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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

abatement: the method of reducing the degree or intensity of pollution; also the use of such a method
Category: Environment

abatement: the extinguishment or reduction of a claim or debt.
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

abatement: the difference between the(estimated or known)volume before and that after any stage of working timber
Category: Various industries and crafts

abend: Short for 'abortive end', signifying the premature halt of a program owing to loading, inputting or program errors. (PH/PTIH)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

Aberdeen: A kind of deep lift or borehole pump
Category: Management in the public and private sector

absent: condition in which the value of the signal is lower than the set standard
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

absenteeism: the non-attendance of a worker who is expected to be at work
Category: Law

absorbency: the ability of a paper or board to take up and retain a liquid with which it is in contact.Either the degree of absorbency or the rate of absorbency may be measured by standard methods of test
Category: Various industries and crafts

absorbent: a substance which has the ability of extracting some substances from a liquid or gaseous medium with which it is in contact
Category: Physics

absorbent: in the selection of an absorbent for scrubbing a gas, the usual object is to find a liquid which has the capacity to absorbe a large quantity of the solute.
Category: Environment

abutment: part of a structure that directly receives thrust or pressure
Category: Transport

abutment: that part of the valley side against which the dam is constructed.An artificial abutment is sometimes constructed,as a concrete gravity section,to take the thrust of an arch dam where there is no suitable natural abutment
Category: Building industry

accent: one of a variety of diacritical marks above,below,or through certain characters,used to denote pronunciation characteristics,or to indicate syllabic emphasis
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

accented: a vowel bearing an accent or symbol on top of it or below it,to change or indicate its pronunciation
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

accentuate: the process whereby all the picture elements of the original document which have a luminance less than a specified intermediate value are transmitted as nominal black and all those with a luminance greater than that value as nominal white
Category: News-systems and communications

accentuated: the process whereby all the picture elements of the original document which have a luminance less than a specified intermediate value are transmitted as nominal black and all those with a luminance greater than that value as nominal white
Category: News-systems and communications

access-oriented: programming method based on the use of probes that trigger new computations when data are changed or read
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

accident: 1)Any event occurring without apparent or expected cause, not necessarily damaging: in this sense, an incident; 2)In emergency and disaster management: an injury-of any magnitude, but usually minor-that requires medical care
Category: Management in the public and private sector

accident: sudden unintentional action or event occurring at an unpredictable point in time causing harm to a person or persons
Category: Medicine

accident: unforeseen event that causes damage to an installation or disrupts the normal operation of an installation,and is likely to result for one or more persons in a dose exceeding the dose limits
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

accident: Any unintended event,including operating errors,equipment failures or other mishaps,the consequences or potential consequences of which are not negligible from the point of view of protection or safety
Category: Medicine

accident-protected: flight recorder meeting mandatory requirements intended to ensure accurate playback after any crash
Category: Transport

accomplishment: the act of accomplishing: completion, fulfillment.
Category: Language and literature

acknowledgement: a function of the(N)-layer which allows a receiving(N)-entity to inform a sending(N)-entity of the receipt of an(N)-protocol-data-unit
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

acknowledgement: a transmission made by a receiving station to indicate that a message has been satisfactorily received
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Acknowledgments: the page of a book on which the author thanks the people who have helped him/her in the writing of the book
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

addend: in an addition operation,a number or a quantity added to the augend
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

addendum: depth of a tooth space below the pitch circle or pitch line; also, the radial distance between the pitch circle and the root circle
Category: Mechanical engineering

addendum: the height by which a tooth projects beyond the pitch circle or pitch line; also, the radial distance between the pitch circle and the addendum circle
Category: Mechanical engineering

addendum: part of a document printed subsequently but intended to accompany it,completing or correcting the text
Category: Printing and publishing

addendum: radial distance between the addendum circle ant the pitch circle
Category: Mechanical engineering

addendum: a supplement to a book sometimes issued separately (the new edition includes a 10-page --).
Category: Printing and publishing

adenoma: a benign tumour originating from, or having the appearance of, glandular epithelium; of endocrine or exocrine origin
Category: Medicine

adherend: a body to which an adhesive adheres,i.e.to which it is adherent
Category: The chemical industry

adherend: in bonded products,a separation occurring wholly in the wood near the glue line,expressed as a percentage of the total glueline area examined
Category: The chemical industry

adjacency: a relationship between two network devices,e.g.routers,which are connected by one media segment so that a packet sent by one can reach the other without going through another network device
Category: News-systems and communications

adjacency: 1.Relates to character recognition and printing conditions.Reference lines designate spacing between two consecutive characters.2.a condition in character recognition in which two consecutive characters,either printed or handwritten,are closer than the specified distance
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

adjustment: a process by which some parameter, temperature, pressure, etc., is given a predetermined value
Category: Mechanical engineering

adjustment: the dynamic process wherein the throughts,feelings,behaviour,and biophysiological mechanisms of the indivudial continually change to adjust to the environment
Category: Medicine

adjustment: Adapting and altering community practices and behaviour patterns in order to reconcile with outside requirements.Fashioning life patterns at the foot of a known volcano is an adjustment to crisis expectancy
Category: Management in the public and private sector

adjustment: modification or changing of wages in accordance with certain specified criteria
Category: Law

adjustment: the act of adjusting
Category: Mechanical engineering

adjustment: the act of adjusting.
Category: General

adjustment: a modification made upon a denture, or upon the teeth of a denture, after it has been completed and inserted in the mouth.
Category: Medicine

adrenal: Inner part of the adrenal gland,secreting adrenaline and noradrenaline.
Category: Medicine

adrenal: the reduced secretion of adrenal glands
Category: Medicine

adrenergic: describing a cell, especially a neurone, or a cell receptor that is stimulated by adrenaline, noradrenaline, or related substances
Category: Medicine

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