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life support system

(Encyclopedia)life support system: see artificial life support; Life Support for Human Spaceflight under space science. ...

pitot static system

(Encyclopedia)pitot static system pētōˈ [key], device for measuring the rate at which a fluid flows. Among the principal applications of the device are an airspeed indicator for aircraft and a distance and speed...

central nervous system

(Encyclopedia)central nervous system: see nervous system. ...

sympathetic nervous system

(Encyclopedia)sympathetic nervous system: see nervous system. ...

Space Transportation System

(Encyclopedia)Space Transportation System, official designation for the U.S. space shuttle. ...

transdermal delivery system

(Encyclopedia)transdermal delivery system: see skin patch. ...

ring, mathematical system

(Encyclopedia)ring, in mathematics, system consisting of a set R of elements and two binary operations, such that addition makes R a commutative group and multiplication is associative and distributes over addition...

peripheral nervous system

(Encyclopedia)peripheral nervous system: see nervous system. ...

Cassel, Gustav

(Encyclopedia)Cassel, Gustav go͝osˈtäf käˈsəl [key], 1866–1945, Swedish economist and authority on international monetary problems. He was a delegate to many world economic conferences and wrote valuable pa...

Ouro Prêto

(Encyclopedia)Ouro Prêto ōˈro͝o prāˈto͝o [key] [Port.,=black gold], city (1996 pop. 61,606), Minas Gerais state, E Brazil. Founded as Vila Rica in the gold rush near the end of the 17th cent., it became a pr...