loose standards
1loose — adj Loose, relaxed, slack, lax are comparable when meaning not tightly bound, held, restrained, or stretched. Loose is the widest of these terms in its range of application. It is referable, for example, to persons or things that are free from a… …
2loose — 1. promiscuous Used of women rather than men, from the relaxation of tighter standards. A loose woman is a prostitute: There were 8,600 prostitutes known to the police, but this was far from... the number of loose women in the… …
3Loose fill — Kompostierbare Verpackungschips aus thermoplastischer Stärke Transportverpackungen bzw. Versandverpackungen sind Verpackungen, die den Transport von Waren erleichtern, die Waren auf dem Transport vor Schäden bewahren oder die aus Gründen der… …
4JEDEC memory standards — The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is the semiconductor engineering standardization body of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA). Semiconductor memory is a very active area of standardization today. JEDEC Standard 21 specifies… …
5List of jazz standards — Influential jazz composers often contribute tunes to the repertoire of jazz standards well known tunes which are held in continuing esteem and which are widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians.Compositions by Author*Dave… …
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7Cocoanut Grove fire — The Cocoanut Grove was Boston s premier nightclub during the post Prohibition 1930s and 40s. On November 28, 1942, occurred the scene of what remains the deadliest nightclub fire, killing 492 people (which in itself was 32 more than the building… …
8Flexnerian medicine — refers to an era of modern medical practice that crystallized with the publication of the Flexner Report in 1910. The Flexner Report criticized the loose standards of medical education that existed in the United States in the 19th century. The… …
9Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …
10United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
