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  • bail-plug: in strainer or slotted pipe tubewells a length of plain pipe is allowed with a cap and a lifting hook to close the bottom end.This cap is know as 'bail-plug'
    Category: Building industry

  • cost-plus: a method of determining the arm`s length price of goods or services in respect of transactions between related enterprises,whereby the arm`s length price of goods or services is taken as the cost to the seller plus an appropriate mark-up
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • cost-plus: the pricing of goods or services on the basis of costs plus an estimated necessary profit margin
    Category: Economics

  • cost-plus: A contract in which the parties agree that the contractor will submit bills for payment based on costs actually incurred plus a percentage of those costs.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • ear-plug: a hearing protector worn within the external ear canal(aural)or in the concha against the entrance to the external ear canal(semi-aural)
    Category: Environment

  • earplug: /the management..often..requires..workers in the noisy locations to wear earplugs, earmuffs or both.
    Category: Environment

  • earplug: most of the employers in these industries...often require workers in the noisy locations to wear earplugs, earmuffs or both.
    Category: Environment

  • Europa-plus: server used to provide Commission staff with information relevant to their work
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • plu: a phenotype judged(but not proved by test)to be unusually superior in some quality or qualities,e.g.exceptional growth rate relative to site,desirable growth habit,high wood quality,exceptional apparent resistance to disease and insect attack or to other adverse locality factors
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • plu: a tapping whose tapping factor is higher than 1
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • plu: a plus stand reserved for seed collection,generally after removing undesirable phenotypes
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • pluck: in the ox it consists of the trachea, lungs and the heart; in the sheep and in the pig it consists of the lungs, trachea, heart, melt (spleen) and the liver
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • pluck: small pit remaining in a polished surface
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • pluck: impression on the glass caused by the glass momentarily adhering to a roller which is too hot
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • plucked: tops,braid or yarn with uneven extremities due to excessive drawing
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • plucking: The removal of guard hairs or top hairs.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • plug: a device used to make connection with a jack or socket and embodying the male connecting elements
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • plug: a male fitting which allows closing or sealing any opening
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • plug: a reverse filter of stones,gravels,etc.,placed at the bottom of a well to prevent the sand rising up and being drawn by the water
    Category: The cosmos

  • plug: device used to make connection with a jack or socket and embodying the male connecting elements
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • plug: a component with venting ducts for sealing a cell opening
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • plug: a closing component consisting of a solid of revolution rotating about its own axis inside a valve body.The plug is pierced by orifices,called 'ports',which can be arranged in different ways
    Category: General

  • plug: the part of a connector that is intended to be attached to the free end of a conductor,wire,cable,or bundle and that couples or mates to a receptacle connector
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • plug: a plug formed in the tap hole due to premature solidification of the iron
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • plug: a piece of favorable publicity; esp: personal or product advertising incorporated in general matter. (gave the actor a -- in her column; some radio programs have become strings of --.
    Category: General

  • plug-compatible: A term used to indicate when devices or components may be interchanged without requiring any modifications to the rest of the system.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • plug-type: aircraft door which fits into a recess for sealing
    Category: Transport

  • plugboard: a programming element in a data processing machine
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • plugboard: a device for controlling the operation of certain types of data processing machine by means of a removable board with terminals which may be connected in different patterns..
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • plum: dark plum-shaped blotches in the grain of wood
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • plumb: a shaft located near the maximum section of a dam in order to make observations of the movements of the dam with respect to the base
    Category: Building industry

  • plumb: the direction of the pull exerted by the earth at any place 99999INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951
    Category: The cosmos

  • plumbago: a compound of graphite powder and clay used for making crucibles for melting metal or as refractory to line melting furnaces or ladles
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • plumbers: lead colic among plumbers
    Category: Medicine

  • plumbing: Plumbing is a term employed in communication practice to designate coaxial lines or waveguides and accessory equipment for radio frequency transmission.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • plume: a plume of air-borne waste
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • plume: radio blackout due to critical-frequency effects alone is possible only in those regions of the -- where the collision frequency is less than about 10 `ex`8.
    Category: Transport

  • plume-rise: the difference between the height of the emission point and the height to which the emissions rise due to thermally or kinetically induced buoyancy
    Category: Environment

  • plumetis: woven broché fabric bearing designs produced by broché threads during the weaving process
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • plumule: the spiral plumule in a germinating grain
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • plumule: the stem apex of the seed embryo from which the primary plant shoot develops
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • plunge-cut: production of a short internal or external thread(length of thread less than length of cutter)using a grooved cutter rotating at cutting speed.Axial feed by a master screw.Workpiece performs rotary feed
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • plunge-cut: production of screw threads,usually short,by multiprofile grinding wheel.Process is similar to plunge-cut thread milling
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • plunge-cut: cylindrical form cutter with a number of parallel grooves on its periphery having the same profile as the thread to be cut; abor-mounted cutter or cutter with shank
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • plunged: a substantial lip raised around the periphery of a hole which may or may not be pre-pierced
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • plunger: reciprocating part usually similar to and performing the functions of a piston
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • plunger: a rod acting in the direct line of the application of force
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • plunger: Moveable piston used in a resonant cavity for tuning or for the introduction of attenuation(1).
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • plunger: a wooden tool consisting of a flat base mounted on a long handle.Used for punching the cap during fermentation or for crushing grapes in somes countries
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • plunging: production of holes in metal sheet by the use of a tool shaped to produce a substantial projection of the sheet round the periphery of the hole
    Category: Iron and steel industries



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