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| hardware |
machines, equipment, or weapons used in industrial and military operations. [1/3 definitions] |
| hydrochloric acid |
a strong poisonous acid of hydrogen and chlorine in a water solution, esp. used for industrial and chemical purposes. |
| hydrogen |
a chemical element that contains one proton in each nucleus and that occurs naturally in many compounds such as water, acids, petroleum hydrocarbons, and carbohydrates, and in pure form as a highly flammable, lighter-than-air gas used in many industrial applications, such as the hydrogenation of fats and oils. (symbol: H) (Cf. deuterium, protium, tritium.) |
| industrial |
(pl.) stocks of industrial companies. [1/5 definitions] |
| industrial arts |
(used with a sing. verb) a course of study in a secondary or technical school that trains students to work with industrial tools and machinery. |
| industrialist |
one who owns or manages an industrial business; manufacturer. |
| industrialize |
to introduce industry into (a country, region, or the like); make industrial. [1/2 definitions] |
| industrial relations |
the dealings between industrial employers and their labor force and the public, esp. the methods and regulations thereof. |
| itai-itai disease |
a painful degenerative bone disease contracted by ingesting water or food that has been polluted by industrial cadmium waste. |
| liquor |
a chemical liquid produced or used in some industrial processes; solution. [1/3 definitions] |
| Luddite |
any of a group of British laborers who between 1811 and 1816 destroyed industrial machinery in the belief that its use produced unemployment. |
| man-hour |
a unit of industrial time or production equal to the amount of work one person can or does produce in one hour. |
| nitrogen fixation |
any of various processes to convert atmospheric nitrogen into compounds with other elements, either naturally, as by bacteria, in leguminous plants or the soil, or chemically for industrial use, fertilizers, and the like. |
| nonindustrial |
combined form of industrial. |
| pan |
any vessel that resembles such a container, in an industrial process or as part of a mechanical device. [1/6 definitions] |
| plastic |
any of numerous synthetic substances, usu. organic polymers, that can be easily shaped when soft and then hardened, and that are widely used as industrial and domestic materials and finished products. [1/5 definitions] |
| platform scale |
an industrial weighing device fitted with a platform on which esp. large or heavy objects can be placed and weighed. |
| polytechnic |
of, relating to, or involving many arts and sciences, esp. industrial and technical arts. [2 definitions] |
| preindustrial |
combined form of industrial. |
| refinery |
an industrial plant where natural resources such as petroleum and sugar are purified into usable products. |
| retort2 |
a large vessel in which ore is heated to extract metal, or any similar large industrial heating vessel. [1/2 definitions] |
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