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A-bracket: Twin screw vessels have propeller shafts extending outside the hull of the ship forward of the stern post.Such shafts are supported by a bearing in an A-bracket near the propeller,so called because the bracket resembles the letter A lying on its side.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

arrack: spirit obtained from rice or palm wine
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

backtracking: a search procedure that makes guesses at various points during problem-solving and returns to a previous point to make another choice when a guess leads to an unacceptable result,usually due to depth-first search failure
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

bracket: an oerhanging member that projects from a structure(as a wall)and is usually designed to support a vertical load or to streng then an angle
Category: Domestic economy

bracket: in a graduated system of taxation,the slab or slice of taxable income subject to a particular rate of income tax or the portion or slice of wealth or capital which is subject to a particular rate of wealth or capital tax
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

bracket: part used expressly to join two parts,to support a part or unit or to give strength to a structure
Category: Transport

bracket: A steel plate,usually of triangular shape,and commonly with a reinforcing flange,used to strengthen or tie beam angles to bulkheads,frames to longitudinals,or any two structural parts which meet at an angle,in order to strenghten the joint against flexure.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

bracket: one,or a pair of,triangular shaped steel frames hinged to the front face of otter board,to which the warp is attached
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

bracket: a support formed of one or several transverse arms fixed to a pole or mast
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

bracketed: an expression that is placed between brackets in an instruction or command,to have it separated from other parts upon execution
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

bracketed: a serif for which the angle or angles between it and the letter stem is filled
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

bracketed: a clause stating that adjustments shall be made in calculating the sum of a claim,by allowing for the trend of the business and other situations which would have affected the business if the material damage had not taken place
Category: Insurance

bracketing: the operation of combining categories or ranges of values of a variable so as to produce a small number of categories
Category: Statistics

bracketing: one of several ways of indicating the hierarchical structure of a sentence
Category: Language and literature

bracketing: a method of adjusting fire in which a bracket is established by obtaining an over and a short along the spotting line,and then successively splitting the bracket in half until a target hit or desiredbracket is obtained
Category: Defense

brackish: water which contains a solution of salt, but which is less salty than sea water
Category: Management in the public and private sector

crack: A narrow streak,running parallel with the warp or weft threads,characterized mainly by the existence of marked space between two adjacent threads.Such streaks may be caused by mechanical defects on the loom,such as a loose crank-arm or crank-shaft bearing,banging-off,a bent reed wire,etc.
Category: Various industries and crafts

crack: a split or failure in the parallel or radiused portion of a drawn cup
Category: Iron and steel industries

crack: fissure that appears on the surface of a piece when it is going to break
Category: Transport

crack: any fracture which has not parted
Category: The cosmos

crack: The breaking down of higher-boiling hydrocarbons into lower-boiling ones by subjecting them to high temperatures
Category: The chemical industry

crack: concrete has a low tensile strength; hence it cracks rather easily.
Category: Standards, measures and testing

cracked: Gas which is a by-product of cracking processes. It is often used as raw material for the manufacture of chemicals; Gaseous fuels that are produced from liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons by thermal or thermal-catalytic conversion (1)
Category: Management in the public and private sector

cracked: eggs with a damaged,unfractured shell,but with intact membranes
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

cracked: A tight selvedge in which the warp threads have been broken during processing.
Category: Various industries and crafts

cracked: in thin arch dams,applied radial loads tend to produce tension in the cantilevers.Since ordinary concrete usually is not assumed to have a tensile strength more than a specified value(say,300 p.s.i.),when thin specified value of stress is exceeded,all of the cantilevers in tension may be assumed to be cracked to the point of zero stress,so that the uncracked sections are entirely in compression
Category: Building industry

cracked: 1)transverse cracks on the edges of sheet or strips; 2)edges which have become broken during hot rolling due to overheating or burning
Category: Iron and steel industries

cracked: olives marinées dans le sel, les piments et les épices et que l`on fend pour faciliter la pénétration de la saumure.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

cracker: (when Boston police became aware that LSD was being put on sugar cubes, users switched to putting it on animal crackers - 1964)..are..LSD-25. Obsolete.
Category: Medicine

cracking: cracking : cracking caused in metal by the immediate or delayed effects of heating or coolino
Category: Iron and steel industries

cracking: a breakdown in which the cracks penetrate at least one coat and which may be expected to result ultimately in complete failure
Category: The chemical industry

cracking: splitting,thermal decomposition often using a catalyst,of petroleum
Category: Various industries and crafts

cracking: The breaking down of higher-boiling hydrocarbons into lower-boiling ones by subjecting them to high temperatures
Category: The chemical industry

crackle: a spurious noise perceived as a series of crackling sounds when reproducing a disk
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

crackle: an irregular rough noise radiated by high powered jets
Category: Physics

crackling: abrupt changes of an electrode current caused by varying insulation or varying contact resistance
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

cracky: A defect in woven fabrics in which fine weftway cracks or ribs(cracky weft)give the appearance of`lines`distributed randomly across the whole or part of the width of the fabric.These are usually associated with a slightly uneven pick spacing and are caused by varying friction between the warp and weft resulting in an uneven beat-up.
Category: Various industries and crafts

first-track: the length of rail right-of-way occupied by one or more tracks
Category: Building industry

half-track: a motor vehicle equipped with half-tracks in the rear and wheels in the front,esp.a vehicle lightly armoured for military purposes
Category: Transport

hydrocracking: catalytic cracking in the presence of added hydrogen
Category: The chemical industry

hydrocracking: A process in which heavy distillate hydrocarbons are converted under hydrogen pressure into products of lower molecular weight, in the presence of an acidic catalyst(2)
Category: The chemical industry

hydrocracking: The cracking of petroleum or its products in the presence of hydrogen.Special catalysts are used as e.g.platinum on a solide base of mixed silica + alumina.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

microcrack: a crack of microscopic dimensions
Category: The chemical industry

microcracking: cracks formed in composites when thermal stresses locally exceed the strength of the matrix
Category: General

multitrack: a recording process in which several longitudinal and parallel tracks are recorded on the same tape
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

multitrack: a system which on a medium such as a magnetic tape provides two or more recording paths,parallel to each other,and which may carry either related or unrelated programme material
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

racetrack: types of delivery devices fall broadly into four groups: carousels or rotating turntables, -- or endless conveyors, linear conveyors, linear counters.
Category: Transport

rack: an arbitrary number of motions of the machine, used as a basis for the calculation of machine speed, productivity, and lace quality. Leavers rack,1920 motions; furnishing rack 720 full motions; bobbinet rack,240 holes (12 or 20 motions per hole); warp rack,480 motions
Category: Various industries and crafts

rack: gear with teeth spaced along a straight line,and suitable for straight-line motion
Category: Mechanical engineering

rack: framework inside aircraft for accomodation of avionic equipment
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

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