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  • ablactation: the cessation of milk secretion in the breasts
    Category: Medicine

  • black: of a body or medium,effectively absorbing all of the radiation of some specified energy or range of energies incident on it
    Category: Physics

  • black-headed: the bright green brownish headed(black when young)larva of a small variably marked grayish moth that is a serious pest of hemlock,spruce,and fir through out much of the northern USA and Canada feeding on the new foliage and webbing it into mats
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blackberry: fruit of the Rubus fruticosus and of the Rubus chamaemorus
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blackboard: Hard smooth dark surface used for drawing or writing in chalk.
    Category: General

  • blackboard: a globally accessible data base for recording intermediate,partial results of problem-solving
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • blacken: an undesirable local darkening accompanied by changes in the opacity of the paper occurring during glazing in a calender and caused by too high a pressure or too high a moisture content in the paper
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blacken: to knock down flames, quench burning embers, and wet down charred fuel.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • blackening: an undesirable local darkening accompanied by changes in the opacity of the paper occurring during glazing in a calender and caused by too high a pressure or too high a moisture content in the paper
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blacker: in the video signal,positive transmission assumed,a level lower than the black level
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • blacker-than-black: in the video signal,positive transmission assumed,a level lower than the black level
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • blackfly: any of several black or dark-colored insects: as a small two-winged biting fly of Simulium and related genera whose larvae live in flowing usu. clear streams - called also buffalo gnat.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • blackfly: any of several black or dark-colored insects: as a small two-winged biting fly of Simulium and related general whose larvae live in flowing usu. clear streams - called also buffalo gnat.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • blackhead: a destructive disease of turkeys and in a milder form of chickens and other related birds
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blackheart: a dark discoloration sometimes seen in the interior of refractory bricks
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • blacklash: limited freedom of movement between two parts,nominally fixed together,due to clearances between fasteners and their surrounding holes
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • blackleg: plant disease
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blackleg: acute specific infectious disease of cattle,sometimes of sheep,and likewise of pigs,caused by Clostridium chauvoei(feseri)and characterised by the presence of rapidly increasing swellings containing gas,and occuring in the region of the shoulder,neck,thigh,quarter,and sometimes on the trunk
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blacklist: black IMEI; forbidden MS
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • blackmail: A specific case of extortion in which a person by giving notice that he will make known,report or reveal information which is disadvantageous to another person or another who is closely related to that other person,causes that other person to purchase his silence for a financial consideration.
    Category: Law

  • blackout: loss of central vision due to positive gravitational acceleration; attributed to restriction of blood supply to the eye
    Category: Medicine

  • blackout: a fade-out of radiocommunications caused by ionospheric activity
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • blackout: an abrupt,unanticipated loss of all electrical power
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • blackout: a condition characterized by failure of vision and momentary unconsciousness, due to diminished circulation to the brain and the retina.
    Category: Medicine

  • blackrot: disease of leaves,shoots and bunches caused by a fungus(guignardia Bidwellii)
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • Blackwell: a theorem(1948)in renewal theory which states that,provided the renewal distribution is not lattice distribution,then for every fixed h>0 the mean renewal rate in the interval [t-h,t] tends to the reciprocal of the mean of the renewal distribution as t-> infinite
    Category: Mathematics

  • caprolactam: a cyclic amide-type compound,containing 6 carbon atoms
    Category: Chemistry

  • caryophyllaceae: a large widely distributed family of herbs or subshrubs of the order Caryophyllales
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • Clack: device for controlling fluid flow,for example into and out of piston engine cylinder or into/out of aerostat,especially aircraft
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • coal-black: it is characterised by a finely comminuted and strongly humidified black organic groundmass in which many silt-sized mineral grains are embedded
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • coal-black: fibrous due to plant fragments with recognizable tissue which lie in a groundmass of coal-black strongly humified coprogenic material
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • coelacanths: order of fish
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • coelacanths: family of fish
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • complacency: Low variability among consecutive tree-ring parameters(e.g.ring width,maximum density)which theoretically indicates that the growth of a particular tree is relatively unaffected by interannual variations of ecological factors.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • deglaciation: the removal of ice,particularly ice sheets,by melting
    Category: The cosmos

  • diplacusis: symptom in which different pitches are perceived,using one or both ears,from a tone of specified pressure and frequency
    Category: Medicine

  • displace: to move(displace)a machine part into a wrong position
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • displace: to shift(displace)one of two pieces which perform identical movements,in the direction of their movement,so as to alter the distance between them
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • displaceable: capable of being displaced or adjusted
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • displaced: that volume which is being moved forward during a pressure stroke or a revolution of a positive displacement pump
    Category: Physics

  • displaced: persons who,due to such circumstances as famine,unemployment,floods,war or internal strife,or for different other reasons,have been obliged to leave their normal place of residence
    Category: Statistics

  • displaced: a situation in which the number of events in excess of a threshold value r,when it is assumed that at least the r events do occur,has a displaced Poisson distribution with parameters lambda and r
    Category: Mathematics

  • displacement: the departure of aerial photographic images from the positions they would occupy if there were no relief or tilt
    Category: The cosmos

  • displacement: The quantity of water displaced by a vessel floating in equilibrium in calm water.In accordance with Archimedes Principle,the mass of the water displaced is equal to the total mass of the vessel and its contents.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • displacement: the vector representing the change in position of a particle
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • displacement: in internal combustion engine,total volume swept by pistons during 180° crankshaft rotation
    Category: Transport

  • displacing: to allot to a woman a child which she did not bear whether the fraud was committed by herself or by a third party or whether the displaced child and or the mother concerned are only fictitious persons
    Category: Law

  • emplacement: the act of fixing a gun in a prepared position from which it may be fired
    Category: Defense

  • emplacement: a prepared position for one or more weapons or pieces of equipment,for protection against hostile fire or bombardment,and from which they can execute their tasks
    Category: Defense

  • encephalomalacia: literally, 'softening of the brain', but the term is used to include degenerative diseases of the brain generally, due to a variety of causes
    Category: Botany and zoology



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