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  • 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

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  • Apprehensive: the period during which normal rates of insurances for riot and civil commotion are no longer valid because disturbances are occurring or are thought impending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

  • back-pressure: the pressure due to downstream restrictions or from change of the ratio of the input and output impedance in a device
    Category: Physics

  • backspread: a ratio spread established by selling options at a lower strike and buying more options at a higher strike
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • bandspreading: a facility in receiving circuits whereby expanded-scale tuning can be effected over a selected narrow band of frequencies,the main tuning being either continuous or switched within the range of the tuned circuit
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compreg: improved wood in which the cell walls have been impregnated with synthetic resin and compressed so as to reduce materially the wood`s shrinking and swelling,and increase its density and strength properties
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • comprehension: information element code
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • comprehensive: in planning,constuction and management,the inclusion of all socially pertinent purposes(or uses)on an interrelated basis,and all economically relevant means of providing for them
    Category: Building industry

  • comprehensive: covering a matter under consideration completely or nearly completely: accounting for or comprehending all or virtually all pertinent considerations..
    Category: Language and literature

  • Compressibility: the relative variation of the volume with pressure; depends upon the process to which a fluid is subjected
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • Compressibility: function of the volumetric gas shrinkage with increasing pressure(2)
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • compressible: the flow of fluid under conditions such that its density changes significantly
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • compressible: the flow of fluid under conditions such that its density changes significantly(Elsevier`s dictionary of nuclear science and technology)
    Category: Physics

  • compressible: sealing material of compressible consistency, i.e. plastic or elastic; e.g. braids of tallowed hemp
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • compression: in a refrigerating system, a process by which the refrigerant pressure is increased
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • compression: the process of making the louder passages a bit quieter(and sometimes,making the quiet ones a bit louder)in order to reduce background noise and increase the effective range of the station
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • compression: stress applied to a body in such a way that at any point there is a pressure of same value and direction
    Category: Physics

  • compression: the process of reducing the ratio between signals derived from white portions of the picture and those derived from black portions of the picture.
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compression: process of reducing the ratio between signals derived from white portions of the picture and those derived from black portions of the picture
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compression: In electronics:reduction of the effective gain of a device at one level of signal with respect to the gain at a lower level of signal so that weak signal components will not be lost in background and strong signals will not overload the system.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • compression: automatic reduction,according to a specified law,of the variation of the mean level of a signal,the mean being taken over a period of time specified in each case
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compression: the process of compacting digital data, images and text. Software algorithms search the raster image to build a greatly condensed (from a file storage perspective) format of the image
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • compression: an alteration of tones in a received picture in which a portion of the tone range of the original occupies less of the tone range in the received picture.
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • compressional: a wave in an elastic medium that causes an element of the medium to change its volume without undergoing rotation
    Category: Physics

  • compressional: a form of wave-motion in which the particle displacement at each point in a material is parallel to the direction of propagation
    Category: Physics

  • compressive: any force tending to compress a body
    Category: Physics

  • compressive: the capacity of a body to sustain compressive loading
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • compressive: maximum strength set as limit for a piece before it fails because of a considerable degree of compression
    Category: Transport

  • compressive: maximum value of a mortar failure determined by exerting a force in compression
    Category: Building industry

  • compressive: the external equal and opposite forces subjected to a body tending to shorten it in the direction of the forces
    Category: Physics

  • compressor: a basic item of equipment for mecanically increasing the pressure of a gas
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • compressor: a device for reducing the variations in signal amplitude in a transmission system according to a specified law
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • compressor: device or brake, actuated by hand, in a chain pipe that governs the movement of the anchor chain.
    Category: Transport

  • compressor: folders filed on edge in drawers retained in a vertical position by means of compressors or follower blocks.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • comprest: a glazed semi-vitreous tile not mounted on paper; used around sinks, and in bath-rooms
    Category: Building industry

  • counterpressure: pressure applied to a part or the whole of the body surface to oppose an internally applied pressure,as exemplified in the anti-g suit and pressure suits
    Category: Physics

  • deprecate: a term which should be avoided according to a standard
    Category: Language and literature

  • deprecated: a term which should be avoided according to a standard
    Category: Language and literature

  • depreciable: assets,the reduction in value of which resulting from usage,passing of time or obsolescence,should normally be covered by depreciation
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods



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