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cybernetics collapse: (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)

bionics collapse: application of biological principals to the study and design of engineering systems (especially electronic systems)

specimen collapse: a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"; an example regarded as typical of its class

whereabouts collapse: the general location where something is; "I questioned him about his whereabouts on the night of the crime"

space capsule collapse: a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space

crescent collapse: any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters

canton collapse: a small administrative division of a country; divide into cantons, of a country

tall collapse: a garment size for a tall person; great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships"

up collapse: open; "the windows are up"; being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the anchor is up"; "the sun is up"; "he lay face up"; "he is up by a pawn"; "the market is up"; "the corn is up"; spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile"; to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward"; to a more central or a more northerly place; "was transferred up to headquarters"; "up to Canada for a vacation"; nearer to the speaker; "he walked up and grabbed my lapels"; to a higher intensity; "he turned up the volume"; raise; "up the ante"

intractable collapse: not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"

lynch collapse: kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"

mortify collapse: hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"; practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

perspective collapse: the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

sharpener collapse: any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper; "a knife sharpener"

bring round collapse: cause to adopt an opinion or course of action; "His urgent letter finally brought me around to give money to the school"

abolish collapse: do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"

audit collapse: a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation; "he made an audit of all the plants on his property"; "an energy efficiency audit"; "an email log audit"; attend academic courses without getting credit; examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; "audit accounts and tax returns"

vanishing collapse: suddenly disappearing from sight; a sudden or mysterious disappearance; quickly going away and passing out of sight; "all I saw was his vanishing back"

short shrift collapse: brief and unsympathetic treatment; a brief and unsympathetic rejection; "they made short shrift of my request"

reference collapse: the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer"; the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"; the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to; "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes"; a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation"; refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work"

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