ExpertGlossary terms starting with A

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  1. Apelación Un procedimiento para que un caso sea examinado por un tribunal superior para asegurar que los procedimientos y decisiones de un tribunal inferior hayan…
  2. Apelado La parte vencedora contra quien se presenta una apelación.
  3. Apelante La parte que apela una sentencia o decisión ante un tribunal superior.
  4. aperiodic antenna An antenna designed to have an approximately constant input impedance over a wide range of frequencies.
  5. Aperture An opening; in solar collectors, the area through which solar radiation is admitted and directed to the absorber.
  6. aperture card An IBM punch card with a window which holds a 35mm frame of microfilm. Indexing information is punched in the card.
  7. aperture correction 1. In a scanned image system, electrical compensation for the distortion introduced by the limiting size of a scanning aperture. [IEEE 100; After SMPTE] 2.
  8. aperture distortion In facsimile, the distortion of the recorded image caused by the shape and finite size of the scanning and recording apertures.
  9. aperture illumination 1. The field distribution, in amplitude and phase, over the antenna physical aperture. 2.
  10. aperture-to-medium coupling loss The difference between the theoretical gain of a very large antenna, such as the antennas in beyond-the-horizon microwave links, and the gain that can be…
  11. APEX The portion of a root or shoot containing the primary or apical meristem.
  12. Aphelion The point on the annual orbit of a body (about the sun) that is farthest from the sun; at present, the earth reaches this point (152 million kilometer…
  13. Apheresis A procedure in which blood is collected, part of the blood such as platelets or white blood cells is taken out, and the rest of the blood is returned to…
  14. API Ascent-Phase Intercept.
  15. API (Application Program Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database…
  16. API (Application Programming Interface) A set of functions that gives programmers access to another application's internal features from within their own application.
  17. API Method A statistical method to estimate the amount of surface runoff which will occur from a basin from a given rainstorm based on the antecedent precipitation…
  18. apical cell A meristematic initial in the apical meristem of shoots or roots of plants.
  19. apical dominance The phenomenon where growth of lateral (axillary) bud s in a plant is inhibited by the presence of the terminal (apical) bud on the branch.
  20. apical meristem A region of the tip of each shoot and root of a plant in which cell division is continually occurring to produce new stem and root tissue, respectively.
  21. APIPT Acquisition Planning IPT (PAC-3 term).
  22. APL An aggressive (fast-growing) type of acute myeloid leukemia in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow.
  23. aplastic anemia A condition in which the bone marrow is unable to produce blood cells.
  24. APLE Average Power Laser Experiment.
  25. aplidine A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It is obtained from a marine organism.
  26. APM Advanced Penetration Model.
  27. APMA Acquisition Program Management Agreement.
  28. APMS automated project management system
  29. APO Arizona Projects Office.
  30. Apocalypse A Greek word translated approximately to mean “disclosure of things previously hidden,” it is a term most often applied to the end of the world, the…
  31. apocrine gland A type of gland that is found in the skin, breast, eyelid, and ear. Apocrine glands in the breast secrete fat droplets into breast milk and those in the…
  32. Apocrine Metaplasia (ay'-po-krin meh"-tuh-play'-shuh) occurs when tubules of the breast change from their normal epithelium (tissue) to that of an apocrine sweat gland.
  33. APOD Aerial Point of Debarkation.
  34. apoenzyme Inactive enzyme that has to be associated with a co-enzyme in order to function. The apoenzyme/co-enzyme complex is called a holoenzyme.
  35. Apogee The farthest distance between the moon and earth or the earth and sun.
  36. apogee altitude See altitude of the apogee or of the perigee.
  37. apolizumab A type of monoclonal antibody that is being studied as a treatment for hematologic (blood) cancers.
  38. apomixis The production of an embryo in the absence of meiosis. Apomictic higher plants produce asexual seeds, derived only from maternal tissue.
  39. APOP APOP stands for Authenticated Post Office Protocol. Every mail connection made sends your username and password across the network in clear text (no…
  40. apoptosis (A-pop-TOH-sis) A type of cell death in which a series of molecular steps in a cell leads to its death.
  41. app Abbreviation for application, application software.
  42. app compat The concept of ensuring that older applications still run correctly under newer operating systems.
  43. Apparatus See Machine.
  44. apparatus claim This refers to a patent claim, which describes structurally a piece of equipment and is embraced by the expression "machine" in the definition of…
  45. Apparent Day A solar day; an interval between successive transits of the sun's center across an observer's meridian; the time thus measured is not equal to clock time.
  46. Apparent luminosities The brightness of an object as it appears from the earth. The apparent luminosity does not take into account the distance from the earth to the object…
  47. apparent power In alternating-current power transmission and distribution, the product of the rms voltage and amperage.
  48. Apparent Power (kVA) This is the voltage-ampere requirement of a device designed to convert electric energy to a non-electrical form.
  49. Apparent Temperature A measure of human discomfort due to combined heat and humidity (e.g., heat index).
  50. Apparent Wind The speed and true direction from which the wind appears to blow with reference to a moving point. Sometimes called RELATIVE WIND.
  51. AppCompat database A database that contains a list of applications that may have potential compatibility problems and remedies.
  52. Appeal To call for a review of an IRS decision or proposed adjustment.
  53. appeal (patent) -- see BPAI for info on patent appeals
  54. appeal (trademark) An applicant who wants to contest a final refusal from an examining attorney may file an appeal to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
  55. Appeal Bond A guaranty by the appealing party which insures that certain court costs will be paid.
  56. Appeal Brief A written communication submitted to a higher authority reviewing an adverse patentability decision (rejection of a claim) by an Examiner. In the U.S.
  57. Appeal, Notice of A written communication to a patent office indicating that an adverse patentability decision (rejection of a claim) by an Examiner will be appealed.
  58. Appearance The act of formally coming into court as a party to a suit either in person or through an attorney.
  59. Appelant A patent applicant who has appeal the decision of a patent Examiner to a higher authority. MPEP 1201.
  60. Appellant Party who files the appeal.
  61. Appellant’s Brief The initial brief, where the appellant outlines the mistakes made in the lower court’s decision and states why the appellate court should reverse the…
  62. Appellate About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgment of another lower court or tribunal.
  63. Appellate Court A court having jurisdiction to hear appeals and review a lower court's decisions.
  64. Appellee Party to whom the appeal is filed against.
  65. append mode A file writing mode, in which the existing contents of a file are retained when the file is opened. New contents are appended to the existing.
  66. appendectomy (A-pen-DEK-toh-mee) Surgery to remove the appendix (small finger-shaped pouch at the end of the first part of the large intestine).
  67. Appendix A small, fingerlike pouch that sticks out from the cecum (the first part of the large intestine near the end of the small intestine).
  68. appetite (A-peh-tite) A desire to satisfy a physical or mental need, such as for food, sex, or adventure.
  69. applet Applets are Java programs based around the Applet or JApplet classes. They are most closely associated with the ability to provide active content within…
  70. applet container A container that includes support for the applet programming model.
  71. Appliance A device for converting one form of energy or fuel into useful energy or work.
  72. Appliance Energy Efficiency Ratings The ratings under which specified appliances convert energy sources into useful energy, as determined by procedures established by the U.S.
  73. Appliance Standards Standards established by the U.S. Congress for energy consuming appliances in the National Appliance Energy Conservation Act (NAECA) of 1987, and as…
  74. ApplianceWatch A suite of products for enterprise system management that is formally certified by leading vendors of system management frameworks.
  75. Applicant inventor or joint inventors who are applying for a patent on their own invention, or the person mentioned in 37 CFR 1.42, 1.43 or 1.
  76. Applicant (Visa) A foreign citizen who is applying for a nonimmigrant or immigrant U.S. visa. The visa applicant may also be referred as a beneficiary for petition based…
  77. Applicant Ethnicity Ethnicity of the applicant. This is reported for originated loans and for loan applications that do not result in an origination.
  78. Applicant Race Race of the applicant. This is reported for originated loans and for loan applications that do not result in an origination.
  79. Applicant Sex Sex of the applicant. This is reported for originated loans and for loan applications that do not result in an origination.
  80. Application Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), an oral or written request for an extension of credit that is made in accordance with the procedures…
  81. Application (for Patent) A document describing a claimed invention and requesting that a patent on the claimed invention be granted to an applicant. In the U.S.
  82. application (patent) an application for patent filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) that includes all types of patent applications (i.e.
  83. application (trademark) a document by which a person requests a federal trademark registration. To receive a filing date, an application must include (1) the applicant's name…
  84. application assembler A person who combines J2EE components and modules into deployable application units.
  85. application association A cooperative relationship between two application entities, formed by their exchange of application protocol control information through their use of…
  86. application catalog A IBM® Lotus® Notes® application (CATALOG.NSF) on an IBM® Lotus® Domino™ server that contains a list of Notes applications on the server.
  87. application client A first-tier J2EE client component that executes in its own Java virtual machine. Application clients have access to some J2EE platform APIs.
  88. application client container A container that supports application client components.
  89. application client module A software unit that consists of one or more classes and an application client deployment descriptor.
  90. application compatibility The concept of ensuring that older applications still run correctly under newer operating systems.
  91. application compatibility database A database that contains a list of applications that may have potential compatibility problems and remedies.
  92. application component provider A vendor that provides the Java classes that implement components' methods, JSP page definitions, and any required deployment descriptors.
  93. application configuration resource file An XML file used to configure resources for a JavaServer Faces application, to define navigation rules for the application, and to register converters…
  94. Application Content Filtering Application content filtering is performed by a software proxy agent to remove or quarantine viruses that may be contained in email attachments, to block…
  95. Application efficiency The ratio of the average depth of irrigation water infiltrated and stored in the root zone to the average depth of irrigation water applied, expressed as…
  96. application entity (AE) The system-independent application activities that are made available as application services to the application agent, e.g.
  97. Application Fee A fee charged when you apply for a credit card.
  98. Application for a Ballot by Mail (ABBM) To be entitled to vote an early voting ballot by mail, a person who is eligible for early voting must make an application for an early voting ballot to be…
  99. Application for a Place on the Ballot The form filed by a candidate with the appropriate filing authority to apply for a place on a ballot.
  100. Application for Certification (AFC) Document required for submission to the California Energy Commission by proponents of power-generating facilities in California that have nameplate…