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  • abundance: the mean concentration of an element in a geochemical reservoir
    Category: The cosmos

  • accommodating: policy where what is already happening e.g. a rise on prices, is allowed to continue
    Category: Economics

  • accommodation: shelter and board provided to destitute or vulnerable people,where these services cannot be classified under another function.This may be short term in reception centres,shelters and so on or on a more regular basis in special institutions,boarding houses,reception families and so on
    Category: Statistics

  • accommodation: provision of lodging and sometimes board to retired people either in specialised institutions(old people`s homes,nursing homes)or staying with families.The provision can be of temporary or indefinite duration
    Category: Statistics

  • accommodation: shelter and board provided to children and families on a permanent basis(such as in nursing homes and foster families)
    Category: Statistics

  • accommodation: a measure of the degree to which adjacent faces of adjoining peds are molds of each other
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • accommodation: it may occur that a test piece stressed beyond its elastic limit and not recovering after unloading its initial length,on being subjected to a series of loads and unloadings stabilizes at a length slightly different from the initial one.This occurrence is referred to as 'accommodation' and is observed with cast iron
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • accommodation: the adjustment of the eye,generally spontaneous,made for the purpose of looking at an object situated at a given distance
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodation: depends very much on the type of fishing,the vessel and its size.Inshore fishing vessels are always cramped,sometimes extremely so,and the workers on board are surrounded by the same conditions(for example,noise and vibration)both at work and at rest
    Category: General

  • accommodation: the ability of the eye to change its focus from distant to near objects
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodation: the ability of the eye to adjust or accommodate to different visual distances
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodation: lodging, food and services.
    Category: Domestic economy

  • accommodative: squint due to excessive accommodation in hypermetropes
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodative: the manifestation of esophoria or of that portion of total esophoria,resulting from accommodative convergence
    Category: Medicine

  • accommodative: 2.the ratio of accommodative convergence(A.C.)to accommodation(A.)usually expressed as the quotient of accommodative convergence in prism diopters divided by the accommodative response in diopters
    Category: Physics

  • acrocephalosyndactylism: 2)congenital malformation of the skull in association with complete or partial webbing of the fingers and toes
    Category: Medicine

  • Adaline: Widrow`s single-neuron system that can learn to recognize a pattern such as a letter regardless of its orientation or size
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Adamstown: capital of the Pitcairn Islands
    Category: The cosmos

  • adapt: a program for the preparation of control tapes for the numerical control of machine tools
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adaptability: the ability of a robot to carry out a given task in a variable environment
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adaptability: ability to develop some form of tolerance to conditions extremely different from those under which..a living organism..evolved.
    Category: Environment

  • adaptable: capable of making self-directed corrections.In a robot this is often accomplished with the aid of visual,force or tactile sensors
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adaptation: the biological, psychological and physical alterations in a living organism or community in order to adjust to a particular environment; the process (es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals),populations, or species change in structure, form or function in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions; any adjustment of an organism to the conditions of its environment
    Category: Medicine

  • adaptation: a) the process(es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals),populations, or species change in structure, form or function in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions; b) also the resultant structure, form or function
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • adaptation: result of the biological, psychological and physical alterations in a living organism or community in order to adjust to a particular environment ; the resultant structure, form or function of the process (es) whereby individuals (or parts of individuals), populations, or species change in such a way as better to survive under given environmental conditions
    Category: Medicine

  • adaptation: the alteration of the selective response of a neural unit due to the received signals
    Category: Medicine

  • adaptation: the ability of a variety to derive the necessities for its favourable development in a given environment
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • adaptation: the process by which the properties of the organ of vision are modified according to the luminances or the colour stimuli presented to it,or the final state of the process
    Category: Medicine

  • adaptation: temporary modification of sensitivity in perceiving sensory stimuli due to continous,repeated exposure to a given stimulus or one similar to it
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • adaptation: the decline in the frequency of firing of a neuron,particularly of a receptor,under conditions of constant stimulation
    Category: Medicine

  • adapted: gripping device adapted to one specific task,modular and detachable,which can be changed by the robot itself on command
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adapter: 1)An intermediate device used to connect two variable objects, such as pipes of different sizes, or firefighting hoses of non-matching threads; 2)A device that, when added to a tool or equipment, allows it to be used for a purpose other than originally intended
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • adapter: a connective device designed to affect operative capability between different parts of one or more systems and/or subsystems
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adapter: a sleeve having both male and female tapers.It is interposed between a machine taper and the taper hole in a spindle,if the latter is larger than the machine taper
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • adapter: interstage device used tomate and then separate adjacent stages of multi-stage vehicle
    Category: Transport

  • adapter: a device for connecting two parts(as of different diameters)of an apparatus
    Category: The chemical industry

  • adapter: a copywriter responsible for adapting advertising and promotional copy from its original language to a different one
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • adapter: fuse for 110v, 130v, 150v, 200v, etc.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adapter: a fitting for connecting hoses of different pitch or couplings of different diameters.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • adapting: in control systems,the ability of a system to change its performance characteristics in response to its environment
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adaptive: an antenna system having circuit elements associated with its radiating elements such that some of the antenna properties are controlled by the received signal
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adaptive: a semiconductor integrated logic consisting of an assembly of gates so connected as to be capable of performing any one of a large number of possible logic functions by reproducing a function supplied as an example
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adaptive: system where learning methods developed by researchers in electrical engineering and systems theory represent acquired knowledge in the form of polynomials and matrices;the learning systems,called adaptive systems,typically perform tasks,such as pattern classification,adaptive control and adaptive filtering
    Category: General

  • adaptive: an open system which adapts itself to changes in its environment by feedback
    Category: General

  • adaptive: the application of two or more image compression techniques to a single image,based on properties of different parts of the image
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adaptive: a filter circuit that automatically adjusts itself to respond to fixed-waveform signals which occur in a random manner and are completely buried in noise
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adaptive: a network facility or control strategy whereby routing is adapted to changing traffic loads and other conditions
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adaptive: a control system that adjusts the response from conditions detected during the work
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adaptive: a secondary control whose characteristics are time-variable and result from the optimisation of some operational conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • adaptive: diversification of a dominant evolutionary group into a large number of subsidiary types adapted to more restrictive modes of life within the range of the larger group
    Category: Botany and zoology



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