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  • bioluminescence: the emission of light by living organisms such as the firefly,certain mollusks,beetles,fish,bacteria,fungi and protozoa
    Category: Medicine

  • cathodoluminescence: D.luminescence caused by cathode-rays or beta rays.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • catholuminescence: the luminescence produced when high-velocity electrons bombard a metal in vacuum,thus vaporising small amounts of the metal in an excited state
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • chemiluminescence: light signal emitted from a certain class of molecules; luminescence due to the energy liberated in a chemical reaction
    Category: Chemistry

  • chemiluminescent: devices that uses the ozone-ethylene reaction for measuring unsaturated hydrocarbons
    Category: Chemistry

  • coalescence: the formation of the film from a polymer dispersion as it dries by allowing the binder particles to join or fuse to a more or less continuous film
    Category: The chemical industry

  • coalescence: 1)the growth of particles of a dispersed phase by solution and reprecipitation 2)the growth of grains by absorption of adjacent grains
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • coalescense: process of formation of a single liquid water drop by the union of two or more colliding drops.; process of formation of a single liquid water drop by the union of two or more colliding drops.
    Category: Physics

  • coalescent: solvent with a high boiling point which,when added to a coating,aids in film formation via temporary plasticization of the vehicle
    Category: The chemical industry

  • coalescent: slitlike apertures united to form grooves on the inner surface of a secondary(cell)wall
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • coalescing: filter in which separation of contaminants occurs due to the difference in wetting properties on a particular porous medium leading to liquid particles in suspension uniting into particles of greater volume
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • crescent: (Turkey).
    Category: Politics

  • Dansgaard-Oeschger: sudden warmings that occured in the last Ice Age
    Category: The cosmos

  • Descemet: stroma of the cornea. The lamellated connecting tissue constituting the thickest layer of the cornea, located between Bowman`s and --.
    Category: Medicine

  • descenders: The portions of printed or displayed characters that extend below the baseline.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • descensional: a ventilation system in which the downcast air is conducted to the top ends of the workings and it then flows downhill along the face
    Category: Mining

  • descensional: a ventilation system in which the downcast air is conducted to the top end of the workings(in inclined seams)and it then flows downhill along the face
    Category: Mining

  • descent: The devolution of an interest in land upon the death of the owner of it intestate to a person or persons by virtue of consanguinity with the deceased.
    Category: Law

  • descrambler: a device or signal used to rebuild each line of TV reception from satellite provided by subscription-supported services,which has been jumbled by the scrambler
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • described: a message described by a probe
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • describing: for a non-linear element in steady state with a sinusoidal input signal,the frequency response obtained by taking only the fundamental component of the output signal
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • description: attribute type which describes the associated object,e.g.,as in yellow pages entries
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • description: the part of a patent or patent application in which the invention is described in detail
    Category: Law

  • description: a kind of text that enables the hearer/reader to construct an image or an imagination of the entity described
    Category: General

  • description: a picturing verbally; a giving an account of in words.
    Category: Language and literature

  • descriptive: a name that denotes exactly one user in the message oriented text interchange system(MOTIS)or in the Message Handling System(MHS)
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • descriptive: in Italian usage an index(or coefficient)is called descriptive when it exhibits a relationship concerning each value of the variable,as distinct from the global or mean index or coefficient(indice globale o medio)which relates only to the aggregate or the mean of the values
    Category: Mathematics

  • descriptive: bibliographic entry including also a description of the peculiarities of the copy described in the case of manuscripts and rare or ancient works
    Category: Language and literature

  • descriptive: a(sample)survey where the principal objective is to estimate the basic statistical parameters(means,totals,ratios)of the population or its sub-divisions
    Category: Mathematics

  • descriptive: in Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML),a markup that describes the structure and other attributes of a document in a non-system-specific manner,independently of any processing that may be performed on it
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • descriptive: an abstract describing the subject contents of a document,but not evaluating it
    Category: Documentation and information

  • descriptive: provision for fitness for purpose that concernes the characteristics of a product,process or service
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • descriptive: a term used to denote statistical data of a descriptive kind or the methods of handling such data,as contrasted with theoretical statistics which,though dealing with practical data,usually involve some process of inference in probability for their interpretation
    Category: Mathematics

  • descriptive: data that provide global information on the terminological entity,identify it unambiguously and enable it to be corrected or improved.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • descriptive: written indication on maps and charts,used to specify the nature of a feature(natural or artificial)shown by a general symbol
    Category: The cosmos

  • descriptive: ..gives information about the product, even if that information is not required by law. Such labeling explains what the product is made of, how to use it, and its special features.
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • descriptor: for the purpose of Office Document Architecture(ODA):a data structure representing the document profile,an object class description,a layout style,a presentation style or an object description
    Category: General

  • descriptor: a well-defined,unequivocal term in a thesaurus cross referenced to other terms and permitted for indexing
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • descriptor: a binary code attached to an internal item and used to denote its nature,such as syntactic type,or data type
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • descriptor: a variable,function,or predicate used as an elementary concept for describing objects or situations
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • efflorescence: the incrustation of soluble salts, deposited on a surface; it is usually caused by leaching of salts or free alkalis
    Category: The chemical industry

  • electroluminescent: a luminous source in which the light is produced by electroluminescence
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electroluminescent: a semiconductor device that emits light as a result of electronic processes occurring within it
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • esc: the 300-3,400 hertz voice plus teletype(S+DX)channel used for earth station and earth station-to-operations centre communications for the purpose of system maintenance,co-ordination and general system information dissemination
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • esc: a control character to signal a change in the meaning of one or more of the characters that follow it
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • esc: cracking and crazing of a thermo-plastic resin as a result of exposure to an unfavourable environment
    Category: The chemical industry

  • esc: a function control which alters the meaning of a limited number of contiguously following code combinations to provide additional function controls
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • escalation: progressive use of more harmful drugs
    Category: Medicine

  • escalator: a set of stairs arranged like an endless belt and power driven so that the steps or treads may be made to ascend or descend continuously
    Category: Transport

  • escapage: the discharge escaped through silt excluders/ejectors back into the river/waste channel
    Category: Building industry



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