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Engineering

[Engineering is a discipline which applies math and science to create and invent.]
Engineering is a discipline which applies math and science to create and invent.
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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Accuracy

The degree to which a measurement or an estimate based on measurements represents the truve value of the attribute that is being measured

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Aerosol

Liquid or particulate matter dispersed in air in the form of a fine mist

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Affinity

A generic description of a force that impels certain atoms to bind or to unite with certain others to form complexes or compounds in chemistry

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Afterload

The arrangement of a muscle so that in shortening it lifts a weight from an adjustable support or otherwise does work against a constant opposing force- when used as ventricular afterload it relates to the force that a ventricle must overcome while it contracts during ejection

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Agent

An active force or substance capable of producing an effect

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Agonist

A drug capable of combining with receptors to initiate drug actions

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Bicarbonate

The ion remaining after the first dissociation of carbonic acid; a central buffering agent in blood

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Cathode

The negative pole of a galvanic battery or the electrode connected with it; the electrode toward which positively charged ions (cations) migrate and are reduced, and into which electrons are fed from their source

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Chemoreceptor

Any cell that is activated by a change in its chemical milieu and results in a nerve impulse

Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Colloid

Aggregates of atoms or molecules in a finely divided state dispersed in a gaseous, liquid, or solid medium and resisting sedimentation, diffusion, and filtration, thus differing from precipitates

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