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  • anti-rolling: Tank or compartment part-filled with water,and dimensioned so that the period of surging of the water athwartships across the tank coincides with the natural rolling period of the vessel.Such a device abstracts rolling energy from the vessel,and so reduces the amplitude of rolling.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • anti-rolling: in aerostats,a wire to prevent rolling of any component relative to the hull or envelope
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • cold-rolling: implies reduction in thickness by rolling at room temperature. The result is hardening of the metal...the production of sheet of uniform and closely controlled thickness.
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • controllability: the capability of an aircraft or similar vehicle to respond to control,especially in direction or attitude
    Category: Transport

  • Controlled: a balance tab which is controllable in flight
    Category: Transport

  • Controlled: a) (USA) the planned application of fire to natural fuels, including slash, with intent to confine it to a predetermined area; b) any deliberate application of fire (a controlled burn) to an area where control is exercised in some particular respect (s)
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • Controlled: the base region of a semiconductor-controlled rectifier to which a gate terminal is connected
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Controlled: Unit equipped with a diesel engine controlled by the controlling unit.
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • Controlled: an area subject to special rules for the purposes of protection against ionizing radiation an to which acces is controlled
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • Controlled: an area where any deliberate application of fire is exercised
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • Controlled: the controlled irretrievable loss or gain of a set of consecutive digit positions in a digital signal to enable the signal to accord with a different rate
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Controlled: the irretrievable loss or gain of a set of consecutive digit positions in a digital signal,in which both the magnitude and instant of that loss or gain are controlled,to enable the signal to accord with a rate different from its own
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • Controlled: a test designed to control or balance out the effects of environmental differences and to minimize the chance of bias in the selection,treatment,and analysis of test samples
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • controlled: An area subject to special rules for the purpose of protection against ionising radiation or of preventing the spread of radioactive contamination,to which access is controlled
    Category: Medicine

  • controlled: the price on which legal measures are taken to stop it from rising too fast
    Category: Economics

  • controlled: a mine which after laying can be controlled by the user,to the extent of making the mine safe or live,or to fire the mine
    Category: Defense

  • controlled: a harbour or anchorage at which entry and departure,assignment of berths,and traffic within the harbour or anchorage are controlled by military authorities
    Category: Defense

  • controller: a) an element or group of elements that takes data proportional to the difference between input and output of a device or system and converts this data into power that is used to restore agreement between input and output; b) a module or specific device which operates automatically to regulate a controlled variable or system
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • controller: a functional block containing an amplifier,power supplies,and possibly position-control electronics for operating a servomotor or step motor
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • controller: A unit fitted with control levers,buttons,etc.,as appropriate.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • controller: part of the lower tester FT and PT
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • controller: a control column,lever,knob or similar device by which a person controls a machine or system
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • controller: a device which senses a change of fluid state and automatically makes adjustments to maintain the state of the fluid between predetermined limits,e.g.pressures,temperatures,etc.
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • controller: an official in a public transport control office,responsible for the supervision and regulation of services
    Category: Transport

  • controller: the manually operated power switch group especially used in the case of light traction
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • controller: in the controlling equipment of a feedback control system:an element that combines two or more functions of the controlling system
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • controller: a piece of equipment which responds to deviation from condition requirement by initiating an appropriate operation
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • controller: ..will be capable of evaluating financial and operational controls in all areas of the corporate organization and of working effectively with all levels of management.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • controller: an American term for a senior executive responsible for maintaining records, reports and control of internal finances.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • Controlling: the parameters,such as format,medium,signal specifications,required for the operation of automatic equipment used to facilitate the international exchange of recorded television programmes
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • Controlling: Unit from which the locomotive engineer controls the diesel engines of the working units.
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • Controlling: the least depth available for navigation; controls the draft of vessels using the area
    Category: The cosmos

  • Controlling: a block of shares representing ownership of more than 50 % of a corporation`s voting shares.A much smaller interest,owned individually or by a group in combination,can be controlling if the other shares are widely dispersed and not actively voted
    Category: Economics

  • Controlling: a bridge between the inlet and outlet steering edges, e.g. in a reciprocating piston pump
    Category: Physics

  • Controlling: a system comprising all the elements which control the controlled system
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Controlling: the switch that determines which glare resolution should apply to a given trunk group upon the dual seizure condition
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Controlling: a repeater station which originates signals for remotely controlling the characteristics of repeaters in other repeater stations
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • Controlling: a company which,by reason of shareholdings or otherwise,is able to direct the management of another company which,legally,is a separate entity
    Category: Law

  • Controlling: an outgoing operator in the controlling exchange who operates the international circuit
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • Controlling: the exchange which is responsible for setting up calls and decides the order in which they are to be connected
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • Controlling: controlling the reduction in height of the solder belts in a flip chip processing operation
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Controlling: the holding by an individual or entity of such a proportion of the capital of a company as allows him or it an effective control of the management`s decisions
    Category: Economics

  • Controlling: the government department in control of the operations of insurers in a country
    Category: Insurance

  • controlling: a controlling device is one which automatically initiates action of a system which controls conditions attending the normal operation of the turbine
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • controlling: a controlling air damper regulates the air entering from the main wind box into the extension grate wind box
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • controlling: implies measurement of accomplishment of events against plans and correction of deviations to assure attainment of objectives according to plans.
    Category: Economics

  • controlling: maintaining a clear view of the entire organizational operation and...comparing the actions and results with assignments and expectations.
    Category: Labour

  • diffusion-controlled: silicon-oxide growth by a thermal process in which oxygen diffusivity through the oxide is low and is the controlling factor
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • ductor-roller: the roller which is in intermittent contact with the fountain roller and transfers ink to the distribution system of the press.On a lithographic press it is also the roller which transfers the fountain solution to the dampening rollers
    Category: Printing and publishing

  • electronically-controllable: an optical element that enables other optical elements to be coupled to,or uncoupled from,each other,in accordance with an applied electrical signal
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy



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