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  • aeroballistic: the study of the interaction of projectiles or high-speed vehicles with the atmosphere
    Category: Defense

  • aeroballistics: the study of the interaction of projectiles or high-speed vehicles with the atmosphere
    Category: Defense

  • antiballistic: a missile designed to intercept and destroy or neutralise an incoming warhead or re-entry vehicle
    Category: Defense

  • ball: D.an ornament of rounded form, common as the termination of a cupola or lantern...That of S. Paul`s Cathedral is six feet in diameter.
    Category: Building industry

  • ball: the -- shall be spherical, made of a leather case with a bladder made of rubber...Circumference: 26 to 26 3/4 in.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • ball-point: a pen having as the writing point a small steel ball that rotates in its socket and inks itself by contact with an inner magazine of ink
    Category: Language and literature

  • ballast: 1)A device to limit, regulate or stabilise electrical current; 2)Weight added to a ship, a lift or other vehicle to increase the total load for more stability
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • ballast: To take heavy items into a ship and so to dispose of them that an increase in stability results.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • ballast: a device used with discharge lamps for stabilising the discharge
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ballast: a general term which may indicate either bank gravel or unscreened crushed stone
    Category: Building industry

  • ballast: any substance so carried in a lighter-than-air aircraft as to be dischargeable for trimming or for gaining height
    Category: Transport

  • ballast: heavy weight placed at or near the bottom of a sailboat to provide stability
    Category: Building industry

  • ballast: Heavy material placed low in ships used to maintain proper stability,trim,or draught.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • ballast: Any substance so carried in a lighter-than-air aircraft as to be dischargeable for trimming or for gaining height.
    Category: Transport

  • ballast-free: open track work where the sleepers are supported directly by the roadbed,usually consisting of concrete
    Category: Building industry

  • ballasting: The process of adding ballast to a vessel to improve its stability or seakindliness.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • ballasting: in LNG industry,adding inert gases to methane when a lower calorific value is required
    Category: The chemical industry

  • ballasting-up: the operation of adjusting the buoyancy or trim by releasing ballast or gas
    Category: Transport

  • balling: a hydrometer scale used to measure the approximative sugar content of grape juice,sweet wines,and sugar solutions.The scale is calibrated to indicate percentage by weight of sucrose.The Brix hydrometer is usually calibrated at 17,5 oC or 20 oC and the Balling hydrometer at 60 oF
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • ballistic: that constant wind which would have the same effect upon the trajectory of a bomb or projectile as the wind encountered in flight
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: a camera used to record the trajectory of a high-speed body,usually a rocket,with high accuracy
    Category: General

  • ballistic: heavy pendulum mortar in which a standard explosive charge is fired and the angle of recoil is measured
    Category: Mining

  • ballistic: a nonlifting vehicle; a vehicle that follows a ballistic trajectory
    Category: Physics

  • ballistic: a missile which follows a ballistic trajectory when thrust is terminated
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: a test for measuring the strength of explosives It consists of measuring the swing of a pendulum produced by the explosion of a weighed charge of material
    Category: Mining

  • ballistic: separation of materials with different bulk density by a punching or a throwing action whereby material with high bulk density is slung furthest away in a trajectory
    Category: Technical and industry in general

  • ballistic: the trajectory traced after the propulsive force is terminated and the body is acte upon only by gravity and aerodynamic drag
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: of an unpowered stage,the ratio of sea level weight to the product of the aerodynamic drag coefficient and the proper reference area
    Category: Physics

  • ballistic: a galvanometer intended to measure the value of a quantity of electricity by reading the amplitude of the first swing of its moving element
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • ballistic: a transient oscillatory error of a gyro compass introduced during changes of course or speed as a result of the means used to damp the oscillations of the gyro spin axis
    Category: Physics

  • ballistic: the trajectory traced after the propulsive force is terminated and the body is acted upon by gravity and aerodynamic drag only
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: the science or art that deals with the motion,behaviour,appearance,or modification of missiles or other vehicles acted upon by propellants,wind,gravity,temperature,or any other modifying substance,condition,or force
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: ballistic range = research facility for investigation of behaviour of projectiles moving through gaseous media at extremely high Mach numbers; usually comprises a calibrated range along which test bodies can be fired, sometimes into gas travelling at high speed in opposite direction
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • ballistics: the science or art that deals with the motion,behaviour,appearance,or modification of missiles or other vehicles acted upon by propellants,wind,gravity,temperature,or any other modifying substance,condition,or force
    Category: Defense

  • ballistophobia: fear of missiles or bullets
    Category: Medicine

  • ballonnet: in lighter-than-air aircraft.A compartment within the envelope into which air can be blown,to compensate for the changes in volume in the gas contained in the envelope,to maintain the required superpressure or to alter trim
    Category: Transport

  • balloon: a small-necked inflatable bag of thin usually gaily coloured rubber used as a toy
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • balloon: an area (as of cartoon) in which presumed spoken words are printed or thoughts represented typically having a rounded outline and being connected with the speaker`s...mouth by a single line.
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • balloon: a non-power-driven lighter-than-air aircraft.
    Category: Transport

  • balloon: a bag made of light material,filled with a gas lighter than air designed to rise and float in the atmosphere
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • balloon: hemispherical aspect of the yarn in reeling
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • balloon: Drugs(sold)in contraceptives
    Category: General

  • balloon: a drawing,usually in a comic strip,which makes words or thoughts appear to be coming directly from the speaker`s mouth or mind
    Category: General

  • balloon: bulle dans laquelle est écrit le texte de bandes dessinées.
    Category: General

  • ballooning: the appearance of the curved paths of running yarns during spinning, doubling, or winding-on, or while they are being withdrawn over-end from packages under appropriate yarn-winding conditions, e.g. ,when yarn is withdrawn through a guide (often called a ballooning eye) placed above and in line with the axis of the package at an adequate distance from it; the yarn (travelling at sufficient yarn-winding speed) assumes the appearance of a balloon shape as it revolves during withdrawal from the package. The package may be stationary or rotated in the opposite direction from that of the original winding of the package.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • ballooning: A local synonym for bagging
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • ballooning: a model(BALLOON)has been developed to describe the local deformation or 'ballooning' of pressurized reactor fuel cladding during a LOCA
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • ballot: a release form that authorises a customer`s long-distance phone service to be switched to(another)long-distance carrier,or reseller
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • baseball: dislocation of the terminal phalanx dorsally
    Category: Medicine

  • baseball: coil with the shape of a tennis ball seam; when a current flows through it, a minimum-B configuration is generated
    Category: Physics



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