rail technology railroading | the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads |
rail | any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud |
corncrake land rail Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
air terminal airport terminal | a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight |
bus terminal bus depot bus station coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
fife rail | the railing surrounding the mast of a sailing vessel |
job-oriented terminal | a terminal designed for a particular application |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
picture rail | rail fixed to a wall for hanging pictures |
plate rail | rail or narrow shelf fixed to a wall to display plates |
rail | a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal) |
rail | short for railway, he traveled by rail, he was concerned with rail safety |
rail fence | a fence (usually made of split logs laid across each other at an angle) |
railing rail | a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
remote terminal link-attached terminal remote station link-attached station | a terminal connected to a computer by a data link |
safety rail guardrail | a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety |
series circuit | a circuit having its parts connected serially |
split rail fence rail | a rail that is split from a log |
terminal terminus depot | station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods |
terminal pole | a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves |
terminal | electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer, has a keyboard and display |
terminus terminal figure term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
third rail | a rail through which electric current is supplied to an electric locomotive |
towel rail towel bar | a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels |
track rail rails runway | a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll |
terminal emulation | (computer science) having a computer act exactly like a terminal |
GI series | diagnostic tests of the alimentary canal, usually involves inserting a contrast medium (such as barium sulfate) and taking an Xay |
series | (mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions |
power series | the sum of terms containing successively higher integral powers of a variable |
geometric series | a geometric progression written as a sum |
Fourier series | the sum of a series of trigonometric expressions, used in the analysis of periodic functions |
time series | a series of values of a variable at successive times |
series serial serial publication | a periodical that appears at scheduled times |
serial series | a serialized set of programs, a comedy series, the Masterworks concert series |
series | (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams, the visiting team swept the series |
World Series | series that constitutes the playoff for the baseball championship, we watched the World Series on TV |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP Mounties | the federal police force of Canada |
electromotive series electromotive force series electrochemical series | a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions, the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series |
series | similar things placed in order or happening one after another, they were investigating a series of bank robberies |
series | a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection, the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers, his coin collection included the complete series of Indian-head pennies |
end terminal | either extremity of something that has length, the end of the pier, she knotted the end of the thread, they rode to the end of the line, the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix |
rail-splitter splitter | a laborer who splits logs to build splitail fences |
exponential series | a series derived from the expansion of an exponential expression |
series | (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other, the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors |
scale scale of measurement graduated table ordered series | an ordered reference standard, judging on a scale of to |
actinide series | (chemistry) a series of radioactive elements with increasing atomic numbers from actinium to lawrencium |
lanthanide series | the rare-earth elements with atomic numbers through , having properties similar to lanthanum |
methane series alkane series alkane paraffin series paraffin | a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(n) |
terminal leave | final leave before discharge from military service |