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  • aftermath: the plant residue or plant regrowth after a crop has been grazed or harvested
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • amino-terminal: the end of a protein or polypeptide chain that contains a free amino group(-NH2)
    Category: Medicine

  • betterment: a contribution from beneficiaries in kind or cash,constituting a portion of unearned income due to benefits that accrue to land,in an area on which the government has invested or proposes to invest for development of irrigation,flood protection or drainage scheme for purpose of reclamation
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • buttermilk: a by-product of butter manufacture
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • carboxy-terminal: The end of any polypeptide or protein that bears a free carboxyl group.
    Category: Medicine

  • co-determination: German form of employee representation at works and company level; institutionalised employee representation on the supervisory boards (Aufsichtsrat) of limited companies (Aktiengesellschaft); refers also to co-management in economic, social and staff matters by the works council (Betriebsrat) as provided for by the German law on the constitution of enterprises (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • determinant: a square array of elements that represents the sum of certain products of these elements,used to solve simultaneous equations,in vector studies,etc.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • determination: an official decision by the employment resources division regarding the unemployment claim of a person
    Category: Statistics

  • determination: determining by physical or chemical means the quantity of a substance contained in must or wine
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • determination: the function of restricting or making more precise the reference of noun phrases
    Category: Language and literature

  • determiner: term used to label the class of words which includes the definite and indefinite articles,the demonstrative adjectives and a variety of other words that have much the same distribution as the definite article
    Category: Language and literature

  • deterministic: a simulation in which a fixed relationship exists between input parameters and output results for each action,value,event,etc.such that given input parameters will always result in the same output
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • disintermediation: shift of funds away from financial intermediaries (commercial banks, etc.)into Treasury bills and other securities; shift by large corporations away from banks to a parallel market, involving other large corporations
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • fixed-term: a deposit which pays a stated interest over a set period
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • heaterman: the man responsable for the reversal of the battery heating system
    Category: Mining

  • INCOTERMS: international regulations for the interpretation of trade terms
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • indeterminacy: in knowledge representation:a representation structure which uses a set of semantic primitives to encode knowledge,i.e.facts and events,in a multiplicity of ways
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • intermarket: the sale of a given delivery month of a futures contract on one exchange and the simultaneous purchase of the same delivery month and futures contract on another exchange
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • intermarket: an exchange of one bond for another based on the manager`s projection of a realignment of spreads between sectors of the bond market
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • intermarket: the spread between the interest rate offered in two sectors of the bond market for issues of the same maturity
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • intermateable: connectors which are capable of being connected electrically and mechanically but without regard to their performance and intermountability
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • intermediarie: a clause whereby a reinsurer accepts responsibility for loss as a result of the insolvency of the broker who negotiated the treaty
    Category: Insurance

  • intermediaries: a clause whereby a reinsurer accepts responsibility for loss as a result of the insolvency of the broker who negotiated the treaty
    Category: Insurance

  • intermediary: one who in some way assists professionally with the transfer of goods or the carrying out of services
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • intermediate: a gear wheel interposed between two other wheels of a gear train.It is either an idler gear,or part of a twin gear
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • intermediate: a copy of an original in the form essential to the process being used from which further copies can be made
    Category: General

  • intermediate-term: a bond that matures in five to 10 years
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • intermediation: the use of financial intermediaries whose normal role is to carry out the intermediation between the users and the suppliers of funds
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • intermesh: provision of operating paths in a quantity exceedingthat necessary for the intended function
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • intermeshing: provision of operating paths in a quantity exceedingthat necessary for the intended function
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • intermetallic: the ohmic contact made when two metal conductors are welded or fused together
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • intermetallic: a compound semiconductor,the components of which are metals in the pure state
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Interministerial: Interministerial Committee on Voluntary Work Policy
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • Interministerial: Interministerial Steering Committee on Policy on the Disabled
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • intermission: the act of intermitting or state of being intermitted...-- between the acts of a play.
    Category: General

  • intermodal: the change of passengers from one mode of transportation to another
    Category: Transport

  • intermodal: the movement of goods in one and the same loading unit or road vehicle, which uses successively two or more modes of transport without handling the goods themselves in changing modes
    Category: Transport

  • intermodal: transport in which more than one carrier is used,e.g.road,rail and sea
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • intermodal: the dispersion(pulse broadening)that results from propagation time differences among the various modes in an electromagnetic pulse
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • intermodal: containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers suitable for intermodal transport
    Category: Transport

  • intermodal: combining different ways of transportation in one system...used in an integrated system of transportation.
    Category: Transport

  • intermodulation: the modulation of the components of a complex wave by each other in a non-linear system,whereby waves are produced which have frequencies,among others,equal to the sums and differences of those of the components of the original complex wave
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • lightermen: bursitis of the hip(ischium)from repetitive friction and pressure
    Category: Medicine

  • long-term: a bond with more than 10 years to run
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • long-term: data obtained over a sufficiently long time period
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • long-term: all the ramifications of lifetime management for those who cannot live independently
    Category: Medicine

  • long-term: component of drift becoming evident only over a relatively-long period of time
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • medium-term: qualifies an instrument with a maturity of medium duration
    Category: Economics

  • n-terminal-pair: a network having n-terminal pairs.In such a network one terminal of each pair may coincide with a network node
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • outermost: The most recently formed tree ring still visible on a wood sample.
    Category: Botany and zoology



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