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  • attributable: the account showing a part of the profit on long-term contracts; the income can only be recognised if the completion of the contract is certain and there is sufficient evidence that the contract will generate an overall profit; usually, the share of profit recognised is calculated on a cost basis; the account is subdivided into contracts in progress and finished contracts
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • attribute: in the context of message handling,an information item,a component of an attribute list,that describes a user or distribution list and that can also locate it in relation to the physical or organizational structure of MHS(or the network underlying it)
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • attribute: a characteristic quality,other than type or content
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • attribute: attribute:one of the characteristics of an entity(or relationship)
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • attribute: a qualitative,in contrast to a quantitative(variable)characteristic of an individual or group
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • attribute: a perceptible characteristic
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • attributive: an analytical relation indicating that something is characterized by something
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • attributive: standard pattern used to identity rhetorical predicates by which detailed information about one particular aspect of a concept is provided
    Category: General

  • blue-ribbon: a handwritten and independently designed program that is written by a programmer and so checked that no mistakes or bugs are contained therein
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • bribery: A group of offences which includes the bribery of Swiss public officials and foreign public officials.
    Category: Law

  • bribery: An offence against official powers in which a person offers or promises certain other persons(members of public authorities,public officials,experts etc.)a gift or other advantage,or presents or arranges for the presentation of a gift or other advantage to such persons,in order that they fail to perform their official duties or services properly.
    Category: Law

  • bribery: An offence in which a person offers,promises or gives another person,namely a member of a judicial or other authority,a public official,an officially-appointed expert,translator or interpreter,an arbitrator,or a member of the armed forces an advantage which is not due to him,or offers,promises or gives such an advantage to a third party,in order to cause that other person to carry out or fail to carry out an act in relation to his official activity which is contrary to his duty or dependent on his discretion.
    Category: Law

  • caribbean: a regional development bank which channels soft loans and grants for the financing of agricultural and industrial projects in the Caribbean
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • caribbean: a UNDP project sponsored by IFC,with IFC as executing agency.Its services are available to countries which become signatories to the related UNDP project document.Its purpose is to promote small-and medium-scale private enterprises in the Caribbean.It is hoped to expand its services into Central America
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • contribution: that which is contributed to the company by its partners
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • contribution: use of a broadband service or channel for transferring audio or video information to a user for further post-production processing and subsequent distribution
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • contributions: the sum of the social insurance contributions paid in a given year in the Netherlands,expressed as a percentage of net national income at market prices in the year in question
    Category: Medicine

  • contributions: ...the taxation arrangements applicable to; ...contributions of assets between companies of different member states
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • contributory: the values of the ship,its cargo and the cost of transport after the disaster which serve as a basis for average adjustment
    Category: Insurance

  • contributory: social protection schemes that require the payment of contributions,by the protected persons or by other parties on their behalf,in order to secure individual entitlement to benefits
    Category: Statistics

  • contributory: a treaty reinsurance which states that reinsurers shall agree to a fixed share of each risk
    Category: Insurance

  • contributory: any element of the traffic and transport system (i.e. related to the road and its environment, vehicles, traffic or transport organisation, road users, or to interactions between these) that has been identified as taking part in an accident process in such a way that the accident would not have occurred if this element had been different or missing
    Category: Transport

  • crib: a type of construction consisting of pieces of timber fixed together to form bays or cells which are filled with stone or other suitable materials. May be of various shapes. Used for dams, groynes, bank protection, etc.; sometimes called 'pigsty work' or 'pigstying', though the latter is also used for timber work similar to cribwork but without the stone filling
    Category: Building industry

  • crib: a) a raft or a section of a raft; b) a boom of logs
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • crib: metal or wood pieces or framing placed under or against loading to support, stabilise or hold it in position
    Category: Transport

  • crib: a small bedstead with high enclosing usu. slatted sides for a child.
    Category: Medicine

  • cribbing: a) a raft or a section of a raft; b) a boom of logs
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • cribbing: metal or wood pieces or framing placed under or against loading to support, stabilise or hold it in position
    Category: Transport

  • defined-contribution: a type of retirement plan where the ultimate benefits that are paid out depend on the level of contributions made to the plan and the investment performance of those contributions
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • deoxyribonucleic: a polymer of subunits called deoxyribonucleotides which is the primary genetic material of a cell, the material equivalent to genetic information
    Category: Medicine

  • described: a message described by a probe
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • describing: for a non-linear element in steady state with a sinusoidal input signal,the frequency response obtained by taking only the fundamental component of the output signal
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributaries: canals which take off from the main canals or branches and supply water to minors and outlets or turnouts
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • distributed: a group of private automatic branch exchanges located in the different premises of a business,interconnected by high-speed digital links and signalling channels,and possessing a control structure allowing them to appear to the user as a single exchange
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • distributed: a term introduced in connection with the analysis of correlation between time series.It is based on the assumption that a given cause occurring at one point of time will exert its effect at various future points and will thus be 'distributed' over terms which lag behind the original cause
    Category: Mathematics

  • distributed: loading applied over a considerable length or area of a body or structure
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • distributed: a system level architecture in which converters operating from a central power bus provide localised power(and various voltage levels) to individual subassemblies/components
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • distributed: an assembly between two rigid members which enables one to rotate or translate in relation to the other such that the rotation or translation is distributed along the assembly
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributed: a multiprocessor system in which each processor can execute only some of the control functions or can handle only a portion of the total traffic
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributed: the profit distributed to shareholders via dividend payments
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • distributed: a) referring to its topology, a network configuration in which all node pairs are interconnected either directly or by internodal links; by extension, a configuration approaching this full connectivity; b) referring to its function, a network in which each node can perform part of the computing functions and so reduce vulnerability to total system failure
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributed: a winding where the coils occupy several slots per pole
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • distributed: the use of many physically distinct processors in a large system
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • distributed: a control technique whereby portions of a single control process are located in two or more places
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributed: routing strategy based on the regular exchange of routing data between adjacent nodes(as in ARPANET)
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributed: a circuit that can be represented by a combination of an infinite number of ideal elements
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • distributed: A circuit parameter that exists along the length of a waveguide.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • distributed: database whose data is stored at dispersed locations
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributed: logically interconnected data bases or portions of data bases that reside in separate physical locations in a network
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • distributed: amplifier in which the grids of two or more valves are connected to successive sections of an artificial transmission line,the anodes being connected to a similar line
    Category: News-systems and communications



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