| steel engraving | the act of engraving on a steel plate |
| automatic choke | a choke that automatically controls the flow of air to the carburetor |
automatic firearm
automatic gun
automatic weapon | a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released |
automatic pistol
automatic | a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released |
automatic rifle
automatic machine rifle | light machine gun |
automatic transmission
automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
autopilot
automatic pilot
robot pilot | a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course |
Browning automatic rifle
BAR | a portable . caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine, used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War |
cash machine
cash dispenser
automated teller machine
automatic teller machine
automated teller
automatic teller
ATM | an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used |
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 |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
computer system
computing system
automatic data processing system
ADP system
ADPS | a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage |
Hawaiian guitar
steel guitar | guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect |
| steel | knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod |
| steel arch bridge | a steel bridge constructed in the form of an arch |
| steel drum | a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum, has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) |
| steel engraving | engraving on a steel plate |
| steel engraving | an impression taken from an engraved steel plate |
steel mill
steelworks
steel plant
steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
| steel plate | a plate of steel |
| steel trap | a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey |
| steel-wool pad | abrader consisting of a pad of steel wool used for polishing or smoothing |
sword
blade brand
steel | a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard |
washer
automatic washer
washing machine | a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically |
| steel blue | a greyish blue color |
| steel trap | an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps), he's as sharp as a steel trap, a mind like a steel trap |
automatic pilot
autopilot | a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness, she went about her chores on automatic pilot, too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot, she talked and he dozed and my mind went on autopilot |
information science
informatics
information processing
IP | the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information |
natural language processing
NLP
human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
natural language processor
natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
word processor
word processing system | an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer |
face recognition
facial recognition
automatic face recognition | biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces, they used face recognition to spot known terrorists |
LISP
list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
| steel company | a company that makes and sells steel |
| steel industry | the industry that makes steel and steel products |
| steel band | a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands) |
administrative data processing
business data processing | data processing in accounting or business management |
automatic data processing
ADP | data processing by a computer |
background processing
backgrounding | the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system |
| batch processing | the serial execution of computer programs |
| data processing | (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information |
distributed data processing
remote-access data processing
teleprocessing | data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities |
electronic data processing
EDP | automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes |
foreground processing
foregrounding | the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system |
integrated data processing
IDP | automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system |
| list processing | processing data that is given in the form of chained lists |
mineral extraction
mineral processing
mineral dressing
ore processing
ore dressing
beneficiation | crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques |
multiprocessing
parallel processing | simultaneous processing by two or more processing units |
| priority processing | data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities |
| processing | preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure, the processing of newly arrived immigrants, the processing of ore to obtain minerals |