Glossary
Terms starting with A
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- AVI
- Audio/Video Interleave. Audio file format used by Microsoft Widows.
- AVI
- Stands for Audio/Video Interleaved. AVI is the most common format for audio/video data on the PC.
- AVIATION INSURANCE
- Commercial airlines hold property insurance on airplanes and liability insurance for negligent acts that result in injury or property damage to passengers or others. Damage is covered on the ground and in the air. The policy limits the geographical area and…
- Avocado
- Sometimes called an avocado pear, the avocado is the fruit of the Persea Americana tree, which is native to the subtropical regions of the American continent. It has green, buttery flesh and a large central stone. It's very high in both protein and oil. In…
- AVOIDED COST
- (Regulatory) The amount of money that an electric utility would need to spend for the next increment of electric generation to produce or purchase elsewhere the power that it instead buys from a cogenerator or small-power producer. Federal law establishes…
- avulsion
- when a muscle is forcefully stretched beyond its freely available range of motion, or when it meets a sudden, unexpected resistance while contracting forcefully.
- AVULSION
- The sudden tearing away of land, as by earthquake, flood, volcanic action or the sudden change in the course of a stream.
- axillary dissection
- a surgical procedure in which the lymph nodes in the armpit (axillary nodes) are removed and examined; often used to determine if breast cancer has spread to the axillary nodes.
- axis
- a straight line about which an object rotates
- axon
- the long, hair like extension of a nerve cell that carries a message to a nearby nerve cell.
- axoneme
- A bundle of microtubules and other proteins forming the core of each cilium or flagellum.
- AZIMUTH
- The angular distance between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun. Typically used as an input for opaque surfaces and windows in computer programs for calculating the energy performance of buildings.
- azimuth
- the angle along the horizon measured eastward from due north to the point on the horizon directly below an object