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11Cotton made in Africa — Logo Cotton made in Africa Cotton made in Africa is a project initiative launched and managed by the Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF), headquartered in Hamburg.[1] AbTF was founded in 2005 by Dr. Michael Otto, the Hamburg based business leader and …
12cotton gin — a machine for separating the fibers of cotton from the seeds. [1790 1800, Amer.] * * * Machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds. The design that became standard was invented in the U.S. by Eli Whitney in 1793. The mechanization of spinning in… …
13Cotton tensor — In differential geometry, the Cotton tensor on a (pseudo) Riemannian manifold of dimension n is a third order tensor concomitant of the metric, like the Weyl tensor. The concept is named after Émile Cotton. Just as the vanishing of the Weyl… …
14Cotton de Tulear — Coton de Tuléar Coton de Tuléar …
15Cotton, Charles — ▪ English author born April 28, 1630, Beresford Hall, Staffordshire, Eng. died Feb. 16, 1687, London English poet and country squire, chiefly remembered for his share in Izaak Walton s The Compleat Angler. Cotton made a number of… …
16Standard candle — Candle Can dle, n. [OE. candel, candel, AS, candel, fr. L. candela a (white) light made of wax or tallow, fr. cand[ e]re to be white. See {Candid}, and cf. {Chandler}, {Cannel}, {Kindle}.] 1. A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a… …
17Standard of living in the People's Republic of China — Before 1949 the Chinese economy was characterized by widespread poverty, extreme income inequalities, and endemic insecurity of livelihood. Though it has been argued that in the Ming Qing Period the standards of living reached and stayed at a… …
18Standard & Poor's Commodity Index — The Standard Poor s Commodity Index (SPCI) is a commodity price index that measures the price changes in a cross section of agricultural and industrial commodities with actively traded U.S. futures contracts, stretching across five sectors Energy …
19Standard Industrial Classification — Le Standard Industrial Classification (classification normalisée des industries, abrégé en SIC) est un système de classification des industries utilisant quatre chiffres établi par le gouvernement des États Unis dans les années 1930. Il fut… …
20Standard International Trade Classification — A commonly used classification system for internationally traded goods and services. The system consists of 9 sections (numbered 0 through 9), each section is split into divisions, and the divisions are further split into groups. The acronym… …
