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  • accross: a national federation of trade unions formally constituted in 1886 after preliminary steps initiated in 1881
    Category: Labour

  • across: distance between opposite flat surfaces formed on a mechanical part
    Category: Transport

  • across: a) in wood, any direction in a plane approximating to a 90 degrees angle to the longitudinal wood elements; at exactly 90 degrees, the plane and direction are perpendicular to the grain; b) any cut, particularly in planing, that picks up the ends of the elements in 'against the grain' (contrary to the grain); otherwise it is 'with the grain'
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • across: the direction of grain on paper sheets cut with the long axis transverse to the length of the master roll
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • across: An across-the-board reduction is a reduction involving every single item concerned.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • across: a system of tile drains consisting of running the lines of the tiles across rather than down the slope
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • across: general and uniform, or applying to all classes, such as, for example, an -- reduction in taxes, or an -increase in wages.
    Category: Language and literature

  • across-the: a system of tile drains consisting of running the lines of the tiles across rather than down the slope
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

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

  • cross: a cruciform pipe fitting connecting four pipe ends,generally at right angles to one another
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • cross: the general appearance of the --, or --, has been described above.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • cross-arm: a wooden cross-member
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • cross-assembler: a program run on one computer for the purpose of translating instructions for a different computer
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • cross-band: each of the layers of veneer whose grain direction is perpendicular to that of the face plies,with particular reference to five-ply plywood and lumber-core constructions
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • cross-beam: machine component joining the tops of the two uprights of a plano-milling machine
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • cross-border: postal service concerning mail whose destination is outside the national territory
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • cross-border: swap between two parties in different countries
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • cross-border: systems grouping border regions in different EC countries; aim to assist in labour mobility within the Community by providing information on job opportunities, living and working conditions, etc
    Category: Labour

  • cross-border: letter mail sent from one postal administration to another through the international letter mail system
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • cross-check: the checking of the result of a routine or calculation by obtaining the result by different methods and comparing.
    Category: Mathematics

  • cross-collateralization: a reference to security involving various liens held in support of one or more advances made by a lender to a borrower
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • cross-contamination: the transfer of harmful bacteria from one food to another
    Category: Medicine

  • cross-country: a race in which competitors cover a set distance 5, 10,...or 50 kilometers. The terrain usually consists of one-third uphill, one-third downhill and one-third on the level.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • cross-coupling: an unwanted coupling between two different communication channels or their component parts
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • cross-criteria: a record-search criterion specifying exactly the range,that is,the minimum and maximum values of the data to search for
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • cross-currency: technique that combines shift from a floating to a fixed rate of interest,together with a shift from liability in one currency to liability in another
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • cross-cut: roadways cutting across the successive seams
    Category: Mining

  • cross-cutting: of wood in general,cutting across the grain,so creating an end and exposing a cross-section
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • cross-cutting: sawing timber across the grain
    Category: Building industry

  • cross-default: a clause in a loan agreement specifying that default on any other loans to the borrower shall be regarded as default on this one
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • cross-dimension: the length and breadth of the rectangular cross-section of square-sawn or square-hewn timber
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • cross-dissolve: achived by combining the fade-out of one scene with the fade-in of another scene, over the same length of film.
    Category: General

  • cross-drain: a shallow channel laid diagonally across the surface of a road so as to lead water,particularly storm water,off it
    Category: Building industry

  • cross-fade: to fade in one channel while fading out another in order to substitute gradually the output of one for that of the other,e.g.to create the impression of a change of scene
    Category: General

  • cross-grain: a general term for any grain deviating considerably from the direction of the longitudinal axis of a piece of timber and emerging at an angle from a face or edge
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • cross-grained: wood with a very irregular course of the grain
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • cross-linking: correction of parallel chains in a complex chemical molecule (as a polymer)
    Category: Chemistry

  • cross-linking: the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction,vulcanization,and electron bombardment
    Category: Chemistry

  • cross-platform: a facility whereby passengers can exchange from one line to another simply by crossing from one side of an island platform to the other
    Category: Building industry

  • cross-pointer: indicating-type dial instrument that provides readings by means of a pointer in the shape of a cross
    Category: Transport

  • cross-polar: component of the radiated field polarized perpendicularly to the wanted component
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • cross-pollination: the pollination of a biotype with pollen from one or more different biotypes
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • cross-reference: Page reference on one videotex frame or page giving a number of another page also containing relevant information.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • cross-reference: the file worker should -- whenever there is a possibility that a record might be requested under more than one name.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • cross-reference: a notation in a file or an index showing that the record being sought is stored elsewhere; or the filing of a duplicate or an original record in other locations where it might be sought.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • cross-resistance: the phenomenon in which a microbe that has acquired resistance to one drug through direct exposure also turns out to have resistance to one or more other drugs to which it has not been exposed
    Category: Medicine

  • cross-section: graphical representation of the meteorological conditions observed simultaneously in a vertical section of the atmosphere, taken along a selected horizontal line.
    Category: The cosmos

  • cross-section: the measure of the probability of a specified interaction between an incident radiation and a target particle or system of particles.It is the reaction rate per target particle for a specified process divided by the flux density of the incident radiation or microscopic cross-section
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • cross-section: The section of a stream perpendicular to the main direction of flow.
    Category: Building industry

  • cross-sectional: a set of data involving observations taken at one point in time
    Category: Statistics



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