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abandon: the act of not exercising or selling an option before its expiration
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

abandon: a directory operation to terminate a request.This operation is not guaranteed outside of the local scope
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

abandoned: A well not in use because it was a dry hole originally,or because it has ceased to produce.Statutes and regulations in many states require the plugging of abandoned wells to prevent the seepage of oil,gas or water from one stratum to another.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

abandoned: a call attempt aborted by the calling party
Category: News-systems and communications

abandoned: Part of a stream channel naturally or artificially separated from the active stream.
Category: The cosmos

abandonment: Insurance term used to indicate that the damage suffered by a vessel is such as to constitute a constructive total loss and that the assured may abandon the subject matter to the underwriters and claim for a total loss even though the insured property is recoverable and/or being repaired.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

abandonment: An offence against life and limb in which a person exposes a helpless person under his protection or care to a life-threatening danger or a serious and immediate danger to health,or abandons the person to such a danger.
Category: Law

abandonment: an insured who has sustained a partial loss cannot abandon what is left...to the company, and claim a total loss.
Category: Insurance

abandonned: a call during which the calling station goes on-hook prior to being answered
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adobe: 1)Sun-dried mud brick, used in the construction of low-cost houses; Particularly vulnerable in earthquakes; 2)Geology: fine rock powder formed in the glaciation period and deposited in certain areas by wind and water
Category: Management in the public and private sector

adoption: the statutory process of terminating a child`s legal rights and duties toward the natural parents and substituting similar rights and duties toward adoptive parents
Category: Law

albedo: probability under specified conditions that a neutron entering into a region through a surface will return through that surface
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

albedograph: recording albedometer.
Category: The cosmos

albedometer: instrument for measuring the reflective power, or albedo, of a surface. It is used, for example, to obtain the albedos of clouds or of different surface features grass, snow, etc.
Category: The cosmos

aldol: a reaction between two aldehyde molecules or between one aldehyde and one ketone molecule in which the position of one of the hydrogen atoms is changed so as to form a single molecule having one hydroxyl and one carbonyl group
Category: Chemistry

andorran: inhabitant of Andorra
Category: The cosmos

angledozer: a bulldozer with the mouldboard set at an angle so that it pushes earth partly sideways and partly ahead.
Category: Building industry

anticodon: A sequence of three nucleotides which forms the mRNA template recognition site of a tRNA.The anticodon recognizes and binds the complementary sequence(codon)on the mRNA.
Category: Medicine

antidote: a substance used to prevent or treat a harmful effect or effects,direct or indirect,of one or more substances included on the list of dangerous substances in Annex III
Category: Medicine

antidote: A drug or other compound that counteracts the effects of a poison
Category: Management in the public and private sector

astrodome: a transparent dome,with known optical characteristics,through which astronomical observation can be made
Category: The cosmos

avocado: the pulpy green or purple somewhat pear-shaped edible fruit of various tropical american trees of the genus persea
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

backdoor: when a company is listed on the stock exchange after acquiring an already listed company and injecting into it new activities
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

battledore: Flat metal fitting put athwartships through cable bitts,and projecting on either side,to keep turns of cable from riding.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

battledore: is a wood paddle used for shaping the vessel, often madeeof appelwlewood.
Category: The chemical industry

Baudot: a data transmission code in which five equal length bits represent one character.This code is used in some DC teletypewriter machines where one start element and one stop element are added
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

blow-down: process of expulsion of residual propellant by gas pressure after burnout or cutoff
Category: Transport

blowdown: the removal of concentrations of solids from a boiler by blowing-down some of the water to waste for a pre-determined period
Category: Mechanical engineering

blowdown: rejection of liquid from a vessel under pressure to reduce dissolved solids
Category: Mechanical engineering

blowdown: during depressurization,or blowdown,of the reactor coolant system,water and steam flow from the reactor vessel to the break through inlet and outlet lines.The direction and rate of flow through the core vary with time
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

boldo: Chilean evergreen shrub(Peumus boldus)with sweet edible fruit
Category: Medicine

boondoggling: D.wasteful labor employed in uneconomic work.
Category: Building industry

boredom: condition of wandering attention and impaired working efficiency,simulating the condition in fatigue,brought about by monotony of work
Category: Medicine

boudoir: a small ornamental table lamp for a woman`s dressing table.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

bourdon: a thin-walled flattened tube of elastic metal bent into a circular arc whose application to certain pressure ganges and thermometers depends on the fact that increase of pressure inside the tube tends to straighten it
Category: Various industries and crafts

bourdon: A cord consisting essentially of a core yarn made up from a heavy central core encased in a wrapping of continuous-filament yarn.It is used as a means of accentuating or outlining the motifs in lace fabrics so as to give a three dimensional effect to the structure.
Category: Various industries and crafts

bourdon: a pressure gauge utilising a flattened tube bent to a curve which tends to straighten under internal pressure
Category: Mechanical engineering

bourdon: A special pressure-responsive indicator device connected to firefighting pumps
Category: Management in the public and private sector

boustrophedon: in the layout of microforms,the placing of successive frames in rows alternately from left to right and from right to left.This reduces the amount of backtracking to locate successive frames at the end of the row.It requires a knowledge of which direction the next frame is in
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

breakdown: time required to dismantle a function setup
Category: General

breakdown: the whole of the phenomena accompanying the perforation of a dielectric when the potential difference between two conductors exceeds a certain limit (BTM)
Category: Physics

breakdown: the deterioration of an oil, caused by excessive temperature, moisture contamination, etc., resulting in the loss of its qualities
Category: Mechanical engineering

breakdown: a condition of an electrical component or part of a component characterised by the transition from a high-dynamic-resistance state to a low-dynamic-resistance state
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

breakdown: the transition from a state of high resistance to a state of substantially lower resistance for increasing magnitude of reverse voltage
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

breakdown: the transition from a state of high dynamic resistance to a state of substantially lower dynamic resistance for increasing magnitude of reverse voltage
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

breakdown: accidental failure of a machine or installation
Category: Mechanical engineering

breakdown: the failure of the dielectric of an insulation under the effect of an excessive electric field and/or by physicochemical deterioration of the dielectric material
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

breakdown: a loss of blocking action of a reverse-biased p-n junction,resulting in rapid increase of current
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

breakdown: a failure that permanently deprives a valve or arm of its property to block voltage
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

breakdown: a physical, metal, or nervous collapse.
Category: Medicine

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