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Engineering
The discipline, art, skill and profession of applying scientific knowledge and principles to the design and manufacturing of machines, structures, devices, systems, materials and processes.
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celestial sphere
Astronomy; General astronomy
An imaginary sphere of arbitrarily large radius, concentric with the observer, allowing observers to plot positions of objects in the sky when their distances are unknown or ...
split stock
Financial services; General Finance
(1) Purchases or sales shared with others. (2) Division of the outstanding shares of a corporation into a large number of shares. Ordinarily, splits must be proposed by directors ...
dehiscence
Biology; Ecology
release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting ...
consolation match
Sports; Soccer
a tournament game played between the losers of the 2 semifinal matches to determine the third-place team.
prototype
Automotive; Vehicle equipment
Functionally representative rendition of a device or system that is fabricated late in the development cycle, before production; an original model on which later improved models ...
