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  • abnormal: scour caused by deflected but nevertheless onflowing currents,as by the river running tangentially to a curve and forming an eddy where river leaves the curve of the protection bund
    Category: The cosmos

  • abnormal: a frequency curve with abnormality,that is to say,differing from a normal curve with the same median and dispersion about the median
    Category: Mathematics

  • abnormal: an artificially induced failure of a component,usually as a result of 'abnormals' testing for regulatory agency safety compliance
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • abnormal: working hours(for individual employees)which fall fully or partly outside normal working hours
    Category: Labour

  • abnormal: D.the glow discharge characterized by the fact that the working voltage increases as the current increases.
    Category: Physics

  • abnormal: the actual activity that is greater than what is normal or planned
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • abnormal: any anomalous value whose cause is unknown, which occurs in some small local areas, causing the compass needle to be deflected from the magnetic meridian
    Category: The cosmos

  • abnormal: the cessation of processing prior to planned termination
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • abnormal: a carbon steel with relatively poor creep properties; a carburizing steel liable to show soft spots after quenching
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • abnormal: a general term to designate nonnormal operating conditions; e.g. ,the occurrence of a transient
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • abnormality: in Italian usage,a measure of dissimilarity from the normal curve,somewhat similar to a measure of kurtosis
    Category: Mathematics

  • acclimatization: adaption of animals or plants to new climate
    Category: Medicine

  • acclimatization: the series of physiological adjustments which occur when men who are accustomed to live in a cool climate are suddenly transferred to a heat climate
    Category: Medicine

  • achromatic: a) having no distinguishable hue; b) neutral
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • achromatic: pertaining to a lens or an optical system corrected for,or free from,chromatic aberration
    Category: Physics

  • achromatism: 2.the condition of a lens or an optical system corrected for,or free from chromatic aberration
    Category: Physics

  • Ackermann: the steering system commonly used on four-wheel vehicles,such as the automobile.The wheels are not on a common axle,but pivot on their own individual axles in a coordinated fashion
    Category: Transport

  • address-mapping: function of a layer which provides the mapping between the addresses of that layer and the addresses of the next lower layer associated with an entity of that layer
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • adenoma: a benign tumour originating from, or having the appearance of, glandular epithelium; of endocrine or exocrine origin
    Category: Medicine

  • aerenchyma: a parenchymatous tissue of thin-walled cells with large intercellular spaces,serving for aeration and/or giving buoyancy
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • aeroemphysema: the demonstrable presence of liberated gas in connective tissues and interstitial planes as the result of a reduction in atmospheric pressure
    Category: Medicine

  • afterimage: visual sensation occuring when the light or the stimulation on a screen display is not present anymore
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • aftermath: the plant residue or plant regrowth after a crop has been grazed or harvested
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • agrammatism: 2)a form of aphasia in which one cannot utter words in their correct form and sequence
    Category: Medicine

  • air-mass: the length of path through the Earth`s atmosphere traversed by the direct solar beam, expressed as a multiple of the path traversed to a point at sea level with the sun at zenith
    Category: The cosmos

  • Aircraftsman: Non-officer personnel in category OR-1,UK Royal Air Force(1).Idem in US Air Force(2).
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • airmag: the process of measuring the magnetic field of the earth from an aeroplane with a view to making magnetic maps for geological purposes
    Category: The cosmos

  • airmail: in May, 1918, the first -- route in the United States was established between Washington, D.C., and New York City.
    Category: Transport

  • airman: a person involved in flying,maintaining or operating an aircraft
    Category: Transport

  • airwoman: female pilot
    Category: Transport

  • almanac: an annual publication usually containing a calendar and other accompanying information,e.g.astronomical data
    Category: Printing and publishing

  • almandine: variety of garnet
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • ama: a system which automatically records all of the data of subscriber-dialled long distance calls needed for billing purposes
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • amalgam: metallic alloy ; dental filling
    Category: Chemistry

  • amalgam: a product formed by mercury and another metal in an electrolytic cell
    Category: Chemistry

  • amalgamation: in business,the fusion of one or more lesser companies into a larger one,by any of several means.
    Category: Economics

  • amalgamation: the formation of an amalgam.
    Category: Medicine

  • amanuensis: House of Commons
    Category: Politics

  • amaurosis: partial or total blindness from any cause
    Category: Medicine

  • amaurotic: pertaining to blindness
    Category: General

  • amazon: variety of felspar
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • Amazon: satin fabric, glossy; finish of amazon fabric
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • amazonite: variety of felspar
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • amman: capital of Jordan
    Category: The cosmos

  • anastigmatic: 2)without astigmatism; corrected for astigmatism
    Category: Medicine

  • angioma: 2)a tumor composed of lymphatic or blood vessels
    Category: Medicine

  • angiosarcoma: a malignant neoplasm occurring most often in the breast and skin, believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels; has occurred at a clearly increased frequency among workers exposed to vinylchloride in PVC production
    Category: Medicine

  • angiospermae: the botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • animals: animals belonging to species normally nourished and kept or consumed by man as well as animals living freely in the wild in the case where they are nourished, for some part, with animal feeding stuffs
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • animate: for editing printed film
    Category: General



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