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  • address-mapping: function of a layer which provides the mapping between the addresses of that layer and the addresses of the next lower layer associated with an entity of that layer
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • anti-dumping: although dumping prices have the advantage for the importing country that the products are very cheap, they can cause serious difficulties to that country`s own industry; for this reason an anti-dumping law exists in many countries
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • backstopping: the facilitation in the form of technical and conceptual support
    Category: Politics

  • bit-napping: incorporating disturbances in a program which are notified via the screen to the user of the set-up,who in turn can only rid himself of them by paying the sum of money demanded
    Category: General

  • blooping: a..member of..a broad class of wage earners whose duties call for the wearing of work clothers or protective clothing.
    Category: General

  • bookkeeping: the various ways in which transactions may be recorded in books of account
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • bookkeeping: means the recording of transactions, the record-making phase of accounting.
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • bootstrapping: a process of creating a theoretical spot rate curve,using one yield projection as the basis for the yield of the next maturity
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • bumping: is the procedure in which an employee with seniority, finding his own job no longer available, demands the job of someone having less seniority.
    Category: Labour

  • burping: short durations of reverse flow in a gas-turbine engine due to instability
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • capping: a 7-methyl guanosine cap attached to the 5`-end of eukaryotic mRNAs by a phosphodiester linkage. The cap is believed to increase the stability of the message, since most nucleases require a 5`-3`or 3`-5`bond in order to cleave the RNA
    Category: Medicine

  • capping: placing selling pressure on a stock in an attempt to keep its price low or to move its price lower
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • capping: a modelling tool which creates a smooth freeform end (cap) on a part. The shape of a cap is determined by properties about its vertex (cap point) and connecting edges with the part. It is possible to specify a smooth transition from the cap to specified existing faces
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • chipping: total or partial disappearance of a dried paint film in flakes by accidental damage or wear during service
    Category: The chemical industry

  • chipping: the subdivision of wood(round timber,saw timber,slabs,edgings)into chips
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • chipping: rewounding and extending the face,i.e.removing the solidified oleoresin,a narrow band of bark,and,in some practices and methods,also of wood,so as to renew the flow of oleoresin
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • chippings: the spreading of grit or sand to fill the voids in a road wearing surface
    Category: Building industry

  • chippings: crushed stone from 1/8 to 1 in.
    Category: Building industry

  • chirping: rapid change(as opposed to long-term drift)of the emission wavelength of an optical source.Chirping is most often observed in pulsed operation of a source
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • chopping: a rapid on-off switching of the transponder for recognition purposes
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • chopping: process of cutting nuclear fuel into small lengths
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • Clamping: the process that establishes a fixed level for the repetitive components of the video signal
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Clamping: gripping,holding or exerting a force on a part
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Clamping: clamping together with quick-motion clamps or fasteners the various parts of a mould or core box to prevent them from coming apart owing to the pressure of the molten metal when pouring into a mo uld or when ramming the core in the core box
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • Clamping: the operation of automatic adjustment of the mean level of a signal,by keeping a given point of the signal at a particular reference level
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Clamping: action of binding or pressing two or more parts together so as to hold them firmly
    Category: Transport

  • clamping: setting and keeping a set of visible units in a certain state(e.g.active or inactive)
    Category: General

  • clapping: in massage,percussion movements in which the cupped palms are brought down alternately in a rapid succession of blows
    Category: Medicine

  • clipping: Removing those display elements that lie outside a given boundary.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • clipping: in computer graphics,removing parts of a display image that lies outside a window
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • clipping: a loss of speech syllables in a telephone circuit
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • clipping: an item clipped from a publication...
    Category: Language and literature

  • clippings: Threads,used for repeated motifs,which are floated over the surface of the lace between motifs.They are clipped off in the finishing of the lace.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • coping: heavy worsted or carted cloth for men
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • cramping: ground pressing of cloths
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • creeping: gradual rotation of tyre around wheel
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • creeping: the undesired running at slow speed of a d.c.motor due to residual magnetism
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • creping: a) a suitable wet treatment that allows the relaxation of the strain of highly twisted crêpe yarns and so produces the characteristic crêpe effect in the fabric; b) a chemical treatment designed to produce an effect similar to (a)
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • creping: removal by scraping of a paper web from a roll or drying cylinder so that a crinkling of the web occurs
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • crimping: an irregular corrugation of the surface of timber caused by collapse or uneven shrinkage
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • crimping: a method of permanently attaching a termination to a conductor by pressure deformation or by reshaping the barrel around the conductor to establish good electrical and mechanical connection
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • crimping: /the action of folding in, squeezing or tightening..by a series of corrugations so as to hold one part against another.
    Category: Technical and industry in general

  • Cropping: a method of cutting a metal bar by applying a shearing force normal to its length by the relative motion of a pair of blades
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • Cropping: separation of a workpiece from a strip or an interstage blank with production of scrap
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • Cropping: the removal of the last section of a semiconductor ingot to have been grown,thus removing most of the impurity contained within the ingot
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • cupping: the various operations,e.g.bark scraping,initial cutting of the face,and(re)fixing of aprons and cups,preparatory to the start of tapping
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • cupping: the curvature of the tape surface perpendicular to,and symmetrical about,the centre line of the tape
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • cupping: the practise of using or the act of applying a cupping glass
    Category: Medicine

  • cupping: a distortion whereby the faces become concave or convex across the grain
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • damping: the dissipation of energy with time or distance
    Category: Physics



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