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  • 81contact — 1. The touching or apposition of two bodies. 2. A person who has been exposed to a contagious disease. [L. con tingo, pp. tactus, to touch, seize, fr. tango, to touch] balancing c. 1. the contacts between upper and lower dentures on the balancing …

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  • 82Contact approach — A Contact Approach is an approach available to aircraft operating on an IFR flight plan, where the pilot may deviate from the published instrument approach procedure (IAP) and proceed to the destination airport by visual reference to the… …

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  • 83contact — con•tact [[t]ˈkɒn tækt[/t]] n. 1) the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people 2) immediate proximity or association 3) the act or state of being in communication 4) a person one knows through whom one can gain… …

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  • 84Surface condenser — Condenser Con*dens er, n. 1. One who, or that which, condenses. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physic) (a) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a… …

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  • 85Surface acoustic wave — A surface acoustic wave (SAW) is an acoustic wave traveling along the surface of a material having some elasticity, with an amplitude that typically decays exponentially with the depth of the substrate. This kind of wave is commonly used in… …

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  • 86surface hardening — ▪ metallurgy       treatment of steel by heat or mechanical means to increase the hardness of the outer surface while the core remains relatively soft. The combination of a hard surface and a soft interior is greatly valued in modern engineering… …

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  • 87Surface (band) — Infobox musical artist Name = Surface Landscape = yes Background = group or band Origin = flagicon|USA New Jersey, USA Genre = Contemporary R B, Pop, Post disco, Quiet Storm Years active = 1980 s, 1990 s Label = Salsoul, CBS/Columbia Associated… …

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  • 88Surface Transportation Board — The Surface Transportation Board [1] of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of Transportation. The STB was established in 1996 to assume some of the… …

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  • 89contact — i. An air traffic control term, which, when transmitted on the radio, means “Establish radio contact with . . . .” ii. Visual contact by the pilot with another aircraft (friendly, hostile, or unidentified), or object, or target on the ground. iii …

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  • 90Surface-barrier transistor — The surface barrier transistor is a type of transistor developed by Philco in 1953 as an improvement to the alloy junction transistor and the earlier point contact transistor. Like the modern schottky transistor, it offered much higher speed than …

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