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  • backwater: an arm of the sea usually lying parallel with the coast,behind a narrow strip of land
    Category: The cosmos

  • backwater: 1)water held or forced back in consequence of some obstruction,such as a dam or regulator,or the swelling up of the river below 2)a water reserve obtained at high tide and to be discharged at low tide
    Category: Building industry

  • backwater: A rise in the water level immediately upstream of and due to a natural or artificial obstruction.
    Category: The cosmos

  • breakwater: A small athwartship or V-shaped coaming abaft the hawse holes on the forecastle,acting as a protection against the seas shipped over the bows and preventing the water entering through the hawse pipes from rushing aft by diverting it to the ship`s sides.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • breakwater: a low bulk-head forward that prevents solid water from sweeping the deck of a ship.
    Category: Transport

  • deathwatch: a beetle of the family Anobiidae(Xestobium rufovillosum)whose larvae tunnel in dry sapwood and heartwood,mainly of hardwoods,reducing it to a honeycomblike structure and powder
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • Durbin-Watson: a statistic testing the independence of errors in least squares regression(1950)against the alternative of serial correlation.The statistic is a simple linear transformation of the first serial correlation of residuals and,although its distribution in unknown,it is tested by two bounding statistics which follow R.L.Anderson`s distribution
    Category: Statistics

  • feedwater: the water,previously treated to remove air and impurities,which is supplied to a boiler for evaporation
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • freshwater: naturally occurring water having a low concentration of salts,which is often acceptable as suitable for abstraction and treatment to produce drinking water
    Category: The cosmos

  • groundwater: all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil
    Category: The cosmos

  • groundwater: Subsurface water occupying the cavities and interstices beneath the land surface.
    Category: The cosmos

  • headwater: water level prevailing in the supply channel
    Category: Building industry

  • headwater: the upper reaches of a stream near its source
    Category: The cosmos

  • heartwater: a disease of cattle,sheep,goats and wild ungulates caused by Cowdria ruminantium(called also Rickettsia ruminantium),transmitted by the`bont-tick`(Amblyomma hebraeum)in South Africa,and by Amblyomma variegatum in Kenya.The disease is characterised by the accumulation of a large amount of fluid in the pericardial sac and nervous symptoms
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • iwatoka: special form of iron precipitation which permeates gradually the entire soil material in the form of an initially loose,later more or less connected framework,usually of flaky ferric hydroxide gels(iwatoka precipitates)
    Category: Botany and zoology

  • kilowatt: a unit of power equal to 1000 watts
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • rainwater: an inlet providing entrance for surface water into a drain located below ground surface.
    Category: Building industry

  • recirculating-water: washing unit in which semiconductor material or devices or partfinished devices may be washed in electronic-grade water,purified by an ion-exchange resin,in trays immersed in water that recirculates in a small-volume system consisting entirely of plastic or stainless-steel non-contaminating materials
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • sea-water: made by freezing sea-water
    Category: Chemistry

  • Searchwater: a radar mounted on the Sea King helicopter
    Category: Defense

  • seawater: magnesite made by a chemical process from sea water or other brines
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • seawater: /in addition to ocean waters, these include brackish waters...waste waters...Desalting is presently a accomplished mainly by distillation processes, membrane processes, or cristallization processes...E NBRT 74 19-651/
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • still-water-level: the position of the free-surface in a dead calm
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • stormwater: a side-weir overflow or similar structure that separates excess water,discharging it into a stormwater sewer
    Category: Environment

  • subsoil-water: system of irrigation in which water supplies are obtained from the subsurface water through shallow wells(water being lifted by some devices),tubewells,and kanats(in Iran and a few other countries)
    Category: Building industry

  • swatch: a sample sheet of decorative veneer,generally 3ft(0.9m)long and the full width of the flitch,and generally taken near its centre so as to represent truly the colour,texture and other characteristics of the flitch
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • swatch: a collection of samples
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • Swath: the area observed by a satellite as it orbits the Earth
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • swath: the whole sweep of a scythe or a machine in mowing or cradling; the path or the breadth of a path cut in one course; a windrow of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • swath: slash,brushwood,etc.concentrated along a line,so as to clear the intervening ground(the stroll=lane)between two of them,as for windrow planting
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • swath: a good spray pattern consists of a larged number of small droplets of uniform size, closely spaced and equally distributed across the --.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • swatter: a device for killing insects usu. consisting of a flat piece of perforated rubber or plastic or fine-meshed wire netting attached to a handle - called also flyswatter...WEBIN 66 3-..
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • tailwater: water level at the head of the watercourse of farm lateral just below the outlet
    Category: The cosmos

  • underwater: That portion of a vessel`s hull or body that is immersed or floating in a fluid,e.g.salt water.
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • underwater: a robot designed and built for operating in water
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • unwatched: one,usually automatic,without any permanently stationed personnel to superintend it DU BUREAU HYDROGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951
    Category: General

  • wastewater: the act of disposing of wastewater by any method...Common methods of disposal are:dispersion,dilution,broad irrigation,privy,cesspool
    Category: Environment

  • wastewater: ?The collection and treatment of wastewater,including such ancillary matters as administration and financing,engineering planning and design,operation and maintenance and monitoring and evaluation of overall performance.
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • wat: a facility associated with each WATS trunk CCT which incorporates an hours-and-minutes timer on each such CCT for purposes of cost justification or billing reconciliation on measured time CCTS
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • wat: a facility associated with each trunk in a WATS trunk group which sends a warning tone to each outgoing calling party which uses such trunk circuits after a predetermined time interval
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • watch: (1)Period of time, normally four hours, into which a nautical day is divided. (2)Group into which crew is divided for duty; port or starboard watch if into two watches. To keep, or stand, a watch is to be on duty for a watch
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • watch: the service performed by a qualified operator when on duty in the radio room of a vessel
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • watch: the sixth part of a day on board ship during which a watch of men are on duty.
    Category: Transport

  • watch-dog: device used to discern whether some prescribed condition is present,usually within a predetermined time period
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • watchdog: a timer which is set by the program.It interrupts the program after a given period of time,e.g.,one second.This will prevent the system from going into an endless loop due to a program error,or becoming idle because of an equipment fault
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • watching: in naval mine warfare,a mine secured to its mooring but showing on the surface,possibly only in certain tidal conditions
    Category: Defense

  • watchmaker: usually extremely small; its diameter and thickness rarely exceeding 2 mm and 0,5 mm respectively
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • watchman: one who is employed to stand watch over or to patrol property for the purpose of protecting it against theft, fire, or other damage.
    Category: Labour

  • water: translucency of pearls provided by the conchiolin
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • water-activated: a primary battery that contains the electrolyte but requires the addition of or immersion in water before it is usable
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy



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