on the basis of a cross section i.e. the same things at the same time as opposed to a time series, i.e. the same things at a different time
    Category: Statistics

  • cross-sectional: the sum of the cross-sectional areas of its component wires,that of each wire being measured perpendicular to its individual axis
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • cross-sectioning: staking out the limits of a transverse section of a ditch or levee
    Category: Building industry

  • diseconomy: an increase in the scale of production after a point may in some cases bring certain diseconomies: administration, for example may become more complex and so more expensive
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • diseconomy: Occurs when,as a firm grows larger,management becomes less efficient,raw material costs rise because local supplies are exhausted or for similar reasons.
    Category: Economics

  • dissection: cutting up of an organism for study
    Category: Medicine

  • dissection: the dissection into its components of a distribution which is composed of two or more distributions
    Category: Mathematics

  • dissector: in optical character recognition,a mechanical or electronic transducer that sequentially detects the level of light in different areas of a completely illuminated sample space
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • euro-securities: transferable securities which:1)are to be underwritten and distributed by a syndicate at least two of the members of which have their registered offices in different States, and; 2)are offered on a significant scale in one or more States other than that of the issuer`s registered office, and; 3)may be subscribed for or initially acquired only through a credit institution or other financial institution
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • glossectomy: amputation of the tongue
    Category: Medicine

  • hypophysectomy: surgical removal of the pituitary gland
    Category: Medicine

  • hyposecretion: secretion in quantity below the normal
    Category: Medicine

  • insect: Any animal of the class Insecta,comprising small,air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts(head,thorax,and abdomen),and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • insect: a) a bore hole in plant tissue, particularly wood or bark, made by an adult insect for oviposition, entry or emergence, or by a larva when feeding; b) (mostly larval) tunnels of wood-boring insects, sometimes packed with frass
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • insect: A bore hole in wood or bark made by an adult insect or by a larvae.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • insect: Increase in numbers of insects in a forest or a stand,e.g.Zeiraphera diniana or Choristoneura fumiferana.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • insect-infested: coffee bean containing one or more insects
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • insecticide: a pesticide employed against insects
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • insectivores: an order of mammals comprising the moles,shrews,hedgehogs etc.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • intersect: as the earth in its circuit of the sun intersects the comet orbit, the high concentration of meteors leads to a great increase in the number of shooting stars.
    Category: The cosmos

  • intersecting: plane where the centrelines cross each other
    Category: Transport

  • intersecting: plane which is common to two or more geometric configurations
    Category: Transport

  • intersecting: two or more runways that cross or meet one another
    Category: Transport

  • intersecting: many airports have two or more runways in different directions crossing each other or separated slightly at the ends. These are referred to...as 'intersecting' and 'nonintersecting' patterns.
    Category: Transport

  • intersecting: it is called an intersecting or 'intersector' gillbox...because...The rows of pins in each set of fallers 'intersect' and are withdrawn alternately from the sliver.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • intersection: for the purpose of Office Document Architecture(ODA):the common area of two or more layout objects that overlap each other partially or fully on the presentation medium
    Category: General

  • intersection: point at which two or more traffic flows meet
    Category: Transport

  • intersection: is the fixing of the position of an object on a plane table by rays drawn from three or more previously fixed positions at which the plane table has been set up
    Category: Transport

  • leap-second: a time step of one second,used to adjust Coordinated Universal Time to ensure approximate agreement with international universal time
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • lux-second: an SI unit of light exposure.The light exposure produced by a quantity of light of 1 lumen-second on a surface of area 1 square metre
    Category: Physics

  • microsecond: one-millionth of a second
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • microsection: Thin layer of wood(approx.10-20 m)cut out from the surface of a wood sample with a microtome and prepared for microscopic examination in dendrochronology and wood anatomy.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • midsection: Intersection of a transverse vertical plane equidistant from the forward and after perpendiculars with the surface of the hull.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • millisecond: one-thousandth of a second
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • multi-section: coil consisting of two or more coil sections or a group of turns,each section or group being individually insulated
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • multi-sector: a collective agreement whose scope covers an entire industry or part of an industry,or a range of similar enterprises relating to the product,nature of productions process or raw material...
    Category: Law

  • multisectorial: activity or system that implies and needs coordination at many levels between and among the many disciplines involved in managing the situation, e.g. disaster
    Category: Management in the public and private sector



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