escape
flight | the act of escaping physically, he made his escape from the mental hospital, the canary escaped from its cage, his flight was an indication of his guilt |
close call
close shave
squeak
squeaker
narrow escape | something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin |
| escape | a means or way of escaping, hard work was his escape from worry, they installed a second hatch as an escape, their escape route |
| escape | an avoidance of danger or difficulty, that was a narrow escape |
| escape escapism | an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy, romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life, his alcohol problem was a form of escapism |
| evasion escape dodging | nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do, his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible, that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive |
| escape mechanism | a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities |
| escape hatch | hatchway that provides a means of escape in an emergency |
| escape wheel | gear that engages a rocking lever |
fire escape
emergency exit | a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency |
safety valve
relief valve
escape valve
escape cock
escape | a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler), it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
absorptivity
absorption factor | (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body |
sun protection factor
SPF | the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun |
releasing hormone
RH
releasing factor
hypothalamic releasing hormone
hypothalamic releasing factor | any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones, each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone |
gene
cistron
factor | (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain, it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons, it is considered a unit of heredity, genes were formerly called factors |
| cognitive factor | something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result |
determinant
determiner
determinative
determining factor
causal factor | a determining or causal element or factor, education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life |
clincher
decisive factor | a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively |
| factor | an independent variable in statistics |
component
constituent
element
factor
ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
| factor analysis | any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors, beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data |
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
PF | a selfeport personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits |
clincher
determiner determining factor | an argument that is conclusive |
| factor | anything that contributes causally to a result, a number of factors determined the outcome |
escape
leak
leakage
outflow | the discharge of a fluid from some container, they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe, he had to clean up the leak |
agent factor
broker | a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
escapologist
escape expert | an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping |
| escape | a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild |
coefficient of reflection
reflection factor
reflectance
reflectivity | the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface |
| factor | any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together |
| conversion factor | factor by which a quantity that is expressed in one set of units must be multiplied in order to convert it into another set of units |
factor of proportionality
constant of proportionality | the constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y, usually written y kx, where k is the factor of proportionality |
| prime factor | the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity |
| divisor factor | one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer, what are the factors of ? |
multiplier
multiplier factor | the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied |
| scale factor | a number used as a multiplier in scaling |
| time-scale factor | the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process |
| equivalent-binary-digit factor | the average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary, on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes .N binary digits |
common divisor
common factor
common measure | an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly |
greatest common divisor
greatest common factor
highest common factor | the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers |
correction
fudge factor | a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure |
| load factor | (aeronautics) the ratio of an external load to the weight of the aircraft (measured in g) |
safety factor
factor of safety | the ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use |
| rheumatoid factor | autoantibody that is usually present in the serum of people with rheumatoid arthritis |
| growth factor | a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth |
nerve growth factor
NGF | a protein that is involved in the growth of peripheral nerve cells |
tumor necrosis factor
tumour necrosis factor
TNF | a proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages), has an antineoplastic effect but causes inflammation (as in rheumatoid arthritis) |
hyaluronidase
spreading factor
Hyazyme | an enzyme (trade name Hyazyme) that splits hyaluronic acid and so lowers its viscosity and increases the permeability of connective tissue and the absorption of fluids |
coagulation factor
clotting factor | any of the factors in the blood whose actions are essential for blood coagulation |
fibrinogen
factor I | a protein present in blood plasma, converts to fibrin when blood clots |