Engineering

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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working order

Financial services; General Finance

Standing order in the marketplace, through which a broker bids or offers to fill the order in a series of lots at opportune times in hopes of obtaining the best price.

nose wheelie

Sports; Bicycle & electric bicycle

a technique in which you elevate the rear wheel and ride on the front wheel only. Opposite of wheelie.

Acrylic finish

Kitchen & dining; Cooking tools

A treatment for the exterior surfaces of aluminum or stainless steel; allows for a variety of colors to be applied to the cookware.

sell hedge

Financial services; General Finance

Related: short hedge.

celestial equator

Astronomy; Mars

The great circle of the celestial sphere all points of which are 90 degrees from the poles. It is the plane of the earth's equator projected onto the celestial sphere.

ampere (A)

Astronomy; General astronomy

1) Unit of electric current. "The ampere is that constant current which, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length, of negligible circular ...