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actinic-ray: 2)conjunctivitis resulting from exposure to ultraviolet rays
Category: Medicine

affray: An offence against life and limb in which a person participates in a brawl involving three or more persons which results in the death of or assault causing injury to another.
Category: Defense

array: a mechanically integrated assembly of modules or panels together with support structure but exclusive of foundation, tracking, thermal control and other components, as required, to form a dc power producing unit
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

array: in the most general sense,an explicit display of a set of observations.More usually,the term denotes some special arrangement of the observations,e.g.in order of magnitude
Category: Statistics

array: the series of classes derived from a superordinated class by one step of subdivision
Category: Documentation and information

array: an orderly arrangement of items of data,so constructed that the relative position of an element of an array has a relevance to the operation to be performed on that element
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

array: an ordered assembly of aerial elements so spaced and excited as to give the array specific directional radiating properties
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

array: a series of items arranged in a meaningful pattern
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

array: in programming languages:An aggregate that consists of data objects,with identical attributes,each of which may be uniquely referenced by subscripting
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

array: an arrangement of raw numerical data in ascending or descending order of magnitude.
Category: Statistics

Bragg-Gray: ideal cavity containing gas within a solid medium,the cavity being sufficiently small not to disturb the distribution of either primary or secondary radiation in the medium
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Bragg-Gray: principle which enables the absorbed dose in irradiated material to the determined by inserting a small cavity ionisation chamber at the point of interest
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Bragg-Gray: an ionisation chamber used for determining the absorbed dose,e.g.of X or gamma rays,in a medium.Its characteristics,i.e.sensitive volume,gas pressure,nature and thickness of the walls,are such that the conditions defining the Bragg-Gray cavity are met in practice
Category: Standards, measures and testing

braying: process of piece washing
Category: Various industries and crafts

fraying: Abrasion of the bark and wood of stems by deer,e.g.when seeking to remove the velvet from their maturing antlers or when demarcating their breeding areas.
Category: Botany and zoology

gamma-ray: an analytical technique whereby radionuclides are identified and measured by determining the energies and intensities of the gamma rays they emit during radioactive decay
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

gray: in radioactivity, the unit of absorbed dose, corresponding to the energy absorption of 1 joule per kg of tissue; it is equal to 100 rads, the old unit that it has replaced
Category: Management in the public and private sector

overspray: in spray painting,the spray material that does not adhere to the object being sprayed
Category: The chemical industry

person-gray: unit of population exposure obtained by summing individual dose-equivalent values for all people in the exposed population.Thus,the number of persons-gray contributed by 1 person exposed to l Gy is equal to that contributed by 100,000 people each exposed to 10 micro Gy
Category: Statistics

ray: a ribbon-like aggregate of cells extending radially in the xylem and phloem
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

ray: A ribbon-like aggregate of storage and conducting cells extending radially in the xylem and phloem.
Category: Botany and zoology

Rayleigh: theory for lift of inclined-plane wing; streamlines travel direct to surface, where they are brought to rest, losing all relative energy
Category: Physics

Rayleigh: a disk on a torsion suspension designed to measure the sound particle velocity in a fluid
Category: Physics

Rayleigh: a surface wave associated with the free boundary of a solid or liquid such that a surface particle describes an ellipse whose major axis is normal to the surface,and whose centre is a point on the surface prior to its disturbance
Category: Physics

Rayleigh: tests of uniformity on the circle and on the sphere,due to Rayleigh(1919)
Category: Statistics

Rayleigh: a phase-interference fading caused by multipath,and which may be approximated by the Rayleigh distribution
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Rayleigh: non-dimensional ratio(Ra)of the product of the buoyancy forces and heat advection to the product of viscous forces and heat conduction in a fluid
Category: Physics

Rayleigh: in a graphic representation of the flux density field strength relation in a material,a region near the origin within which the magnetic flux density can be described by a quadratic function of the field strength(mathematical formula,see IEV),where(mathematical formula,see IEV)is the Rayleigh hysteresis coefficient
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Rayleigh: equation that indicates loss of Pitot pressure caused by presence of normal shock
Category: Physics

Rayleigh: the diffusion of radiation in the course of its passage through a medium containing particles the size of which is small compared with the wavelength of the radiation
Category: Physics

Rayleigh: approximate form of Planck`s law,obtained by neglecting in the formula for this law the terms of higher order in the series expansion of the exponential.This approximation is valid when(mathematical formula,see IEV)is sufficiently large
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Rayleigh: a scattering of the incident radiation through a fibre inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength caused by various heterogeneities in the fibre
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

Rayleigh: a mathematical statement of the frequency distribution of random variables,for the case where the variables have the same variance and are not correlated
Category: News-systems and communications

Rayleigh: a distillation where in the composition of the residue changes continuously during the course of the distillation(Elsevier`s dictionary of nuclear science and technology)
Category: Chemistry

Rayleigh: phase interference fading due to multipath which is approximated by the Rayleigh distribution
Category: News-systems and communications

Rayleigh: law of scattering valid for small particles of size up to about 0.1 the wavelength of light,that predicts that the scattered light is proportional to the sixth power of the particle diameter and inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength of the light used
Category: Physics

Rayleigh: fading in cellular systems:Rayleigh in macro and Ricean in micro cells
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

RAYON: a textile fibre made of modified cellulose (c.e. cotton lonters or wood pulp)
Category: Various industries and crafts

Raytheon: the reflector housing is an elliptical cylinder
Category: Iron and steel industries

Raytheon-laser: the reflector housing is an elliptical cylinder
Category: Iron and steel industries

spaced-array: a technique whereby the microphones recording a stereo program are placed some distance apart and in front of the ensemble or individual.This allows timing,as well as intensity,cues to be reproduced
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

spray: ensemble of water droplets torn by the wind from the surface of an extensive body of water,generally from the crests of waves,and carried up a short distance into the air.
Category: The cosmos

spray: jet of extinguishing agent discharged from the nozzle in dispersed form
Category: Technical and industry in general

sprayed: a type of insulation formed by spraying fine fibrous material on to a surface previously covered with an adhesive; also by simultaneously spraying a chemical component and a foaming agent
Category: Mechanical engineering

sprayed: mold made by spraying molten metal onto a master until a shell of predetermined thickness is achieved,the shell being then removed and backed up with plaster,cement,casting resin,or other suitable material
Category: General

sprayer: an apparatus that enables the liquid to be delivered in the form of a spray
Category: Iron and steel industries

sprayer: apparatus for applying liquid insecticides or fungicides as fine droplets to the vines
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

spraying: application of liquid insecticides or fungicides to the vines as very fine droplets or spray
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

spraying: spraying is the most hygienic method of cleaning carcases and if properly carried out will significantly reduce bacterial numbers
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

sprayproof: device so fitted that in normal conditions it allows only a negligible quantity of water to penetrate
Category: Transport

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