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  • 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

  • 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

  • acrocephalosyndactylism: 2)congenital malformation of the skull in association with complete or partial webbing of the fingers and toes
    Category: Medicine

  • act: a tax payable by corporations in respect of dividends paid.It can be offset against a company`s liability to corporation tax
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • act: one of the periods into which the action of a play is divided.
    Category: General

  • act: the fraction of the software product`s source code which changes during a year,either through addition or modification
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • act: to portray a character in a play or perform upon the stage as singer or variety artiste.
    Category: General

  • ACTEUR: network of national institutes for working conditions
    Category: Labour

  • actinic: portion of the sun`s radiation rich in ultra-violet rays having a strong effect on a photographic plate
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • actinic: the factors in the indoor working environment which are related to human perception of light and to our exposure to the chemically active rays of the electromagnetic spectrum
    Category: Domestic economy

  • actinic: 2)conjunctivitis resulting from exposure to ultraviolet rays
    Category: Medicine

  • actinic: in physics, a term used with reference to the ultra-violet rays; 2)referring to light or to radiations which give rise to chemical change
    Category: Medicine

  • actinic-ray: 2)conjunctivitis resulting from exposure to ultraviolet rays
    Category: Medicine

  • actinide: The group of elements,from actinium(atomic number 89)to lawrencium(atomic number 103),which together occupy one position in the periodic table.The series includes the naturally occurring and man-made isotopes of thorium and uranium and of the higher actinides such as neptunium,plutonium,americium and curium.
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • actinium: chemical element: atomic number 89
    Category: Chemistry

  • actinium: a radioactive trivalent metallic element resembling lauthanium in chemical properties formed by alpha radiation from proctatinium and found especially in pitchblende
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • actinograph: an instrument for measuring the actinic or chemical influence of solar rays; recording pyrheliometer
    Category: The cosmos

  • actinometer: an instrument for measuring the intensity of the sun`s heat rays; an instrument for measuring the intensity of solar rays or the total radiation received from the sky
    Category: Medicine

  • actinometry: branch of physics devoted to the study and measurement of radiation; especially in meteoroloy, solar, atmospheric and terrestrial radiation.
    Category: The cosmos

  • actinomycete: one-celled organisms,that are a higher form of plant life than bacteria and are threadlike in shape
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • actinomycetes: one-celled organisms,that are a higher form of plant life than bacteria and are threadlike in shape
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • actio: equitable action for unjustified enrichment
    Category: Law

  • action: here:function to be tested
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • action: a set of concentrated or distributed forces acting on the structure(direct action),or the cause of imposed or constrained deformations in the structure(indirect action)
    Category: Physics

  • action: Drug dealing
    Category: General

  • actionable: an unlawful fire, started or allowed to spread in violation of the regulation; Arson
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • actionable: generally,any fire that requires suppression
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • actionable: a fire started or allowed to spread in violation of law,ordinance,or regulation
    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



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