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  • attosecond: a billionth of a billionth of a second
    Category: General

  • autecology: a) the ecology of an individual organism or taxonomic group; b) the study of environmental factors and their effects on plants
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • become: stripping: the removal of the short fibers and wastes from the carding machines. A cotton card...will produce considerable amount of waste, which becomes embedded in the card clothing..
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • Brandt-Snedecor: a name sometimes given to one of the formulae for calculating X2 from a 2xn table
    Category: Statistics

  • camrecorder: a video cassette recorder that combines camera and recorder in one unit
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • COM-recorder: a device to record on microfilm any image that can be created by a computer and shown on a display screen
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • crease-recovery: The measure of crease-resistance specified quantitatively in terms of crease-recovery angle.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • decode: the second cycle of the fetch-decode-execute sequence of instruction execution
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • decoded: the decoded reconstruction of a compressed bit stream
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decoder: A logical unit which decodes two,three,four or more bits into mutually exclusive outputs.A 3-bit decoder will have 2 =8 outputs because a 3-bit number can have 8 possible values.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • decoder: a device for decoding signals
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • decoder: a device used to decode videotex signals and display them on a TV screen
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • decoder: A device used to decode videotex signals and display them on a TV screen.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • decoder: device used to translate electrical signals into predetermined functions
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • decoder: a functional unit that has a number of input lines such that any number may carry signals and a number of output lines such that no more than one at a time may carry a signal and such that the combination of input signals serves as a code to indicate which output line carries the signal
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decoder: device for translating telecommunication signals into plain language
    Category: Defense

  • decoding: in Office Document Architecture(ODA):the process of deriving a bitmap from an octet string taking account of any compression used
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • decoding: a process in which one of a set of reconstructed samples is generated from the character signal representing a sample
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decolorization: oenological operation which consists of extracting the colour from wine by means of decolorants
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • decommission: The process by which a Nuclear Power Plant is finally taken out of Operation
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • decommission: Decommissioning is defined as: 'Actions taken at the end of the useful life of a nuclear facility in retiring it from service with adequate regard for the health and safety of workers and members of the public and protection of the environment. The ultimate goal of decommissioning is unrestricted release or use of the site'. Decontamination and dismantling operations are part of the decommissioning process. The nuclear facilities that will need to be decommissioned include nuclear power plants, fuel cycle facilities, particle accelerators, nuclear research installations and temporary waste storages. [VE1]
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • decommissioning: The process by which a Nuclear Power Plant is finally taken out of Operation
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • decommissioning: Decommissioning is defined as: 'Actions taken at the end of the useful life of a nuclear facility in retiring it from service with adequate regard for the health and safety of workers and members of the public and protection of the environment. The ultimate goal of decommissioning is unrestricted release or use of the site'. Decontamination and dismantling operations are part of the decommissioning process. The nuclear facilities that will need to be decommissioned include nuclear power plants, fuel cycle facilities, particle accelerators, nuclear research installations and temporary waste storages. [VE1]
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • decommutation: action of separating,demodulating or demultiplexing commutated signals
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • decomposition: the act of splitting a time series into its constituent parts by the use of statistical methods. A typical time series is often regarded as composed of four parts: a) a long-term movement or trend; b) oscillations of more or less regular period and amplitude about this trend; c) a seasonal component; d) a random, or irregular, component. Any particular series need not exhibit all four of these but those which are present are presumed to act in an additive fashion, i.e. are superimposed; and the process of determining them separately is one of decomposition
    Category: Mathematics

  • decomposition: in organic matter, the gradual loss of recognised forms and separation of matter into simpler compounds
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • decomposition: operation consisting in replacing a relation scheme R by several relations R1,R2,...,Rn,such as all attributes of R can be retrieved in the union of all attributes of R1,R2,...,Rn
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • decompounded: a motor with mainly shunt(or separate)excitation and with a series winding opposing the main winding
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decontaminating: a specially chosen combination of chemical compounds and substances which effectively destroy the bond between the radioactive ions and the surface to be cleaned,removing the contaminants in the form of solutions and preventing their being precipitated again superficially
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • decontamination: Medicine: using techniques that render clothing, surfaces and objects free from infection or infestation; Radiation: removing radiological contamination from a person, object or area; Chemistry: neutralising a chemical on a person, object or area
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • decontrol: the release from controls or restrictions imposed on rents by the State
    Category: Land and property

  • decoration: a) the deliberate introduction of impurity atoms into a crystal so that they will condense on dislocations and make them visible; b) a quality-control process in semiconductor crystal growth
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decorative: an incandescent lamp,made in various shapes and colours,used for decorative effects
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decorative: a set of decorative lamps arranged along a cable and connected in series or parallel
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decorative: laminate in which colour and design is integral in the sheet
    Category: The chemical industry

  • decore: to remove the core sand from a solidified casting after pouring and solidification
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • decouple: to eliminate undesired coupling effects between two circuits
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decoupling: the reduction of undesired coupling between valves,for example,due to common impedance in the power supply to the valves
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • decoy: a penetration aid device which is designed to simulate a re-entry vehicle so as to make counter measures more difficult
    Category: Defense

  • diseconomy: an increase in the scale of production after a point may in some cases bring certain diseconomies: administration, for example may become more complex and so more expensive
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • diseconomy: Occurs when,as a firm grows larger,management becomes less efficient,raw material costs rise because local supplies are exhausted or for similar reasons.
    Category: Economics

  • dovecote: any installation used for keeping or breeding racing pigeons
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • eco: a circuit using a multigrid tube in which the cathode and two grids operate as a conventional oscillator and the electron stream couples the plate-circuit load to the oscillator
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ecoclimate: the climate operating as an ecological factor,i.e.the climate of a particular habitat,whether this be larval galleries or an open prairie
    Category: The cosmos

  • ecoclimatology: branch of bioclimatology which studies the relationship between living organisms and their climatic environnent.
    Category: The cosmos

  • ecodevelopment: Ecologically sound development. (Guardian)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • ECOFIN: a group of ministers or other officials from EU member states to which the authority to decide fiscal and other matters on behalf of the EU Council has been delegated
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • ecological: Can be conceived as the probability that a species from an ecosystem is exposed to a concentration of a pollutant which is higher than the NOEC-level.
    Category: Environment

  • ecological: Man,the environment and drugs
    Category: Medicine

  • ecological: a region in the Community which is exposed to a relatively uniform plant health risk as determined by similar ecological and agricultural conditions as well as by the presence of potential host plants and other vectors of harmful organisms
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries



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