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acid-test: a) the ratio of current assets minus inventories, accruals, and prepaid items to current liabilities; b) an indicator of a company`s financial strength (or weakness),calculated by taking current assets less inventories, divided by current liabilities
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

acid-test: the standard IBRD definition is the ratio of cash plus marketable securities plus accounts receivable plus other amounts readily convertible into cash to current liabilities. Other definitions include ratio of assets less inventories to current liabilities, ratio of quick assets to current liabilities, ratio of cash plus near-cash assets to current liabilities, and ratio of cash plus accounts receivable plus the market value of selected investments to current liabilities. In Latin America, 'relación de prueba ácida' is often found, while in Spain 'ratio de tesorería' is used
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

acquest: property acquired in common by husband and wife after their marriage, otherwise than by succession
Category: Law

aesthesiometer: an instrument with which degrees of intensitiveness in a part may be determined
Category: Medicine

aesthesiometer: instrument for describing circles,with two legs connected at one end by a movable joint
Category: Medicine

afforestation: establishing forest in a previously non-forested area; The policies and actions for such a process; Forestation
Category: Management in the public and private sector

afforestation: planting of trees on land previously in another use to form a forest
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

amnestic: nominal aphasia; a difficulty in finding the right name for an object..
Category: Medicine

amnesty: a special provision that may be granted to taxpayers on any kind of tax,usually as an opportunity to pay previously unpaid taxes and with guaranteed freedom from penalties and prosecution,and sometimes offered to taxpayers at times when the government is fighting tax evasion and/or in an effort to raise additional revenue
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

anaesthesia: Insensibility, lack of feeling, of pain or touch, as when a nerve is cut, or in the limbs below the level of fractured spine; 2)In medicine and surgery, the international induction of a state of painlessness induced by medication for the purpose of carrying out an otherwise painful operation. Such anaesthesia can be general (the patient sleeps),local by injection, extensive intravenously, or topical
Category: Management in the public and private sector

Armrest: the controls,fitted in the ejection seat armrests,which are intended for arming and firing the ejection seat
Category: Mechanical engineering

arrest: The actual restraint of a person,committing or suspected of having committed a crime,with a view to his detention
Category: Management in the public and private sector

arrested: system of bringing one or more propellers to rest and holding them stationary while gas generator continues to run
Category: Transport

arrested-propeller: system of bringing one or more propellers to rest and holding them stationary while gas generator continues to run
Category: Transport

arrester: a protective device which provides a low impedance path for dangerous voltages such as lightning,bypassing the equipment by earthing the circuit
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

arrester: equipment designed to remove particulate matter from a gaseous medium
Category: Environment

arrester: le 's' dans 'history est un '--'
Category: Language and literature

arresting: equipment fixed to aeroplane landing area to halt arriving aircraft within specified distance
Category: Transport

arresting: net used to facilitate the descent of an aircraft in a restricted area
Category: Mechanical engineering

arrests: an expression referring to the peril of arrests,restraints and detainments of all kings,princes and people
Category: Insurance

asbestine: natural extender mainly consisting of magnesium silicate
Category: The chemical industry

asbestos: mineral fibres of ferromagnesium silicate, known for their fire resistance. This versatile material was much used for construction cement strengthening and fireproof fabrics, but its use banned due to its harmful effects on health
Category: Management in the public and private sector

asbestos: a natural mineral substance produced by the decomposition of certain rocks; its main property is its resistance to fire and acids
Category: Chemistry

asbestos-induced: bronchial carcinoma caused by inhalation of asbestos particles
Category: Chemistry

asbestosis: a lung disorder caused by constant inhalation of asbestos particles
Category: Insurance

at-best: the price that a trader believes(in his opinion)to be the best that can be obtained under current market conditions
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

attest: the expression of a professional opinion on the accounts and the financial statements by an authorised external auditor
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

attestation: action by a third-party testing laboratory,demonstrating that the specific sample tested is in conformity with a specific standard or other normative document
Category: Standards, measures and testing

attestation: any evidence of qualifications:-attesting to education and training not forming part of a set constituting a diploma within the meaning of Directive 89/48/EEC or a diploma or certificate within the meaning of this Directive,or-awarded following an assessment of the personal qualities,aptitudes or knowledge which it is considered essential that the applicant have for the pursuit of a profession by an authority designated in accordance with the laws,regulations or administrative provisions of a Member State,without proof of prior education and training being required
Category: Education

bequest: D.something (as personal property) bequeathed: legacy.....testamentary gift of personalty...GEOME 63 157..
Category: Law

best-few: method of coordinating the choice of which phrases to expand next in a speech understanding system by singling out a particular part of the parse net,until another area looks more promising
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

best-first: phrase recognizing method according to which the best scoring word of those which could be expected to appear at each point in a sentence,are selected and compared with the analyzed phonetic matrix in that position of the utterance
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

best-value: search procedure used for best-path problems e.g.British museum procedure,branch-and-bound,dynamic programming,A*
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

biopesticide: a pesticide in which the active ingredient is a virus, fungus or bacterium, or a natural product derived from a plant source
Category: Medicine

board-tester: a device,usually computer controlled,which performs electronic tests on printed circuit boards
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

bradyesthesia: abnormally slow perception
Category: Medicine

broad-crested: an overflow structure having crest horizontal or with very gentle slope.The length of the crest in the direction of the flow is much larger than the height of the nappe over it
Category: Building industry

broad-crested: a drop or fall in which the nappe is supported for an appreciable length(much larger than the height of the nappe over the crest)at the throat in the direction of flow.
Category: Building industry

broad-crested: a flood in which the crest occurs over a relatively long period
Category: The cosmos

bucharest: capital of Romania
Category: The cosmos

Budapest: capital of Hungary
Category: The cosmos

catestrophic: in a situation where so many errors have occurred,no more useful diagnostic information can be produced and the compilation is ended
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

celesta: a set of steel plates,attached to a resonator of wood,giving a peculiarly ethereal quality...operated from a keyboard
Category: General

celestas: a set of steel plates,attached to a resonator of wood,giving a peculiarly ethereal quality...operated from a keyboard
Category: General

Celestial: characterises the navigation of aircraft or spacecraft by measuring declination,right ascension and/or other angular positions of stars and other celestial bodies whose location on the celestial sphere is known
Category: Transport

Celestial: characterizes the navigation of aircraft or spacecraft by measuring declination,right ascension and/or other angular positions of stars and other celestial bodies whose location on celestial sphere is known
Category: Transport

celestial-inertial: the process of directing the movements of an aircraft or spacecraft,especially in the selection of a flight path,by an inertial guidance system which also receives inputs from observations of celestial bodies
Category: Transport

Celestine: natural strontium sulphate
Category: Chemistry

celestite: strontium sulphate; strontium sulfate
Category: The chemical industry

cheapest: a method to determine which particular cash debt instrument is most profitable to deliver against a futures contract
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

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