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contra: an accounting entry set against another entry
Category: Insurance

contra: the neutralisation of the effect of a dopant tending to cause the opposite conductivity type
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

contra: in double entry bookkeeping,the account that is debited to offset a credit or vice-versa
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

contra: the rotating of propellers in opposite directions on a common shaft axis and sharing a common drive
Category: Physics

contra: any factor or sign that it is unwise to pursue a certain kind of action or treatment,e.g.giving a general anaesthetic to a person with pneumonia
Category: Medicine

contra: a construction rule stating that in case a party to a contract has drawn it up,the courts will construe any ambiguity in the contract against that party and not in his favour
Category: Insurance

contra: two propellers mounted on concentric shafts having a common drive and rotating in opposite directions
Category: Mechanical engineering

contra: a gas-turbine engine in which the turbine and compressor blades are integral or adjacent,and the working fluid flows in opposite directions through the respective passages of the two sets of blades
Category: Mechanical engineering

contra: in this type of dissipator,jets of water from two openings or nozzles are directed against each other in a basin.In the plane of contact of the colliding jets,water flows radially outward from the axes of the jets in the form of a disc,and induces the formation of hydraulic rollers
Category: Building industry

contra: the allowance for bad debts account may be classified under a number of different names: a contra account..
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

contra: . In this device, mixing blades are not stationary but rotate in the direction opposite the drum rotation.
Category: Building industry

contra-indication: any factor or sign that it is unwise to pursue a certain kind of action or treatment,e.g.giving a general anaesthetic to a person with pneumonia
Category: Medicine

contra-jet: in this type of dissipator,jets of water from two openings or nozzles are directed against each other in a basin.In the plane of contact of the colliding jets,water flows radially outward from the axes of the jets in the form of a disc,and induces the formation of hydraulic rollers
Category: Building industry

contra-rotating: the rotating of propellers in opposite directions on a common shaft axis and sharing a common drive
Category: Physics

contract: legal agreement between two or more parties
Category: General

contract: an agreement between a client and a building or civil engineering contractor to do certain definite types of work at certain rates
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

contract: any kind of undertaking,written or verbal,express or implied,by a person,not being a public servant or by a syndicate,corporation or firm,for the construction,maintenance or repairs of one or more works,for the supply of materials,or for the performance of any service in connection with the execution of works,or the supply of materials
Category: Building industry

contract: a formal agreement between two or more parties
Category: Law

contracted: a sharp-crested measuring notch with sides designed to produce a contraction in the area of the overflowing; weir with a sharpcrested measuring notch with sides designed to produce a contraction in the area of the overflowing
Category: Building industry

contracted: a diffusely scarred kidney in which the relatively large amount of abnormal fibrous tissue leads to a moderate or great reduction in the size of the organ; may be caused by prolonged exposure to lead
Category: Chemistry

contracted: an orifice having its downstream end so far removed from the bounding surface of the water prism in the channel of approaches or other surfaces of a disturbing nature,that the filaments of water are fully contracted or deflected before they emerge from the orifice
Category: Building industry

contracted: a waterway less than the standard waterway
Category: The cosmos

contracted: Natural gas reserves dedicated to the fulfillment of gas purchase contracts.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

contracted: employers are free to contract out their; employees from the state scheme for the additional earnings-related pension to provide their own occupational pension in its place
Category: Insurance

contracted-out: employers are free to contract out their; employees from the state scheme for the additional earnings-related pension to provide their own occupational pension in its place
Category: Insurance

contracting: procedure by which an arrangement is made for certain activities in an enterprise to be performed by other, specialised enterprises..
Category: Medicine

contracting: the individual or corporate body which,having conformed to the rules laid down in the articles of association of the pure mutual or mutualtype insurance company,and having accepted the general and specific conditions of the contract effected with the joint members of that mutual,becomes itself a member or associate member of the latter
Category: Insurance

contracting: a person who,pursuant to a contract concluded between him and an issuer,holds a payment device
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

contracting: the State,regional or local authorities,bodies governed by public law,associations formed by one or more of such authorities or bodies governed by public law
Category: Management in the public and private sector

contracting: a person or company which signs a contract
Category: Law

contracting-out: procedure by which an arrangement is made for certain activities in an enterprise to be performed by other, specialised enterprises..
Category: Medicine

contraction: a period of general economic decline,one of the four stages of the business cycle
Category: Economics

contraction: the extent to which the cross-section area of a jet,nappe or stream is decreased after passing an orifice,weir or notch
Category: Building industry

contraction: a shortening or increase in tension,denoting the normal function of muscular tissue
Category: Medicine

contractor: person who undertakes,for an agreed price,the execution of a work for the client
Category: Building industry

contracts: the month which is the subject of a futures contract and in which physical delivery must be made; a specific date within the month is prescribed for this purpose in the contact
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

contracts: ..will work closely with architects, be involved in the preparation and submission of bids to general contractors and will have project liaison responsibilities on successful contracts.
Category: Labour

contractu: bilateral contract,the parties assuming corresponding obligations
Category: Law

contractu: bilateral contract,the parties assuming obligations of a different kind
Category: Law

contracture: a permanent muscular contraction due to tonic spasm or fibrosis or to antagonists bein paralyzed
Category: Medicine

contractus: bilateral contract,the parties assuming corresponding obligations
Category: Law

contractus: bilateral contract,the parties assuming obligations of a different kind
Category: Law

contradictory: procedure whereby (draft) audit letters or reports are sent to the auditee with a request for a written reply within a given time-limit. The reply may be preceded by bilateral discussions in order to clarify any matters in dispute
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

contradirectional: an interface across which the timing signals associated with both directions of transmission of the signals to be transferred,are directed towards the same side of the interface
Category: News-systems and communications

contrails: the artificial clouds made by the exhaust of jet aircraft
Category: The cosmos

contraprop: contra-rotating propeller
Category: Transport

contrarotation: a type of movement in which two related movements are running in opposite directions
Category: Physics

contrast: a contrast among the parameters in analysis of variance,or among the treatment and interaction effects in an experiment,is a linear function of these quantities with known constant coefficients which sum to zero
Category: Mathematics

contrast: the ratio of two luminance levels in a scene or reproduced picture
Category: General

contrast: the subjective assessment of the difference in appearance of two parts of a field of view seen simultaneously or successively,hence luminosity contrast,lightness contrast,colour contrast,simultaneous contrast,successive contrast,i.e.the subjective sense,and quantities defined by the formulae,for instance for luminance contrast,i.e.the objective sense
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

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