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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

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

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

checkpoint: place in a computer programme at which a check is made or at which recording of data is made for restart purposes
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

checkpointing: the activity that concerns the transferring of data or messages from active to standby processors of the control system
Category: News-systems and communications

connection-endpoint-suffix: part of a connection-endpoint-identifier which is unique within the scope of a service-access-point
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

cross-pointer: indicating-type dial instrument that provides readings by means of a pointer in the shape of a cross
Category: Transport

crosspoint: a single element in an array of elements that comprises a switch
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

crosspoint: a set of physical or logical contacts that operate together to extend the transmission or control path of a connection through a particular stage of a space-division switching network
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

crown-appointed: independent member who has seat on e.g. the Social and Economic Council; he is appointed by Royal Decree (hence his name)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

Dew-Point: the temperature at which the water vapour contained in a gas or a gas mixture at a given constant pressure is just sufficient to permit its saturation
Category: Chemistry

dewpoint: the temperature at which the water vapour present in the atmosphere would just suffice to saturate it
Category: The cosmos

Earth-pointing: the yaw axis of a satellite pointing to the earth
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

endpoint: a data point that defines the end of a linear element
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

flashpoint: The lowest temperature at which volatile vapour from oils and liquids will ignite if heat is present.At normal atmospheric pressure the flashpoint of acetone is 17,8°C,of aviation gasoline 40°C,of diesel oil 75,5°C
Category: Management in the public and private sector

four-point: a probe measurement of resistivity in which four probes are equally spaced in a linear manner
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

four-point: loading where two equal loads are applied to a span at equal distances from its centre
Category: Mechanical engineering

midpoint: center of interval--average of upper and lower limits
Category: Statistics

midpoints: center of interval--average of upper and lower limits
Category: Statistics

multi-endpoint-connection: connection with more than two connection-endpoints
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

multipoint-partyline: a configuration whereby the control centre or master station is connected to more than one outstation by a common link,in such a way that at any time only one outstation may transmit data to the master station.The master station may transmit data either to one or more selected outstations or global messages to all outstations simultaneously
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

needlepoint: executed with a needle on a sheet of paper or parchment bearing the design
Category: Various industries and crafts

pinpoint: the ground position of an aircraft determined by direct observation of the ground
Category: The cosmos

pinpoint: a precisely identified point, especially on the ground, that locates a very small target, a reference point for rendezvous or for other purposes; the co-ordinates that define this point
Category: The cosmos

point: 1)in job evaluation: a unit of measurement for the extent of a certain type of job requirements or the difficulty of a job; 2)in merit rating: a measurement unit for the extent of a certain type of job capabilities, job efforts or job qualities
Category: Labour

point: (1)Point (linking or point-seaming machines); (a) One of a set of collectively controlled grooved instruments on which fabric is placed for linking or point-seaming.
Category: Various industries and crafts

point: a replaceable wearing point on the tine of a tine plough
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

point: part of a fish hook
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

point-to-point: one-way or two-way communications between two points only.The services which use satellites for point-to-point communications include voice transmission,high-speed data links and television distribution to cable head-ends
Category: General

point-to-point: radio or line communication established between specific stations.
Category: News-systems and communications

point-to-point: a non-switched,dedicated communication circuit
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

pointable: a satellite-mounted sensor capable of being pointed(oriented)toward a selected target
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

pointed: a turning tool with straight shank and cutting edges arranged symmetrically to the shank axis.Mainly for fine finishing
Category: Mechanical engineering

pointer: a) an identifier that indicates the location of an item of data; b) a data item whose value is the location of another data item
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

pointer: an index attached to the moving part of an instrument,intended to allow observation of its deflection.An 'index' may be also a light-spot or a liquid surface
Category: Physics

pointer: the needle-shaped rod that moves over the scale of a meter
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

points: A series of thin steel pins,usually tapered,one to each comb space,used to take up the crossed threads of the lace
Category: Various industries and crafts

single-point: a cutting tool with a single cutting edge,used on machine tools(lathes,planers,shapers,slotters)
Category: Iron and steel industries

single-point: a private line that has one interexchange carrier leg(from one point of purchase to another)
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

single-point: a monitored information represented by only one bit characterising two determined states of an operational equipment
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

single-point-circuit: a private line that has one interexchange carrier leg(from one point of purchase to another)
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

strongpoint: strong fitting in an aircraft to which a parachute static line can be attached
Category: Transport

telepoint: 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

telepoint: public digital cordless telephony offering cordless local loop;CT2 is a non-switched cellular operation which permits transmission through a small hand-held telephone anywhere within approximately 200 meters of any given node
Category: General

three-point: measurement of the resistivity of an epitaxial layer by monitoring the breakdown voltage of a reverse-biased probe at the epitaxial surface, using a second probe as reference; a third probe provides a current path for the avalanche-breakdown current which flows mainly through the low-resistivity substrate
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

three-point: manual (static) or automatic (retractor or inertia reel).
Category: Transport

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