-
nouna rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using X-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
Similar:
type of:
Definition that contains eds
- right appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
- from Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; the anitithesis and correlative of to;
- job a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- problem a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- play (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- use (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- dog a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
- set put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- red the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
- fast (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds