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  • dual: a spacecraft design whereby the main body of the satellite is spun to provide altitude stabilisation,and the antenna assembly is despun by means of a motor and bearing system in order to continually direct the antenna earthward
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • dual: a transport system in which in one mode the vehicle operates under manual control,and in the second mode it operates under automatic or partly automatic control
    Category: Transport

  • dual: mechanical gripping device which reduces time loss during the grasping of an object
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • dual: course combining working and learning, study and work experience
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • dual: a development technique in which two functionally identical versions of a program are developed from the same specification by different programmers or different programming teams
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • dual: an attempt by two switches to select the same trunk circuit simultaneously to complete a mobile handoff operation
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • dual-channel: a method of radiodirection finding using a cathode-ray direction finder
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • dual-currency: swap whereby the principal amount is denominated and repayable in one currency and the interest in another
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • dual-currency: Eurobonds that pay coupon interest in one currency but pay the principal in a different currency
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • dual-currency: issuing of bonds into two currencies
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • dual-fuel: A modified Diesel engine, capable of burning not only liquid fuel, but liquid together with gaseous fuel (up to 40 % gaseous fuel). (De Ingenieur, 14/72, p. W 39)
    Category: Transport

  • dual-fuel: Modified diesel engine capable of burning not only liquid fuel but also a mixture of liquid and gaseous fuels. (BT)
    Category: Transport

  • dual-fuel: An industrial or commercial customer whose gas-burning plant can be altered at any time to burn an alternative fuel
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • dual-in-line: integrated-circuit package in which two lines of equally-spaced leads are arranged on opposite edges of the package,the leads being bent downwards to facilitate their entry into holes in a printed circuit board and package body occurs
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • dual-mode: a transport system in which in one mode the vehicle operates under manual control,and in the second mode it operates under automatic or partly automatic control
    Category: Transport

  • dual-port: Memory equipped with data and address connections,plus a binary priority circuit.It is used mostly for simple communication between multiple processors and is available in single-chip form for small memory sizes.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • dual-purpose: a canal designed, constructed, operated and maintained for the combined purpose of navigation and irrigation; or irrigation and domestic and industrial water supply; also canal used in one season as an irrigation canal and in the other as a drainage channel
    Category: Building industry

  • dual-purpose: i.e.trained in both engineering and seamanship
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • dual-purpose: ditches on the farm,as in subirrigation method of irrigation which act in one season as irrigation ditches and in the other as drains
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • dual-side: this technique involves attaching chip-type components(resistors,capacitors,transistors)to the bottom,or solder side,of a pc board with an epoxy adhesive
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • dual-tone: a signalling method used in pushbutton dialing(q.v.)
    Category: General

  • dual-tone: a means of pulsing utilizing a simultaneous combination of one of a lower group of frequencies and one of a higher group of frequencies to represent each digit
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • dual-use: equipment that can be used in peaceful nuclear programs but that also has potential military applications,such as use in atomic weapons.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • gradual: failure that could be anticipated by prior examination or monitoring
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • gradual: the progressive failure of a semiconductor device to meet a required specification,occurring predictably over a long period
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • gradual: a failure due to a gradual change with time of given characteristics of an item
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • gradual: a gradual change,not a local phenomenon,in the water surface from subcritical to supercritical state of flow
    Category: The cosmos

  • gradual: analytical approximation for the channel region in a field-effect transistor; assumes that current flow along the channel is everywhere perpendicular to equipotential surfaces and that the channel width slowly varies between the source and drain regions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • gradual: in a gradual opposition,degrees of difference in a language are recognised along a scale of some kind
    Category: Language and literature

  • gradual: the -- method had difficulties....for while the first portion of the dose-lowering process was quite easy, suffering eventually set in..
    Category: Medicine

  • gradual-channel: analytical approximation for the channel region in a field-effect transistor; assumes that current flow along the channel is everywhere perpendicular to equipotential surfaces and that the channel width slowly varies between the source and drain regions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • individual: in statistical usage the term population is applied to any finite or infinite collection of individuals.
    Category: Statistics

  • individualize: communication item that relates to the business or personal affairs of the addressee with sufficient individuality so that it is clear that the text refers specifically to the addressee:business correspondence,statements,invoices,etc.
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • individualize: individualized instruction:a type of teaching-learning in which the teacher gives consideration to the individual learner(1)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • individualize: social isolation in the working environment
    Category: Medicine

  • individualized: communication item that relates to the business or personal affairs of the addressee with sufficient individuality so that it is clear that the text refers specifically to the addressee:business correspondence,statements,invoices,etc.
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • individually: a method of lighting in which each coach is fitted with a self-contained lighting circuit
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • residual: a general term for a quantity remaining after some other quantity has been subtracted,as may occur in a variety of contexts
    Category: Statistics

  • residual: The difference between a predictand and an estimate obtained by applying a given function to the data set.The residuals represent the noise of the system and any signal not accounted for by the functional relationship.
    Category: Botany and zoology



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