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  • A-position: a manual position on which calls from subscribers`circuits are received
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • aecidiospore: an asexual spore produced in an aecidium
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • airport: a tract of leveled land where aircraft can take off and land...equipped with...strips, a control tower, hangars, and accommodations... A similar installation in which the landing area is on water.
    Category: Transport

  • Aleppo: an oriental gem made by cutting an agate so that it suggests an eye
    Category: Chemistry

  • allopolyploid: an organism with more than two sets of chromosomes in its vegetative cells,derived from two or more species by cross breeding
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • anthropogenic: of human origin or influence
    Category: Medicine

  • anthropomorphic: a robot with all rotary joints and motions similar to a human`s arm
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • anthropomorphic: a device designed and constructed to have a form and mechanical properties as close as possible to those of man.The desired properties include representative masses of body components,ranges of movement of articulation and resistance to displacement
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • anthropophobia: fear of people or society
    Category: Medicine

  • anti-pollution: those components of a vehicle that control and/or limit tailpipe and evaporative emissions
    Category: Environment

  • anti-pollution: the precautions to be observed to prevent pollution of the environment by oil,cargo residue,sewage,smoke or other pollutants and the use of pollution prevention equipment,including oily water separators,sludge tank systems and sewage disposal plant
    Category: General

  • antipollution: insulator which has the external profile designed for use in polluted areas
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • antipollution-type: insulator which has the external profile designed for use in polluted areas
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • APO: the non-dialyzable protein portion of an enzyme which confers specificity on the enzyme
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apodiformes: an order of birds with long,narrow wings comprising the swifts and the hummingbirds
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apogamy: a form of apomixis in which the reproductive function of the gametes is taken over by unspecialised cells
    Category: Medicine

  • apogean: the range of the tide at the time of apogean tides
    Category: The cosmos

  • apogean: the decreased range tides occurring at the time the moon is in apogee
    Category: The cosmos

  • apogee: the point in the orbit of an earth satellite which is at a maximum distance from the centre of the Earth
    Category: The cosmos

  • apollo: a series of American manned spacecrafts which took part in the missions flown in the late 60s and early 70s
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • aponeurosis: tendinous expansion consisting of a fibrous or membranous sheath which serves as a fascia to enclose or bind a group of muscles
    Category: Medicine

  • apoplexy: sudden death of part or whole of the vine with desiccation
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apoptosis: programmed cell death
    Category: Medicine

  • apospory: a form of apomixis in which the reproductive function of the spores is taken over by unspecialised cells
    Category: Medicine

  • apothecium: an open,cup-,disk,or saucer-shaped ascocarp in which the asci are borne
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apotracheal: an axial parenchyma typically independent of the pores or vessels
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • apotracheal: an axial parenchyma forming concentric lines,typically independent of the vessels
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • apozymase: a thermo-labile and non-dialyzable colloid separated from zymase by Harden and Yound and giving enzyme activity when mixed with cozymase
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • appoint: in law, to designate, or nominate, as an executor, administrator, or guardian..
    Category: Law

  • appointed: any day that the Treasury may by order appoint for any stated purpose,e.g.the date when particular legislation comes into force,or ceases to apply
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • appointee: one in whose favour a power of appointment is exercised
    Category: Law

  • apportionable: the annuity under which a proportionate payment is made in respect of the period between the last regular payment and the date of the annuitant`s death
    Category: Insurance

  • apportioned: tax is 'apportioned' when the amount to be paid by the individual is determined by the apportionment among the whole body of taxpayers of a precalculated aggregate or yield.
    Category: Law

  • apportionment: the determination and assignment of the total expected effort by percentage and/or by priority that should be devoted to the various air operations and/or geographic areas for a given period of time
    Category: Defense

  • apportionment: variable levy on all members in proportion of sums insured,of classification of risks and according to rate of premium
    Category: Insurance

  • apposition: term used when paratactically joined forms are grammatically,but not in meaning equivalent e.g.John(,)the poor boy
    Category: Language and literature

  • ascospore: a sexual spore produced by means of free-cell formation(nuclear fusion)in an ascus
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • audio-response: one type of audio-response calculator announces each entry and the results of every calculation using a solid-state synthesized voice stored on ROMs after digitizing
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • B-position: a position on which calls from other exchanges are received for completion and which has direct access to the called subscriber`s lines
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • ball-point: a pen having as the writing point a small steel ball that rotates in its socket and inks itself by contact with an inner magazine of ink
    Category: Language and literature

  • bicomponent: A fibre formed by the conjunction of two fibre-forming polymers of different properties at a spinning jet.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • biopolymer: any of the different types of large molecules formed by living organisms including nucleic acids, proteins, polysaccharides and lipids
    Category: Medicine

  • bipod: A patent shroudless mast consisting of two transversely inclined welded steel supports which meet at the trestle trees.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • bipolar: said of an input signal when different states are represented by signals of different electrical voltage polarity
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • bipolar: 1. possessing two poles; 2. concerning two poles.
    Category: Medicine

  • bipole: a speaker system with drivers facing front and rear that are wired in phase.Because of this,their signals do not generate out-of-phase cancellation effects,and side radiation is not radically attenuated
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • bitemporal: bilateral hemianopsia involving the temporal halves of the visual fields of both eyes
    Category: Medicine

  • breakpoint: a place in a program or macro where the process can be interrupted by human or system control intervention
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • breakpoint: a place in a computer program,usually specified by an instruction,where its execution may be interrupted by external intervention or by a monitor program
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • callpoint: digital cordless telephony, a limited one-way concept; CT2 is a system for delivering 'telepoint' service, which enables users equipped with small, inexpensive handsets to place one-way calls into the public network via transmitters located in public places (1)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector



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