Clearing forests or removing trees to make land for housing, agriculture , or firewood. Nothing is replanted and no time is allowed for forest regeneration. It is connected to the […]

Chaninging the body caused by stress. The stress in the limits of a material can offset this.

The punishment of being buried alive.

The act of rearranging files on the hard disk to make faster data access.The space left when this happens is filled by new files. If its too big a fragment […]

To practice fraud; to cheat or trick; to deprive a person of property orany interest, estate, or right by fraud, deceit, or artifice. People v. Wiman, 148 N. Y. 29,42 […]

In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.

Privation by fraud.

Deceased; a deceased person. A common term in Scotch law.

Lat. Dead. “Defunctus sine prole,” dead without (leaving) issue.

L. Fr. To waste.

The material that is under deterioration by natural forces or chemicals. Refer to biodegradable and photodegradable .

A deprivation of dignity ; dismission from office. An ecclesiasticalcensure, whereby a clergyman is divested of his holy orders . There are two sorts by thecanon law,

The amount multiplied by mean time between failures of a part to get the operational MTBF.

A term for waste in the French law.

Reviling; holding one up to public obloquy; lowering a person in the estimation of the public.

A chemical that doesn’t dissolve in water. It comes from floors, machine, and tools.They are made from hydrocarbon solvents like kerosene or xylene.

Removing grease from a surface using hot water, steam, alkaline cleaners, or organic solvents.

In the law of descent and family relations. A step or grade, i. e., thedistance, or number of removes, which separates two persons who are related byconsanguinity. Thus we speak […]

1.The unit of an angle or arc. It can be 60 min, 3600 sec, 0.017 radian, or 1/360 of a circle. As for the earths surface it is 60 nautical […]

An old name for degrees celcius. Refer to celsius scale.

A unit for energy demand estimation. It is used in heating or cooling. Indoor temperature is 65 fahrenheit. For one degree increase or decrease from the outside one heat or […]

The monthly degree days over decades. It was was computed from 1971-2000.

When cash flow is exchanged based difference between actual and negotiated degree days in a period of time.

The degrees fahrenheit the hourly average indoor temperature changes from the standard temperature. It is used for head and cooling estimation.

a consideration that is used to determine the degree of a sentence.