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aerofoil: a body so shaped as to produce an aerodynamic reaction normal to the direction of its motion through a fluid with minimum drag
Category: Physics

affordability: The ratio of expenditure on housing to total income.
Category: Economics

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

agri-foodstuffs: all activities involved in the preparation of foodstuffs,comprising production,preserving,processing and distribution
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

airfoil: Outline of the surface which is created when an airfoil wing is sectioned by a plane normal to the plane of the airfoil wing and parallel to the direction of the relative velocity
Category: Physics

Alford: an aerial made of four insulated conductors,each half a wavelength long,positioned in a horizontal plane and symmmetrically fed by balanced lines at two diagonally opposed corners of a square
Category: News-systems and communications

aliform: a paratracheal parenchyma with winglike lateral extensions,as seen in cross-section
Category: Botany and zoology

anseriformes: an order of birds comprising the ducks and the geese, swans, mergansers and screamers
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

antifoam: additive used to reduce or eliminate foam
Category: Medicine

antifoaming: additive used to reduce or eliminate foam
Category: Medicine

antifouling: contains poisonous copper or mercury compounds which are slowly released when the binder is broken down by the water
Category: The chemical industry

antifouling: Paint which is applied to the wetted surface of a ship to prevent the adherence and growth of biological organisms,such as slime,weed and shell.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

apodiformes: an order of birds with long,narrow wings comprising the swifts and the hummingbirds
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

Ashford: a type of falling shutter in which a strut(on the downstream)is used to support the shutter,which can be released by a lever.There is a separate strut for each shutter which itself revolves round the hinge at the bottom.The whole shutter system falls automatically if one lever is released.This is accomplished by slightly projecting the lever beyond the end of the shutter and providing a hinge in the middle of the lever
Category: Building industry

ausform: quenching(of austenitized material)to a temperature above Ms,but below that of the recrystallization of austenite followed first by mechanical working at this temperature and finally by further quenching
Category: Iron and steel industries

ausforming: quenching(of austenitized material)to a temperature above Ms,but below that of the recrystallization of austenite followed first by mechanical working at this temperature and finally by further quenching
Category: Iron and steel industries

auto-forwarding: the automatic forwarding of interpersonal messages(IPMs)by the interpersonal messaging system(IPMS)to pre-specified users or distribution lists(DLs)
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

autotransformer: Transformer consisting of one electrically continuous winding with one or more fixed movable taps so that part of the winding is common to both primary and secondary circuits.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

B-formats: standard paper size; B-0 is 730 x 510 mm
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

Backward-forward: The 'push'(i.e.the extent of demand which a development project generates for the output of all the production sectors of the economy)and 'pull'(i.e.the extent of demand generated for the output of a project by an overall expansion of the production sectors of the economy).
Category: Economics

barefoot: Paramedical worker in the village .(Guardian)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

Beaufort: symbolic notation, expressed in letters, relating to the principal types of weather.
Category: The cosmos

before-tax: the ratio of net income before taxes to net sales
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

bifocal: a spectacle lens of two portions whose focal powers differ from each other
Category: Medicine

binding-force: an internal strain within a compound semiconductor caused by actual valence values being greater or less than four although the mean value is four,the strain affecting the crystal on an atomic rather than a macroscopic scale
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

biotransformation: the metabolic reactions in an organism whereby a foreign chemical, introduced into the organism, is either converted to a different compound or conjugated to a metabolite of the organism
Category: Medicine

Bradford: can be regarded as a particular case of Pearson`s type VI or the beta distribution of the second kind
Category: Mathematics

Bradford: System of worsted spinning used in Yorkshire; the raising of the healds by the negative cam outside the loom structure. Bradford Treading Motion
Category: Various industries and crafts

bufotenine: a substance first isolated from the skin of toads and used medically to raise blood pressure.It has also been isolated in two hallucinogenic plants
Category: Medicine

California: a method of drilling wells,developed in California,and used chiefly for deep wells in unconsolidated material.The method involves the use of California rig,percussion tool,mud scow and hydraulic jacks
Category: Building industry

California: ratio defined as the load at 0.1-in.penetration for the soil compared to the crushed rock and expressed as a percentage
Category: Building industry

California: common murre.
Category: General

Californian: horizontal box-like apparatus for hatching fish-eggs,especially salmonids
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

californium: chemical element: atomic number 98
Category: Chemistry

carryforward: the carrying over to following years of deductions from income,profits or credits against tax which cannot be used in a specific accounting year
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

chiffon: Originally a very light, sheer, open-mesh fabric made from silk yarns in plain weave; now made also from man-made fibres. The term is loosely used adjectivally to describe the lightest types of particular cloths, e.g. ,`chiffon velvets`, `chiffon taffetas
Category: Various industries and crafts

chiffon: a very soft light cloth; silk veil, transparent, used for shawls, evening dresses, often pleated or draped
Category: Various industries and crafts

cis-form: see: trans-configuration
Category: Chemistry

clear-forward: a signal sent in the forward direction to terminate the call or call attempt and release the circuit concerned.This signal is normally sent when the calling party clears
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

coliform: (of a bacterium)with form and reactions very similar to those of bacterium coli
Category: Medicine

columbiformes: a cosmopolitan order of land birds including the sandgrouse,pigeons and doves with their extinct relatives,the dodo and the solitaire
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

comfort: subjective state of well-being in relation to an induced environment including mechanical vibration or shock
Category: Medicine

comfort: security offered in a commercial loan in the form of a guarantee or cofinancing from a parent company,government,or international organization
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

comfortable: a quilted bed covering..
Category: Domestic economy

confocal: a microscope built using the pinhole camera principle, combined with scanned-laser illumination, to focus on a very small sample volume
Category: Standards, measures and testing

conformal: the coating of electronic components with a thin layer of epoxy or silicone material by spray,fluidised-bed,or electrostatic-deposition techniques,prior to a heating cycle for curing
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

conformal: takes its name from the property that all small or elementary figures upon the surface of the earth retain true shape,the meridians and parallels being at right angles to one another
Category: The cosmos

conformal: a mathematical method,used in fluid dynamics to obtain a flow pattern of a another known,plane potential flow,whilst the angles between the streamlines and equipotential lines in both cases remain the same
Category: Physics

conformal: having teeth whose matching profiles conform,both sets having instantaneous centres of curvature on same side of contact
Category: Transport

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