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boustrophedon: in the layout of microforms,the placing of successive frames in rows alternately from left to right and from right to left.This reduces the amount of backtracking to locate successive frames at the end of the row.It requires a knowledge of which direction the next frame is in
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

catastrophe: MSK seismic intensity scale XI
Category: The cosmos

catastrophic: a flood due to meteorological conditions of exceptional rarity,and due either to catastrophical rainfall spread over a period considerably longer than the time of concentration for the area,or to violent rain of the cloud burst type
Category: The cosmos

catastrophic: the class of outage that affects service to a moderate number of circuits originating or terminating on the electronic mobile exchange system
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

catastrophic: a failure,not necessarily sudden,rendering a device substantially inoperative
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

catastrophic: a failure which is total or nearly so,such as breakdown of the power supply,making all circuits inoperative.Any type of failure which renders the useful performance of the computer to zero
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

catastrophic: failure which is both sudden and complete
Category: Standards, measures and testing

catastrophic: when so many errors occur in the transmission,that the contents of the received data is unreliable or even unrecognizable
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

catastrophic: A flood that inflicts heavy damage.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

catestrophic: in a situation where so many errors have occurred,no more useful diagnostic information can be produced and the compilation is ended
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

claustrophobia: fear of confined spaces
Category: Medicine

cyclostrophic: theoretical wind which,when blowing round circular isobars,represents a balance between the pressure gradient and the centrifugal force
Category: The cosmos

cyclostrophic: centrifugal force which tends to deflect an air current tangentially from its track
Category: The cosmos

dystrophia: 2)a primary fatty degenration of the cornea occurring physiologically as an arcus senilis
Category: Medicine

dystrophia: 2)dystrophy of the endothelial cells of the cornea,characterized in its earlier stages by large black spherules and a golden hue on the posterior surface visible by indirect illumination
Category: Medicine

dystrophic: pertaining to toxic habitats low in nutrients
Category: The cosmos

dystrophy: 1)a disorder arising from defective or faulty nutrition; 2)a disorder, usually congenital, of the structure and functions of an organ or tissue (such as muscles or bones) due to perverted nutrition
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

geostrophic: theoretical wind which corresponds to equilibrium between the horizontal pressure force and the horizontal component of the deviating force due to the Earth`s rotation, on the air.
Category: The cosmos

geostrophic: Theoretical wind which corresponds to equilibrium between the horizontal pressure force and the horizontal component of the deviating force due to the Earth`s rotation,only these forces being supposed to act on the air.It blows parallel to straight isobars or contours.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

geostrophic: advection produced by the geostrophic component of the wind.
Category: The cosmos

geostrophic: graphical device for determining the geostrophic wind speed from the spacing of the isobars or contours of an atmospheric pressure chart.
Category: The cosmos

lipodystrophy: a collection of changes in body shape that are seen in people taking anti-HIV medications: a) loss of fat in the arms or legs (peripheral wasting) or face (sunken cheeks); b) and fat deposits in the stomach, the back of the neck, the breasts or other areas
Category: Medicine

strop: a length of wire cable,cordage,or webbing,with loop ends or metal fittings attached,to increase the distance at deployment between two components of a parachute assembly
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

strop: A piece of rope with the ends spliced together used for attaching a tackle to anything or for slinging any weight to be lifted.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

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