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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)

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

clear-down: Restoring the on-hook condition of a telephone terminal. (CCITT, ITU)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

coastdown: slowing-down of an engine
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

coastdown: the process of slowing down of a pump or turbine once the drive mechanism has stopped or been disengaged
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

divide-down: an arrangement of flip-flops producing a binary word that increases in value by one each time an input pulse is received
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

dow: a basket of thirty blue chip companies providing an indication of the general movement of prices in that market
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

dow: the most widely quoted and oldest measures of change in stock prices.Each of the four averages is based on the prices of a limited number of stocks in a particular category
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

dow: an index that measures the performance of more than 2,000 companies world-wide that represent more than 80 % of the equity capital on 25 stock markets
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

dow: an index that measures price changes in more than 100 US industry groups
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

dowel: Close fitting pin,peg,tube,or bolt for the accurate location of mating parts.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

dowel: Cylindrical wooden plug in deck plank to plug bolthole.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

dowel: a short projection above a bank either on canal side or on both edges primarily constructed to prevent cutting up of the slope due to rain and to keep the limits of the boundary road or inspection path and the inside slope of the bank discernible
Category: Building industry

dowel: a male extension of the tup or anvil fitted into a corresponding hole in the die block for accurate location in longitudinal direction
Category: Mechanical engineering

dowel: a pin-like piece of wood used to prevent the reciprocal sliding of wooden members.
Category: Mechanical engineering

dowel: metallic part,integral with one of the elements of an assembly,for guiding two elements into their relative position
Category: Iron and steel industries

dowelled: a rigid pavement with transverse joints at intervals of 4 to 6 meters
Category: Building industry

dower: a wife`s interest in the lands of her husband accruing to her by virtue of the marriage
Category: Law

dowlas: (1)Originally,a plain-woven coarse linen fabric used for clothing.(2)A low-quality cotton fabric made of coarse cough-spun yarn,finished to imitate linen and used for towels,aprons,etc.
Category: Various industries and crafts

down: in artillery and naval gunfire support:1.a term used in a call for fire to indicate that the target is at a lower altitude than the reference point used in identifying the target 2.a correction used by an observer/spotter in time fire to indicate that a decrease in height of burst is desired
Category: Defense

down-counter: an integrated-circuit counter unit with binary input that counts downward,from 9 to 0 then direct to 9 again for a decade counter
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

down-cross: the point where a time series,measured about its mean,changes in sign from positive to negative.Correspondingly a point where it changes in sign from negative to positive is called an up-cross
Category: Mathematics

down-lead: a lead-in coaxiable cable from an antenna to a receiver or transmitter
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

down-link: the radio or optical transmission path downward from a communication satellite to the earth or an aircraft,or from an aircraft to the earth
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

down-link-signal: the transmission of a signal in a down-link
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

down-load: a programming method in which the programme to be used in a remote terminal is sent`down the line`from a central location to that terminal,and stored there for local use
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

down-time: the cumulative time of circuit interruptions within the scheduled operating time
Category: News-systems and communications

downcomer: small device to allow the liquid to flow from a tray into the one below in a bubble-tray column.(Moureau)
Category: The chemical industry

downdraught: downward moving current of air of small dimensions.
Category: The cosmos

downer: Depressant or sedative
Category: General

downgrade: a classic negative change in ratings for a stock,and or other rated security
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

downgrade: a gradient falling in the direction of travel
Category: Building industry

downgrade: to reduce the security classification of a classified document or an item of classified matter or material
Category: Defense

downgraded: heavy water is then pumped upwards through the column at a rate sufficiently slow to give the minimum amount of downgraded heavy water in the effluent stream by the time the resin is fully deuterised
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

downhand: welding deposited along a horizontal line and surface
Category: Iron and steel industries

downhaul: a rope by which a sail is hauled down when it may not be trusted to come down by its own weight. --s are named after the sail they serve.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

downlight: a small narrow angle lighting fitting,usually recessed in the ceiling
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

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