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abandon: the act of not exercising or selling an option before its expiration
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

abandon: a directory operation to terminate a request.This operation is not guaranteed outside of the local scope
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

abandoned: A well not in use because it was a dry hole originally,or because it has ceased to produce.Statutes and regulations in many states require the plugging of abandoned wells to prevent the seepage of oil,gas or water from one stratum to another.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

abandoned: a call attempt aborted by the calling party
Category: News-systems and communications

abandoned: Part of a stream channel naturally or artificially separated from the active stream.
Category: The cosmos

abandonment: Insurance term used to indicate that the damage suffered by a vessel is such as to constitute a constructive total loss and that the assured may abandon the subject matter to the underwriters and claim for a total loss even though the insured property is recoverable and/or being repaired.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

abandonment: An offence against life and limb in which a person exposes a helpless person under his protection or care to a life-threatening danger or a serious and immediate danger to health,or abandons the person to such a danger.
Category: Law

abandonment: an insured who has sustained a partial loss cannot abandon what is left...to the company, and claim a total loss.
Category: Insurance

abandonned: a call during which the calling station goes on-hook prior to being answered
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

abelian: a Boolean group is a (additive) -- in which every element has order 2.
Category: Mathematics

aberrant: enlargement of an accessory mass of thyroid tissue
Category: Medicine

absorptance: the ratio of the absorbed radiant or luminous flux to the incident flux
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

absorptance: ratio of the radiant energy flow rate absorbed by a surface to the energy flow rate received
Category: Mechanical engineering

abundance: the mean concentration of an element in a geochemical reservoir
Category: The cosmos

Abyssinian: a tube with performations above the pointed end,driven into strata of moderate hardness to obtain a supply of water
Category: Building industry

Abyssinian: pointed and perforated tube driven into the ground by a light pile-hammer.Water is extracted by pumping
Category: Mining

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

acceptance: the act of an individual or population of favourably accepting a product
Category: Chemistry

acceptance: a declaration in a bill,made and signed by the drawee that he will obey the order for payment made upon him by the drawer
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

acceptance: the acceptance is an accepted bill of exchange
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

acceptance: acceptance of wines by the purchaser after tasting or analysing them
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

acceptance: consent to take submitted materials or product
Category: Standards, measures and testing

acceptance: an agreeing,either expressly or by conduct,by the contracting officer to the offer or bid of a bidder for doing a particular work whereafter a contract is concluded and the parties become bound
Category: Management in the public and private sector

acceptance: the procedure by which objects(e.g.software)are promoted from a 'test' status to one where they are allowed to be used in a different context,e.g.transferred into live operation or accepted for integration into a larger development
Category: General

acceptance: procedure during which,according to a test plan,a system and its vehicles are tested for compliance with the specifications and applicable regulations
Category: Transport

Accountants: a clause entitling the insured to have a claim prepared by his own accountants
Category: Insurance

Ackermann: the steering system commonly used on four-wheel vehicles,such as the automobile.The wheels are not on a common axle,but pivot on their own individual axles in a coordinated fashion
Category: Transport

activity-plan: a table in which the baseline loading pattern for resources assigned to a task may be defined
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

activity-plan: a histogram in which the baseline loading pattern for resources assigned to a task may be defined
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

acutance: a measure of the ability of a lens to reproduce edges sharply
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

acyanopsia: 2)the inability to distinguish blue tints
Category: Medicine

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

admittance: the property of an electric circuit which enables current to flow under the action of potential difference
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

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

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