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  • chlorofibre: fibre formed of linear macromolecules having in the chain more than 50 % (by mass) of vinyl or chlorinated vinyl monomeric units
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • defibrillator: a special electromedical apparatus wich applies controlled electrical impulses to the heart to stop fibrillation and to restore the normal beat in a cardiac arrest
    Category: Medicine

  • fib: detached clouds or a chin cloud veil, consisting of nearly straight or more or less irregularly curved filaments which do not terminate in hooks or tufts...It..applies mainly to Cirrus and Cirrostratus.
    Category: The cosmos

  • fiber: a general term of convenience for any long,narrow cell of wood or bast,other than vessel elements and parenchyma
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • fiberboard: a sheet material manufactured under pressure and heat from fibres of any wood substance, e.g. from defibrated wood with the primary bond deriving from the interfelting of the fibres and their inherent adhesive properties; bonding or impregnating agents may be added during manufacture
    Category: Building industry

  • Fiberglas: major material used to reinforce plastic;available as mat,roving,fabric,and so forth,it is incorporated into both thermosets and thermoplastics
    Category: General

  • fiberglass: major material used to reinforce plastic;available as mat,roving,fabric,and so forth,it is incorporated into both thermosets and thermoplastics
    Category: General

  • fiberscope: a flexible instrument for direct visual examination of the interior of hollow organs or body cavities, constructed of fibres having special optical properties
    Category: Medicine

  • fibonacci: a series of integers in which each integer is equal to the sum of two preceding integers in the series
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • fibonacci: a dichotomizing search in which the number of items in the set is equal to a Fibonacci number or is assumed to equal to the next higher Fibonacci number and then at each step in the search the set of items is partitioned in accordance with the Fibonacci series
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Fibonacci: series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two previous ones
    Category: Mathematics

  • fibre: a particle, no distinction being made with respect to length-to-width ratios
    Category: General

  • fibre: the material to be defined in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 10(cf.RF)and measured by the method of analysis to be determined in accordance with that procedure
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • fibre: orientation of the segregates within the metal
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • fibre: the broken straw is then subjected to the process known as scutching, which separates the unwanted woody matter from the --.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • fibre: a general term of convenience for any long,narrow cell of wood or bast,other than vessel elements and parenchyma
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • fibre-bonded: A textile floorcovering which is composed of entangled textile materials bonded together by a mechanical,physical,or chemical process(e.g.,needle-punching(see needleloom process),stitch-bonding,heat treatment,or resin impregnation)or by a combination of two or more of these processes.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • fibre-reinforced: a rigid concrete pavement reinforced with fibres(metal,glass-fibres,polymers,etc.)to increase the strength of the concrete
    Category: Building industry

  • fibreboard: a sheet material manufactured under pressure and heat from fibres of any wood substance, e.g. from defibrated wood with the primary bond deriving from the interfelting of the fibres and their inherent adhesive properties; bonding or impregnating agents may be added during manufacture
    Category: Building industry

  • fibreboard: highly pressed,stiff grade of millboard
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • fibreglass: Non-flammable fibre manufactured from glass,extensively used for building insulation and for strenghtening materials
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • fibreoptic: pertaining to optical fibres and the systems in which they are used,such as sensor,telemetry,and telecommunication systems
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • fibreoptic: an assemblage of transparent glass fibres all bundled together parallel to one another.The length of each fibre is much greater than its diameter
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • fibreoptic: an outer protective covering placed over an optical fibre,bundle,or cable
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • fibreoptic: a sensor in which a parameter(property,characteristic)of an optical waveguide(optical fibre),or of a lightwave propagating in an optical fibre,is varied in accordance with an input baseband signal thus modulating the lightwave in the waveguide
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • fibreoptic: a data link,consisting of a modulated light source,a fibreoptic cable,and a photodetector,that can handle signals in the form of a modulated lightwave
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • fibrescope: a receiving device consisting of an entrypoint,at which a bundle of optical fibres can enter,and a faceplate surface on which the entering fibres can uniformly terminate,in order to display the optical image received through the fibres
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • fibril: a long,slender structural element in the fibre wall which in turn consists of still finer thread-like elements,microfibrils
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • fibril: a very small fibre or part of a fibre
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • fibril: most bacterial viruses..have..a hollow tail with specialized fibrils at its tip...The tail fibers attach to the cell wall of the host..
    Category: Medicine

  • fibrillate: Yarn produced from fibrillating film that has been converted into a longitudinally fibrillated structure
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • fibrillated: Yarn produced from fibrillating film that has been converted into a longitudinally fibrillated structure
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • fibrillating: A polymer film in which molecular orientation has been induced by stretching to such a degree that it is capable of being converted into yarn or twine by manipulation,e.g.,by twisting under tension,which results in the formation of a longitudinally split structure(split fibre).
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • fibrillating: a current giving rise to an irregular action of the heart called fibrillation
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • fibrillation: a structural change in the fibre walls e.g.during beating,whereby a number of fibrils are completely or partially removed and the binding between the remaining fibrils is weakened
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • fibrositis: aching, soreness or stiffness of muscles; often caused by inexpedient work postures
    Category: Medicine

  • fibula: the lateral bone of the lower leg.
    Category: Medicine

  • loose-fibre: /fibres may be dyed in the loose form spinning...If the fibre is dyed in the loose state the dye can easily penetrate a fibrous mass ENBRI 70 7-819/
    Category: The chemical industry

  • microfibril: a threadlike component of the fibrils of the cell wall,from 100 to 400 Angstrom(USA 250 Angstrom)in diameter,visible under an electron microscope and believed to consist of ca.2000 chain molecules of cellulose extending through regions of parallelism and order(micelles)and regions of non-parallelism and/or disorder(amorphous regions)
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • Multifibre: optical splice or connector designed to mate two multifibre cables,providing simultaneous optical alignment of all individual waveguides
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Multifibre: optical cable that contains two or more fibres,each of which provides a separate information channel
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Multifibre: GATT arrangement regarding international trade in textiles
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • neurofibroma: a fibrous tumor,usually benign,arising from the nerve sheath or the endoneurium
    Category: Medicine



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