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  • ascariasis: parasitic infection that can be an occupational health problem for workers in areas where human feces are deposited in soil rather than in sanitary facilities
    Category: Medicine

  • ascarid: there are many internal parasites,but the--and tapeworm are the main medical threats.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • ascaris: a genus of very large round nematode worms
    Category: Medicine

  • auto-discard: automatic discard by the interpersonal message system(IPMS)of expired or obsolete interpersonal messages(IPMs)delivered to,but not yet received by the user
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • backscatter: the scattering of radiation by material through angles greater than 90º with respect to its initial direction
    Category: Physics

  • backscatter: X-rays scattered by material through angles greater than 90° with respect to the initial direction
    Category: Physics

  • cascade: array of numerous (for example six or more) aerofoils superimposed to handle large gas flow, for example to turn flow round corner of tunnel circuit
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • cascade: a huge volume of spurious error-messages output by a compiler with poor error recovery
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • cascade: a consecutive connection of a series of amplifier stages,filters,etc.,each output being connected to the next input
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • cascade: a series of blades contained either in the impeller or in the diffuser of centrifugal pump
    Category: Physics

  • cascade: array of numerous(for example six or more)aerofoils superimposed to handle large gas flow
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • cascade: a chain of Usenet follow-ups,each adding some trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one,all of which is reproduced in the new message
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • cascade: an arrangement of separative elements or stages connected so as to multiply the separation produced by a single element or stage
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • cascade: a stretch of a stream,intermediate between a rapid and a fall,where the drop in elevation of the stream bed is considerable,but not sufficient to cause the water to fall vertically
    Category: The cosmos

  • cascade: a series of two or more electrolytic cells or tanks so placed that electrolyte from one flows into the next lower in the series,the flow being favoured by difference in elevation of the cells
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • cascade: in aerodynamic theory,a series of airfoils arranged so that the output of one feeds directly into the input of another
    Category: Physics

  • cascading: the free-fall dropping from an aircraft of uncontained,liquid fire retardant or suppressants not in spray form
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • Co-Scan: a microwave scanning-beam landing guidance system developed for the Canadian Department of Transport,initially for STOL aircraft
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • community-scale: any undertaking with at least 1000 employees within the Member States and at least 150 employees in each of at least two Member States
    Category: Law

  • community-scale: any undertaking with at least 1000 employees within the Member States as a whole and at least 150 employees in each of at least two Member States
    Category: Law

  • community-scale: a group of undertakings with the following characteristics: at least 1000 employees within the Member States; at least two group undertakings in different Member States, and at least one group undertaking with at least 150 employees in one Member State and at least one other group undertaking with at least 150 employees in another Member State
    Category: Law

  • confiscation: The confiscation,rendering unusable,or destruction of coins which have been forged,falsified or reduced in value,of forged or falsified paper money,bank notes,official stamps or marks,of falsified weights and measures,scales or other measuring instruments,and of counterfeiting instruments.
    Category: Law

  • discard: to remove (a playing card) from one`s hand to prepare for drawing or to reduce the hand to the number specified.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • discarded: rubber waste in the form of pneumatic tyre, with or without inner tube
    Category: Environment

  • discarded: that part of the catch in the codend which is not retained for sale
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • escalation: progressive use of more harmful drugs
    Category: Medicine

  • escalator: a set of stairs arranged like an endless belt and power driven so that the steps or treads may be made to ascend or descend continuously
    Category: Transport

  • escapage: the discharge escaped through silt excluders/ejectors back into the river/waste channel
    Category: Building industry

  • escape: a control character to signal a change in the meaning of one or more of the characters that follow it
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • escape: term which indicates precautionary measures taken in the use of modern looms to prevent warp breakages
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • escape: an exotic plant or animal later found in the wild
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • escape-covert: any area of vegetation,generally limited in extent,e.g.a thicket,providing a refuge from predators or other enemies for wildlife,particularly game
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • escaped: a fire which has exceeded initial attack capabilities
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • escapement: the mechanism responsible for the spacing before or between characters. Some devices print a character, then escape the width of that character; others escape the width of the next character, then print it
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • escapement: provides the pendulum or balance and hairspring with the necessary energy and ensures that the motion of the train is controlled
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • escaping: a term used in U.A.R.for the percentage of theoretical discharge at the beginning and end of a reach of a canal representing the amount which has not been utilized in the reach and must be allowed in estimating the discharge capacity of the canal downstream of every section
    Category: Building industry

  • escarpment: a more or less continuous line of cliffs or the steep slopes facing in one general direction which are caused by erosion or faulting
    Category: The cosmos

  • helical-scan: a method of recording information on magnetic tape using rotating magnetic heads that create a helical track across the width of the tape
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • markup-scan-in: in Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML),a character class consisting of function characters that restore markup recognition if it was suppressed by the occurrence of a markup-scan-out character
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • markup-scan-out: in Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML),a character class consisting of function characters that suppress markup recognition until the occurrence of a markup-scan-in character or entity end
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • markup-scan-suppress: in Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML),a character class consisting of function characters that suppress markup recognition for the immediately following character in the same entity(if any)
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • mascara: a cosmetic for coloring the eyelashes and eyebrows
    Category: The chemical industry

  • medium-scale: the accumulation of several circuits(usually less than 100)on a single chip of semiconductor
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • medium-scale: MSI is an intermediate step between integrated circuits,such as operational amplifiers or flip-flops,and LSI
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • mescaline: Hallucinogenic drug,isolated from the flowering heads of the peyote cactus(mescaline buttons);it produces vivid visual hallucinations and sensory distortions,but can also cause anxiety,hyperreflexia,and tremor
    Category: General

  • mesoscale: adjective relating to a meteorological phenomenon approx.1-100 kilometers in horizontal extent(cloud pattern,wind circulation etc.)
    Category: The cosmos

  • mill-scale: mill scale : the heavy oxide layer formed during hot fabrication or heat treatment of metals. Especially applied to iron and steel
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • miscall: provided either in an auxiliary housing or via the alphanumeric display for attendant position,a visual numerical display device which indicates to the attendant that she has dialled an incorrect or nonexistent internal station number or code
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • miscarriage: spontaneous expulsion of the products of pregnancy before the middle of the second trimester
    Category: Medicine

  • moving-scale: indicating instrument in which the scale moves relative to a fixed index
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy



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