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Anti-Submarine: an operation by one or more anti-submarine ships or aircraft,or a combination of both,against a particular enemy submarine
Category: Defense

Anti-Submarine: operations conducted with the intention of denying the enemy the effective use of his submarines
Category: Defense

antisubmarine: the systematic and continuing investigation of an area or along a line to detect or hamper submarines,used when the direction of submarine movement can be established
Category: Defense

antisubmarine: an arrangement of ships and/or aircraft for the protection of a screened unit against attack by a submarine
Category: Defense

antisubmarine: systematic investigation of a particular area for the purpose of locating a submarine known or suspected to be somewhere in the area.Some types of seach are also used in locating the position of a distress incident
Category: Defense

antisubmarine: the line formed by a series of static devices or mobile units arranged for the purpose of detecting,denying passage to,or destroying hostile submarines
Category: Defense

antisubmarine: a field laid specifically against submarines.It may be laid shallow and be unsafe for all craft,including submarines,or laid deep with the aim of being safe for surface ships
Category: Defense

antisubmarine: a formed group of ships consisting of one or more antisubmarine carriers and a number of escort vessels whose primary mission is to detect and destroy submarines.Such groups may be employed in convoy support or hunter/ killer roles
Category: Defense

antisubmarine: an operation conducted by an antisubmarine force in the area around a force or convoy,in areas through which the force or convoy is passing,or in defence of geographic areas.Support operations may be completely co-ordinated with those of the force or convoy,or they may be independent operations co-ordinated only to the extent of providing operational intelligence and information
Category: Defense

aquamarine: a transparent variety of beryl that is blue,blue-green,or green in colour
Category: Various industries and crafts

Asmara: capital of Eritrea
Category: The cosmos

benchmark: points of reference which must not be exceeded or which rise to management alarm if exceeded, e.g. 8 days of uncertificated sick leave on average; not more than a certain percentage ge of total expenditure on building maintenance
Category: Management in the public and private sector

benchmark: the performance of a predetermined set of securities,for comparison purposes.Such sets may be based on published indexes or may be customized to suit an investment strategy
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

benchmark: a procedure using a set of programs and files designed to evaluate the performance of the hardware and software of a computer in a given configuration
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

benchmark: a figure or indicator which is important and can be used to compare other figures
Category: Economics

benchmark: a standard measure of performance, typically for computing and graphics hardware
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

benchmarking: the process of re-estimating statistics as more complete data become available.Estimates are usually calculated using only a sample of the universe(total count)
Category: Statistics

benchmarking: The establishment of a criterion,standard or reference point against which to establish targets and measure progress
Category: Man and society

bog-margined: a water body with wet,spongy margins and difficult access to open water
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

book-mark: a narrow strip of material,as an attached ribbon,an insertable card or a leather slip,to mark a place in a book
Category: General

customary: deductions from claims for particular average to vessels,normally one third for new work replacing old in repairs to hull or machinery
Category: Insurance

customary: A customary heir...inherited by virtue of a custom,such as gavelkind of borough-English....(Jowitt`s,2nd ed.,1977,p.897)
Category: Law

damar: a group of natural resins, less hard than copal but harder than oleoresins, obtained as exudations from trees, strictly of the Dipterocarpaceae only in South East Asia particularly Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand; generic name for a number of natural resins used in the manufacture of varnishes
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

daymark: an unlighted object which forms an aid to navigation by day only
Category: Transport

demarc: a point(such as a jack or cross-connect panel)at which ownership or responsibility for operating and maintaining facilities passes from one party to another
Category: News-systems and communications

Desmarres: 2)when a nonfixated object is beyond the crossing point of the visual axes, its diplopic images are uncrossed; and when a nonfixated object is closer than the crossing point of the visual axes, its diplopic images are crossed
Category: Medicine

Deutschmark: comprising the German,Benelux and Danish currencies(and according to DG II also the Austrian shilling)[VE1]
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

earmarked: the proceeds from taxes and levies which,by law,can be used only to finance social protection
Category: Statistics

earmarked: the status of forces which nations have agreed to assign to operational command or operational control of a NATO Commander at some future date.In designating such forces,nations should specify when these forces will be available in terms currently agreed by the Military Committee
Category: Defense

Esmarch: a device, band or elastic tube applied temporarily to press upon an artery to stop bleeding; a device to compress a blood vessel in order to stop bleeding
Category: Medicine

fumarole: fumaroles are steam vents (Latin 'fumus' = smoke); the 'smoke' is water vapour (temperature between 200oC and 800oC),the dominant constituent, but acid gases characteristically occur. T here is an intimate connection between fumaroles and simple hot springs: hot springs can be transformed into fumaroles, which in turn, during the wet seasons, become hot springs again
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

grammar: one of the principal ways of specifying an infinite formal language by finite means.A grammar consists of a set of rules(called productions)that may be used to derive one string from another by substring replacement.The strings of the specified language are obtained by repeated application of these rules,starting from some initial string
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

half-marl: A yarn consisting of one end of mixture shade or solid colour,twisted with one end of two colours that have been roved together(as in marl).
Category: Various industries and crafts

hypermarket: very large self-service store with wide range of goods; usually outside a town
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

hypermarket: a huge self-service store,usually built on the outskirts of a town
Category: Management in the public and private sector

intermarket: the sale of a given delivery month of a futures contract on one exchange and the simultaneous purchase of the same delivery month and futures contract on another exchange
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

intermarket: an exchange of one bond for another based on the manager`s projection of a realignment of spreads between sectors of the bond market
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

intermarket: the spread between the interest rate offered in two sectors of the bond market for issues of the same maturity
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

intramarket: the spread between two issues of the same maturity within a market sector
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

landmark: a conspicuous object on shore which aids in fixing a ship`s position at sea
Category: Transport

landmark: a feature,either natural or artificial,that can be accurately determined on the ground from a grid reference
Category: The cosmos

left-margin: the release of the left margin and a cursor move of one or more tabs to the left inside that margin
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

mar: apparatus rack for accommodating miscellaneous items of apparatus which are not sufficiently numerous to necessitate an individual rack for each class of item
Category: News-systems and communications

marabout: a very lightweight,silk dress fabric or ribbon with crepe-like appearance woven in a plain weave of marabout yarn
Category: Various industries and crafts

maraging: an iron nickel alloy containing very little carbon but enough nickel to form martensite on air cooling to room temperature.There are three types of broadly similar chemical composition,i.e.,18 percent nickel,8 percent cobalt,5 percent molybdenum,0,5 percent titanium
Category: Iron and steel industries

marble: hard calcareous stone, homogeneous and fine-grained, often crystalline and either opaque or translucent
Category: The cosmos

marbler: workman occupied in marbling
Category: The chemical industry

marbling: marbled papers are made as follows: a trough of gum is prepared, the colours for the pattern are sprinkled and dropped upon the surface, patterns are made by combing or another means of regularising the design; The body paper is let down to the gum, the colour adheres to the paper and the sheets are hung to dry, after which they may be glazed, embossed or varnished
Category: Various industries and crafts

marbling: this is done on silk,cotton and made-mde fibres cloth.The cloth obtains a light/dark sheen
Category: Various industries and crafts

marbling: imitating with finishing materials the figure and texture of polished marble or other decorative stones
Category: The chemical industry

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