work flow
workflow | progress (or rate of progress) in work being done |
flow
stream | the act of flowing or streaming, continuous progression |
| reading meter reading | the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments, he has a job meter reading for the gas company |
book
volume | physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together, he used a large book as a doorstop |
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 |
electric meter
power meter | a meter for measuring the amount of electric power used |
gas meter
gasometer | a meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe |
| gravimeter gravity meter | a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth |
| laminar flow clean room | a clean room free of all extraneous particles, used in fabricating microprocessors |
light meter
exposure meter
photometer | photographic equipment that measures the intensity of light |
| meter | any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity |
| parking meter | a coin-operated timer located next to a parking space, depositing money into it entitles you to park your car there for a specified length of time |
| postage meter | meter for bulk mailings that imprints correct prepaid postage on pieces of mail and records the total charge |
thermobaric bomb
fuel-air bomb
vacuum bomb
volume-detonation bomb
aerosol bomb | a bomb that uses a fuel-air explosive, a thermobaric bomb can create overpressures equal to an atomic bomb |
| water meter | meter for measuring the quantity of water passing through a particular outlet |
volume loudness
intensity | the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction), the kids played their music at full volume |
meter
metre
time | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration |
bulk
mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
dollar volume
turnover | the volume measured in dollars, the store's dollar volume continues to rise |
menorrhea
menstrual blood
menstrual flow | flow of blood from the uterus, occurs at roughly monthly intervals during a woman's reproductive years |
reading meter reading
indication | a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument, he could not believe the meter reading, the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm |
heroic verse
heroic meter
heroic | a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes, dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter |
| volume | a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications, the third volume was missing, he asked for the volume of the Annual Review |
flow chart
flowchart
flow diagram
flow sheet | a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system |
meter
metre
measure beat cadence | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
common measure
common meter | the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad |
tidal flow
tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
flow
flowing | the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) |
airflow
air flow
flow of air | the flow of air, she adjusted the fan so that the airflow was directed right at her |
stream
flow
current | dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas, two streams of development run through American history, stream of consciousness, the flow of thought, the current of history |
| meter maid | policewoman who is assigned to write parking tickets |
| turbulent flow | flow in which the velocity at any point varies erratically |
| streamline flow | flow of a gas or liquid in which the velocity at any point is relatively steady |
| laminar flow | nonturbulent streamline flow in parallel layers (laminae) |
| cash flow | the excess of cash revenues over cash outlays in a give period of time (not including nonash expenses) |
| flow | any uninterrupted stream or discharge |
menstruation
menses
menstruum
catamenia
period
flow | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause, the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation, a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped--Hippocrates, the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
volume unit
capacity unit
capacity measure
cubage unit
cubic measure
cubic content unit
displacement unit
cubature unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity |
square meter
square metre
centare | a centare is
th of an are |
kiloliter
kilolitre
cubic meter
cubic metre | a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to liters |
meter
metre
m | the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately . yards) |
| kilogram-meter | a unit of work equal to the work done by a one kilogram force operating through a distance of one meter |
| volume | the amount of -dimensional space occupied by an object, the gas expanded to twice its original volume |
| volume | a relative amount, mix one volume of the solution with ten volumes of water |
hematocrit
haematocrit
packed cell volume | the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit |
stream
flow | something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously, a stream of people emptied from the terminal, the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors |
flow
flow rate
rate of flow | the amount of fluid that flows in a given time |
menstruate
flow | undergo menstruation, She started menstruating at the age of |
| flow | cover or swamp with water |
flow away
flow off | flow off or away gradually, The water flowed off from the pipe |