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  • Abrams: a US heavy tank
    Category: Defense

  • Adamstown: capital of the Pitcairn Islands
    Category: The cosmos

  • AMS: a sensor which permits to locate the start of the current or previous track
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • AMS: Method of direct counting of isotopes using a particle accelerator as mass spectrometer.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • Amsterdam: capital of Netherlands
    Category: The cosmos

  • angiosperms: the botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • angiosperms: The botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary;includes dicotyledons and monocotyledons but not the conifers.
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • antonyms: two or more words with opposite meanings
    Category: Language and literature

  • arms: The continuing competitive attempt by two or more nations each to have available to it more and more powerful weapons than the other(s).
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • arms: a weapon and those components required for its operation
    Category: Defense

  • armstrong: a frequency modulation obtained by the addition in phase quadrature of two oscillations having the same frequency and one of which is amplitude modulated
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • armstrong: an oscillator in which feedback is achieved through coupled plate and grid circuit coils
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ATMS: a system which makes transmission and noise measurements automatically on toll and long distance circuits,and provides a printout of results
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • atoms: Esprit project the objective of which is to develop vertical and(reversible)magneto-optical recording technologies for mass storage of data on rotating discs
    Category: General

  • blooms: semi-finished products of rectangular section,of a cross-sectional area exceeding 1.225 mm2 and of such dimensions that the thickness exceeds one quarter of the width
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • bremsstrahlung: an electromagnetic radiation associated with the deceleration of charged particles
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • bremsstrahlung: electromagnetic radiation associated with the deceleration of charged particles.The term is also applied to the radiation associated with the acceleration of charged particles
    Category: Physics

  • camshaft: shaft to which cams are keyed,or on which keys have been formed integrally
    Category: Transport

  • claims: an employee of an insurance broker who handles claims in the name of clients
    Category: Insurance

  • claims: the Lloyd`s Underwriter`s Claims Office which underwriters at Lloyd`s use centrally to handle their claims
    Category: Insurance

  • claims: sequence of claims by the same firm or in the same sector over a period of time
    Category: The European Communities

  • claims: the expenses generated as a result of the investigation and settlement of claims
    Category: Insurance

  • claims: if the claims ratio for a financial year is lower than the average claims ratio for the reference period.The amount in respect of the claims shortfall shall be arrived at by multiplying the difference between the two ratios by the earned premium for the financial year
    Category: Insurance

  • claims: the fundamental principle of a policy which determines the liability of an insurer in respect of claims made during the currency of a policy
    Category: Insurance

  • claims-settling: a person representing an insurer,instructed both to determine a loss and to pay it on the insurer`s behalf
    Category: Insurance

  • clamshell: describes doors or other structural parts which open and close in the manner of clam shells
    Category: Transport

  • clamshell: cockpit canopy hinged at front or rear
    Category: Transport

  • clamshell: an excavator deriving its name from the general shape and operation of the clamshell bucket used on it and consists of the common crane boom,a tag line,hoist drum lagging for the proper line pulls and speeds and a clamshell bucket and proper cables
    Category: Building industry

  • customs: the Government Service which is responsible for the administration of customs law and the collection of import and export duties and taxes and which also has responsibility for the application of other laws and regulations relating inter alia to the importation, transit and exportation of goods
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • customs: the group of government officials responsible for collecting customs duties and for controlling the import and export of dutiable goods
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • damsel: nabidae. --; a family of medium-sized Hemiptera; predaceous on plant bugs and therefore beneficial; Nabis cosmopolitan.
    Category: General

  • damson: variety of plums
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • doldrums: zone of calm or light variable winds, in the lower atmospheric layers, situated near the thermal Equator: the zone follows...the annual meridional fluctuation of the thermal Equator.
    Category: The cosmos

  • drumstick: the segment of a fowl`s leg between the thigh and tarsus ; the tibia and fibula together with the surrounding musculature. The two cuts shall be made at the joints ; something resembling a drumstick in form; specif: the segment of a fowl`s leg between the thigh and tarsus
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • drumstick: the segment of a fowl`s leg between the thigh and tarsus ; something resembling a drumstick in form; specif: the segment of a fowl`s leg between the thigh and tarsus
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • eelworms: small worms that attack the roots of vines
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • EMS: formally introduced in 1979 and expanded to include all EC currencies, except the Spanish peseta and Portuguese escudo, which were due to join from 1989.Member currencies determine the value of the EC`s composite currency, the European Currency Unit (ECU).Of the 10 current members all, except Britain and Greece, participate in the system`s Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM).This limits to 2.25 per cent the maximum fluctuation of member currencies against each other (although Italy is an exception and its lira can move by up to six per cent).From time to time, when participating countries recognise that defending this limitation imposes too great a strain, the central rates of ERM currencies are realigned
    Category: Economics

  • EMS: the level of a network management system concerned with collecting network management information from,and setting parameters on the network elements
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • ex-customs: the ex-customs price is the cif price plus net taxes linked to imports.It can be recorded:1)excluding invoiced VAT on imports 2)including invoiced VAT on imports
    Category: General

  • farms: farms and gardens belonging to the prison authority and worked by the prisoners
    Category: Law

  • Formalisms: Esprit project whose main goal is to define,implement and experiment a technology for the process of systematic development,verification and validation of software systems,based on the principle or reusability of software components
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • gums: polysaccharides derived from the grape or formed by microorganisms and which occur in wines in the colloidal state
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • gymnosperms: The botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds not enclosed in an ovary,mostly represented by the Coniferales(conifers).
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • hamstring: muscles located at the back of the thigh that bend the knee and swing the leg backward from the hip.
    Category: Medicine

  • helmsman: Person who steers a vessel when underway.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • ims: a hierarchical-database-oriented transaction processing software used by the Bellcore SMS/800 system
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • IMSI: the mobile station identification uniquely identifying the mobile station internationally; the IMSI consists of the mobile country code (MCC) followed by the national mobile station identity (NMSI);uniquely identifies the subscription; it can serve as a key to derive subscriber information such as directory number (s) from the HLR
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • INCOTERMS: international regulations for the interpretation of trade terms
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • IPMS: the interpersonal messaging system(IPMS)is the object by means of which all users communicate with one another in interpersonal messaging
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • isograms: the locus of points of equal salt concentration
    Category: The cosmos



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