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  • aground: State of a vessel when she ceases to be completely waterborne and her weight is taken,partially or completely,by the ground.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • background: the controllable brightness of the receiver screen in the absence of the part of the television signal which conveys the picture information
    Category: Physics

  • background: the automatic execution of lower priority computer programs which are temporarily suspended when higher priority foreground programs are active
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • background: the counting rate in the absence of that radiation which the counter tube is intended to measure
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • background: Display against which the foreground is displayed in a different colour.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • background: in motion pictures, radio, etc., music or sound effects used as a subordinated accompaniment to dialogue or action.
    Category: General

  • background: music performed especially by unseen performers as an accompaniment to some activity essentially unrelated to it (as dining, shopping, or factory work).
    Category: General

  • background: music, often recorded, intended to provide a soothing background, usually played over loudspeaker systems in public places, as railway stations, restaurants, etc.
    Category: General

  • campground: an aggregation of campsites providing such facilities as tent spaces(or pads),fireplaces,picnic tables,water,and sanitation for overnight use
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • foreground: A graphic element displayed on a videotex screen in a different colour from the screen background.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • foreground: in multiprogramming,refers to the environment in which high-priority programs are executed
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • foreground: in multiprogramming,the environment in which high-priority programs are executed
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • foreground: the part of a scene nearest to the camera.
    Category: General

  • foreground: the part of the scene that lies nearest the camera.
    Category: General

  • ground: the negative side of DC power supply
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ground: Basic structure of net,by which the objects are joined.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • ground-based: at the present time, radar and -- provide meteorologists with the location and movement of thunderstorms over only a small fraction of the surface of the earth.
    Category: The cosmos

  • ground-controlled: a system of radio navigation comprising a surveillance radar element,or SRE,and a precision approach radar element,or PAR,for the operation of a ground-controlled approach
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • ground-controlled: procedure with a ground radar installation able to watch approaching aircraft and direct them to safe landing by radio in bad visibility
    Category: Transport

  • ground-off: a circular saw whose plate is wholly flat on one side and mostly so on the other,only tapering peripherally(through being 'ground off')for a few inches to the rim
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • ground-plane: a unipole aerial in which the ground plane consists of a system of radially disposed rods,or a disc
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • grounding: to run ashore, to strike the bottom. Stranding means also the destruction or loss of a vessel by its being sunk or by its striking or stranding upon a rock, or the like
    Category: Transport

  • groundsel: plant of the genus Senecio
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • groundwater: all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil
    Category: The cosmos

  • groundwater: Subsurface water occupying the cavities and interstices beneath the land surface.
    Category: The cosmos

  • landing-ground: a field used for aircraft take-off and landing
    Category: Transport

  • underground: a light tint,with or without a design,used as a decorative base for text graphics printed in a different color
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)



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