| operations research | research designed to determine most efficient way to do something |
chemical warfare
chemical operations | warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy |
carpet bombing
area bombing
saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
operations
trading operations | financial transactions at a brokerage, having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
| area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function, the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants |
| base base of operations | installation from which a military force initiates operations, the attack wiped out our forward bases |
breakfast area
breakfast nook | a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen), the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
| dining area | an area arranged for dining, they put up tents for the dining area |
equal-area projection
equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
exhibition hall
exhibition area | a large hall for holding exhibitions |
launching pad
launchpad
launch pad
launch area
pad | a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
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 |
lounge
waiting room
waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
pull-off
rest area
rest stop
layby
lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
seating
seats
seating room
seating area | an area that includes places where several people can sit, there is seating forstudents in this classroom |
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 |
area
expanse
surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
area
region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
| area of cardiac dullness | a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion), corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs |
macula
macula lutea
macular area
yellow spot | a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision |
pyriform area
piriform area
pyriform lobe
piriform lobe | pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon |
cortical area
cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
auditory area
auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
Broca's area
Broca's center
Broca's gyrus
Broca's convolution
convolution of Broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people |
| Brodmann's area | one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
motor area
motor region
motor cortex
Rolando's area
excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
sensorimotor area
sensorimotor region | an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions |
visual area
visual cortex | the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus |
Wernicke's area
Wernicke's center | the auditory word center, located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people |
striate cortex
striate area
first visual area
area of Brodmann
Brodmann's are | the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision |
| area | a subject of study, it was his area of specialization, areas of interest include... |
Kepler's second law
law of areas
law of equal areas | a law concerning the speed at which planets travel, a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times, Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
grey area
gray area | an intermediate area, a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other |
| area code | a number usually of digits assigned to a telephone area as in the United States and Canada |
operational damage
operational casualty | loss of military equipment in field operations |
sterling area
sterling bloc
scheduled territories | the group of countries whose currencies are tied to the British pound sterling |
| operational cell | a terrorist cell that performs clandestine activities |
| area country | a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography), it was a mountainous area, Bible country |
| broadcast area | the area over which a radio or tv transmission can be received |
campsite
campground
camping site
camping ground
bivouac
encampment
camping area | a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent |
river basin
basin
watershed drainage basin catchment area
catchment basin
drainage area | the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries, an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet, flood control in the Missouri basin |
| disaster area | a region whose population is affected by a general disaster |
field field of operations
theater
theater of operations
theatre
theatre of operations | a region in which active military operations are in progress, the army was in the field awaiting action, he served in the Vietnam theater for three years |