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111Z type carriage — Infobox Train background = name = Z type carriage imagesize = 300px caption = Exterior of a ACZ type carriage interior interiorcaption = Interior of a first class ACZ carriage Manufacturer = Victorian Railways Factory = Newport Workshops Family …
112Drainage system (Agriculture) — An agricultural drainage system is a system by which the water level on or in the soil is controlled to enhance agricultural crop production.=Classification=Figure 1 classifies the various types of drainage systems. It shows the field (or… …
113Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast — (ADS B) is a cooperative surveillance technique for air traffic control and related applications. An ADS B out equipped aircraft determines its own position using a global navigation satellite system and periodically broadcasts this position and… …
114Spider web — Spider s Web redirects here. For other uses, see Spider s Web (disambiguation). Spiral orb webs in Karijini, Western Australia …
115Isherwood framing — Naval Archit. a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs. Also called Isherwood system, longitudinal framing. [named after B. F.… …
116pineapple — /puy nap euhl/, n. 1. the edible, juicy, collective fruit of a tropical, bromeliaceous plant, Ananas comosus, that develops from a spike or head of flowers and is surmounted by a crown of leaves. 2. the plant itself, having a short stem and rigid …
117Southeast Asia — Southeast Asian. the countries and land area of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. * * * Vast region of Asia lying east of the Indian subcontinent and south of China. It includes …
118telephone — telephoner, n. /tel euh fohn /, n., v., telephoned, telephoning. n. 1. an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, esp. by an electric device. v.t. 2. to speak to or summon (a person) by telephone. 3.… …
119vein — veinal, adj. veinless, adj. veinlike, adj. /vayn/, n. 1. one of the system of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart. 2. (loosely) any blood vessel. 3. one of the riblike thickenings that form the… …
120Alpine skiing — Class of competitive ski events consisting of speed events (the downhill and the supergiant slalom) and technical events (the slalom and giant slalom). Speed events are contested in single runs down longer, steeper, faster courses, with fewer… …
