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  • abate: to diminish, lessen the violence (e.g. of a storm), to weaken the effect (e.g. of flooding), to decrease an amount of substance (e.g. of pollutant in the atmosphere), to mitigate; The name of a well known insecticide used in mosquito control
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • abatement: the method of reducing the degree or intensity of pollution; also the use of such a method
    Category: Environment

  • abatement: the extinguishment or reduction of a claim or debt.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • abatement: the difference between the(estimated or known)volume before and that after any stage of working timber
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • abbreviate: a numerical code sent by a caller using the Abbreviated Dialling Service which identifies the telephone number of the party to whom he wishes to be connected
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • abbreviate: a facility which enables a user to employ an address having fewer characters than the full address when initiating a call
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • abbreviate: a command that has been shortened to its first letters in order to facilitate its typing
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • abbreviate: a feature that allows a subscriber to originate calls to certain others subscribers by simply dialling or keying-in a short code
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • abbreviate: a non-numerical code indicating that the information following is an abbreviated number
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • abbreviate: an authorisation by air traffic control requiring pilots to submit only that information needed for the purpose of air traffic control(ATC)
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • abbreviate: Service of an intelligent telephone which stores a set of telephone numbers and dials them automatically upon an abbreviated command which is shorter than the dialling of the complete number.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • aberration: Failure of the rays from a point source to form a perfect or single point image after traversing an optical.Optical aberration may manifest itself in the formation of a single imperfectly defined image or multiple images
    Category: Physics

  • aberration: the geometrical errors in imagery whereby a perfect image is not formed
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • aberration: it applies to certains defects of images formed in optical systems
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • aberration: the apparent displacement of a celestial body in the direction of motion of the Earth in its orbit,caused by the motion of the earth combined with the progressive motion or velocity of light
    Category: The cosmos

  • ablactation: the cessation of milk secretion in the breasts
    Category: Medicine

  • ablation: geology: removing the surface layer, e.g. the melting and evaporation of the outer surface of ice; Medicine: the removal of an organ by surgery
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • ablation: the removal of surface material from a body by vaporisation,melting,chipping,or other erosive process
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ablation: the removal of an organ by surgery
    Category: Medicine

  • ablation: in space technology,the process of using up the frictional heat developed on re-entry of the vehicle into the Earth`s atmosphere by degradation of the heat shield
    Category: Technical and industry in general

  • ablation: 1.the combined processes(such as sublimation,melting,evaporation)which remove snow or ice from the surface of a glacier,snowfield,etc.2.the amount of snow or ice removed by the above-described processes
    Category: The cosmos

  • ablative: cooling of a surface by endothermic vaporization of an outer protective coating
    Category: Physics

  • absorbate: that substance absorbed by an absorbent
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • accelerate: distance required to accelerate an aircraft to a specified speed,and assuming failure of the critical engine at the instant that speed is attained,to bring the airplane to a stop
    Category: Transport

  • accelerate: the length of the take-off run available plus the length of stopway available(if stopway is provided)
    Category: Transport

  • accelerated: a test in which the applied stress level is chosen to exceed that stated in the reference conditions in order to shorten the time required to observe the stress response of the item, or magnify the responses in a given time. To be valid, an accelerated test must not alter the basic modes and/or mechanisms of failure, or their relative prevalence
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • accelerated: a stall experienced by an aeroplane under normal acceleration in excess of 1 g,as in a pull-out
    Category: Physics

  • accelerated: exposure of rubber material to controlled conditions so chosen as to produce in a short time the effects of natural ageing or of service life
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • accelerated: Crash course:one designed to provide specified training more quickly than normal.Intensive course:as crash course,particularly in foreign language teaching.
    Category: Education

  • accelerated: tests,the conditions of which simulate those encountered in practice,but which have been accentuated artificially to provide performance results in shorter periods of time
    Category: Technical and industry in general

  • accelerated: 1)erosion which takes place more rapidly or at a greater rate than the geologic norms.2)Erosion which has been increased above that which existed under natural environment either as the result of the destruction of vegetative cover or by some activity of man
    Category: Environment

  • accelerated: a system of training,usually given under government auspices or with its assistance,which helps adult workers to acquire,in a few months,knowledge and skills,so that they can,with the addition of any specific training required,occupy jobs demanding a defined level of qualification
    Category: General

  • accelerated: Unforeseen or unintented contact with or exposure to a substance that results from an external incident,such as industrial spillage or plant malfunction,or from a personal accident,such as unintented ingestion of contaminated material
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • accelerated: an issue or escrow solution which will pay off the debt in the least amount of time under the given revenue constraint
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accelerated: a technique of oxidation of a silicon surface in which the rate of diffusion of oxygen through the oxide,to form fresh oxide at the silicon surface,is accelerated by process conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerated: the methods designed to approximate,in a short time,the deteriorating effects under normal long-term service conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerated: laboratory simulation of what can happen to a food product during distribution and subsequent handling
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • accelerated: More rapid degradation of a soil-applied chemical by microorganisms,the activity of which has been modified,or enhanced,by their previous exposure to residues of specific pesticides.
    Category: The cosmos

  • accelerated: a system of depreciation which reduces the value of assets at a high rate in the early years to encourage companies,because of tax advantages,to invest in new equipment
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • accelerating: the process of running a machine up to speed after breakaway
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • acceleration: a) the rate of change of velocity; b) the act or process of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated. Negative acceleration is called deceleration
    Category: Physics

  • acceleration: in physics or mechanics, the rate of velocity change with time; Speeding
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • acceleration: rate of change of the velocity at the point under consideration along a specified linear ramp
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • accelerative: that part of the force at the periphery required to accelerate the masses of the train both in longitudinal and in rotary movement
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerator: any substance added to a developer to increase its rate of activity; among these are various alkaline agents used to raise the pH; quaternary ammonium compounds are also used
    Category: General

  • accelerator: an electrode used to increase the velocity of electrons or ions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • accelerator: device,not carried on aircraft,for increasing linear acceleration on take-off
    Category: Transport

  • accelerator: compounds which increase the rate of rubber vulcanisation or enable it to be performed at a lower temperature,or a catalyst which increases the hardening rate of resins
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • accelerator: a chemical substance added to the uncured rubber compound to shorten time required for vulcanization
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • accelerator: additional hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal CPU
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)



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