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Building materials
Any material used for or during the construction of buildings.
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psi
Sports; Bicycle & electric bicycle
abbreviation for pounds per square inch. The unit of measure for tire inflation and air pressure in some suspensions.
Chrome-plate
Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools
A finish created by a three-step electrolytic process, in which copper, nickel chromium are applied to a steel core.
two-tier bid
Financial services; General Finance
Takeover bid in which the acquirer offers to pay more for the shares needed to gain control than for the remaining shares, or to pay the same price but at different times in the ...
astronomical unit (A.U.)
Astronomy; Mars
A measure for distances within the solar system, equal to the mean ditance of the earth from the sun, which is about 93,000,000 miles.
microphyll
Plants; Flowers
A kind of leaf, specifically one which has a single, unbranched vein in it. Microphylls are only found in the lycophytes.
