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  • accident-protected: flight recorder meeting mandatory requirements intended to ensure accurate playback after any crash
    Category: Transport

  • acidproof: garment which provides protection against intense exposure to acid vapours or splashes(1)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • alternating-pressure: a process of applying alternations of high pressure with atmospheric pressure originally designed to impregnate refractory timber; generally applied at moisture contents above fiber-saturation point
    Category: The chemical industry

  • annealed-in-process: a wire annealed at an intermediate stage between rod size and finished size in order to produce a softer wire of fairly uniform temper
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • anti-propeller: end of an engine away from the propeller
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • appraisal: The process of assessing a jobholder`s overall performance
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • appraisal: even in cases where appraisal is done by outsiders,the executives within the company...get to develop greater interest in self-improvement
    Category: Labour

  • appreciate: a currency which exchange rate in terms of other currencies has increased
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • appreciated: a currency which exchange rate in terms of other currencies has increased
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • appreciation: the increase in the exchange rate of one currency in terms of other currencies
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • appreciation: Increase in exchangeable value(as of money,goods or property)-opposed to depreciation(1)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • appreciation: the excess of revaluation over book amount of a fixed asset
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • appreciation: D.increased market value of real property.
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • apprehension: A fearful perception of events and undue worry about the future
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • Apprehensive: the period during which normal rates of insurances for riot and civil commotion are no longer valid because disturbances are occurring or are thought impending
    Category: Insurance

  • apprentice: a person who is learning a trade or how to perform a job
    Category: Labour

  • apprenticeship: a period of long-term training substantially carried out within an undertaking and regulated by statutory law or custom according to an oral or written contract which imposes mutual obligations on the two parties concerned: the trainee; and, normally, an employer who has assumed responsibility for giving the trainee initial training (8)for a recognised occupation subject to apprenticeship
    Category: Education

  • apprenticeship: a period of long-term training substantially carried out within an undertaking and regulated by statutory law or custom according to an oral or written contract which imposes mutual obligations on the two parties concerned:the trainee and,normally,an employer who has assumed responsibility for giving the trainee initial training for a recognized occupation subject to apprenticeship
    Category: Education

  • apprenticeship: a period of long-term training,substantially carried out within an undertaking and regulated by a verbal or written contract which imposes mutual obligations on two parties:the trainee and,normally,an employer who has assumed responsibility for giving the trainee initial training for a trade or other occupation
    Category: Law

  • approach: in a water cooling tower, the difference between the average temperature of the exit water and the wet bulb temperature of the entering air
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • approach: part of the working stroke after reversal from the return stroke before the tool becomes engaged
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • approach: manoeuvre of an aircraft into position relative to the landing area for flattening-out and alighting
    Category: Transport

  • approach: the airspace over an approach area
    Category: Transport

  • approach: in surgery, the manner of securing access to a joint, cavity, part, or organ by a suitable incision through the overlying or neighboring structures..
    Category: Medicine

  • approach: the taking of tentative or introductory steps for a particular purpose (as full accomplishment, discussion, acquaintance or solicitation: his method of -- to the subject repels most readers) ..
    Category: Language and literature

  • approach-and-landing: systems to assist pilots in approach and landing
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • appropriated: a tax intended to fund a particular activity or area of expenditure
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • appropriation: a legislative act authorizing the expenditure of a designated amount of public funds for a specific purpose.
    Category: Politics

  • appropriations: ..budget is refferred to the appropriations committee of the House of Representatives..which..reviews the estimates and holds hearings to permit agency officials to explain and justify the proposed expe nditures.
    Category: Politics

  • approval: project that has been approved by the EBRD`s.Board of Directors.Approval does not always lead to signing
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • approved: accepted as suitable by a competent committee, board, or organisation designated by those adopting the rules; applies to permissible explosives, safety lamps, motors, etc
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • approved: acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • approved: accepted by a Contracting State as suitable for a particular purpose.
    Category: Law

  • approving: a person who must express formally agreement with a measure, a project, etc.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • approximate: reasoning with imprecise,uncertain or conflicting data
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • approximate: an approximation of a full hybrid model of a bipolar transistor in which elements with only a small effect on the operation of the transistor are omitted
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • approximate: a Poebing weir,in which the diameter of the disc is equal to the channel width
    Category: Building industry

  • approximate: temperature scale...with its zero shifted with respect to the absolute temperature scale, so that the absolute zero temperature coincides with - 273 deg. C.
    Category: The cosmos

  • approximation: a result that is not exact but is near enough to the correct result for some specified purpose
    Category: Mathematics

  • apraxia: loss of ability to perform purposeful movements,in the absence of paralysis or sensory disturbance,caused by lesions in the cortex.
    Category: Medicine

  • apricot: a juicy soft fruit,smaller than a peach,of an orange-yellow color
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apron: concrete hard standing in front of the terminal building where the planes are parked for loading and offloading (hard standing-any hard surface suitablefor parking vehicles); 2)a hard-surfaces area in front of or around an aircrafthanger, terminal building etc., upon which aircraft can stand
    Category: Transport

  • apron: a sloping surface used as a log slide,either on land or in the sluice-way of a dam
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apron: A curved piece of timber fayed on the after side of the stem from the head down to the deadwood.It provides the necessary surface for securing the hood ends of the planking and strengthens the stem.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apron: part of the surface of an airfield just in front of hangars or other facilities for storing aircraft while on the ground
    Category: Transport

  • apron: a defined area, on a land aerodrome, intended to accomodate aircraft for purposes of loading or unloading passengers or cargo, refuelling, parking or maintenance.
    Category: Building industry

  • apron: long celluloid or plastic band with dimpled edges in contact with which the film is wrapped around the reel of one type of 35 mm. developping tank.
    Category: General

  • apron: a narrow strip of material,generally galvanised iron sheeting,for guiding the oleoresin from the face into the cup
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • apron: a cloth or plate of flexible material which provides a seal to prevent loss of stock as it flows onto the wire
    Category: Printing and publishing

  • apron: a protective structure e.g.of stone round bridge trestles in a stream used for floating,or a pavement constructed at the lower side of a dam wall so as to protect the foundations from erosion
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries



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