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afterimage: visual sensation occuring when the light or the stimulation on a screen display is not present anymore
Category: News-systems and communications

age: a) the mean age of the trees constituting a of a forest, crop or stand. In practice, in even-aged forests, the mean age of dominant and sometimes also co-dominant trees is taken, and the age of a plantation is generally taken, from the year in which it was formed, i.e. exclusive of the age of the nursery stock then brought to it; b) of a tree, the time elapsed since germination of the seed, or the budding of e.g. the sprout or cutting from which it developed
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

age: the injured worker`s age(at last birthday),in years,at the time of the occurrence
Category: Statistics

age: all hardware retained on ground to support flight operations
Category: Transport

age: time elapsed from the beginning of birth or birth of an object or a being to any given time; in a living individual, measured in years; the latter part of life
Category: Medicine

age: that used in the guidance and control of spacecraft,consisting of such ground or shipboard equipment as command stations,telemetry stations,and the associated control and display equipment
Category: News-systems and communications

aged: wine which has received the correct amount of ageing
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

agedridge: ridge which has undergone considerable weathering. These ridges are best described as undulations
Category: The cosmos

ageing: variation of properties of metal which has undergone previous treatment: hardening and/or work hardening
Category: Iron and steel industries

ageing: any persisting change,except failure,taking place in either the forward or reverse resistance characteristics
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

ageing: a change in properties which is dependent on time and storage conditions
Category: Various industries and crafts

ageing: a gradual process in which the proportions of adults and elderly increase in a population,while the proportion of children and adolescents decrease. Ageing occurs when fertility rates decline while life expectancy remains constant or improves
Category: Statistics

ageing: after slaughter, the biochemical transformations taking place in meat, resulting in increased tenderness
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

ageing: time dependent changes of the physical and chemical properties of a coating film
Category: Iron and steel industries

ageing: a physiological or morphological change in the life of an organism or its parts,generally irreversible and typically associated with a decline in growth and reproductive vigour
Category: Medicine

ageing: change in a metal by which its structure recovers from an unstable condition produced by quenching or by cold working..
Category: Iron and steel industries

ageing: (1)Originally,a process in which printed fabric was exposed to a hot,moist atmosphere.At the present time,the term is almost exclusively applied to the treatment of printed fabric in moist steam in the absence or air.Ageing is also used for the development of certain colours in dyeing,for example,aniline black.(2)The slow oxidation of alkali-cellulose as a stage in the manufacture of viscose rayon from bleached wood-pulp.The purpose of the slow oxidation is to produce a controlled reduction in the chain-length of the cellulose molecule.(3)The deterioration of rubber and plastics coatings and proofings and of some lubricants on textiles,caused by gradual oxidation on storage and/or exposure to light.(4)The oxidation by exposure to air of drying-oil sizes and finishes,e.g.,in the production of oiled silk and oilskins and in Boyeux sizing.
Category: Various industries and crafts

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

agenda: a prioritised list of pending activities,usually the applications of various pieces of knowledge
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

agenda: Subjects to be discussed at a meeting.
Category: General

agenda-driven: search system which uses a task agenda
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

agent: any entity,biological,mechanical or otherwise,that can perform actions,intelligent or not
Category: Statistics

agent: in a civil engineering or large building contract,the person who legally represents the contract and acts for him on all occasions.He is often a civil engineer
Category: Building industry

agent: a person who,not being a direct employee,sells on behalf of a company
Category: Law

agent: the part of a networked system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a software entity
Category: News-systems and communications

AGENTS: any chemical,physical or biological agents present at work and likely to be harmful to health
Category: The chemical industry

ager: A chamber used for ageing
Category: Various industries and crafts

ager: a chamber to which dyed or printed cloth is sent for treatment with moist steam in the absence of air so as to develop and then fix the dyestuff onto the fibers.
Category: The chemical industry

ages: theme depicting the first series of euro banknotes
Category: General

agiotage: an exchange operation by which the price of a security is artificially induced to rise or fall
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

all-aged: of a forest,crop or stand that contains trees of all or almost all age classes,including those of exploitable age
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

alphageometric: referring to a videotex technique building up letters and pictures by geometric coloured shapes as used in Canadian Telidon
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

anchorage: an essential piece of post-tensioning equipment cast into the concrete at the end of a tendon.It grips the tendon and transfers load from the steel to the concrete with the minimum of s lip.
Category: Building industry

anchorage: A place where a ship anchors or may anchor.An area set apart for anchored vessels in a harbour.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anchorage: in dentistry,points of retention of fillings and artificial restorations and appliances
Category: Medicine

arbitrage: a) financial operation consisting of buying and selling on different markets with the purpose of taking advantage of the differences in prices quoted; b) the changing of funds from one or more securities to other securities in order to protect the capital
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

arbitrage: Strategy established to take advantage of the disequilibrium of the market for a riskless profit.
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

Armitage: a class of closed sequential procedure incorporating the principle of truncation in order to reduce the variability of sample number
Category: Mathematics

average: damage to ship and/or cargo; In marine terminology, means damage to, or loss of, a ship or her cargo (particular average)
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

averaged: mean monthly discharge for the same month averaged over a specific number of successive years
Category: The cosmos

averaged: Chronology averaged from all the growth curves within a tree or a timber.
Category: Botany and zoology

B-stage: an intermediate stage in the reaction of certain thermo-setting resins in which the material swells when in contact with certain liquids and softens when heated,but may not entirely dissolve or fuse
Category: The chemical industry

backstage: collectively, the parts of the theatre which lie behind the proscenium arch (or behind the back wall of the stage setting)
Category: General

bacteriophage: a virus whose host is a bacterial cell; A virus that exclusively infects bacteria. It generally has a protein coat surrounding the genome (DNA or RNA).One of the coliphages most extensively studied is the lambda phage, which is also one of the most important viral vectors used in rec DNA work.
Category: Medicine

bagel: a hard roll shaped like a doughnut that is made of raised dough and cooked by simmering in water and then baked to give it a glazed browned exterior over a firm white interior
Category: Domestic economy

bandage: a binder,usually made of textil material
Category: Insurance

barrage: a barrier, provided with a series of gates, across the river to regulate water surface level and flow upstream and to divert water supplies into a canal; distinguished from a weir in that it is gated over its entire length and may not have a raised sill 2)in Australia, primarily used for a structure which prevents intrusion of salt water upstream in a tidal river
Category: Building industry

barrage: A barrier across a stream provided with gates or other control mechanisms,which is built to control the water level upstream,to regulate the flow or to divert water supplies into a channel.
Category: Building industry

beaconage: A system of beacons.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

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