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answerback: special facility on a teletypewriter which,at an answerback code request,initiates a response including station identification and,in some applications,the type of equipment in service and the status of the station by sending factory-assigned,hardware-generated identification characters
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

answerback: a signal sent by a data receiver to a data transmitter indicating it is ready to receive data,or is acknowledging the receipt of data
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

arc-back: a back-fire in an ionic valve
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

arc-back: a breakdown in the reverse direction
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

asset-backed: a security backed by loans or accounts receivable
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

back: the main portion of a raw hide, obtained by cutting off the two bellies; leather made from the same part
Category: Various industries and crafts

back: The part of a book to which the pages are glued or that joins the covers(1).Bound edge or back of a book(2)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

back: the body of the saw blade,usually tempered steel,to which the teeth or toothed segments are attached by rivets,pins,clamps,or brazing(circular blades),or welding(band-and hacksaw blades)
Category: Mechanical engineering

back: of a saw tooth,the part forming the reverse side from the front
Category: Mechanical engineering

back: the wind is said to back when it changes its direction anti-clockwise
Category: The cosmos

back: a)the poorer face,of a piece of square-cut timber,board,veneer,plywood or coreboard 2)(USA mainly)the poorer side of a panel in any grade of plywood calling for a face and back
Category: Various industries and crafts

back: the flat or slightly convex end of a single-bladed axe; the other end having a head with only one cutting blade
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

back-blading: the smoothing of earth or gravel or a road surface by using the back side of a bulldozer blade as the tractor moves in reverse
Category: Building industry

back-boiler: a boiler designed to supply a central-heating system and to be installed in a fireplace recess as part of a back boiler/gas fire combination
Category: Mechanical engineering

back-cloth: cloth painted or decorated in some way and hung across the rear of a stage to mask the backstage area or to serve as a scenic background
Category: General

back-coupled: a negative-resistance device obtained by feeding the output from a Hall generator back to the input
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

back-end: any software performing either the final stage in a process,or a task not apparent to the user
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

back-end: set of interacting groups involved in the final processing line of an integrated circuit,e.g.passivation,electrical tests,chip separation,bonding,packaging,and final tests
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

back-fire: the temporary loss of the reverse blocking ability of a valve or arm with the result that it allows reverse current to flow
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

back-injection: the current injected by a forward-biased p-n junction into a semiconductor region on the junction side in which no injection is required
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

back-off: the process of reducing the input and output power levels of a traveling wave tube to obtain more linear operation
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

back-pressure: the pressure due to downstream restrictions or from change of the ratio of the input and output impedance in a device
Category: Physics

back-propagation: processing of information(usually error-correction information)backwards through the network.The flow of information does not proceed in the usual way from the input units forward to the output units,but in the reverse direction from the output units backwards through the network
Category: General

back-to-back: complementary transactions in the nature of hedging,when a life policy and an annuity are effected at the same time on the life of one person
Category: Insurance

back-to-back: adjacent time periods, programs, or commercials.
Category: General

back-up: in cartography,an image printed on the reverse side of map sheet already printed on one side.Also the printing of such images
Category: The cosmos

backboard: each of the two backboards shall be of any rigid material....The backboard shall be...a rectangle 6 feet horizontally and 4 feet vertically..
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

backbone: a core network that carries traffic originating network from and destined for other networks
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

backbone: The function of a duck`s back-bone is to provide a reference by connecting it to waves of opposite phase.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

backburn: any controlled burning against the wind
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

backchain: a control procedure that attempts to achieve goals recursively,first by enumerating antecedents that would be sufficient for goal attainment and second by attempting to achieve or establish the antecedents themselves as goals
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

backchaining: a control procedure that attempts to achieve goals recursively,first by enumerating antecedents that would be sufficient for goal attainment and second by attempting to achieve or establish the antecedents themselves as goals
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

backcross: a cross between a hybrid and either one of its parents
Category: Medicine

backdoor: when a company is listed on the stock exchange after acquiring an already listed company and injecting into it new activities
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

backdraft: a valve on the ring main or hot blast main of a blast furnace
Category: Iron and steel industries

backdraft: a vertical pipe on the backdrafting valve of a blast furnace
Category: Iron and steel industries

backdrafting: a vertical pipe on the backdrafting valve of a blast furnace
Category: Iron and steel industries

backed: a sideways-deflected stitch that lies across a stitch formed in the same course on the opposite needle bed
Category: Various industries and crafts

backfile: a file containing the unaltered data prior to the execution of a job,program,application,command,or instruction
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

backfill: a layer of highly conductive ramming material between the shell of a blast furnace and the refractory lining in the bosh zone
Category: Iron and steel industries

backfill: waste sand or rock used to support the roof after removal of ore from the stope; sand or dirt placed behind timber, steel or concrete linings in shafts or tunnels; the filling in again of a place from which the rock or ore has been removed
Category: Mining

backfilling: refilling the trench with earth after the tiles have been laid; also the material used for refilling
Category: Building industry

backfire: a) a fire set along the inner edge of a control line to consume the fuel in the path of a forest fire and/or change the direction of force of the fire`s convection column; b) a prescribed burning against the wind
Category: Management in the public and private sector

backfire: a premature ignition in an internal combustion engine,tending to drive the engine in the opposite direction of normal rotation,or any explosion in the intake or exhaust system of any engine
Category: Mechanical engineering

backfiring: Premature ignition during the starting of an internal-combustion engine,resulting in an explosion before the end of the compression stroke,and consequent reversal of the direction or rotation.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

backflash: the translocation of poison,through natural root-grafting,from a chemically treated tree or plant to an untreated one,causing the latter`s injury or death
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

background: the controllable brightness of the receiver screen in the absence of the part of the television signal which conveys the picture information
Category: Physics

background: the automatic execution of lower priority computer programs which are temporarily suspended when higher priority foreground programs are active
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

background: the counting rate in the absence of that radiation which the counter tube is intended to measure
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

background: Display against which the foreground is displayed in a different colour.
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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