whole
unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
| absolute space | physical space independent of what occupies it |
slaughter massacre
mass murder
carnage
butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
| mass spectroscopy | the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles |
| mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
| Mass | (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist |
| High Mass | a solemn and elaborate Mass with music |
| Low Mass | a Mass recited without music |
atom bomb
atomic bomb
A-bomb
fission bomb
plutonium bomb | a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium or plutonium ) |
| atomic clock | a timepiece that derives its time scale from the vibration of atoms or molecules |
| atomic cocktail | an oral dose of radioactive substance used in treatment and diagnosis of cancer |
atomic pile
atomic reactor
pile
chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
atomic warhead
nuclear warhead
thermonuclear warhead
nuke | the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb |
booster booster rocket
booster unit
takeoff booster
takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
Bunker Buster
Guided Bomb Unit-
GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
loudspeaker
speaker
speaker unit
loudspeaker system
speaker system | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
| mass spectrograph | a mass spectrometer that produces a graphical representation of the mass spectrum |
mass spectrometer
spectrometer | spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer |
nuclear weapon
atomic weapon | a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction |
rapid transit
mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
round unit of ammunition
one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
semiconductor device
semiconductor unit
semiconductor | a conductor made with semiconducting material |
visual display unit
VDU | (British) British term for video display |
| wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
weapon of mass destruction
WMD
W.M.D. | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) |
| unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene |
| absolute temperature | temperature measured on the absolute scale |
| absolute zero | (cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal),
Kelvin or -. centigrade or -. Fahrenheit |
| mass | the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field |
| critical mass | the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction |
| rest mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body |
| relativistic mass | (physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases |
| gravitational mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies |
| inertial mass | (physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity |
atomic mass
atomic weight
relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
| mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
molecular weight
relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
| absolute magnitude | (astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance ofparsecs (. light years) from the earth |
bulk
mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
| critical mass | the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture, the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass, there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead, they sold the business because it lacked critical mass |
| absolute ceiling | the maximum altitude at which an airplane can maintain horizontal flight |
absolute pitch
perfect pitch | the ability to identify the pitch of a tone |
| absolute threshold | the lowest level of stimulation that a person can detect |
| mass culture | the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media |
| absolute | something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things, something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control, something that is not relative, no mortal being can influence the absolute |
| unit | a single undivided whole, an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another |
| law of mass action | (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances |
| mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
mass-action principle
mass action | (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning |