discharge
firing firing off | the act of discharging a gun |
release waiver
discharge | a formal written statement of relinquishment |
dismissal
dismission
discharge firing liberation release sack
sacking | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) |
| honorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces with a commendable record |
| dishonorable discharge | a discharge from the armed forces for a grave offense (as sabotage or espionage or cowardice or murder) |
measurement
measuring
measure
mensuration | the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule, the measurements were carefully done, his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate |
| mental measurement | a generic term used to cover any application of measurement techniques to the quantification of mental functions |
| discharge venting | the act of venting |
| computer network | (computer science) a network of computers |
| discharge lamp | a lamp that generates light by a discharge between two electrodes in a gas |
| discharge pipe | a pipe through which fluids can be discharged |
electric-discharge lamp
gas-discharge lamp | an electric lamp in which the light comes from an electric discharge between two electrodes in a glass tube |
| gas-discharge tube | a tube in which an electric discharge takes place through a gas |
local area network
LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
net
network
mesh
meshing meshwork | an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals |
| network | (broadcasting) a communication system consisting of a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same programs, the networks compete to broadcast important sports events |
| network electronic network | (electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits |
| network | a system of intersecting lines or channels, a railroad network, a network of canals |
| T-network | a circuit formed by two equal series circuits with a shunt between them |
wide area network
WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
wireless local area network
WLAN
wireless fidelity
WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
Purkinje network
Purkinje's tissue
Purkinje's system | a network of Purkinje fibers that carry the cardiac impulse from the atrioventricular node to the ventricles of the heart and causes them to contract |
neural network
neural net | any network of neurons or nuclei that function together to perform some function in the body |
| topology network topology | the configuration of a communication network |
| network programming | the schedule of programs to be broadcast on a network |
neural network
neural net | computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons, can learn by trial and error |
| network architecture | specification of design principles (including data formats and procedures) for creating a network configuration of data processors |
| discharge | the sudden giving off of energy |
| electrical discharge | a discharge of electricity |
discharge outpouring
run | the pouring forth of a fluid |
| network army | a group of like-minded people united by the internet, a new kind of social or political of business group that may exert broad influence on a shared concern, a network army of software programmers contribute free software to those who want it |
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FinCEN | a law enforcement agency of the Treasury Department responsible for establishing and implementing policies to detect money laundering |
International Relations and Security Network
ISN | Switzerland's information network for security and defense studies and for peace and conflict research and for international relations |
network
web | an interconnected system of things or people, he owned a network of shops, retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life, tangled in a web of cloth |
| espionage network | a network of spies |
| old boy network | an exclusive informal network linking members of a social class or profession or organization in order to provide connections and information and favors (especially in business or politics), professional women have developed an old boy network of their own |
| brush discharge | discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles |
corona discharge
corona corposant
St. Elmo's fire
Saint Elmo's fire
Saint Elmo's light
Saint Ulmo's fire
Saint Ulmo's light
electric glow | an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere |
discharge
spark
arc
electric arc
electric discharge | electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field |
discharge
emission expelling | any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body, the discharge of pus |
system of measurement
metric | a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic |
unit of measurement
unit | any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange, the dollar is the United States unit of currency, a unit of wheat is a bushel, change per unit volume |
scale scale of measurement
graduated table
ordered series | an ordered reference standard, judging on a scale of to |
gauge
standard of measurement | accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared |
discharge
emission | a substance that is emitted or released |
| vaginal discharge | discharge of secretions from the cervical glands of the vagina, normally clear or white |
exhaust discharge
expel
eject
release | eliminate (a substance), combustion products are exhausted in the engine, the plant releases a gas |
empty
discharge | become empty or void of its content, The room emptied |
acquit
assoil clear
discharge
exonerate
exculpate | pronounce not guilty of criminal charges, The suspect was cleared of the murder charges |
| network | communicate with and within a group, You have to network if you want to get a good job |