plant flora plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
designation identification | the act of designating or identifying something |
plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
leaf bug plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug four-lined leaf bug Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris | widespread plant and fruit pest |
plant louse louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
woolly aphid woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
jumping plant louse psylla psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
plant hopper planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants |
assembly plant | a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product |
bottling plant | a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps |
chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
electrical system electrical plant | utility that provides electricity |
factory mill manufacturing plant manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
heating system heating plant heating heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
packinghouse packing plant | a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products |
periwinkle plant derivative | an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer |
plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
power station power plant powerhouse | an electrical generating station |
recycling plant | a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials |
sewage disposal plant disposal plant | a plant for disposing of sewage |
steel mill steelworks steel plant steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
identification | the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons) |
code of conduct code of behavior | a set of conventional principles and expectations that are considered binding on any person who is a member of a particular group |
recognition identification | the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering, a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces, experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer |
speaker identification talker identification | identification of a person from the sound of their voice |
plant | something planted secretly for discovery by another, the police used a plant to trick the thieves, he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant |
code | a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy |
access access code | a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) |
area code | a number usually of digits assigned to a telephone area as in the United States and Canada |
bar code Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
color code | system using colors to designate classifications |
cipher cypher cryptograph secret code | a secret method of writing |
Morse Morse code international Morse code | a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) |
ZIP code ZIP postcode postal code | a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail |
code computer code | (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
binary code | code using a string of binary digits to represent characters |
error correction code ECC | (telecommunication) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors |
machine code machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
object code | the machine-language output of a compiler that is ready for execution on a particular computer |
operation code order code | the portion of a set of operation descriptions that specifies the operation to be performed, the set of operations in a computer |
source code | program instructions written as an ASCII text file, must be translated by a compiler or interpreter or assembler into the object code for a particular computer before execution |
ballistic identification ballistic fingerprinting bullet fingerprinting | identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it |
biometric identification biometric authentication identity verification | the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics, negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification, if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot |
number identification number | a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification, she refused to give them her Social Security number |
bank identification number BIN ABA transit number | an identification number consisting of a two-part code assigned to banks and savings associations, the first part shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself |
Roman law Justinian code civil law jus civile | the legal code of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian, the basis for many modern systems of civil law |