foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
component constituent element | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up, especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, spare components for cars, a component or constituent element of a system |
detector sensor sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
heating element | the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat |
logic element | an electronic device that performs an elementary logic operation |
pixel pel picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
threshold element threshold gate | a logic element that performs a threshold operation |
plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story |
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 |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA | an act passed by Congress in to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, intended to increase United States counterintelligence, separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance |
foreign policy | a policy governing international relations |
Foreign Office | the government department in charge of foreign relations |
French Foreign Office Quai d'Orsay | the French department in charge of foreign affairs, referred to familiarly by its address in Paris |
Foreign Service | the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world |
foreign country | any state of which one is not a citizen, working in a foreign country takes a bit of getting used to |
Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW | an organization of United States war veterans |
foreign legion | a military unit composed of foreign volunteers who serve the state |
French Foreign Legion | a former foreign legion in the French army that was used for military duties outside of France |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court F.I.S.C. | a secret federal court created in by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies |
Foreign Intelligence Service Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki SVR | Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information, collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime |
terrorist organization terrorist group foreign terrorist organization FTO | a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals |
legation foreign mission | a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister |
mission missionary post missionary station foreign mission | an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work |
element | the most favorable environment for a plant or animal, water is the element of fishes |
foreign agent | a spy for a foreign country |
foreign correspondent | a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast |
foreign minister secretary of state | a government minister for foreign relations |
foreign aid | aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another |
foreign bill foreign draft | a bill of exchange that is drawn in one country and made payable in another |
foreign exchange | the system by which one currency is exchanged for another, enables international transactions to take place |
identity identity element identity operator | an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates, the identity under numerical multiplication is |
element | a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone |
element of a cone | a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base |
element of a cylinder | a straight line running the length of the cylinder |
element | the situation in which you are happiest and most effective, in your element |
chemical element element | any of the more than known substances (of which occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter |
transuranic element | any element having an atomic number greater than (which is the atomic number of uranium), all are radioactive |
rare earth rare-earth element lanthanoid lanthanide lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |
metallic element metal | any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
bohrium Bh element atomic number | a transuranic element |
darmstadtium Ds element atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
dubnium Db hahnium element atomic number | a transuranic element |
hassium Hs element atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
meitnerium Mt element atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
roentgenium Rg element atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
rutherfordium Rf unnilquadium Unq element atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized |
seaborgium Sg element atomic number | a transuranic element |
ununbium Uub element atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |
ununhexium Uuh element atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |