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  • abductor: a muscle that draws a part away from the median line
    Category: Medicine

  • 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

  • abort: biology: to miscarry, to have premature delivery of a child; Abortion is a risk in disaster situations; Firefighting: to jettison a retardant or load water from an airtanker; Administration: to discontinue a project before termination; Aeronautics: to stop, terminate, abandon or destroy a rocket or a space vehicle mission; Fail to complete a flight
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • abort: a function invoked by a sending primary or secondary causing the recipient to discard,and ignore,all bit sequences transmitted by the sender since the preceding flag sequence
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • abort: a procedure to terminate execution of a program when an irrecoverable error,mistake,or malfunction occurs
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • abort: to cut short or break off an action,operation,or procedure with an aircraft,space vehicle,or the like,especially because of equipment failure
    Category: Transport

  • abort: to jettison a load of water or retardant from an aircraft
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • aborted: termination of the start procedures in a gas turbine engine
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • aborted: the interruption or removal of the initial signal or input power before the time period has been completed
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • aborted: the stopway is...designated by the airport authorities for use in decelerating the airplane during an --.
    Category: Transport

  • abortion: the non-induced birth of an embryo or of fetus prior to the stage of viability at about 20 weeks of gestation
    Category: Medicine

  • abortion: A group of offences which includes miscarriage procured by the pregnant woman,miscarriage procured by another,and failure to report the termination of a pregnancy.
    Category: Law

  • absorbate: that substance absorbed by an absorbent
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • absorbed: quantity of a polluting substance, drug or radiation taken up by a person, a community or the environment
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • absorbed: the quotient d epsilon/dm,where d epsilon is the energy imparted to matter by ionising radiation in a suitably small element of volume of mass dm
    Category: Physics

  • absorbed: the rate or averaged rate of flow of energy of vibration entering the human body
    Category: Environment

  • absorbed: power absorbed at the drive shaft of the pump at a given instant or under given load conditions
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • absorbed: the rate of flow of energy of vibration entering the human body
    Category: Medicine

  • absorbed: the voltage which is absorbed by a transductor in a circuit
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorbed: the increment of absorbed dose dD during a suitably small interval of time dt divided by that interval of time
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • absorbed: the maximum absorbed dose within a 30 cm diameter sphere centred at this point and consisting of material equivalent to soft tissue with a density of 1 g cm-3
    Category: Medicine

  • absorbed: absorbed dose of radiation or corpuscular emission is the energy imparted to matter by ionizing particles,par unit mass of the irradiated material at the place of interest.
    Category: Physics

  • absorbency: the ability of a paper or board to take up and retain a liquid with which it is in contact.Either the degree of absorbency or the rate of absorbency may be measured by standard methods of test
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • absorbent: a substance which has the ability of extracting some substances from a liquid or gaseous medium with which it is in contact
    Category: Physics

  • absorbent: in the selection of an absorbent for scrubbing a gas, the usual object is to find a liquid which has the capacity to absorbe a large quantity of the solute.
    Category: Environment

  • absorber: that part of an absorption machine in which the refrigerant vatour is absorbed
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • absorber: The part of a solar collector which converts the incident solar radiation into heat and from which the heat is removed by the transfer fluid.If an absorbing liquid is used then this may constitute both the absorber and the heat transfer fluid.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorber: a material that readily absorbs photons to generate charge carriers(free electrons or holes)
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ABSORBER: matter which absorbs atomic rays and particles. A sheet or other body of material placed between a source of radiation and a detector for purposes such as: determining the nature or the energy of the radiation; reducing the intensity of the radiation at the detector; as a shielding; or giving the radiation some desired characteristic, as by preferential transmission of one component of the radiation
    Category: Physics

  • ABSORBER: a substance that removes energy from any type of radiation
    Category: Medicine

  • absorbing: a state in a stochastic process which,once reached,cannot be quitted
    Category: Mathematics

  • absorbing: the device,movable along the mains lead of an energised appliance in order to assess the degree of interference which may be produced by this appliance at a given frequency
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorbing: The absorber plate is a part of a flat plate collector, generally of steel, copper or aluminium, whose black-painted surface converts sunlight to heat
    Category: The cosmos

  • absorbing: the volume of liquid absorbed by a hydraulic motor during one revolution
    Category: Physics

  • absorbing: a generalisation from one dimension of the idea of an absorbing barrier
    Category: Mathematics

  • absorbing: certain additive or random walk processes represent the motion of a particle in one or more dimensions; in certain cases limitations may be imposed on the motion in the form of barriers which, once reached, 'absorb' the particle and end the motion
    Category: Mathematics

  • absorbing: Surface of an absorber(paint,selective coating).(DF1)Sometimes also used as a synonym for the absorber itself.(DF2)
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorbing: the volume rate of flow absorbed by a hydraulic motor
    Category: Physics

  • absorptance: the ratio of the absorbed radiant or luminous flux to the incident flux
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • absorptance: ratio of the radiant energy flow rate absorbed by a surface to the energy flow rate received
    Category: Mechanical engineering



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