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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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • anomaloscope: 2)an instrument to test the color sense
    Category: Medicine

  • anomalous: a p-n junction in which the forward and reverse directions are the opposites of those existing in simple p-n junctions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anomalous: diffusion of plasma particles across a magnetic field, faster than that corresponding to collisions. It is in some cases caused by plasma instability. Bohm diffusion and turbulent diffusion are examples of anomalous diffusion
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anomalous: the extraordinary behaviour in the curve of refractive index versus wavelength which occurs in the vicinity of absorption lines or bands in the absorption spectrum of a medium
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anomalous: an abnormal propagation due to discontinuities in the propagation medium and often resulting in the reception of signals well beyond their normal range
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anomalous: propagation of radio energy in abnormal conditions of vertical distribution of refractive index, in association with abnormal distributions of atmospheric temperature and humidity.
    Category: The cosmos

  • anomalous: propagation of sound waves to distances from the origin of the sound greater than is accounted for by straight-line propagation.
    Category: The cosmos

  • anomalous: the conductivity of undoped indium arsenide,not of intrinsic nature but exhibiting n-type properties,free-electron densities being of the order of 10E22 per square metre
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anomalous: the conductivity of undoped gallium antimonide,not of intrinsic nature but exhibiting p-type properties,hole densities being of the order of 10E23 per square metre
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anomalous: aniseikonia which is clinically significant and which is correctable by clinical means
    Category: Medicine

  • anomalous: at very low temperatures,the effective electrical conductivity of the surface layer becomes less that the bulk conductivity and so makes the reflectivity lower than the calculated value
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anomaly: a departure from the accepted norm or defined value; Geologic anomalies include tectonic faults; Atmospheric anomalies include poor visibility due to refraction
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • anomaly: property of a software system which indicates poor construction and may subsequently indicate an error
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • anomaly: the angular distance of an Earth satellite(or planet)from its perigee(or perihelion)as seen from the centre of the Earth(sun)
    Category: The cosmos

  • anti-malaria: mineral oils,such as kerosene oil crude oil,which kill the ova and pupa of mosquitoes,as well as the larvae and also tend to deter the adult mosquitoes from depositing their eggs
    Category: Environment

  • anti-malaria: in its widest sense the term includes protection against infection by malaria mosquito biting,destruction of malaria parasites in the blood of infected persons,killing of mosquitoes at their various stages of growth by chemical methods(spraying of oils,mixing of chemicals in breeding places,etc.)and other physical or engineering or biological preventive measures.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • centesimal: relating to division into hundredths
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • chromosomal: Any deviation from the normal number or morphology of chromosomes
    Category: Medicine

  • chromosomal: an abnormal chromosomal complement resulting from the loss,duplication,or rearrangement of genetic material
    Category: Medicine

  • chromosomal: pertaining to chromosomes.
    Category: Medicine

  • comal: conversational programing language,initially developped for programming education
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • conformal: the coating of electronic components with a thin layer of epoxy or silicone material by spray,fluidised-bed,or electrostatic-deposition techniques,prior to a heating cycle for curing
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • conformal: takes its name from the property that all small or elementary figures upon the surface of the earth retain true shape,the meridians and parallels being at right angles to one another
    Category: The cosmos

  • conformal: a mathematical method,used in fluid dynamics to obtain a flow pattern of a another known,plane potential flow,whilst the angles between the streamlines and equipotential lines in both cases remain the same
    Category: Physics

  • conformal: having teeth whose matching profiles conform,both sets having instantaneous centres of curvature on same side of contact
    Category: Transport

  • conformal: the array element locations conform to some nonplanar surface such as found on a rocket
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • decinormal: a solution containing 0,1 gram equivalent per litre of acid,base or other active substance
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • dermal: pertaining to or coming from the skin
    Category: Medicine

  • dial-normal: a secondary dial tone which is returned to an operator to indicate that the rest of a number may be dialed
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • duodecimal: pertaining to a fixed radix numeration system having a radix of 12
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • duodecimal: digit of the numeration system with a radix of twelve usually including the digits 0 to 9 and two other characters,e.g.X and Y
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • electrothermal: qualifies all techniques related to electroheat,or all devices which function in accordance with its principles
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • 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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