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The manipulation of symbols, representing variables, functions, and other mathematical objects, and combinations of these symbols, representing formulas, equations, and expressions, according to mathematical rules.
Industry:Science
The modern theory of matter and its interaction with electromagnetic radiation, applicable to systems of material particles which move slowly compared to the velocity of light and which are neither created nor destroyed.
Industry:Science
The rate of energy conversion into heat in a magnetic material due to the presence of an alternating or pulsating magnetic field. It may be subdivided into two principal components, hysteresis loss and eddy-current loss.
Industry:Science
The lowest major layer of the atmosphere. The troposphere extends from the Earth's surface to a height of 6–10 mi (10–16 km), the base of the stratosphere. It contains about four-fifths of the mass of the whole atmosphere.
Industry:Science
The process of designing an aircraft, generally divided into three distinct phases: conceptual design, preliminary design, and detail design. Each phase has its own unique characteristics and influence on the final product.
Industry:Science
The single class of the subphylum Ciliophora. This group has the characteristics of those defined for the subphylum. This protozoan class is divided into the subclasses Holotrichia, Peritrichia, Suctoria, and Spirotrichia.
Industry:Science
The manifestations of conditions in which normally protective antibody or T cell immune mechanisms are overactive or expressed against self antigens, resulting in damage to cells or organs; also the study of these conditions.
Industry:Science
The software that manages and controls access to data in a database. In a database management system (DBMS), the mechanisms for defining its structures for storing and retrieving date efficiently are known as data management.
Industry:Science
The presence of excess body fat. The great prevalence of this condition, its severe consequences for physical and mental health, and the difficulty of treating it make the prevention of obesity a major public health priority.
Industry:Science
The passage of paired electrons (Cooper pairs) through a weak connection (Josephson junction) between superconductors, as in the tunnel passage of paired electrons through a thin dielectric layer separating two superconductors.
Industry:Science
