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anti: A chemical compound or other agent that has germ-killing properties
Category: Medicine

anti: action of preventing the locking of the landing wheels when the brakes are applied after touching-down
Category: Transport

anti: locations in aircraft structure where flexure(due to vibration or aeroelastic excitation)is maximum
Category: Transport

anti: the projection of aircraft against icing by preventing ice formation(e.g.by continuous heating)
Category: Technical and industry in general

anti: A chemical used to remove residual traces of active chlorine from materials that have been bleached,chlorinated,or otherwise treated by means of hypochlorite or other oxidizing liquors containing active chlorine.Examples are sodium bisulphite or thiosulphate and sulphurous acid.
Category: Various industries and crafts

anti: against optical glare,generally synonymous with anti-dazzle but especially dull,non-reflective,painted panels on airframe and propeller blades
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

anti: air current with a westerly component which in various subtropical regions of either hemisphere sometimes blows above the trade wind.
Category: The cosmos

anti: the antiparticle of a lepton
Category: Physics

anti: device used to prevent jamming
Category: News-systems and communications

anti: agent used for lowering the freezing point of liquid extinguishing agents
Category: Technical and industry in general

anti: an inflatable garment designed to apply pressure to the legs and the abdomen to retard the flow of blood to the lower body and to augment the return of blood thence to the thoracic cavity under conditions of positive(+G sub z)acceleration
Category: Labour

anti: area of relatively high pressure surrounded by closed isobars, the pressure gradient being directed from the centre so that the wind blows spirally outward in a clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere, counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere; a region of atmosphere where pressure significantly exceeds that of the surroundings; A zone of relatively high atmospheric pressure, normally characterised by fine weather and unpredictable winds; An atmosphere system in which the wind circulates round an area of high pressure, clockwise in the North Hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the South Hemisphere. The winds are usually moderate to light, and fine weather prevails.
Category: The cosmos

anti: compound which prevents oxygen from reacting with other compounds or which retards the reaction
Category: Chemistry

anti: an inhibitor of oxidation
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anti: in a direction opposite to lift forces
Category: Physics

anti: according to him, the american urban place is preeminently an --.
Category: Building industry

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

anti-chlor: A chemical used to remove residual traces of active chlorine from materials that have been bleached,chlorinated,or otherwise treated by means of hypochlorite or other oxidizing liquors containing active chlorine.Examples are sodium bisulphite or thiosulphate and sulphurous acid.
Category: Various industries and crafts

anti-climber: an anti-telescoping device used on many rapid rail cars consisting of a horizontally corrugated face plate secured to the end sill.As adjacent cars come together,the corrugations are forced into each other,thus confining the shock of collision to the underframe
Category: Transport

anti-clutter: device used to reduce unwanted signals, due to atmospheric interference, lightning, natural static, ground/sea returns or hostile electronic countermeasures (ECM)
Category: News-systems and communications

anti-clutter: a device which automatically and smoothly increases the gain of a radar receiver from a low level to the maximum,within a certain period after each transmitter pulse,so that short range echos which may be unwanted are amplified less than long-range echoes
Category: News-systems and communications

anti-dazzle: against optical glare,generally synonymous with anti-dazzle but especially dull,non-reflective,painted panels on airframe and propeller blades
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

anti-dump: although dumping prices have the advantage for the importing country that the products are very cheap, they can cause serious difficulties to that country`s own industry; for this reason an anti-dumping law exists in many countries
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

anti-dumping: although dumping prices have the advantage for the importing country that the products are very cheap, they can cause serious difficulties to that country`s own industry; for this reason an anti-dumping law exists in many countries
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

anti-evasion: those means designed to counteract tax evasion,including statutory provisions for withholding of tax on diverse types of income,estimation of taxable income in cases of erroneous or missing declaration,obligation to supply information,imposition of penalties,etc.,and administrative actions such as spot checks by fraud squads,or critical examination of returns or information received
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

anti-freeze: agent used for lowering the freezing point of liquid extinguishing agents
Category: Technical and industry in general

anti-g: an inflatable garment designed to apply pressure to the legs and the abdomen to retard the flow of blood to the lower body and to augment the return of blood thence to the thoracic cavity under conditions of positive(+G sub z)acceleration
Category: Labour

anti-hail: Rocket for firing into a cloud to prevent the formation of hail stones
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anti-hunting: denotes a means of reducing the rhythmic variations caused by cyclic over-correction by a governing or damping influence
Category: Transport

anti-icing: the projection of aircraft against icing by preventing ice formation(e.g.by continuous heating)
Category: Technical and industry in general

anti-inflationary: which tries to restrict inflation
Category: Economics

anti-jamming: process which prevents or minimizes intentional transmission or reradiation of radio signals in such a way that they do not interfere with reception of desired signals by the intended receiver
Category: News-systems and communications

anti-malaria: mineral oils,such as kerosene oil crude oil,which kill the ova and pupa of mosquitoes,as well as the larvae and also tend to deter the adult mosquitoes from depositing their eggs
Category: Environment

anti-malaria: in its widest sense the term includes protection against infection by malaria mosquito biting,destruction of malaria parasites in the blood of infected persons,killing of mosquitoes at their various stages of growth by chemical methods(spraying of oils,mixing of chemicals in breeding places,etc.)and other physical or engineering or biological preventive measures.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anti-movement: any treatment of wood retarding or inhibiting movement while in service
Category: The chemical industry

anti-node: locations in aircraft structure where flexure(due to vibration or aeroelastic excitation)is maximum
Category: Transport

anti-oxidant: an inhibitor of oxidation
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anti-oxydant: compound which prevents oxygen from reacting with other compounds or which retards the reaction
Category: Chemistry

anti-pollution: those components of a vehicle that control and/or limit tailpipe and evaporative emissions
Category: Environment

anti-pollution: the precautions to be observed to prevent pollution of the environment by oil,cargo residue,sewage,smoke or other pollutants and the use of pollution prevention equipment,including oily water separators,sludge tank systems and sewage disposal plant
Category: General

anti-propeller: end of an engine away from the propeller
Category: Mechanical engineering

anti-radiation: a missile which homes passively on a radiation source
Category: Defense

anti-rolling: Tank or compartment part-filled with water,and dimensioned so that the period of surging of the water athwartships across the tank coincides with the natural rolling period of the vessel.Such a device abstracts rolling energy from the vessel,and so reduces the amplitude of rolling.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anti-rolling: in aerostats,a wire to prevent rolling of any component relative to the hull or envelope
Category: Mechanical engineering

Anti-skid: action of preventing the locking of the landing wheels when the brakes are applied after touching-down
Category: Transport

anti-slip: radial serrations in the outer part of the label area to prevent friction and slippage between records,during reproduction,when stacked on the spindle of an automatic record changer
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

anti-smudge: for fitting to printing machines
Category: Various industries and crafts

anti-solar: that point on the celestical sphere which lies directly opposite the Sun from the observer.
Category: The cosmos

Anti-Submarine: an operation by one or more anti-submarine ships or aircraft,or a combination of both,against a particular enemy submarine
Category: Defense

Anti-Submarine: operations conducted with the intention of denying the enemy the effective use of his submarines
Category: Defense

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