active air defense | air defense by the use aircraft or missiles or artillery or electronic countermeasures |
passive air defense | air defense by the use of deception or dispersion or protective construction |
passive resistance nonviolent resistance nonviolence | peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate |
active matrix screen | a type of LCD screen used for some portable computers, there is a separate circuit for each pixel |
active placebo | a placebo used in experimental tests of a drug that has noticeable side effects, an active placebo mimics the side effects of the experimental drug |
air terminal airport terminal | a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight |
bus terminal bus depot bus station coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
computer network | (computer science) a network of computers |
drug cocktail highly active antiretroviral therapy HAART | a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors, used in treating AIDS and HIV |
job-oriented terminal | a terminal designed for a particular application |
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 |
passive matrix display | a type of LCD display used for some portable computers, parallel wires run both vertically and horizontally and pixels are turned on when the wires intersecting at that pixel are both energized, passive matrix displays are generally inferior to active matrix displays |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
remote terminal link-attached terminal remote station link-attached station | a terminal connected to a computer by a data link |
terminal terminus depot | station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods |
terminal pole | a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves |
terminal | electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer, has a keyboard and display |
terminus terminal figure term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
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 |
terminal emulation | (computer science) having a computer act exactly like a terminal |
topology network topology | the configuration of a communication network |
network programming | the schedule of programs to be broadcast on a network |
active application | an application that is currently running and in the foreground |
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 |
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 |
end terminal | either extremity of something that has length, the end of the pier, she knotted the end of the thread, they rode to the end of the line, the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix |
active site | the part of an enzyme or antibody where the chemical reaction occurs |
active | a person who is a participating member of an organization, the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees |
active citizen | a citizen who takes an active role in the community (as in crime prevention and neighborhood watch) |
nonesistant passive resister | a reformer who believes in passive resistance |
passive source | an informant who is not assigned to obtain specific intelligence but who routinely passes on whatever information he or she has |
active trust | a trust in which the trustee must perform certain duties |
passive trust | a trust in which the trustee performs no active duties |
active birth | childbirth during which the mother is encouraged to be an active participant |
active transport | transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient, requires an expenditure of energy |
passive transport | transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion, expenditure of energy is not required |