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  • aeropause: a region of indeterminate limits in the upper atmosphere,considered as a boundary or transition region between the denser portion of the atmosphere and outer space
    Category: The cosmos

  • aerospace: of or pertaining to the Earth`s atmospheric envelope and the space above it; two separate entities considered as a single realm for activity in the launching, guidance, and control of vehicles, which will travel in both entities
    Category: The cosmos

  • air-separator: apparatus for classifying fine powders by means of an air current.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • airspace: space in the air above the surface of the Earth,or a particular portion of such space,usually defined by the boundaries of an area on the surface,projected upward
    Category: Transport

  • allelopathy: the inhibitory or stimulatory effects of released organic chemicals by one plant on the germination,growth or metabolism of a different plant
    Category: The chemical industry

  • allopatric: pertaining to races or populations of the same or similar species that occupy separate,non-overlapping geographic ranges or adjacent but different habitats,and that are genetically isolated from each other
    Category: The cosmos

  • alpax: aluminium-silicon alloy
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • AND-parallelism: a method in logic programming which involves the simultaneous execution of subgoals in a clause and attempts to achieve increased speed by investigating the subparts of a particular solution in parallel
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • anticipated: the profit which the insured expects to obtain from the objet insured
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • anticipated: the freight which a ship owner expects to earn
    Category: Insurance

  • anticipated: periodic payments intended to maintain the income of beneficiaries who retire before the standard age as defined in the relevant scheme or in the scheme of reference.This may occur with or without a reduction of the normal pension
    Category: Statistics

  • anticipated: All operational processes deviating from Normal Operation which are expected to occur once or several times during the operating life of the plant and which,in view of appropriate design provisions,do not cause any significant damage to Items Important to Safety nor lead to Accident Conditions
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • anticipation: foreseeing and planning and being ready for possible events or disasters; Expectation of an occurrence
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • anticipator: device used to obtain information anticipating a later value
    Category: Transport

  • anticipatory: a credit insurance protecting a buyer who has paid in advance of delivery
    Category: Insurance

  • anticipatory: soins de maladies contagieuses, conseils donnés par une infirmière, mises en garde aux personnes non encore atteintes par la maladie.
    Category: Medicine

  • antiparallel: the nuclear magnetic moment is aligned -- (opposed) to the...magnetic field.
    Category: Chemistry

  • antiparticle: the antiparticle of an elementary particle has the same mass and spin as the particle,with an electric charge?(if any)? that is opposite in sign.Examples are:electron and positron,proton and antiproton
    Category: Physics

  • apache: a US attack helicopter
    Category: Defense

  • Apache: a Web OpenSource server
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • apastron: point in the orbit of a satellite or planet which is at a maximum distance from the centre of mass of the primary body
    Category: The cosmos

  • apathy: a feeling and an attitude of indifference and insensitivity to people and events; A passive, helpless and unhelping behaviour in case of crisis; Insensibility to suffering
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • apatite: natural calcium phosphate usually containing fluorine or chlorine
    Category: The cosmos

  • apparatus: a group or system of glands,ducts,blood vessels,muscles,or other anatomical structures concerned in the performance of some function
    Category: Medicine

  • apparent: the air mass accelerated by an inflating parachute
    Category: Physics

  • apparent: the product of the r.m.s.values of voltage and current at a port
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • apparent: the volume occupied by a liquid without taking into account the temperature
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apparent: the visible line of demarcation between land/sea and sky
    Category: The cosmos

  • apparent: time at which the real Sun reaches the celestial meridian
    Category: The cosmos

  • apparent: a position referred to true equinox of date of observation but not corrected for aberration
    Category: The cosmos

  • apparent: the lignin content as determined by a standard procedure,e.g.Klason determination without the removal of interfering extraneous substances
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • apparent: One whose right of inheritance is indefeasible,provided he outlives the ancestor.
    Category: Law

  • archiepiscopal: one which, having the general character of the Latin cross, has two horizontal bars instead of one
    Category: Religion and philosophy

  • ARGUS-SPAS: a space platform(SPAS)and earth observation payload(ARGUS)designed and sponsored by European Space Agency(ESA)to be launched by the space shuttle in the mid 1980`s
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • asparagus: the asparagus belongs to the lily family,which also includes onions,garlic and leeks.Cultivated for centuries,it also grows wild in many parts of the world.In Europe,white asparagus is prized.To prevent the production of chlorophyll and keep the spears white,the asparagus beds are covered with mulch to keep out the sun
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • aspartate: serum aspartate aminotransferase
    Category: Medicine

  • aspartic: C4H7NO4; HO2C. CH2.CH (NH2).CO2H M.p.271 °C. The naturally occurring substance is L-aspartic acid. One of the acidic-amino-acids is obtained by the hydrolysis of proteins. (1)
    Category: Medicine

  • auto-pagination: a pagination mode in which the software package program periodically calculates page breaks and displays them on the screen
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • auto-separation: automatic release of occupant from ejection seat
    Category: Physics

  • back-propagation: processing of information(usually error-correction information)backwards through the network.The flow of information does not proceed in the usual way from the input units forward to the output units,but in the reverse direction from the output units backwards through the network
    Category: General

  • backspace: a format effector which moves back the active position one character position backwards on the same line
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • backspacing: moving the punch tape in the reverse or backward direction one or several rows
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • baldpate: mann shearwater.
    Category: General

  • band-pass: filter which has a single frequency band,the limits or cutoff frequencies of which are greater than zero and less than infinity,in which the gain or transmission is near unity and outside which it is near zero
    Category: Physics

  • band-pass: filter having a single pass-band,neither of the cut-off frequencies being zero or infinite
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • bandpass: a filter designed to transmit a band of frequencies with negligible loss while rejecting all other frequencies
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • bandpass: the response characteristic in which a definite band of frequencies is transmitted uniformly
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Belmopan: capital of Belize
    Category: The cosmos

  • Bhopal: industrial town in India where, on 3 December 1984,large quantities of the highly toxic methyl isocyanate escaped from a damaged chemical plant, causing more than 2.000 deaths and many more disabled and blind; The largest chemical industrial accident to date
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • bipartisan: representing or composed of members of two parties.
    Category: Language and literature



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