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abrasiometer: a device to test the wear resistance of a coating film
Category: The chemical industry

abrasion: the wearing of a surface by the mechanical action between solids
Category: The cosmos

abrasion: the wearing away by friction
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

abrasion: severe wear under the action of a hard solid or of hard particles
Category: Iron and steel industries

abrasion: The loss of mass of sediment particles transported in flowing water,due to friction against other particles or the river bed.
Category: The cosmos

abrasion: the wearing away of any part of a material by rubbing against another surface
Category: Physics

abrasive: abrasives include disc and band abrasives as well as tools made up of abrasive stones mounted on a tool holder (grinder)
Category: Mechanical engineering

Abrasives: materials used for the grinding,polishing,blasting,either in loose form or bonded to form wheels,bricks or files,or applied to paper and cloth by glue or resin.Natural abrasives include eme corundum,garnet,sand,flint,etc.
Category: Iron and steel industries

abreast: Position of a ship in relation to another or to a recognizable mark or place,being directly opposite to the ship,mark,or place.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

activity-based: system of accounting whereby costs (and sometimes revenues) are allocated to each function or activity
Category: Management in the public and private sector

ADAS: a computer system from MacDonald Dettwiler Associates/CCRS
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

aeroelastic: the aeroelastic instability which results when the rate of change of aerodynamic forces or couples resulting from elastic displacements exceeds the rate of change of the elastic restoring forces or couples
Category: Physics

aeroelastic: response of structurally elastic bodies under aerodynamic loads
Category: Transport

aeroelasticity: a branch of mechanics which treats the phenomena resulting from the interaction of aerodynamic, inertial, and elastic forces. Specifically, the tendency of aircraft wings and compressor or turbine blades to deflect under a load causing cyclic changes in the aerodynamic lift pattern
Category: Physics

after-taste: combination of sensations perceived after the stimulus has disappeared from the mouth and which differs from the sensations perceived beforehand
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

air-mass: the length of path through the Earth`s atmosphere traversed by the direct solar beam, expressed as a multiple of the path traversed to a point at sea level with the sun at zenith
Category: The cosmos

air-seasoned: the condition of timber etc.that has undergone air seasoning as distinct from kiln seasoning
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

alaska: fabric for garments and coats,made of wool and cotton
Category: Various industries and crafts

alias: a) in connection with design of experiments, when a factorial design is only fractionally replicated certain comparisons do not distinguish between some of the treatment combinations; these are said to be aliases; b) in connection with the spectrum analysis of time series, an analogous concept arises because a single width of the interval of observation does not permit a distinction between certain angular frequencies
Category: Mathematics

alias: a label which is an alternative to something of the same type for which it is being used.Various primary or secondary names are used in computer slang such as red tape,GIGO,kludge,etc.,which may be aliases for the basic or primary term
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

alias: one of several alternative hostnames with the same Internet address
Category: News-systems and communications

alias: a name for an object,provided by the use of one or more alias entries in the directory information tree(DIT)
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

alias: the mirrored signal component resulting from sampling
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

aliasing: the visual effect that occurs on a display screen whenever the degree of detail in the displayed image exceeds the resolution available on the output device
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

aliasing: the introduction of error into a signal when the sampling rate is less than the minimum required by the bandwidth of the signal,due to overlap of the resulting side-frequency components centred on the sampling frequency and its harmonics
Category: News-systems and communications

all-glass: paper made only from glass fibre
Category: Various industries and crafts

alpha-amylase: pancreatic enzyme which breaks down starches
Category: Chemistry

aminoplast: formed by the condensation of amines or amides with aldehydes
Category: The chemical industry

aminoplastic: a synthetic resin derived from the reaction of urea,thiourea,melamine or allied compounds with aldehydes,particularly formaldehyde
Category: The chemical industry

amoebiasis: 2)infection with Endamoeba hystolytica,sometimes producing conjunctivitis
Category: Medicine

amoebiasis: A disease of the intestines due to the amoeba parasite.It is associated with poor sanitation and faecal contamination of water,and,with overcrowding,becomes an increased risk in disaster situations
Category: Management in the public and private sector

amylase: an enzyme which hydrolyses starch to maltose
Category: Medicine

anaplasmosis: a peracute to chronic infectious disease of ruminants,caused by rickettsiae of the genus Anaplasma(transmitted by a number of insect vectors,especially ticks)and characterized chiefly by anemia,icterus,and fever
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anasarca: the presence of excessive amounts of fluid in the tissues beneath the skin
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

anastigmatic: 2)without astigmatism; corrected for astigmatism
Category: Medicine

anastomosis: a pathological formation of a passage between two spaces or hollow organs
Category: Medicine

anastomosis: the cross-connections,e.g.of tissues,forming a network
Category: Botany and zoology

anastomosis: an operative union of two hollow or tubular structures
Category: Medicine

anelasticity: characteristic exhibited by certain materials in which strain is a function of both stress and time,such that while no permanent deformations are involved,a finite time is required to establish equilibrium between stress and strain in both the loading and unloading directions
Category: General

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

antialiasing: any process intended to reduce the distracting visual effects of aliasing; stair-step lines are made to appear straight and unbroken
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

anticlastic: building structures; double curved shell, e.g. saddle
Category: The chemical industry

antiflash: cream used in steel foundries and elsewhere when there is exposure to intense heat for short-term periods
Category: Labour

anycast: referring to a singly-addressed message,answered exactly by one of a set of possible answerers
Category: News-systems and communications

apastron: point in the orbit of a satellite or planet which is at a maximum distance from the centre of mass of the primary body
Category: The cosmos

aphasia: the term aphasia has been used to denote an inability,caused by cerebral dysfunction,to communicate in reading,writing or speaking or to receive meaning from spoken or written words.
Category: Medicine

apozymase: a thermo-labile and non-dialyzable colloid separated from zymase by Harden and Yound and giving enzyme activity when mixed with cozymase
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

application-association: a cooperative relationship between two application-entities,formed by their exchange of application-protocol-information through their use of presentation services
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

ARGUS-SPAS: a space platform(SPAS)and earth observation payload(ARGUS)designed and sponsored by European Space Agency(ESA)to be launched by the space shuttle in the mid 1980`s
Category: News-systems and communications

as: one of the input signals of a memory device,especially semiconductor memory,which is asserted to tell the memory device that the address inputs are valid.Upon receiving this signal the selected memory device starts the memory access(read/write)indicated by its other inputs.It may be driven directly by the processor or by a memory controller
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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