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पाइअ लच्छी नाम माला-महाकवि धनपाल – प्राकृत शब्दकोश Paia Lacchi Nammala – Prakrit Dictionary by Dhanapala – 993 CE

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पाइअ लच्छी नाम माला-महाकवि धनपाल – प्राकृत शब्दकोश Paia Lacchi Nammala – Prakrit Dictionary by Dhanapala – 993 CE

पाइअ लच्छीनाममाला-1029 Vikram Sambat प्राकृत-लक्ष्मीनाममाला धनपालकृत ‘पाइअ लच्छीनाममाला- Prakrit Dictionary संशोधक बेचरदास जीवराज दोशी पाइअ लच्छीनाममाला-Paia Lacchi Nammala-Maha Kabi Ghanapala-1039 Vikram Sambat

Arabic Lexicon

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Arabic Lexicon

The first Arabic lexicon is that which is generally ascribed to al-K͟halīl, and entitled Kitābu ʾl ʿAin. The following are the most celebrated Arabic dictionaries composed after the ʿAin.

Dictionary of Influenza illness

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Medical

Dictionary of Influenza illness

An influenza pandemic is a global outbreak of a new influenza A virus. Pandemics happen when new (novel) influenza A viruses emerge which are able to infect people easily and spread from person to person in an efficient and...

Caveat and Caveat Emptor

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CIVIL

Caveat and Caveat Emptor

in law, a notice served on a public officer or court to refrain from doing a certain act without first giving notice to the caveator, as the person is termed who enters the caveat. Perhaps the best known use...

What is hire-purchase agreement

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CIVIL

What is hire-purchase agreement

A hire-purchase agreement, being an agreement to hire coupled with an option (not an obligation) to purchase, developed in the middle of the nineteenth century as a means of financing the retail acquisition of furniture, sewing machines and musical...

Euro-NCAP: Car assessment programme

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CIVIL

Euro-NCAP: Car assessment programme

Euro-NCAP The European New Car Assessment Programme is an influential, independent assessment of the safety of passenger cars to occupants and pedestrians, based upon the long-established NCAP for North America. The tests are controversial in that they differ from...

Demand levelling

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CIVIL

Demand levelling

Demand levelling is a technique to reeduce the fluctuations in demand for product which occur both within companies and along supply chains. Reducing lead times and batch sizes are two beneficial changes that smooth the flow of products to...

Cycle time

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CIVIL

Cycle time

Cycle time is the time required to complete one cycle of an operation within an overall production process. Understanding cycle times is an important part of line balancing : if cycle time for every operation in the complete process...

Cellular manufacturing

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CIVIL

Cellular manufacturing

Cellular manufacturing refers to the arrangement of a factory into production cells consisting of a number of machines performing different operations, typically laid out in a U-shape or rough triangle rather than a traditional line, to permit one-piece flow...

Activity-based costing

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CIVIL

Activity-based costing

Activity-based costing (ABC) is a potentially complex management accounting system that assigns costs to products based on the cost of all the activities connected with that product – including purchasing, set-up times etc. ABC should recognise the true cost...

Waste of time

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Waste of time

wastes Scrap components are an obvious form of waste, the pioneering thinker Taiichi Ohno of Toyota Motor Co. identified 7 forms of wasted time, effort or materials all of which lead to inefficiency in the production process. They are:...

Collateral and collateral agreement means

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Statutory definitions

Collateral and collateral agreement means

“collateral” means- (i) money, in the form of cash, credited to an account in any currency, or a similar claim for repayment of money, such as a money market deposit; (ii) securities of any kind, including debt and equity...