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  • claystone: A compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • cutstone: a stone that is cut or finished accurately to definite shape and size; thick-bedded, evenly grained rock which can be easily cut in any direction and dressed for masonry; is generally sandstone, but some limestones are freestones
    Category: Building industry

  • dual-tone: a signalling method used in pushbutton dialing(q.v.)
    Category: General

  • dual-tone: a means of pulsing utilizing a simultaneous combination of one of a lower group of frequencies and one of a higher group of frequencies to represent each digit
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • duotone: an image in two tones
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • ecotone: the transition zone between two adjoining communities
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • flag-stone: flat-stone slabs used for floorings or pavings
    Category: Building industry

  • freestone: any fine-grained sandstone or limestone that can be readily sawn or worked
    Category: The cosmos

  • freestone: stones granular in structure,with no planes of cleavage,and therefore no tendency to split in a direction,and for that reason useful for carved work
    Category: Building industry

  • grindstone: a cylindrical rotating body made of artificial or natural stone(usually sandstone)and intended for the grinding of wood
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • hailstone: globule or piece of ice, with a diameter varying between 5 and 50 mm or even more, the fall of which constitutes hail.
    Category: The cosmos

  • half-tone: reproduction by half-tone process
    Category: Printing and publishing

  • hornstone: a mineral consisting of a variety of quartz much like flint but more brittle
    Category: Chemistry

  • ironstone: continuous hardpan as a result of incrustation of tropical soil by ferric oxide and aluminium dehydratation
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • ironstone: rock whose mineral grains are cemented by ion oxide.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • isotone: two or more nuclides having the same neutron number
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • isotones: two or more nuclides having the same neutron number
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • limestone: a) a stratified rock consisting principally of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate); b) stone quarried from a limestone rock; rock consisting of calcium carbonate
    Category: Chemistry

  • limestone: (see flux) the most common flux, calcium carbonate.
    Category: General

  • middletone: one of the intermediate tones between black and white that compose continuous-tone copy and halftone printed copy
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • milestone: a scheduled event for which some project member or manager is held accountable and that is used to measure progress; for example, a formal review, issuance of a specification, product delivery
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • milestone: a means of measuring how well one is on track towards meeting an objective. It is like a short-term assessment criterion. It is helpful to use milestones to measure progress where e.g. a large project is being undertaken. (The English word `milestone` comes from the stones which used to mark distance along a road before the days of cars.)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • oilstone: specially fine-grain stone or slate
    Category: Mining

  • otoneurology: that branch of otology dealing especially with those portions of the nervous system related to the ear
    Category: Medicine

  • overtone: an integral multiple of the frequency,i.e.,the fundamental,of a sinusoidal wave,other than the fundamental itself
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • overtone: a component of a complex tone having a pitch higher than that of the fundamental component
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • padstone: concrete block built into the top of the wall to support roof steelwork
    Category: Building industry

  • peptone: soluble substance obtained when proteins are hydrolysed or submitted to the action of certain enzymes
    Category: Chemistry

  • peritonea: a definite industrial disease resulting from exposure to minimal amounts of asbestos,with a latent period ranging between 16 and 55 years
    Category: Medicine

  • photoneutron: neutron emitted during a photonuclear reaction
    Category: Physics

  • retroperitoneal: the potential space in the loose fascia outside the parietal peritoneum
    Category: Medicine

  • sandstone: rock of sedimentary origin composed of small quartzose or siliceous particles naturally agglomerated by calcareous or siliceous materials
    Category: Chemistry

  • sidetone: the reproduction in a telephone receiver of sounds picked up by the associated telephone microphone; the transmission of sound from the telephone microphone to the telephone receiver in the same telephone
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • soapstone: powdered soft stone used to reduce tackiness of rubber to keep tires from sticking to molds during curing. Also used as lubricant to prevent sticking between tire and tube
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • soapstone: a soft stone having a soapy feel and composed essentially of talc, chlorite, and often some magnetite compare steatite.
    Category: The cosmos

  • soapstone: type of steatite, sometimes containing chloritic minerals .
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • spironolactone: diuretic
    Category: The chemical industry

  • stone: a rock-like concretion in timber composed mainly of CaCO3,found occasionally in a few tropical species,particularly Iroko(Chlorophora excelsa)
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • stone: colour:light kaki grey
    Category: The chemical industry

  • stone: a crystalline inclusion
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • stone: automatic 50 stone smoking kiln [VE1]
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • stone: the stone,also called rock or granite,is round,highly polished,and weights from about 40 to a maximum of 44 pounds.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • stone-removing: machine similar to a harrow but fitted with hooked teeth set in two rows converging towards an open-slatted container
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • stoned: Completely under the influence of drugs;intoxicated
    Category: General

  • stonefish: Venomous marine fish of the genus Synanceja verrucosa,found in the tropical Indo-Pacific.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • stonegall: a clay concretion found in certain sandstones
    Category: The cosmos

  • stoneware: some sanitary fittings made from plastic clays of the lias formation,with a small amount of sand,etc.,added to reduce shrinkage
    Category: Building industry

  • stoneware: a vitreous, but opaque type of ceramic ware...-- is produced...chiefly as a cooking-ware and some tableware
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • tombstone: an advertisement which announces that a credit has been arranged or a bond issue made
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • tone: each particular shade variation from black to white distinguishable on an aerial(monochromatic)photograph
    Category: General



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