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  • aerodrome: a defined area on land or water (including any buildings, installations and equipment) intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and movement of aircraft; any area in a Member State which is open for commercial air transport operations
    Category: Transport

  • aerodrome: A defined area on land or water,including any buildings,installations and equipment,intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival,departure and movement of aircraft.
    Category: Transport

  • aerodynamics: the study of the motion of gases and the reaction of that motion on bodies in contact with the gas; for example, the passage of rockets through the atmosphere.
    Category: Physics

  • astrodome: a transparent dome,with known optical characteristics,through which astronomical observation can be made
    Category: The cosmos

  • blepharodiastasis: 2)excessive separation of the eyelids
    Category: Medicine

  • Broderick: a blockboard roofing panel faced with metal
    Category: Building industry

  • broderie: variety of embroidery with small holes or openwork
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • Brodmann: classification of brain regions(proposed by K.Brodmann 1868-1918)based on cytoarchitectonic features.The distribution of neurons which differ in shape and size allows a classification of the cortex in about 50 areas.In much cases the different areas have also functionally different tasks
    Category: General

  • by-product: product of minor importance developed simultaneously with another product in a manufacturing process or a working operation; a secondary product obtained from the same raw materials during the manufacture of a main product or produced from residual materials
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • by-product: by-products are technologically linked products;a secondary or additional product; something produced (as in manufacturing) in addition to the principal product
    Category: General

  • by-products: substances which are formed during a chemical reaction and which remain at the end of the reaction or process
    Category: The chemical industry

  • dextroduction: rotation of an eye toward the right
    Category: Medicine

  • electrode: that part of a semiconductor device providing the electrical contact between a specified region and the lead to its terminal
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrode: a conducting element in contact with an electrolyte
    Category: Chemistry

  • electrode: a conducting element that performs one or more of the functions of emitting or collecting electrons or ions,or controlling their movement by an electric field
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrode: a conducting part intended as a conducting interface with a medium of different conductivity
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrodecantation: concentration of aqueous colloidal dispersion by passing an electric current through it
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • electrodeposition: method of paint application in which an article to be coated is one of the electrodes in a tank of water-thinned paint
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrodissolution: the process of dissolving a substance from an electrode by electrolysis
    Category: Chemistry

  • electrodynamic: an adjective applied to the action or force exerted between electric currents.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrodynamic: an energy meter which operates by the rotation of the moving coils of an electrodynamic measuring element
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • electrodynamic: decreasing amplitude of pointer oscillation of an electrical meter
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrodynamic: an instrument which operates by the interaction of a current in a movable coil with a current in one or more fixed coils
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • electrodynamic: microphone in which the electrical output results from the motion of coil in a magnetic field,the motion of this coil being derived from the diaphragm of the microphone
    Category: Medicine

  • electrodynamic: a cutter head in which the displacements of the recording stylus are generated by the motion of a coil in a magnetic field
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrodynamic: a pick-up head which for its operation depends upon the motion of a coil in a magnetic field
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • electrodynamics: that part of science which deals with forces between conductors carrying currents.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • end-product: the final product of a manufacturing process
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • erode: destroy gradually
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • erodibility: the relative ease with which one soil erodes as compared with other soil under the same conditions; this applies to both sheet and gully erosion
    Category: The cosmos

  • erodible: a soil,for example,that is relatively easily eroded is referred to as 'erodible',or 'susceptible to erosion'
    Category: The cosmos

  • eurodollar: Eurodollar:US currency held in banks outside the United States,mainly in Europe,and commonly used for settling international transactions.Some securities are issued in Eurodollars with a promise to pay interest in dollars deposited in foreign bank accounts
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • gyrodyne: a helicopter which derives its lift from a single power-driven rotor, while torque correction and forward propulsion are provided by an offset propeller. During forward flight, the rotor may provide autorotative lift; lift may also be provided by wings
    Category: Transport

  • Hermaphroditic: having both male and female reproductive organs in one individual
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • heteroduplex: DNA generated during genetic recombination by base pairing between complementary single strands from different parental duplex molecules.2.Double-stranded nucleic acid in which each chain has a different origin and therefore is not perfectly complementary; e.g. the hybrid molecule generated by in vitro annealing of eukaryotic mRNA with its DNA
    Category: Medicine

  • heterodyne: a steady,high-pitched audio tone heard in an ordinary amplitude-modulation radio receiver under certain conditions when two signals that differ slightly in carrier frequency enter the receiver and heterodyne to produce an audio beat
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • heterodyne: a microwave repeater that receives an attenuated radio signal,shifts it down to an intermediate frequency(generally 70 MHz),amplifies the intermediate-frequency signal,then shifts it up again to the desired microwave frequency for retransmission
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • heterodyne: a detector which converts phase changes in the optic carrier to phase changes in the optic intensity
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • heterodyne: a frequency meter in which a known frequency,which may be adjustable or fixed,is heterodyned with an unknown frequency to produce a zero beat or an audio-frequency signal whose value is measured by other means
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • heterodyne: an amplifier which works on the heterodyne principle,i.e.,converts the incoming TV signal to a lower frequency,amplifies this,and reconverts it to a normal TV frequency
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • heterodyne: a microwave receiver-transmitter in which the received signal is amplified at an intermediate frequency and retransmitted without being demodulated to baseband.Used for long-haul transmission
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • heterodyning: the mixing of an electromagnetic wave of one frequency with a wave of another frequency to produce one or more additional frequencies
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • hydrodynamic: science and technology which treats of the laws governing movement of liquids and forces which oppose this movement
    Category: Physics

  • hydrodynamic: losses due to the motion of the fluid
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • hydrodynamic: The difference of levels between the surface of a water strem flowing over a dam and its natural undammed-up surface level
    Category: Physics

  • hydrodynamic: in experimental stress analysis,the evaluation of stresses by analogy with ideal and viscous incompressible fluids
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • hydrodynamics: science and technology which treats of the laws governing movement of liquids and forces which oppose this movement
    Category: Physics

  • interelectrode: the capacitance between stated electrodes or groups of electrodes under stated conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • introducing: a person or organisation that solicits or accepts orders to buy or sell futures contracts or commodity options but does not accept money or other assets from customers to support such orders
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • introduction: a short essay or statement, usually being a general survey of the subject preparing the reader for the treatment to follow, of a commendatory nature, and written by an authority in the field with which the book deals. Its order in the PRELIMINARIES (q.v.),is after the Preface and immediately before the first page of text. Sometimes it is the first chapter; included in the title of a book, it indicates that it is an introductory book on the subject, intended for students, and possibly a popular treatment, but not as elementary as a PRIMER.
    Category: Printing and publishing



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