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  • akin: a classifier for separating fine-size solids from coarser solids in a wet pulp consisting of an interrupted flight screw conveyor,operating in an inclined trough
    Category: Mining

  • akinesia: 2)lack of movement due to loss or impairment of motor function
    Category: Medicine

  • anti-caking: substances which reduce the tendency of individual particles of a foodstuff to adhere to one another
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • baking: the heating of vacuum equipment, particularly workpieces to be included in a vacuum chamber during operation, whilst maintaining the lowest possible operating pressure, in order to remove adsorbed gas from surfaces and cavities; not to be confused with vacuum baking
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • baking: the low temperature heat treatment given to metals after surface treatment to reduce or remove embrittlement caused by absorption of gas
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • baking: the heating step which is used in order to permanently bind nucleic acids onto a filter. Modern membranes do not require this procedure
    Category: General

  • baking: in the Refinish Trade, baking is used to speed up the dry of air drying lacquers and enamels and is sometimes called 'force drying'
    Category: The chemical industry

  • braking: the process of creating a retarding torque for the purpose of slowing down or stopping a machine or a group of moving parts,i.e.braking for stopping purposes,or keeping the speed of a machine or a group of moving parts at a suitable value,i.e.regulating or maintaining braking
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • braking: process of creating a retarding torque for the purpose of slowing down or stopping or keeping the speed of a machine or a group of moving parts at a suitable value
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • breaking: The deformation of the plant structure by flattening the stem,loosening the bond between the fibre bundles and the wood,and breaking the woody part into short pieces,to facilitate their removal from the fibre by scutching.Breaking by means of rollers is often referred to as rolling.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • breaking: this process is necessary to separate textile fibres from woody ones
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • breaking: the next stage in fibre-production in --. The straw is passed between fluted rollers in a breaking machine, so that the woody core is broken...without damaging the fibres..
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • breaking-off: spontaneous breaking-off of the base of a container
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • caking: settling of pigment particles of a paint into a compact mass which is not easily redispersed by stirring
    Category: The chemical industry

  • caking: gathering of sanding dust into solid cakes sticking to sand paper.
    Category: The chemical industry

  • flaking: detachment of the film in the form of fragments of varying distribution and size usually as a result of the formation of cracks
    Category: The chemical industry

  • flaking: breaking of small chips from refractory face,often allied with bursting
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • flaking: peeling of a skin as a result of corrosion,sometimes leaving the glass iridescent when dried
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • handshaking: a predefined exchange of signals or control characters between two devices or nodes that sets up the conditions for data transfer
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • housebreaking: the puppy has two basic behaviour patterns that can be used in --. One is a tendency not to defecate or urinate in a sleeping place..
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • loudspeaking: function of a DECT system that converts electrical impulses into sound waves of sufficient volume to be heard easily by a number of listeners situated at some distance from the device
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • making: definitive placement of text and illustrations on the page in accordance with the predetermined layout
    Category: General

  • making: the upper roll in a wet press on an intermittent board machine
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • making: the welded plastic bead deposited by one progression along the axis of the weld
    Category: The chemical industry

  • making-up: definitive placement of text and illustrations on the page in accordance with the predetermined layout
    Category: General

  • non-breaking: a small horizontal stroke used as a link between the constituents of composed names,between a verb and the personal pronoun following it,and so on
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • overbaking: an exposure of the coating to a temperature moderately higher or for a longer period of time,or both,than recommended by the manufacturer of the coating for normal curing
    Category: The chemical industry

  • overtaking: the overtaking of one vehicle or train by another travelling in the same direction
    Category: Transport

  • papermaking: pulp intended for the manufacture of paper or board
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • peaking: condition resulting from local rubber starvation combined with excessive flow from adjacent area
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • shaking: the rotary movement periodically imparted(by the shaker)to the bottles of sparkling wines while they are on the shaking tables in order to work the sediment on to the cork
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • slaking: incipient crumbling of the lumps of quicklime upon addition of water or moisture
    Category: Chemistry

  • snaking: a yawing oscillation,the amplitude of which remains approximately constant
    Category: Physics

  • soaking: process of complete exposure or immersion of a piece or part with interpenetration of hot fluid
    Category: Transport

  • soaking: the immersion of wood in unheated water
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • speaking: A loudspeaking,handsfree telephone(2)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • speaking: except for the selective call signal transmitted to the mobile,all calls are set up,made and cleared on the speaking channels
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • speaking: a combined speaking key and ringing key operated by one lever.
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • staking: upright stick in a vehicle for load retention
    Category: Transport

  • staking: putting stakes in the soil for supporting the vines
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • staking: a method of permanently fastening two pieces or parts together by causing plastic flow of the material to recess one piece within the other
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • staking: a method consisting in supporting plants or cuttings with stakes to protect against wind-rocking and promote straight growth
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • steelmaking: steelmaking pig irons are intended for the production of steel by refining
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • stocktaking: periodical valuation of all goods on hand in a business so that they may be taken into account when balacing the books.
    Category: Economics

  • streaking: the prolongation of the trailing edge of the picture element caused by relative delay in the components of the picture signal
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • taking-off: a horizontal platform near the water surface level where the cattle or traffic get into the canal.In case of very small canals,landing place and taking-off place on either bank is the same.For depth of one metre or more,one bank has landing place as well as taking-off place,whereas the other bank has only one place for landing and taking-off
    Category: The cosmos

  • undertaking: For the purpose of EU antitrust law, any entity engaged in an economic activity, that is an activity consisting in offering goods or services on a given market, regardless of its legal status and the way in which it is financed, is considered an undertaking. To qualify, no intention to earn profits is required, nor are public bodies by definition excluded. The rules governing concentrations speak of 'undertakings concerned', that is the direct participants in a merger or in the acquisition of control.
    Category: The European Communities

  • visbreaking: a petroleum refinery process used to lower break the viscosity of high-viscosity residuum by thermal cracking of molecules at relatively low temperatures
    Category: Mining



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