English words for '(ETCS, railway) Initialism of Train Control Computer.'
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- (Philippines) Initialism of Alabang Town Center (a mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa, Philippines).
- (UK) Initialism of Air Training Corps (a British youth organisation sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Air Force).
- (US) Initialism of Air Transport Command (an air transport branch of the US Air Force until June 1 1948, when it was merged with the Naval Air Transport Service to create MATS).
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- (train control) Initialism of specific transmission module.
- (publishing industry) Initialism of scientific, technical, and medicine.
- (cognitive science) Initialism of short-term memory.
- (computing theory) Initialism of software transactional memory.
- (microscopy) Initialism of scanning tunneling microscope.
- (physical therapy) Initialism of soft tissue mobilization.
- what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
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- (train control) Initialism of STM European.
- Initialism of second edition.
- (physics) Initialism of secondary electron.
- Initialism of sound effect.
- Initialism of special edition.
- (aerospace) Initialism of sustainer engine.
- Abbreviation of southeast.
- (computing) Initialism of software engineering.
- (computing) Initialism of standard edition.
- the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees
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- (rail transport) Initialism of automatic train operation.
- (military, Ukraine) Acronym of anti-terrorist operation.
- (aviation) Acronym of assisted take-off.
- (military) Acronym of ammunition technical officer.
- (computer security, finance) Initialism of account take over.
- (astronautics) Acronym of abort to orbit.
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- Initialism of powertrain control module.
- Initialism of phase change memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory.
- Initialism of power control module.
- Initialism of phase-change material (“the type of material that phase change memory is composed of, capable of applications in switching”).
- Initialism of pulse code modulation (“the system of encoding sound on a telephone for use in the PSTN, using a compander”).
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- A type of streamlined railway locomotive.
- A small California shark (Notorynchus cepedianus).
- The common sand shark.
- A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus griseus).
- A type of Native American canoe.
- A fish of the sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the white sturgeon.
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- (transport) Initialism of vehicle control unit.
- (emissions control) Initialism of vapor/vapour combustor/combustion unit.
- Initialism of vacuum control unit.
- Initialism of vascular compression unit.
- (carbon economy controls) Abbreviation of verified carbon unit (carbon credit).
- Initialism of video codec unit.
- Initialism of video compression unit.
- Initialism of video control unit.
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- (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
- (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
- (mathematics) A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.
- A device that controls or limits something.
- (historical) Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
- Short for diving regulator.
- A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
- A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
- Ellipsis of voltage regulator.
- an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
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- the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls
- (rail transport) The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.
- (anatomy) The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
- The engineer's cab in any kind of train.
- (construction) A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
- The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
- (automotive) A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
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- Initialism of engine control module.
- (military) Initialism of Electronic countermeasure.
- (materials science) Abbreviation of engineered cellular magmatic.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of extra-cluster medium.
- (medicine) Initialism of extracellular matrix.
- (grammar) Initialism of exceptional case-marking.
- (mathematics) Initialism of elliptic curve method.
- (computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.
- electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
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- (rail transport) Initialism of power signal box.
- (broadcasting) Initialism of program station basis.
- Initialism of public security bureau, a local police department in Mainland China
- (military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.
- (computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.
- Initialism of public service broadcasting.
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- (UK, rail transport) Initialism of advanced passenger train.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.
- (US) Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
- (cybersecurity) Initialism of advanced persistent threat.
- Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
- (UK, healthcare) Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
- Initialism of automation presses tooling.
name
- Initialism of Alabama Public Television.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
- (computing) Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
- Initialism of American Public Television.
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- (rail transport, US, informal) An EMD AEM-7 electric locomotive
- One who toasts (engages in salute while drinking alcohol).
- An electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread.
- (furry fandom, endearing) A protogen.
- (US, slang) A firearm, especially a pistol.
- A toasting fork.
- (US, rail transport, informal, derogatory) Diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation known for a propensity to catch fire, especially those showing previous fire damage.
- (computing slang, uncommon) A self-contained software package distributable over the Internet or by burning onto CDs.
- (computing, humorous) A low-end or outdated personal computer.
- (music, informal, derogatory) An electronic organ, especially a crude one that uses analog technology.
- (automotive, informal, derogatory) Any of several small, box-like automobiles exemplified by the Scion xB and Honda Element.
- (music) A disc jockey who accompanies reggae music with improvised rhythmic speech.
- One who toasts (cooks lightly by browning).
- a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread
- someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture
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- A cabless railroad engine.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
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- (usually) A locomotive.
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
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- (rail transport) a diesel locomotive.
- (usually automotive, transport) Such an engine that burns diesel (diesel fuel).
- (mechanical engineering) An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.
- an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil
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- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
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- Initialism of magnetoresistance
- Initialism of magnetic resonance
- (US military) Acronym of memorandum for the record, memorandum for record, memo for the record, or memo for record.
- (prison system) Initialism of mandatory release.
- Initialism of Master of the Rolls, as a postnominal.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of mineralocorticoid receptor.
- (sports) Initialism of meeting record, the best performance at all occurrences of a particular athletic meeting.
- Initialism of mental retardation, a deprecated former term for intellectual disability.
- (gaming) Initialism of magic resistance.
- (computing) Initialism of mixed reality.
- (software engineering) Initialism of merge request.
- Initialism of mortality rate.
- (pharmacology, medicine) Initialism of modified release.
- (cardiology) Initialism of mitral regurgitation.
- Clipping of MRI (“magnetic resonance image/imager/imaging”).
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- A large town in Broome County, New York.
- A community in Central Elgin municipality, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
- A town in Greene County, Alabama.
- A city, the county seat of Union County, South Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Lima, Grant County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
- An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
- A small town, the county seat of Monroe County, West Virginia.
- A former unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
- A surname.
- A city in Montgomery County and Miami County, Ohio.
- (Oxford University, informal) The Oxford Union (a debating society); not to be conflated with Oxford University Student Union (a students' union).
- A village in McHenry County, Illinois.
- A town in Knox County, Maine.
- A village on the south cast of the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
- A city in Union County, Oregon.
- A tiny city in Hardin County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Pike County, Indiana.
- A town in Neshoba County and Newton County, Mississippi.
- A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
- A town and unincorporated community in Rock County, Wisconsin.
- A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Missouri.
- A hamlet in Madison County, New York.
- A small town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
- A ghost town in Merced County, California.
- (chiefly India, with determiner, law) Alternative form of union.
- A home rule city in Boone County, Kentucky.
- A village and census-designated place in the town of Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
- A large number of townships in the United States, listed under Union Township.
- A small town in Door County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
- A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
- (with determiner, historical) The Soviet Union: the proper noun Union is the standard English translation of the proper noun Союз (Sojuz), and All-Union is the standard English translation of всесоюзный (vsesojuznyj).
- A small town in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
- (US, with determiner, historical) Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War (of the United States of America).
- A town and unincorporated community in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
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- (rail transport) Ellipsis of starter signal.
- (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- any new participant in some activity
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning
- the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
- a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough
- an electric motor for starting an engine
- food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)
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- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
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- (rail transport) Initialism of Centralized (or Centralised) Traffic Control.
- Initialism of certified true copy.
- (medicine) Initialism of circulating tumor cell.
- (British, education) Initialism of city technology college.
- Initialism of child tax credit.
- Initialism of closed timelike curve.
- an agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage
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- (rail transport) The engine compartment of a diesel locomotive.
- (rugby union) The pair of locks in a team.
- (sports) The midfield.
- (rugby league) The front row.
- (nautical) A compartment on a ship in which the engine machinery is located.
- (music) The rhythm section of a steel band.
- a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located
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- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
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- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
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- (computing) Initialism of programmable automation controller.
- (computing) Initialism of proxy auto-config (file).
- (US politics) Acronym of political action committee.
- (software design) Initialism of presentation-abstraction-control.
- Initialism of public accounts committee.
- committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates
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- (rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.
- (slang) A cheer characterized by a slow beginning and a progressive increase in speed.
- (economics) A country which drives the world economy by having a high level of imports, such as the United States.
- (rare) A traction engine.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
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- the operator of a railway locomotive
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
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- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
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- (Philippines) Initialism of Alabang Town Center (a mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa, Philippines).
- (UK) Initialism of Air Training Corps (a British youth organisation sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Air Force).
- (US) Initialism of Air Transport Command (an air transport branch of the US Air Force until June 1 1948, when it was merged with the Naval Air Transport Service to create MATS).
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- (train control) Initialism of specific transmission module.
- (publishing industry) Initialism of scientific, technical, and medicine.
- (cognitive science) Initialism of short-term memory.
- (computing theory) Initialism of software transactional memory.
- (microscopy) Initialism of scanning tunneling microscope.
- (physical therapy) Initialism of soft tissue mobilization.
- what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
noun
- (train control) Initialism of STM European.
- Initialism of second edition.
- (physics) Initialism of secondary electron.
- Initialism of sound effect.
- Initialism of special edition.
- (aerospace) Initialism of sustainer engine.
- Abbreviation of southeast.
- (computing) Initialism of software engineering.
- (computing) Initialism of standard edition.
- the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees
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- (rail transport) Initialism of automatic train operation.
- (military, Ukraine) Acronym of anti-terrorist operation.
- (aviation) Acronym of assisted take-off.
- (military) Acronym of ammunition technical officer.
- (computer security, finance) Initialism of account take over.
- (astronautics) Acronym of abort to orbit.
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- Initialism of powertrain control module.
- Initialism of phase change memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory.
- Initialism of power control module.
- Initialism of phase-change material (“the type of material that phase change memory is composed of, capable of applications in switching”).
- Initialism of pulse code modulation (“the system of encoding sound on a telephone for use in the PSTN, using a compander”).
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- A type of streamlined railway locomotive.
- A small California shark (Notorynchus cepedianus).
- The common sand shark.
- A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus griseus).
- A type of Native American canoe.
- A fish of the sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the white sturgeon.
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- (transport) Initialism of vehicle control unit.
- (emissions control) Initialism of vapor/vapour combustor/combustion unit.
- Initialism of vacuum control unit.
- Initialism of vascular compression unit.
- (carbon economy controls) Abbreviation of verified carbon unit (carbon credit).
- Initialism of video codec unit.
- Initialism of video compression unit.
- Initialism of video control unit.
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- (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
- (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
- (mathematics) A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.
- A device that controls or limits something.
- (historical) Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
- Short for diving regulator.
- A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
- A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
- Ellipsis of voltage regulator.
- an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
noun
- the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls
- (rail transport) The metal plate which forms the base platform of a steam locomotive and supports the boiler and the driver's cab, particularly in the United Kingdom.
- (anatomy) The flat portion at the base of the stapes; pedicel.
- The engineer's cab in any kind of train.
- (construction) A timber in a wood frame that distributes a concentrated load.
- The part of a roller skate that attaches to the boot.
- (automotive) A platform on which the driver's foot rests but which, unlike a pedal, has no effect.
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- Initialism of engine control module.
- (military) Initialism of Electronic countermeasure.
- (materials science) Abbreviation of engineered cellular magmatic.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of extra-cluster medium.
- (medicine) Initialism of extracellular matrix.
- (grammar) Initialism of exceptional case-marking.
- (mathematics) Initialism of elliptic curve method.
- (computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.
- electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
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- (rail transport) Initialism of power signal box.
- (broadcasting) Initialism of program station basis.
- Initialism of public security bureau, a local police department in Mainland China
- (military, US) Initialism of Presidential Service Badge.
- (computing, IBM) Initialism of program specification block.
- Initialism of public service broadcasting.
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- (UK, rail transport) Initialism of advanced passenger train.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.
- (US) Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
- (cybersecurity) Initialism of advanced persistent threat.
- Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
- (UK, healthcare) Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
- Initialism of automation presses tooling.
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- Initialism of Alabama Public Television.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
- (computing) Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
- Initialism of American Public Television.
noun
- (rail transport, US, informal) An EMD AEM-7 electric locomotive
- One who toasts (engages in salute while drinking alcohol).
- An electrical device for toasting food, typically sliced bread.
- (furry fandom, endearing) A protogen.
- (US, slang) A firearm, especially a pistol.
- A toasting fork.
- (US, rail transport, informal, derogatory) Diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation known for a propensity to catch fire, especially those showing previous fire damage.
- (computing slang, uncommon) A self-contained software package distributable over the Internet or by burning onto CDs.
- (computing, humorous) A low-end or outdated personal computer.
- (music, informal, derogatory) An electronic organ, especially a crude one that uses analog technology.
- (automotive, informal, derogatory) Any of several small, box-like automobiles exemplified by the Scion xB and Honda Element.
- (music) A disc jockey who accompanies reggae music with improvised rhythmic speech.
- One who toasts (cooks lightly by browning).
- a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread
- someone who who drinks to the health of someone or the success of some venture
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- A cabless railroad engine.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- The muscle in the back of the leg below the knee.
- (anatomy) The back of the leg below the knee.
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
- the muscular back part of the shank
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- young of domestic cattle
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- (usually) A locomotive.
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
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- (rail transport) a diesel locomotive.
- (usually automotive, transport) Such an engine that burns diesel (diesel fuel).
- (mechanical engineering) An internal combustion engine of piston engine type that operates using the Diesel cycle, with diesel fuel being sprayed into the hot, high-pressure air in the combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke.
- an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil
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- (rail transport) A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
- (informal, by extension) A slow person; a sluggard.
- (military, historical) A tortoise or testudo; a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers.
- (engineering) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
- The pod of the snail clover.
- Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
- freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
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- A large town in Broome County, New York.
- A community in Central Elgin municipality, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
- A town in Greene County, Alabama.
- A city, the county seat of Union County, South Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Lima, Grant County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- A barangay of Ubay, Bohol, Philippines.
- An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Virginia.
- A small town, the county seat of Monroe County, West Virginia.
- A former unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
- A surname.
- A city in Montgomery County and Miami County, Ohio.
- (Oxford University, informal) The Oxford Union (a debating society); not to be conflated with Oxford University Student Union (a students' union).
- A village in McHenry County, Illinois.
- A town in Knox County, Maine.
- A village on the south cast of the island of Siargao, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.
- A city in Union County, Oregon.
- A tiny city in Hardin County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Pike County, Indiana.
- A town in Neshoba County and Newton County, Mississippi.
- A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
- A town and unincorporated community in Rock County, Wisconsin.
- A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Missouri.
- A hamlet in Madison County, New York.
- A small town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
- A ghost town in Merced County, California.
- (chiefly India, with determiner, law) Alternative form of union.
- A home rule city in Boone County, Kentucky.
- A village and census-designated place in the town of Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
- A large number of townships in the United States, listed under Union Township.
- A small town in Door County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
- A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
- (with determiner, historical) The Soviet Union: the proper noun Union is the standard English translation of the proper noun Союз (Sojuz), and All-Union is the standard English translation of всесоюзный (vsesojuznyj).
- A small town in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
- (US, with determiner, historical) Those of the United States that did not secede at the time of the Civil War (of the United States of America).
- A town and unincorporated community in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
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- (rail transport) Ellipsis of starter signal.
- (golf) A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A dog that rouses game.
- (historical, British) A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- (team sports) A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- (baseball) A starting pitcher.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- A yeast culture, or a medium containing one, used to start a fermentation process.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- any new participant in some activity
- a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle
- a contestant in a team sport who is in the game at the beginning
- the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
- a culture containing yeast or bacteria that is used to start the process of fermentation or souring in making butter or cheese or dough
- an electric motor for starting an engine
- food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course)
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- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
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- (rail transport) Initialism of Centralized (or Centralised) Traffic Control.
- Initialism of certified true copy.
- (medicine) Initialism of circulating tumor cell.
- (British, education) Initialism of city technology college.
- Initialism of child tax credit.
- Initialism of closed timelike curve.
- an agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage
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- (rail transport) The engine compartment of a diesel locomotive.
- (rugby union) The pair of locks in a team.
- (sports) The midfield.
- (rugby league) The front row.
- (nautical) A compartment on a ship in which the engine machinery is located.
- (music) The rhythm section of a steel band.
- a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located
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- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
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- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
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- (computing) Initialism of programmable automation controller.
- (computing) Initialism of proxy auto-config (file).
- (US politics) Acronym of political action committee.
- (software design) Initialism of presentation-abstraction-control.
- Initialism of public accounts committee.
- committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates
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- (rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.
- (slang) A cheer characterized by a slow beginning and a progressive increase in speed.
- (economics) A country which drives the world economy by having a high level of imports, such as the United States.
- (rare) A traction engine.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
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- the operator of a railway locomotive
- a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems
- A soldier engaged in designing or constructing military works for attack or defence, or other engineering works.
- (chiefly historical) A person who operates a steam engine; specifically (nautical), a person employed to operate the steam engine in the engine room of a ship.
- (often derogatory) A person who formulates plots or schemes; a plotter, a schemer.
- (US, firefighting) A person who drives or operates a fire engine (firefighting apparatus).
- Preceded by a qualifying word: a person who uses abilities or knowledge to manipulate events or people.
- Originally, a person engaged in designing, constructing, or maintaining engines or machinery; now (more generally), a person qualified or professionally engaged in any branch of engineering, or studying to do so.
- (chiefly US, rail transport) A person who drives or operates a locomotive; a train driver.
- An honorific title given to engineers before their name.
- A person professionally engaged in the technical design and construction of large-scale private and public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, railways, roads, etc.; a civil engineer.
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- plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
- design as an engineer
- To employ one's abilities and knowledge as an engineer to design, construct, and/or maintain (something, such as a machine or a structure), usually for industrial or public use.
- (specifically) To use genetic engineering to alter or construct (a DNA sequence), or to alter (an organism).
- (rare) To work as an engineer.
- To formulate plots or schemes; to plot, to scheme.
- To plan or achieve (a goal) by contrivance or guile; to finagle, to wangle.
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