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burlap: a coarse, plain weave cloth made with single jute yarns....the terms -- and --...are interchangeable in Great Britain and Europe.....uses: bags, packing, carpet backing
Category: Various industries and crafts

clap: a visual cue on the picture with an easily identifiable corresponding cue on the sound track..
Category: General

clapotis: the French equivalent for a type of standing wave
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

clapper: articulated tool holder for planing and slotting tools which brings the tool out of engagement during the return stroke.The tool clapper is supported in the so-called clapper carrier
Category: Mechanical engineering

clapper: the component part of a sound picture recorder used at the beginning of a scene to register the synchronization of sound and picture of the film.
Category: General

clapping: in massage,percussion movements in which the cupped palms are brought down alternately in a rapid succession of blows
Category: Medicine

collapse: a flattening or buckling of the wood cells during seasoning,sometimes manifested in excessive and/or uneven shrinkage
Category: Various industries and crafts

collapse: In medicine,sudden prostration with fall in circulation,blood pressure,neuromuscular tone and consciousness,usually reversible
Category: Management in the public and private sector

collapse: complete and sudden failure of a structure or of one or more of its parts
Category: Physics

collapsed: a double-track public transport line,on each track of which vehicles travel in single but opposite directions.At the end of the line,the vehicles are either turned around or switched back to provide service in the opposite direction
Category: Building industry

collapsed: an inward structural failure of the filter element caused by excessive pressure
Category: Mechanical engineering

collapsed: a network backbone that is located in a single room.It might be a single router or multiport bridge,or a small LAN of some sort
Category: News-systems and communications

collapsed: a method for estimating the variance of the mean of a stratified sample where the sample is based upon two random selections from each of a number of strata of equal size and the number of non-respondents results in too few completed strata.Two or more strata are amalgamated(collapsed)to form one stratum
Category: Mathematics

collapsibility: the ability of break down of a sand mixture,particularly a core sand after casting
Category: Iron and steel industries

collapsible: retread rim that can be folded and unfolded for insertion into tire where it holds curing tube in place and exerts pressure on sidewalls
Category: Various industries and crafts

collapsible: a fuel element cladding designed to achieve direct contact with the fuel under pressure of the coolant
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

collapsible: a sprue pattern of flexible material,or of spring-tube design,used in squeeze-moulding of plated patterns,and incorporating a pouring cup
Category: Iron and steel industries

double-lapped: joint between two stacks of material,in the form of flat strips,lying parallel to a common plane and meeting together to form a perpendicular corner,the alternate strips being interleaved over their whole width
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

elapse: the total time taken time by a process,as measured between the apparent beginning and the apparent end of the process
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

elapse: the total time taken to complete any steps in fire suppression
Category: Management in the public and private sector

elapse: the total time from start to finish of a time study
Category: Labour

elapse: instrument used to measure the amount of time elapsed since a known moment
Category: Transport

elapse: the time difference between scheduled departure and arrival time
Category: Transport

elapse: the maximum amounts of time allowed by administrative rule for given steps of fire suppression
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

elapsed: the total time taken time by a process,as measured between the apparent beginning and the apparent end of the process
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

elapsed: the total time taken to complete any steps in fire suppression
Category: Management in the public and private sector

elapsed: the total time from start to finish of a time study
Category: Labour

elapsed: instrument used to measure the amount of time elapsed since a known moment
Category: Transport

elapsed: the time difference between scheduled departure and arrival time
Category: Transport

elapsed: the maximum amounts of time allowed by administrative rule for given steps of fire suppression
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

flap: A hinged portion of a wing or aerofoil which is adjustable in flight and either increases the lift or drag or both.Split,extension,slotted and leading edge flaps mainly increase the lift and thus reduce the stalling speed of aircraft
Category: Transport

flap: Any surface usually forming part of the rear portion of a wing,adjustable in flight,the primary function of which is to increase the lift.
Category: Transport

FLAP: closing member of a fibre box, carton or envelope.
Category: Technical and industry in general

flapper: a piece of netting with a mesh size at least equal to that of the codend,fastened inside a trawl,in such a way that it allows catches to pass from the front to the rear of the trawl but limits their possibility of return
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

flapping: angular oscillation of rotor blade about flapping hinge; 2)reciprocating or cyclical motion up and down about a chordwise axis
Category: Transport

flapping: Of a rotor blade:to move to and fro in the direction of the wind while rotating.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

flaps: the highest speed permissible with flaps in a prescribed extended position
Category: Physics

lap: (1) (General) A sheet of fibres or cloth wrapped round a core with specific applications in different sections of the industry, e.g. ,sheets of fibre wound on rollers or round endless aprons to facilitate transfer from one process to the next; (2) (Flax) An arrangement of the fibre strands in scutched flax pieced out for hackling or in pieces of hackled flax to facilitate their removal as separate units from built-up bundles; (3) (Cloth) The length of cloth between the successive transverse folds when pieces are plaited down or folded; (4) (Cloth) An individual layer of cloth in roll form.
Category: Various industries and crafts

lap: a fold in the surface of an article
Category: Various industries and crafts

lap: in a sliding spool valve,the relative axial position relationship between the fixed and movable flow metering edges with the spool at null
Category: Physics

lap: a flaw in material
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

Laparoscopy: the examination of the pelvic region by using a laparoscope
Category: Medicine

laparotomie: surgical opening of the abdominal cavity, for diagnostic purposes or treatment; less commonly called coelotomy
Category: Medicine

lapidary: a workman who cuts,polishes,and engraves precious stones other than diamonds
Category: Chemistry

lapis: a semi-precious stone usually of a rich azure blue color that is essentially a lazurite but contains hauynite,sodalite or other minerals
Category: Various industries and crafts

lapis-lazuli: a semi-precious stone usually of a rich azure blue color that is essentially a lazurite but contains hauynite,sodalite or other minerals
Category: Various industries and crafts

Laplace: the law which gives the force exerted on an element carrying a current placed in a magnetic field.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Laplace: the transform of a function(t)to a function Fi(s)of complex variables
Category: Mathematics

Laplace: generally speaking,this limit theorem,of which the Bernoulli theorem is a corollary,states that the number of successes k in n trials is normally distributed for large n
Category: Mathematics

Laplace: a name sometimes given to the central limit theorem,which was known to Laplace in its essentials but was not proved rigorously under necessary and sufficient conditions until the beginning of the 20th century
Category: Statistics

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