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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)

  • 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

  • accentuate: the process whereby all the picture elements of the original document which have a luminance less than a specified intermediate value are transmitted as nominal black and all those with a luminance greater than that value as nominal white
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • accentuated: the process whereby all the picture elements of the original document which have a luminance less than a specified intermediate value are transmitted as nominal black and all those with a luminance greater than that value as nominal white
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • accumulated: net income retained and not paid out in dividends or dissipated by subsequent losses
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • accumulated: account in which the accumulated losses are recorded
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • accumulated: a stochastic process derived from the cumulated sum of random variables
    Category: Mathematics

  • accumulated: the graduation of a grouped frequency distribution provides,for each grouping interval,a 'theoretical' or 'expected' frequency.The difference of this quantity and the observed quantity taken with regard to sign and cumulated for increasing values of the variates starting from the least,is called the accumulated deviation
    Category: Mathematics

  • accumulated: the tax on profits accumulated over a fixed reserves level,taken with the purpose of cutting intents of non-distribution of the real profits between shareholders and avoiding income tax
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accumulated: for a given period, sum of the departures of temperature (daily mean temperatures or others) from a reference temperature.
    Category: The cosmos

  • accumulated: the total depreciation expense of an asset accrued from the date of purchase to the present
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • accumulated: Value of pension plan contributions including interest credits at any given date.
    Category: Insurance

  • acetate: cellulose acetate fibre wherein less than 92 % but at least 74 % of the hydroxyl groups are acetylated
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • activate: to induce radioactivity by irradiation
    Category: Physics

  • activate: to put into existence by official order a unit,post,camp,station,base or shore activity which has previously been constituted and designated by name or number,or both,so that it can be organized to function in its assigned capacity
    Category: Defense

  • activated: consists of selected colloidal clay activated by means of an acid or an alkali
    Category: Mining

  • activated: an installation consisting of two fins,one on each side of the ship.The fins are so controlled that as the ship rolls,the forward speed causes the water to exert a pressure on the fins,thus providing a definite righting couple.Also called Denny-Brown stabilizer
    Category: Transport

  • activated: of a TE: normal active state with the protocol activated in both directions; both the NT and the TE are transmitting normal frames
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • activated: clayey earth activated by means of an acid or an alkali
    Category: Mining

  • activated: a form of porous carbon capable of adsorbing volatiles
    Category: Physics

  • activated: the sludge floc produced in raw or settled sewage by the growth of zoogleal bacteria and other organisms in the presence of dissolved oxygen,and accumulated in sufficient concentrations by returning floc previously formed
    Category: Environment

  • activated: a form of carbon with a large surface area,heated to drive off impurities,and with a large absorptive capacity
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • activated: a coal getting plough having power operated cutting blades to which a vibratory or oscillating motion is imparted,to improve the cutting action
    Category: Mining

  • activated: carbon,mostly of vegetable origin,and of high adsorptive capacity
    Category: Mining



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