plastic surgery
reconstructive surgery
anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
| materials handling | act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices |
| creating from raw materials | the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it |
formation
shaping | the act of fabricating something in a particular shape |
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 |
| film plastic film | a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things |
| plastic art | the arts of shaping or modeling, carving and sculpture |
| plastic bag | a bag made of thin plastic material |
| plastic bomb | a bomb made of plastic explosive |
plastic explosive
plastique | an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy |
| plastic laminate | a laminate made by bonding plastic layers |
| plastic wrap | wrapping consisting of a very thin transparent sheet of plastic |
shaper
shaping machine | a machine tool for shaping metal or wood |
| shaping tool | a tool for shaping metal |
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 |
| source materials | publications from which information is obtained |
LISP
list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
| plastics industry | an industry that manufactures plastic articles |
cosmetic surgeon
plastic surgeon | a surgeon who beautifies the body (especially the face) |
credit card
charge card
charge plate
plastic | a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered, do you take plastic? |
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 |
real-time processing
real-time operation | data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process |
| serial processing | sequential processing by two or more processing units |
shaping
defining | any process serving to define the shape of something |
| word processing | rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing |
| plastic | generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives |
amino plastic
aminoplast
amino resin | a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds, used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles |
| fluorocarbon plastic | a plastic made with fluorocarbon |
phenolic plastic
phenolic urea | a plastic consisting of phenolic resins |
| polymer | a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers |
silicone
silicone polymer | any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures, used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation |
vinyl polymer
vinyl resin
polyvinyl resin | a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the vinyl group |