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  • accomplishment: the act of accomplishing: completion, fulfillment.
    Category: Language and literature

  • acrocephalosyndactylism: 2)congenital malformation of the skull in association with complete or partial webbing of the fingers and toes
    Category: Medicine

  • aerialist: performers called -- climb hight overhead on ropes or rope ladders. Some -- hang by their teeth from a rope...
    Category: General

  • aeroballistic: the study of the interaction of projectiles or high-speed vehicles with the atmosphere
    Category: Defense

  • aeroballistics: the study of the interaction of projectiles or high-speed vehicles with the atmosphere
    Category: Defense

  • alcoholism: a chronic behavioral disorder manifested by repeated drinking of alcoholic beverages in excess of the dietary and social uses of the community.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • AND-parallelism: a method in logic programming which involves the simultaneous execution of subgoals in a clause and attempts to achieve increased speed by investigating the subparts of a particular solution in parallel
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • anomalistic: the time elapsing between two successive passages of a satellite through its periapsis
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • antiballistic: a missile designed to intercept and destroy or neutralise an incoming warhead or re-entry vehicle
    Category: Defense

  • anticollision: a radar system installed in an aircraft to warn the pilot of any target that could be on a collision course with the aircraft
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • antiglobalist: the antiglobalist right seeks to preserve (or restore) strong national, ethnic, tribal or religious identities, boundaries and power; the antiglobalist left is also attracted to a vision of organic community, but is much more concerned about the poor and powerless and strongly imbued with the mystique of environmentalism
    Category: Politics

  • ballistic: that constant wind which would have the same effect upon the trajectory of a bomb or projectile as the wind encountered in flight
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: a camera used to record the trajectory of a high-speed body,usually a rocket,with high accuracy
    Category: General

  • ballistic: heavy pendulum mortar in which a standard explosive charge is fired and the angle of recoil is measured
    Category: Mining

  • ballistic: a nonlifting vehicle; a vehicle that follows a ballistic trajectory
    Category: Physics

  • ballistic: a missile which follows a ballistic trajectory when thrust is terminated
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: a test for measuring the strength of explosives It consists of measuring the swing of a pendulum produced by the explosion of a weighed charge of material
    Category: Mining

  • ballistic: separation of materials with different bulk density by a punching or a throwing action whereby material with high bulk density is slung furthest away in a trajectory
    Category: Technical and industry in general

  • ballistic: the trajectory traced after the propulsive force is terminated and the body is acte upon only by gravity and aerodynamic drag
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: of an unpowered stage,the ratio of sea level weight to the product of the aerodynamic drag coefficient and the proper reference area
    Category: Physics

  • ballistic: a galvanometer intended to measure the value of a quantity of electricity by reading the amplitude of the first swing of its moving element
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • ballistic: a transient oscillatory error of a gyro compass introduced during changes of course or speed as a result of the means used to damp the oscillations of the gyro spin axis
    Category: Physics

  • ballistic: the trajectory traced after the propulsive force is terminated and the body is acted upon by gravity and aerodynamic drag only
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: the science or art that deals with the motion,behaviour,appearance,or modification of missiles or other vehicles acted upon by propellants,wind,gravity,temperature,or any other modifying substance,condition,or force
    Category: Defense

  • ballistic: ballistic range = research facility for investigation of behaviour of projectiles moving through gaseous media at extremely high Mach numbers; usually comprises a calibrated range along which test bodies can be fired, sometimes into gas travelling at high speed in opposite direction
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • ballistics: the science or art that deals with the motion,behaviour,appearance,or modification of missiles or other vehicles acted upon by propellants,wind,gravity,temperature,or any other modifying substance,condition,or force
    Category: Defense

  • ballistophobia: fear of missiles or bullets
    Category: Medicine

  • bilingualism: a government policy which supports having two languages with equal status
    Category: Statistics

  • bimetallism: a system of money in which the unit is legally defired in terms of two metals, both being legal tender and with a fixed rate of exchange between them.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

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

  • blister: a local deformation of the surface caused by a rapid evaporation of water
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blister: a figure produced on smooth flat-sawed and rotary cut surfaces by undulations in the grain(e.g.curly or wavy grain),and having the appearance of more or less widely spaced,raised or depressed areas of rounded contour
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blister: any disease characterised by raised patches on leaves,caused e.g.by the genus Taphrina on Elm and Poplar
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blister: a streamlined protuberance on an aircraft,designed to house equipment,to afford a place for observation or for other purposes
    Category: Transport

  • blister: a curved sheet of water raised by the motion of a seaplane float or hull and separated from the surface by an air space
    Category: Physics

  • blister: a bubble of smallest dimensions exceeding about 2 mm
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blister: a raised spot on the surface of metal caused by expansion of gas in a sub-surface zone during heat treatment
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • blister: a local lifting,not extending to the edge,of the surface of plywood and other composite products,due to lack of adhesion there between two adjacent plies
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blister: a raised area on the surface of a moulding caused by the pressure of gases inside it on its incompletely hardened surface
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blister: the distended peridium of the aecidium of rusts
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blister: a local lifting of a surface film(paint,varnish etc)owing to pressure there from beneath,generally due to excessive moisture in the wood
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • blister: a vesicle formed in bark or leaves by a separation and raising of the surface layers
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • blister-copper: an impure intermediate product in the refining of copper, produced by blowing copper matte in a converter
    Category: Mining

  • blistering: convex deformations in the films,arising from the detachment of one or more of the constituent coats
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • bullish: a position resulting from the opening purchase of an option contract
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • bullish: Calendar spread that is established when the underlying asset is some distance below the striking price of the options used.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • bullish: a calendar spread that is established when the underlying asset is some distance below the striking price of the options used
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • bullish: Bullish calendar spread in which a short-term in-the-money put is bought and a long-term in-the-money put is sold.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • bullish: Bullish calendar spread in which a short-term out-of-the-money call is sold and a longer-term out-of-the-money call is bought.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • bullish: Diagonal bull spread established by buying longer-term puts at a lower strike and selling the same number of near-term puts at a higher strike.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs



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