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  • abundance: the mean concentration of an element in a geochemical reservoir
    Category: The cosmos

  • account: relationship between a financial institution and a customer
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • account: a stock exchange period,usually a fortnight,at the end of which transactions made during the account period must be settled,i.e.on the settlement day
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • account-only: a check which, due to the addition of one or several crossing marks, is limited in the way in which payment can be effected, with either the number of payees restricted or payment being possible only by a credit in an account; may not be cashed, but may only be paid into a current account; on the front of the cheque the words `account payee` are written
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accountability: duty imposed on an audited person or entity to show that he/it has administered or controlled the funds entrusted to him/it in accordance with the terms on which the funds were provided
    Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

  • accountability: the quality or state that enables violations or attempted violations of ADP systems security to be traced to individuals who may then be held responsable
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • accountability: the quality or state which enables violations or attempted violations of an ADP system security to be traced to individuals who may then be held responsible
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • accountability: the concept underlying democratic responsible government that elected officials are responsible to the people for their actions.
    Category: Law

  • accountability: the obligation of a subordinate to answer to his superior for the exercice of authority in line with his delegated responsibility, for the performance of duties assigned to him.
    Category: Economics

  • Accountants: a clause entitling the insured to have a claim prepared by his own accountants
    Category: Insurance

  • accounting: charge
    Category: The European Communities

  • adjunct: a treatment that is given in addition to the main or primary treatment
    Category: Medicine

  • adjunct: a modifier attached to a 'head',upon which it is dependent and from which it can be 'detached' without syntactic change in the sentence
    Category: Language and literature

  • agouni: a Moroccan term designating a rather broad gully carved by a torrent.These gulleys are generally dry on surface,but have an underground water supply
    Category: The cosmos

  • aground: State of a vessel when she ceases to be completely waterborne and her weight is taken,partially or completely,by the ground.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • all-around: winner.
    Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

  • all-round: vessel suitable for all existing types of cargoes
    Category: Transport

  • all-round: a light which presents the same character over the whole horizon of interest to marine navigation
    Category: Transport

  • alunite: stony substance which stains the fingers
    Category: Chemistry

  • ammunition: special container used to store ammunition,for transport and for easy handling and firing
    Category: Defense

  • ammunition: feeding system for automatic weapons consisting of bullets linked together by a band
    Category: Defense

  • ammunition: stiff,strong,uniformly thick non-tarnish paper for the outer cases of ammunition cartridges
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • ammunition: ammunition for military use where the projectile contains a charge which explodes on impact
    Category: Defense

  • ammunition: ammunition for military use where the projectile contains a chemical mixture which bursts into flame on contact with the air or on impact
    Category: Defense

  • ammunition: ammunition for military use where the projectile is jacketed and has a penetrating hard core
    Category: Defense

  • ammunition: a device charged with explosives,propellants,pyrotechnics,initiating composition,or nuclear,biological,or chemical material for use in connection with defence or offence,including demolitions.Certain ammunition can be used for training,ceremonial,or non-operational purposes
    Category: Defense

  • amount: value in units of currency
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Amounts: a) amounts added to the principal amount of a collection; b) amounts added, such as commission or other fees, to the principal amount
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • announcer: in radio and television, the person who introduces the programs, performers, plays, and music and who also announces the advertisements, identifies the station, etc.
    Category: General

  • Annunciation: signalling of component failures
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • anti-hunting: denotes a means of reducing the rhythmic variations caused by cyclic over-correction by a governing or damping influence
    Category: Transport

  • arbor-mounted: tap which can be mounted on an arbor and driven by radial keyway at the face or axial keyway in the shank
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • arbor-mounted: reamer with bore and drive slot for mounting on an arbor; also with bolt-on cutters, may be carbide-tipped
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • arbor-mounted: plain milling cutter with central bore for mounting on an arbor
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • arbor-mounted: counterboring cutter for arbor mounting with cylindrical or taper bore and drive slot
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • arbor-mounted: shell reamer with inserted adjustable cutters
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • autoimmune: a disease in which the body produces an immunogenic response against self-antigens. In some cases, predominantly one organ is affected, e.g. haemolytic anaemia; in others, the disease process is diffused through many tissues, e.g. systemic lupus erythematosis
    Category: Medicine

  • background: the controllable brightness of the receiver screen in the absence of the part of the television signal which conveys the picture information
    Category: Physics

  • background: the automatic execution of lower priority computer programs which are temporarily suspended when higher priority foreground programs are active
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • background: the counting rate in the absence of that radiation which the counter tube is intended to measure
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • background: Display against which the foreground is displayed in a different colour.
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • background: in motion pictures, radio, etc., music or sound effects used as a subordinated accompaniment to dialogue or action.
    Category: General

  • background: music performed especially by unseen performers as an accompaniment to some activity essentially unrelated to it (as dining, shopping, or factory work).
    Category: General

  • background: music, often recorded, intended to provide a soothing background, usually played over loudspeaker systems in public places, as railway stations, restaurants, etc.
    Category: General

  • balun: a passive device,usually having distributed electrical constants,used for coupling an aerial to a feeder when one is balanced and the other is unbalanced
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • balun: a transformer connected between a balanced source or load and an unbalanced source or load
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • blepharoconjunctivitis: inflammation of both the conjunctiva and the eyelids
    Category: Medicine

  • blunder: civilian casualties due to a stray missile or bomb
    Category: Defense

  • blunt: certain restriction enzymes, e.g. Hae III, generate DNA fragments which are perfectly base-paired along their entire length. The ends of such molecules are known as blunt or flush ends since they do not carry single-stranded extensions. Blunt ends may be generated artificially by removing single-stranded extensions with S1 nuclease. Blunt-end ligation is the process of joining two DNA molecules with blunt ends using DNA ligase
    Category: Medicine

  • blunt: a cut-water in which the nose is rounded off
    Category: Building industry



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