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Home Dictionary Name: sequentialCommutator
A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current an attachment to certain electrical machines by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction It may be attached to the end of the spindle of an electric motor where a brush is in contact sequentially with the parts of the spindle that conduct current to the different windings of the motor...
diskette
a data storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit It is used in a specially designed disk drive in which the disk is rotated at high speed and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read write head of the drive Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer...
Domino theory
A political theory current in the 1960s according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism...
magnetic resonance imaging
a medical diagnostic procedure utilizing the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance to generate images of internal parts of the body It depends on the differential absorption of electromagnetic radiation by different types of living tissue in a magnetic field It is complementary to X ray imaging in that the softer tissue show more prominently in magnetic resonance images rather than bone as with X rays It is a non invasive procedure allowing such images to be obtained without penetration of the tissue by objects It is abbreviated MRI As with computerized tomography the results are usually presented as images of sequential planar sections of that part of the body of concern to the physician...
Sequential
Succeeding or following in order...
Consequential provision
Consequential provision, a provision is con-sequential even though it will have to take effect immediately before the discharge because it is a direction which is being made to the administ-rators and they of course will cease to hold office on discharge of the administration order, VCT (UK) Ltd. (in re:), (2001) 1 WLR 436...
Trust for sale
Trust for sale. Trusts for sale of land were commonly crated in settlements and well-drawn wills. The effect was to convert realty into personalty so that the proceeds devolved upon the beneficiaries as personalty unless they elected to take the property as realty (see CONVERSION), except that upon a lapse of the devise of realty in the testator's lifetime the property resulted to the heir-at-law, Ackroyd v. Smithson, (1780) 1 Bro CC 503. Another and more practical consequence was that the whole estate was vested as a rule in the trustees so that with or without consent of any other person as directed by the donor or testator they could vest the whole estate in a purchaser without his seeing to the application of the purchase money (Trustee Act, 1893, s. 14), and without participation of beneficiaries whose consent was not required, thus providing an expedient, which, together with the Settled Land Acts and other statutes giving analogous powers to mortgagees, personal representatives ...
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