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  • aardvarks: family of the order Tubulidentata
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • activate: to induce radioactivity by irradiation
    Category: Physics

  • activate: to put into existence by official order a unit,post,camp,station,base or shore activity which has previously been constituted and designated by name or number,or both,so that it can be organized to function in its assigned capacity
    Category: Defense

  • activated: consists of selected colloidal clay activated by means of an acid or an alkali
    Category: Mining

  • activated: an installation consisting of two fins,one on each side of the ship.The fins are so controlled that as the ship rolls,the forward speed causes the water to exert a pressure on the fins,thus providing a definite righting couple.Also called Denny-Brown stabilizer
    Category: Transport

  • activated: of a TE: normal active state with the protocol activated in both directions; both the NT and the TE are transmitting normal frames
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • activated: clayey earth activated by means of an acid or an alkali
    Category: Mining

  • activated: a form of porous carbon capable of adsorbing volatiles
    Category: Physics

  • activated: the sludge floc produced in raw or settled sewage by the growth of zoogleal bacteria and other organisms in the presence of dissolved oxygen,and accumulated in sufficient concentrations by returning floc previously formed
    Category: Environment

  • activated: a form of carbon with a large surface area,heated to drive off impurities,and with a large absorptive capacity
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • activated: a coal getting plough having power operated cutting blades to which a vibratory or oscillating motion is imparted,to improve the cutting action
    Category: Mining

  • activated: carbon,mostly of vegetable origin,and of high adsorptive capacity
    Category: Mining

  • activated: A certain form of granular oxide that can absorb vapours or liquids for pollution control
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • activated: partially dehydrated aluminium hydroxide,a useful dessicant and catalyst
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • activated: consists of kieselguhr and other selected siliceous fossil earths
    Category: Mining

  • activated: minute trace of a foreign material,without influence on the physical and chemical properties of the extremely pure bulk material,but markedly influencing its electrical behaviour
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • activated: an oncogene which when incorporated into the genome of the animal, increases the probability of development of neoplasms
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • Activating: a substance which when added to a mineral pulp promotes flotation in the presence of a collecting agent
    Category: Mining

  • activation: function which places a system,or part of a system which may have been in a low power consumption mode during deactivation,into its fully operating mode
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • activation: the representation of a procedure created by the invocation of that procedure
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • activation: process which gives a card the required operational capability for the cardholder
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • activation: process of inducing radioactivity by irradiation
    Category: Physics

  • activation: an action taken by either the service provider,the subscriber or the system to enable a process to run as and when required by the service concerned.The time during which the process is activated is defined as the active phase.During activiation the service will be either 'operative' or 'quiescent' according to whether or not the system is actually using the service,e.g.to forward a call or to apply call waiting indication
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • activation: D.the treatment applied to a cathode in order to create or increase its emission...p.42..
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • activator: an impurity,or displaced atom,which increases the luminescence efficiency of a material to be used as a scintillating material
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • activator: in rubber technology,a compounding ingredient used in small proportions to increase the power of an accelerator
    Category: The chemical industry

  • adjuvant: a) a substance, solid or liquid, that, when added to a pesticide, increases its effectiveness, e.g. a solvent, diluent, carrier, emulsifier, spreader, or sticker; b) also any pesticide added to another
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • adjuvant: A substance that is not antigenic but,when mixed with an antigen,enhances antibody production.Adjuvants are used therapeutically since they help to produce antibody against small amounts of antigen and to prolong the period of antibody production.Adjuvants work by inducing an inflammatory response that leads to a local influx of antibody-forming cells.
    Category: Medicine

  • adjuvant: any substance added to herbicides,such as wetting or spreading agents,which modify their physical characteristics and increase their killing power
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • 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

  • aggravate: a risk attached to an unfavourable feature
    Category: Insurance

  • aggravate: Theft committed by a person who either steals on a professional basis,commits the offence as a member of a group formed for the purposes of carrying out repeated robberies or thefts,carries a firearm or other dangerous weapon with him for the purpose of committing theft,or who commits the offence by any other particularly dangerous means.
    Category: Law

  • aggravate: Robbery committed by a person who for this purpose carries a firearm or other dangerous weapon with him,commits the offence as a member of a group formed for the purposes of carrying out repeated robberies or thefts,or commits the offence by any other particularly dangerous means.
    Category: Law



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