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  • aboard: In or on a ship or other floating vessel.On the deck or in the hold of a ship.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • acetoacetic: CH3COCH2COOC2H5; CH3C (OH):CHCOOC2H5.Colourless, mobile liquid with a pleasant odour; b.p.181-182 °C. Prepared by the action of sodium or sodium ethoxide on ethyl ethanoate, or of ethanol on diketen
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • afloat: Completely waterborne.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • antifoam: additive used to reduce or eliminate foam
    Category: Medicine

  • antifoaming: additive used to reduce or eliminate foam
    Category: Medicine

  • approach: in a water cooling tower, the difference between the average temperature of the exit water and the wet bulb temperature of the entering air
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • approach: part of the working stroke after reversal from the return stroke before the tool becomes engaged
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • approach: manoeuvre of an aircraft into position relative to the landing area for flattening-out and alighting
    Category: Transport

  • approach: the airspace over an approach area
    Category: Transport

  • approach: in surgery, the manner of securing access to a joint, cavity, part, or organ by a suitable incision through the overlying or neighboring structures..
    Category: Medicine

  • approach: the taking of tentative or introductory steps for a particular purpose (as full accomplishment, discussion, acquaintance or solicitation: his method of -- to the subject repels most readers) ..
    Category: Language and literature

  • approach-and-landing: systems to assist pilots in approach and landing
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • backboard: each of the two backboards shall be of any rigid material....The backboard shall be...a rectangle 6 feet horizontally and 4 feet vertically..
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • Bareboat: the transfer of physical possession or use of a ship,without fuel,provisions or crew,for which the charterer is responsible
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • barge-board: a board which hangs from the projecting end of a roof, covering the gables; often elaborately carved and ornamented in the Middle Ages
    Category: Building industry

  • baseboard: A heat disseminating unit located at the lower perimeter of a room.Heat is supplied to these units by hot water,warm air,steam,or hot flue gases.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • billboard: a poster panel in outdoor advertising.
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • bioaccumulation: Process by which some environmental contaminant becomes concentrated in exposed organisms
    Category: Medicine

  • bioaccumulation: process by which the amount of a substance in a living organism(or its parts increases with the time
    Category: General

  • bioactive: a pigment with biocidal properties
    Category: The chemical industry

  • bioactive: it is harnessing genetic engineering to make medically useful proteins and peptides
    Category: Medicine

  • bioassay: The determination of the biological activity of a substance,e.g.a drug,by observing its effect on an organism(or organ)compared to a standard preparation.
    Category: Medicine

  • bioassay: the inoculation of tissue into another animal in order to see if it is infective (if it is, the animal will develop disease). Multiple dilutions of the inoculum will, if the dilutions are enough, get to the point that not enough infection is present in the inoculum to cause disease. The lowest amount of inoculum that will still transmit the disease is said to contain one infective unit
    Category: General

  • bioassay: determination of the relative effective strength of a substance (as a vitamin, hormone, or drug) by comparing its effect on a test organism with that of a standard preparation...
    Category: Medicine

  • bioastronautics: the study of the effects of space flight upon living organisms
    Category: Medicine

  • bioavailability: The proportion of the active drug in a formulation that is absorbed and therefore available to exert its pharmacological effect.
    Category: General

  • bioavailability: propriété d`un produit de se diffuser utilement dans l`organisme. Son degré de 'diffusibilité' dans l`organisme.
    Category: Medicine

  • blackboard: Hard smooth dark surface used for drawing or writing in chalk.
    Category: General

  • blackboard: a globally accessible data base for recording intermediate,partial results of problem-solving
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • bloating: the permanent expansion accompanied by the formation of a gaseous phase, creating a vesicular texture, which occurs when some types of clay are fired.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • blockboard: a composite board having a core made up of strips of wood each over 9/32in(0.71 cm)but not more than 1in(2.54 cm)wide,laid separately or glued or otherwise jointed together to form a slab,to each side of which is glued one or more outer veneers with the direction of the grain of the core strips running at right angles to that of the adjacent veneers
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • Boar: a male pig after puberty,intended for breeding
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • board: one of various types of composite wood products supplied as(semi-)rigid sheet material
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • board: The fiberglass or pressed paper sheet used for mounting the integrated circuits.Interconnections may be wire-wrapped,soldered,or printed on the board.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • board: tool to complete the ramming of the upper surface of a mould part
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • board: when beating to windward the stretch sailed on one tack before going about
    Category: General

  • board-tester: a device,usually computer controlled,which performs electronic tests on printed circuit boards
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • board-type: rigid insulating material in the form of boards or slabs
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • boarded: a wall consisting mainly of vertical boards
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • boarded: leather that has been softened and the surface of which has been lightly creased by folding grain to grain and then working the fold across the leather to and fro by hand boarding or by means of a boarding machine
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • boarding: a wooden covering,particularly of boards,to a floor,wall or roof,or in a similar position
    Category: Building industry

  • boarding: A process,involving heating under moist or dry conditions,carried out to confer a desired shape or size on a stocking or other knitted garment.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • boarding: the act of entering a public transport vehicle
    Category: Law

  • boardroom: a room that is designated for meetings of a board, usu. contains a large conference table.
    Category: General

  • boards: the stage, hence 'on the boards', in the profession. The wooden boards of the stage itself.
    Category: General

  • boars: brush making hair
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • boart: industrial grade diamond grains
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • boat: a boat-shaped crucible
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • boat: A small open craft propelled by oars,sails,or some form of engine.This term is also applied to larger vessels built to navigate rivers and inland waters,and sometimes to seagoing vessels,but in such case it is mostly used as part of a compound word or expression,as for instance:steamboat,ferryboat,cargo boat,fishing boat.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • boat-operated: this group comprises the bag nets,usually operated from one boat,and the blanket nets,operated from several boats
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries



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