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blanket: a rubber sheet in an offset press that receives the inked impression from the plate and transfers it to the surface being printed.
Category: Printing and publishing

blanket: a region of fertile material placed around or within the core of a reactor for the purpose of conversion
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

blanket: a region of fertile material placed around or within the core of a reactor for the purpose of conversion.By extension,the term blanket may be used when the purpose is transformation of non-fertile material
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

blanket: to -- a burning material.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

blanket: insulating material consisting of eel grass, glass silk, mineral wool, etc., with paper lining on each face. Some quilts are backed with aluminum foil to reduce heat losses by radiation.
Category: Building industry

blanket: an endless belt of rubber or fabric which gives a soft, yielding, and uniform surface.
Category: The chemical industry

blanket-type: flexible insulating material formed into sheets or rolls
Category: Mechanical engineering

blanketing: covering the entire field with overhead sprinkling irrigation at night to protect plants and fruit trees from the damaging effects of frost
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blanketing: method of extinguishing fire by producing a smothering or blanketing effect, as with foam, etc.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

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