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  • A-bracket: Twin screw vessels have propeller shafts extending outside the hull of the ship forward of the stern post.Such shafts are supported by a bearing in an A-bracket near the propeller,so called because the bracket resembles the letter A lying on its side.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • a-contact: the control or auxiliary contact which is closed when the main contacts of the mechanical switching device are closed and open when they are open
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • abaculus: a small tile of stoneware,composition,or glass used for mosaic pavements
    Category: Building industry

  • abacus: a device for performing calculations by sliding beads or counters along rods.An early(3000 B.C.)form of biquinary calculator
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • ablactation: the cessation of milk secretion in the breasts
    Category: Medicine

  • abreaction: ..includes not only the recollection of forgotten memories and experiences but also their reliving with appropriate emotional display and discharge of affect.
    Category: Medicine

  • abstracted: an abstracted form of a lumped model for a semiconductor process,in which assumptions of space-charge neutrality and of low-level operation enable considerable simplification to be made
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Abstracting: the act of preparing abstracts
    Category: Printing and publishing

  • Abstracting: the process of collecting together prices of work of same sort having the same unit of price and measurement
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • abstraction: the separation of the logical properties of data or function from its implementation in a computer program
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • abstractor: a person who analyses scientific or technical documents and makes abstracts of them
    Category: Documentation and information

  • ac: a 5-to 14-digit number entered using a touch-tone phone to identify the caller as a customer of the long distance service
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • ac: a packet assembler/disassembler which connects several local asynchronous terminals to a distant packet switch over a packet-mode transmission link
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ac: white or grey...patch, sheet or layer of cloud, generally with shading, composed of laminae, rounded masses, rolls, etc., which are sometimes partly fibrous or diffuse and which may or may not be m erged..
    Category: The cosmos

  • ac-dc: a type of telephone ringing which makes use of both ac and dc components-alternating current to operate a ringer and direct current to aid the relay action which stops the ringing when the called telephone is answered
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • academic: relevé des notes d`un étudiant admis à la préparation d`une maîtrise.
    Category: Education

  • academic: direction gouvernementale qui s`occupe des institutions d`enseignement ou individus qui s`intéressent à la politique canadienne.
    Category: Education

  • academic: à l`université McGill, personne chargée de faire la publicité et de suivre les dossiers relatifs à l`échange de professeurs (et d`étudiants parfois) entre le Québec et la France.
    Category: Education

  • acaricide: chemical preparation used against mites
    Category: The chemical industry

  • acaricide: a pesticide used against mites and ticks
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • acc: a circuit which automatically controls the magnitude of the chrominance signal
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • accelerable: a guarantee whereby a call for payment can be advanced if the loan is declared in default,before the maturities being guaranteed become payable
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accelerant: In firefighting,a substance,such as gasoline,applied to an igniting area with the aim of accelerating or activating the burning process
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • accelerant: A substance,often a swelling agent which,when added to a dyebath,accelerates the diffusion of dye into a substrate.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • accelerant: any substance such as oil,gasoline,etc.that is applied to a fuelbed to expedite the burning process
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • accelerate: distance required to accelerate an aircraft to a specified speed,and assuming failure of the critical engine at the instant that speed is attained,to bring the airplane to a stop
    Category: Transport

  • accelerate: the length of the take-off run available plus the length of stopway available(if stopway is provided)
    Category: Transport

  • accelerated: a test in which the applied stress level is chosen to exceed that stated in the reference conditions in order to shorten the time required to observe the stress response of the item, or magnify the responses in a given time. To be valid, an accelerated test must not alter the basic modes and/or mechanisms of failure, or their relative prevalence
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • accelerated: a stall experienced by an aeroplane under normal acceleration in excess of 1 g,as in a pull-out
    Category: Physics

  • accelerated: exposure of rubber material to controlled conditions so chosen as to produce in a short time the effects of natural ageing or of service life
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • accelerated: Crash course:one designed to provide specified training more quickly than normal.Intensive course:as crash course,particularly in foreign language teaching.
    Category: Education

  • accelerated: tests,the conditions of which simulate those encountered in practice,but which have been accentuated artificially to provide performance results in shorter periods of time
    Category: Technical and industry in general

  • accelerated: 1)erosion which takes place more rapidly or at a greater rate than the geologic norms.2)Erosion which has been increased above that which existed under natural environment either as the result of the destruction of vegetative cover or by some activity of man
    Category: Environment

  • accelerated: a system of training,usually given under government auspices or with its assistance,which helps adult workers to acquire,in a few months,knowledge and skills,so that they can,with the addition of any specific training required,occupy jobs demanding a defined level of qualification
    Category: General

  • accelerated: Unforeseen or unintented contact with or exposure to a substance that results from an external incident,such as industrial spillage or plant malfunction,or from a personal accident,such as unintented ingestion of contaminated material
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • accelerated: an issue or escrow solution which will pay off the debt in the least amount of time under the given revenue constraint
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accelerated: a technique of oxidation of a silicon surface in which the rate of diffusion of oxygen through the oxide,to form fresh oxide at the silicon surface,is accelerated by process conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerated: the methods designed to approximate,in a short time,the deteriorating effects under normal long-term service conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerated: laboratory simulation of what can happen to a food product during distribution and subsequent handling
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • accelerated: More rapid degradation of a soil-applied chemical by microorganisms,the activity of which has been modified,or enhanced,by their previous exposure to residues of specific pesticides.
    Category: The cosmos

  • accelerated: a system of depreciation which reduces the value of assets at a high rate in the early years to encourage companies,because of tax advantages,to invest in new equipment
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • accelerating: the process of running a machine up to speed after breakaway
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • acceleration: a) the rate of change of velocity; b) the act or process of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated. Negative acceleration is called deceleration
    Category: Physics

  • acceleration: in physics or mechanics, the rate of velocity change with time; Speeding
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • acceleration: rate of change of the velocity at the point under consideration along a specified linear ramp
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • accelerative: that part of the force at the periphery required to accelerate the masses of the train both in longitudinal and in rotary movement
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerator: any substance added to a developer to increase its rate of activity; among these are various alkaline agents used to raise the pH; quaternary ammonium compounds are also used
    Category: General

  • accelerator: an electrode used to increase the velocity of electrons or ions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerator: device,not carried on aircraft,for increasing linear acceleration on take-off
    Category: Transport

  • accelerator: compounds which increase the rate of rubber vulcanisation or enable it to be performed at a lower temperature,or a catalyst which increases the hardening rate of resins
    Category: Various industries and crafts



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