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anticollision: a radar system installed in an aircraft to warn the pilot of any target that could be on a collision course with the aircraft
Category: News-systems and communications

autecology: a) the ecology of an individual organism or taxonomic group; b) the study of environmental factors and their effects on plants
Category: Botany and zoology

calcicole: a plant that lives in calcareous soils
Category: Botany and zoology

chocolate: composed of cocoa paste and sugar, usually with the addition of flavouring and cocoa butter
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

clearcole: a size coating applied to fill up pores of wood or plaster preparatory to distempering or painting
Category: The chemical industry

col: a more or less pronounced dip in a ridge,or between two peaks,forming a connecting neck of land
Category: The cosmos

col: saddle-backed region of almost uniform pressure which appears between two depressions and two anticyclones arranged alternately in a cross.
Category: The cosmos

cola: raising or lowering wages or salaries in accordance with changes in the cost of living,as measured by a designated index
Category: Statistics

colander: a fairly large metal or plastic bowl perforated on the sides and bottom; used for straining hot foods.
Category: Domestic economy

colcrete: trade name for a method of concreting structures(piers,abutments,roads,foundations,etc.),which consists of laying the coarse aggregate at the structure site,passing the cement,sand,and water through a special mixer and pumping(or pouring)it into position.A pier built by this method is called 'colcrete pier'
Category: Building industry

cold: of a relatively low temperature
Category: Mechanical engineering

cold: said of a material or atmosphere in which there is little or no radioactivity
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

cold: heat extracted or to be extracted
Category: Mechanical engineering

cold-applied: paints made by liquefying coal-tar pitch by heating and then combining it with solvent which must be a coal-tar distillation product,such as xylol,or coal-tar naphtha,or be its equivalent in solvency characteristics,to insure homogeneity of the paint.The principal difference between this paint and coal-tar emulsion is that in the latter water,rather than coal-tar distillate,is used as the dispersing medium,and coal-tar pitch,common or processed,is the basic non-volatile ingredient
Category: Building industry

cold-core: occlusion of the type in which the cold air behind the front is colder than the cold air in advance of it.
Category: The cosmos

cold-rolling: implies reduction in thickness by rolling at room temperature. The result is hardening of the metal...the production of sheet of uniform and closely controlled thickness.
Category: Iron and steel industries

coleopter: an aircraft having an annular wing,with the engine and body mounted within the annulus,and designed to take-off and land vertically
Category: Transport

Coleoptera: beetles,the largest order(approx.40 per cent of all species)of insects
Category: Botany and zoology

coleoptile: the(single)cotyledon of a grass seedling,which develops a sheath surrounding the plumule
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

coleus: a large genus of showy foliage herbs of the mint family
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

coli: infection with Escherichia coli; takes many forms, some of them septicaemic, some toxigenic due to absorption of the enterotoxin and some locally toxigenic due to the effects of the bacteria`s endotoxin
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

coliform: (of a bacterium)with form and reactions very similar to those of bacterium coli
Category: Medicine

collagenous: lung disease caused by fibrogenic dusts or by an altered tissue response to a non-fibrogenic dust in which there is permanent alteration or destruction of alveolar architecture,a collagenous stromal reaction of moderate to maximal degree,and permanent scarring of the lung
Category: Medicine

collapse: a flattening or buckling of the wood cells during seasoning,sometimes manifested in excessive and/or uneven shrinkage
Category: Various industries and crafts

collapse: In medicine,sudden prostration with fall in circulation,blood pressure,neuromuscular tone and consciousness,usually reversible
Category: Management in the public and private sector

collapse: complete and sudden failure of a structure or of one or more of its parts
Category: Physics

collapsed: a double-track public transport line,on each track of which vehicles travel in single but opposite directions.At the end of the line,the vehicles are either turned around or switched back to provide service in the opposite direction
Category: Building industry

collapsed: an inward structural failure of the filter element caused by excessive pressure
Category: Mechanical engineering

collapsed: a network backbone that is located in a single room.It might be a single router or multiport bridge,or a small LAN of some sort
Category: News-systems and communications

collapsed: a method for estimating the variance of the mean of a stratified sample where the sample is based upon two random selections from each of a number of strata of equal size and the number of non-respondents results in too few completed strata.Two or more strata are amalgamated(collapsed)to form one stratum
Category: Mathematics

collapsibility: the ability of break down of a sand mixture,particularly a core sand after casting
Category: Iron and steel industries

collapsible: retread rim that can be folded and unfolded for insertion into tire where it holds curing tube in place and exerts pressure on sidewalls
Category: Various industries and crafts

collapsible: a fuel element cladding designed to achieve direct contact with the fuel under pressure of the coolant
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

collapsible: a sprue pattern of flexible material,or of spring-tube design,used in squeeze-moulding of plated patterns,and incorporating a pouring cup
Category: Iron and steel industries

collar: the combination of two interests rate options to provide protection against a rate of interest fluctuating too widely,i.e.a straddle of a cap and a floor
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

collar: the mouth or opening of a borehole
Category: Mining

collar: a ring,generally of rectangular section,formed integral with a shaft in order to provide axial location with respect to a bearing
Category: Mechanical engineering

COLLAR: Junction point between root system and stem,corresponding to the exact position of the seed when germination occurred.
Category: Botany and zoology

COLLAR: the centre of a circular saw
Category: Mechanical engineering

COLLAR: the rachis at the base of the ear..of the barley plant..is surrounded by a ridge of tissue which has been termed the --.
Category: Botany and zoology

COLLAR: a short refractory fireclay section of a horizontal retort which is placed between the main silica portion and the mouthpiece.
Category: Iron and steel industries

COLLAR: the part of a shirt, coat,...around the neck.
Category: Domestic economy

collard: kale (spinach and collard greens) - usu. used in pl. when applied to the food (potatoes and collards for supper).
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

collare: pin fitted with a collar serving to increase the bearing surface on that part of the tool with which it must be integral
Category: Iron and steel industries

collared: pin fitted with a collar serving to increase the bearing surface on that part of the tool with which it must be integral
Category: Iron and steel industries

collate: to produce a single ordored file from two or more files which are in the same ordered sequence.
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

collateral: a) American expression used to describe a security put up by a borrower in addition to this promise repay; b) the precise English definition is a security put up by someone other than the borrower, either in support of the guarantee or as a third party security in place of the guarantee
Category: Standards, measures and testing

collateral: a security put up by someone other than the borrower,either in support of the guarantee or as a third party security in place of the guarantee
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

collateral: assets pledged as a guarantee for the repayment of the short-term liquidity loans which credit institutions receive from the central banks,as well as assets received by central banks from credit institutions as part of repurchase operations
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

collateral: The term 'collateral'...means not lineal,but upon a parallel or diverging line.The term is used in this sens when referring to heirs who are not lineal descendants for example brothers,sisters,aunts...
Category: Law

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