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A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
Initialism of polymer light-emitting diode.
Of or relating to all the light, travelling in every direction, in a given space.
Initialism of platform-level interrupt controller; in the RISC-V architecture, a component responsible for routing interrupts from their causes to harts.
Initialism of phase-locked loop.
A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting.
The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial (compass), the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
To manoeuvre a sailing vessel so that the direction of the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other; to work to windward, to beat, to tack.
An arrangement of strands or plies.
Initialism of place marker.
a MOSFET with a p-type channel (a semiconductor doped with an element creating a surplus of holes).
A type of metal, oxide, semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that utilizes an p-type channel, conducting when a voltage voltage below a threshold is applied to the gate relative to the source. It is commonly used in complementary metal, oxide, semiconductor (CMOS) technology alongside nMOSFETs.
Initialism of protected membrane roof.
Abbreviation of photomultiplier tube.
Initialism of protected mobility vehicle
Initialism of passenger name record: the complete details of a passenger's booking, including itinerary, contact details, and special requests; or the unique alphanumeric identifier for each booking.
A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
A handkerchief worn in a breast pocket as an accessory to a suit.
A type of joinery that involves drilling a hole at an angle in one piece which is then joined to another by a self-tapping screw.
A type of tool used to drill a series of holes until a pocket-hole is created.
Ellipsis of pogo oscillation, a dangerous condition where fluctuations in the thrust and acceleration produced by a rocket engine generate variations in the flow of fuel to the engine, amplifying the fluctuations of thrust and acceleration in a positive feedback cycle that can eventually tear the vehicle apart.
To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
A point particle with a nonzero electric charge
A heating device used in freezing weather to keep points (US: switches) free of ice and snow.
An idealization of a particle that does not take up space.
An object with a free-standing point for use in ironing collars, corners and facings.
Movable rails which can be used to switch a train from one railway track to another.
A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
An electric charge that appears on the surface or within a dielectric material due to the polarization process induced by an external electric field.
A fire fighting hand tool consisting of ax or adz head on a wooden handle, used to dig a fireline.
To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
Wood cut from trees of sufficient diameter to form poles, but smaller than sawtimber.
To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
A historic unit of weight used in India, equal to 1 ounce plus 3.25 drams.
A character code represented by two sets of six lit torches, used to send messages character by character, in a two point visual fire telegraph. The character code is generated by encoding characters in a grid, where each character generates two numbers, uniquely representing each character as a pair of numbers.
The planting of two or more crops in the same place.
A polygonal figure the sides of which are vectors representing several forces acting simultaneously upon one point, so that the vector necessary to make the figure closed is the resultant of those forces.
The formation of subgrains within the grains of a metal when worked
To form subgrains within the grains of a metal when worked.
Having multiple dihedral angles along the wingspan.
A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
A mixture of fine-grained sand and binding additives, used to fill the space between pavers.
Pertaining to a modification of viscose fibers in which the cellulose is copolymerized.
Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase.
A group of alternating current circuits having two or more interrelated voltages, usually of equal amplitudes, phase differences, and periods, etc; if a neutral conductor exists, the voltages referenced to the neutral are equal in amplitude and phase; the most common version is that of 3-phase, equal in amplitude with phases 120 degrees apart.
A plastic version of the kind of brewery cask called a pin (equal to half a firkin), popular in homebrewing and the off-trade (deliveries for home consumption).
Polycrystalline silicon: A polycrystalline form of silicon used in some solid-state devices, especially solar cells.
A windlass with many pulleys and truckles
A specific type of woodgrain in lumber and veneers, also known as "quilted" from the French.
The excessive accumulation of water in low-lying areas, remaining 48 hours after the end of rainfall under conditions ordinarily conducive to drying.
A ring-shaped or irregular scar on a glass object from where it was joined with a pontil or blowpipe. Common on bottles prior to the 1830s.
An affordable, compact, highly styled car with a sporty or performance-oriented image.
The driver of a pony that draws a mine wagon.
A wall of low height, not extending all the way from floor to ceiling.
A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
A blind rivet; a rivet which can be fixed with access only to the factory head end; after passing the bucktail through the items to be secured, the rivet gun is attached to a frangible mandrel through the centre of the rivet, which upsets the bucktail to form the field head and breaks off when the correct pressure has been achieved.