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beginning-of-tape: a marker on a magnetic tape used to indicate the beginning of the permissible recording area
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

card-to-tape: pertaining to equipment that transfers information directly from punched cards to punched or magnetic tape
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

catapult: a device for launching an aircraft at flying speed
Category: Transport

catapult: a device for accelerating an aeroplane in short distances
Category: Transport

chip-in-tape: an automated hybrid bonding technique that provides multiple simultaneous bonding of leads by means of thermal and mechanical energy transmission through a deformable,prepunched tape
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

datapac: a commercial network linking TELENET in the US with the Trans Canada Network(i.e.the major American and Canadian computer networks)
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

end-of-tape: a mark on a magnetic tape used to indicate the end of the permissible recording area
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

end-of-tape: these prevent physical damage to the tape by inhibiting transport when the end of the tape is reached in either direction.In early Philips machines,end sensing was arranged by means of a strip of conducting foil fixed to the back of the tape.For VHS the sensors are optical,depending on a centrally-mounted filament bulb,B,illuminating photoelectric sensors through clear sections at each end of the tape
Category: News-systems and communications

end-of-tape: automatic procedures to handle tapes when the end of an input or output tape is reached
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

exocataphoria: exophoria combined with cataphoria
Category: Medicine

metaphase: chromosomes align at spindle equator
Category: Medicine

metaplanning: refers to activity of systems that plan about their own planning processes
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

pentaploid: pertaining to an organism with more than five chromosome sets in its vegetative cells
Category: Medicine

red-tape: an operation which does not in itself contribute to a result,but which is necessary to enable data to be processed
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

self-tapping: a screw which forms the thread by cutting
Category: Mechanical engineering

self-tapping: a machine screw which makes for itself a thread in the hole into which it is screwed,either by cutting or by plastic deformation
Category: Mechanical engineering

stape: one of the chain of 3 movable ossicles in the tympanic cavity which has a resemblance to a stirrup; the innermost of the three ossicles of the ear
Category: Medicine

stapes: one of the chain of 3 movable ossicles in the tympanic cavity which has a resemblance to a stirrup; the innermost of the three ossicles of the ear
Category: Medicine

staphylectomy: surgical removal of the uvula
Category: Medicine

staphylion: in craniometry,the point of the posterior border of the hard palate at the median line
Category: Medicine

staphylococcus: a bacterial genus in the family Micrococcaceae
Category: Medicine

staphyloma: a bulging or protrusion of the cornea or the sclera,usually containing adherent uveal tissue
Category: Medicine

staphylorrhaphy: suture of a cleft palate
Category: Medicine

staphyloschisis: a cleft state of the uvula or of the uvula and soft palate
Category: Medicine

staple: short metal wire added to a solid propellant formulation to increase local heat transfer and thereby the average burning rate
Category: The chemical industry

staple: numbers of wool fibres which naturally from themselves into clusters or locks
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

staple: A lock or tuft of fibres of similar properties.Hence a lock or tuft prepared to demonstrate fibre length.In bulk,a mass of fibres having a certain homogeneity of properties,usually length.
Category: Various industries and crafts

staple: a small U-shaped wire both ends of which are driven through layers of thin...material...and...clinched to hold the layers together.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

staple: term used to indicate lengths of fiber that require spinning and twisting in the manufacture of yarn.
Category: Various industries and crafts

stapler: a machine for fastening together sheets of paper or the like, with wire staples.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

tap: a manually operated device fitted to the end of a pipe in a fluid supply system for the purpose of drawing off quantities of the fluid
Category: Mechanical engineering

tap: stock exchange jargon for a stock where there is a continuous supply of sellers,thus keeping the price lower than it would otherwise be
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

tap: a device to isolate the gas supply to the various burners and to adjust their rate during use
Category: Domestic economy

tap: the amount of molten metal withdrawn from the melting equipment while the outlet remains open
Category: Iron and steel industries

tap: in cable TV systems,a device that diverts a very small part of the television signal energy to the subscriber`s drop line,from the feeder cable
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

tap: for the purpose of a token passing bus access method,a small module which electrically and mechanically couples the large diameter trunk cable to smaller diameter drop cables,passes low-frequence(1 kHz)AC power between trunk cable sections,and isolates that AC power from drop cable sections
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

tap: the connection made at some intermediate point in a winding
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

tap-change: complete sequence of events from the initiation to the completion of the transition of the through-current from one tap of the winding to an adjacent one
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

tap-change: a device indicating that the motor drive mechanism is operating
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

tap-hole: conical plug of wood or glass used to close the opening in a cask
Category: Mechanical engineering

tap-out: a spot of ink applied to paper by a finger,using tapping action to distribute the ink to approximately printing film thickness
Category: The chemical industry

tape: a ribbon,generally of paper or cloth and coated with adhesive,that is used to hold sheets of veneer(and also splits therein)together,for convenience in handling during the gluing operation
Category: The chemical industry

tape: A woven narrow fabric,generally plain-weave,used in non-load-bearing applications and the reinforcing of fabrics to resist wear and deformation.Cotton tapes are produced in widths up to and including 54 mm and in weights not exceeding the equivalent of 420 g per 100 m of 25 mm width.
Category: Various industries and crafts

tape-feed: a switch that actuates the reperforator to meter a predetermined length of tape
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

tape-reader: device in an automatic transmitter which explores the signal elements stored on a perforated tape, and produces corresponding electrical signals; signals which for each character may be either coincident or sequential
Category: News-systems and communications

tape-streamer: tape system with save-and-restore function,so called because of the absence of the stop-and-go-motion of the tape drives
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

Taped: Two or more warp yarns drawn through the heals and reed as one.
Category: Various industries and crafts

Taped: components attached to a continuous tape for and in automatic assembly
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

Taped: the insulation of helically wound tapes applied over a conductor or over an assembled group of insulated conductors
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

taper: a hole of conical shape,e.g.the taper hole in a spindle or a centre bore
Category: Mechanical engineering

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