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  • 71transition-state intermediate — In a chemical reaction, an unstable and high energy configuration assumed by reactants on the way to making products. Enzymes are thought to bind and stabilize the transition state, thus lowering the energy of activation needed to drive the… …

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  • 72Transition from Prison to Community Initiative — The Transition from Prison to Community Initiative was proposed and developed by the National Institute for Corrections as a comprehensive model for the reintegration of convicted felons back into the community.Guidelines for implementation… …

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  • 73State Law and Order Restoration Council —    (SLORC)    The martial law regime that seized power on September 18, 1988. Reorganized as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in November 1997, it is a junta consisting of the highest ranking military officers. According to SLORC… …

    Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)

  • 74transition function — noun A function from (state, input symbol) to state describing what state to move to on receiving a given input in a given state …

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  • 75state machine — noun A formalism for describing computation, consisting of a set of states and a transition function describing when to move from one state to another. This algorithm will produce a state machine for parsing a given context free grammar. See Also …

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  • 76transition — 1. Passage from one condition or one part to another. 2. In polynucleic acid, replacement of a purine base by another purine base or a pyrimidine base by a different pyrimidine. [ …

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  • 77transition temperature — Physics. a temperature at which a substance undergoes some abrupt change in its properties, as when it passes from the normal to the superconducting state. Also called transition point. * * * …

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  • 78Transition metal dioxygen complex — Dioxygen complexes are coordination compounds that contain O2 as a ligand.[1] The study of these compounds is inspired by oxygen carrying proteins such as myoglobin, hemoglobin, hemerythrin, and hemocyanin.[2] Several transition metals form… …

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  • 79transition — noun 1》 the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. 2》 Music a momentary modulation. verb chiefly N. Amer. undergo or cause to undergo a transition. Derivatives transitional adjective transitionally adverb… …

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  • 80transition — [trænˈzɪʃ(ə)n] noun [C/U] the process of changing from one situation, form, or state to another It s not always a smooth transition from school to university.[/ex] transitional adj …

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