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  • four-turn: road the length of which permits only 4 turns,i.e.round trips,a day
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • inturned: A welt consisting of a double fold of plain fabric made on a circular stocking machine.Sinker loops from one of the first few courses are retained while the welt fabric is knitted and are later intermeshed with alternate needle loops of a subsequent course.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • no-return: equity which brings in no returns but is still in existence
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • nocturnal: lowering of temperature associated with nocturnal radiation.
    Category: The cosmos

  • nocturnal: anomaly of vision in which there is a pronounced inadequacy or complete absence of dark-adaptation
    Category: Medicine

  • nocturnal: 2.myopia or an increase in ocular refraction occurring in low levels of illumination,as in twilight or at night
    Category: Medicine

  • nocturnal: epilepsy in which the attacks occur predominantly during sleep
    Category: Medicine

  • nocturnal: reduction in the apparent amplitude of accommodation induced by the reduction of the intensity of illumination
    Category: Medicine

  • non-return: A screw-down valve in which the spindle is not fixed to the valve disc or gate,so that while it may press it down on its seat it is incapable of lifting it.As a result the fluid going through the piping system can lift the valve and pass upward,but it cannot return and flow in the other direction.Valve chests for bilge and ballast systems are equipped with non-return valves.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • non-return: in plumbing, a type of valve in which back flow of a liquid is prevented by a hinged metal flap fitted in an intercepting chamber, so as to allow the flow of water in one direction only.
    Category: Building industry

  • non-return: valves which allow flow in one direction only
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • non-return: Each state of the medium is either 0 or 1.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • non-return: a mode of recording in which each state of the medium corresponds to one binary state
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • non-return: a mode in which a digital signal need not return to a value of zero for a unit of data to be recorded
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • non-return: a video data scrambling scheme that is polarity insensitive
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • overturning: in masonry structures,this condition may be attained when the horizontal forces are so great in comparison to the vertical forces that they cause the resultant of all forces acting on the structure above any horizontal plane,including uplift,to pass outside of the limits of the structure
    Category: Building industry

  • page-turning: the transfer of pages between real storage and auxiliary storage
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • return: a language construct within a procedure designating the end of an execution sequence in the procedure
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • return: the common output terminal of a power supply.Carries the return current for the outputs
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • return: a stroke made in the direction opposite to that of the forward stroke
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • return: a separate key which moves the cursor to the first character position on the next line
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • return: the amount of interest or dividend which comes from an investment,shown as a percentage of the money invested
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • return: An instruction used to terminate a subroutine.It returns control to,i.e.,causes execution to resume at,the next instruction following the subroutine call.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • return-to-zero: method of transmitting binary information in such a way that after each encoded bit,voltage returns to the zero level
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • returnable: a bottle which,after use,is returned to a brewery or the like in order to be cleaned and refilled
    Category: Environment

  • returnable: a container that is intended to be re-used in its original form as a beverage container
    Category: Environment

  • returnable: any packaging whose return from the consumer or final user is assured by specific means,(separate collection,deposits,etc.),independently of its final destination,in order to be reused,recovered,or subject to specific waste management operations
    Category: Environment

  • returnable: container: a heavy duty drum or shipping case or box that can be used for several trips: a glass container (as a milk bottle) that can be returned for cleaning and refilling.
    Category: Standards, measures and testing

  • returned: returned goods are goods exported and subsequently returned to the consignor
    Category: General

  • returned: returned goods are goods imported and subsequently returned to the consignor
    Category: General

  • returned: /seasonable describes what is peculiarly fit or appropriate to the season, occasion, or situation...e.g. seasonable clothes WEBIN 66 3-/
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • returning: the time interval between the instant a specified change is made in the value of the input energising quantity,i.e.the characteristic quantity for a measuring relay which will cause the relay to return,and the instant it resets
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • returning: the ratio of the returning value to the operating value
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • returning: the returning ratio expressed as a percentage
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • returning: the threshold value of the characteristic quantity at which the relay returns under specified conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • returning: the presiding officer at an election, who returns the persons duly elected.
    Category: Politics

  • returning: mass of polar air which returns to higher latitudes, for example in the forward part of a depression or rear of an anticyclone.
    Category: The cosmos

  • round-turn: a procedure by which the long or short position of an individual is offset by an opposite transaction or by accepting or making delivery of the actual financial instrument or physical commodity
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • saturnine: pertaining to or caused by a lead
    Category: Medicine

  • saturnism: disease caused by the gradual accumulation of a significant body burden of lead
    Category: Medicine

  • signal-return-time: a method of car following control,employing signal travel time measurements between vehicles to determine headways
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • turn: the ignition coil has a primary winding of a few hundred -- of relatively heavy wire.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • turn: the process of cutting off chips with a tool,whereby the workpiece rotates in relation to the tool,the work surface(generally)being an outward or inward faced rotating surface-in boarderline cases plane-whose axis is concentric with the axis of the cutting tool
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • turn: a single trip and return made by one tractor or lorry
    Category: Building industry

  • turn: The change from flood tide to ebb tide and vice versa.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • turn: only by constant practice at the end of every length of the bath swum can automatic proficiency in turning be achieved.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • turn: loop made round a cleat,bollard etc with rope,line or wire
    Category: General

  • turn-and-bank: instrument which combines the function of a turn indicator and a cross level
    Category: Transport

  • turn-and-bank: combined turn-indicator and cross-level indicator
    Category: Transport

  • turn-around: a cleared area on a road or track where vehicles can be turned round
    Category: Building industry



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