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abridged: a)extracts from or summaries of a text chosen and presented in such a way as to give an abbreviated overall picture b)non-evaluative content of a document,which includes the essential data and is intended substitude for reading the original
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

abridged: a shortened version of a work,retaining the essential character and theme of the original
Category: Printing and publishing

abridged: for arch dams it is used for preliminary design work by making use of tables and curves for determining deflections of arches.Modified assumptions are made with regard to foundation in this analysis which neglect(i)differences in elasticity of rock and concrete,(ii)the angle which the plane of the abutment makes with a vertical plane,and(iii)certain secondary effects
Category: Building industry

agedridge: ridge which has undergone considerable weathering. These ridges are best described as undulations
Category: The cosmos

bridge: ship`s structure, topside and unusually forward, that contains control and visual communication stations
Category: Transport

bridge: a form of dental prosthesis which replaces one or more lost or missing teeth,being supported and held in position by attachments to adjacent teeth
Category: Medicine

bridge: a local area network internetworking device that filters and passes data between LANs based on layer 2(medium access control layer)information
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

bridge: In a system of measurement,the instrument in which part or all of a bridge circuit is used in measuring one or more electrical quantities.In relation to a fully electronic stringed instrument,the bridge converts the mechanical vibrations produced by the strings into electrical signals.
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

bridge: annular deposit of slag and agglomerated metallic materials forming on the cupola furnace wall above the tuyeres
Category: Iron and steel industries

bridge: an internal double wall separating the melting end and working end of a tank furnace and through which they are linked by means of the throat
Category: Various industries and crafts

bridge: an artificial more or less level surfaced structure spanning a body of water or a depression in the land,often carrying a road or railway
Category: Transport

bridge: An erection amidships above the main deck the top of which forms the bridge deck.It affords a favourable position for living quarters and provides a raised platform for navigating purposes and protection for engine and boiler room openings.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

bridge: a functional unit that interconnects two local area networks that use the same logical link control protocol but may use different medium access control protocols
Category: General

bridge: bridge: A structure to carry traffic across a gap. Its substructure ( or ) infrastructure consists of an abutment at each end and intermediate piers if the bridge has more than one span. Its superstructure may be of massive construction in the form of a concrete, masonry or brick arch or in simple cases wooden beams: otherwise of steel or reinforced concrete slabs, built-up girders with cross girders, etc. Bridges are divisible also into over-bridges and under-bridges and according to whether they carry a railway or have a solid deck ( or ) floor for road traffic, or are footbridges. A multi-span bridge over a valley may be called a viaduct, or if it carries a water channel may be part of an acqueduct, but these terms are not precise
Category: Building industry

bridge: that part of an overhead crane consisting of girders,trucks,end ties,walkway and drive mechanism which carries the trolley and travels in a direction parallel to the runway
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

bridge: a device,or set of devices that interconnect two or more networks enabling data transfers to be made between them.When the networks offer similar services,the gateway may simply serve to route packets or messages from one network to another.When the networks differ(i.e.in packet size,connection service,etc.)a gateway performs extensive protocol translation services also
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

bridge: a form of dental prosthesis which replaces one or more lost or missing teeth, being supported and held in position by attachments to adjacent teeth.
Category: Medicine

bridge: a section of the stage floor which can be raised or lowered.
Category: General

bridged: said of a cupola furnace in which a bridge has formed
Category: Iron and steel industries

bridged-T: (graphic figure,see IEV)
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

bridgehead: an area of ground,in a territory occupied or threatened by the enemy,which must be held or at least controlled,so as to permit the continuous embarkation,landing or crossing of troops and material,and/or to provide manoeuvre space requisite for subsequent operations
Category: Defense

Bridgetown: capital of Barbados
Category: The cosmos

cambridge: a local area ring transmitting bits from one station to another at a raw bit rate of 10 Mbps
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

cartridge: an endless loop device mainly used for broadcasting short sequences,for example,station identification,or for short and medium programme inserts
Category: News-systems and communications

cartridge: the device that converts the mechanical output of the stylus to an electrical signal for the preamplifier
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

cartridge: an absorber,other than a control element,with any necessary container,for insertion in a reactor to irradiate material,or to limit reactivity or to change the flux distribution
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

cartridge: a cylindrical,waterproof,paper shell,filled with high explosive and closed at both ends
Category: Mining

cartridge: a unit of nuclear fuel in a single can
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

cartridge: fig. 18-4E....the cartridge-operated type..of dry chemical hand extinguisher..in which the expellant gas (carbon dioxide) is contained in a small -- until it is released into the extinguisher shell..
Category: Management in the public and private sector

Dethridge: a volumetric meter widely used as an outlet in Australia.It consists of an undershot water wheel operating with small clearances in a specially shaped reinforced concrete flume.The quantity of water passing through the meter over a period of time is recorded directly in acre-feet by a specially geared revolution counter linked to the axle of the wheel.Thus,a direct equitable basis of charges is provided
Category: Building industry

half-bridge: a device linking LANs over a low-speed link such as a telephone line or X.25 link
Category: News-systems and communications

over-bridge: a structure including its approaches which allows one road to pass above another road(or an obstacle)
Category: Transport

ridge: region of the atmosphere in which the pressure is high relative to the surrounding region at the same level; term synonymous with 'ridge', though usually applied to a fast-moving ridge between two depressions or troughs
Category: The cosmos

ridge: natural or artificial hillock. Artificial banks are sometimes constructed with the slope oriented so as to secure maximum sunlight for the vines planted thereon
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

ridge: a line or wall of broken ice forced up by pressure. May be fresh or weathered. The submerged volume of broken ice under a ridge, forced downwards by pressure, is termed an ice keel
Category: The cosmos

ridge: strip of land between vines in the row which is not cultivated by ordinary mechanical implements
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

ridged: ice piled haphazardly one piece over another in the form of ridges or walls. Usually found in first-year ice
Category: The cosmos

ridged: an area in which much ridged ice with similar characteristics has formed
Category: The cosmos

ridger: an implement for ridging anywhere in the field
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

ridges: 1.the saddle that divides the terrain into two or more gently sloping planes, making irrigation and distribution of water possible on both sides of the canal aligned more or less along it. The ridges are called 'main ridges' if their slope is generally the least of all other possible ridges in the terrain; the other being called ' secondary riders'2.see 'back furrow'
Category: Building industry

unabridged: the complete,unchanged,text of a publication
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

under-bridge: a structure including its approaches which allows one road to pass under another road or an obstacle
Category: Transport

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