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production systems

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A collection of workstations that perform operations such as manufacturing, assembly, inspection, finishing, and testing to create products. A workstation is a collection of ...

hyperon

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A collective name for any baryon with nonzero strangeness number s . The name hyperon has generally been limited to particles which are semistable, that is, which have long ...

yeast

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A collective name for those fungi which possess, under normal conditions of growth, a vegetative body (thallus) consisting, at least in part, of simple, single cells. The cells ...

amniota

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A collective term for the classes Reptilia (reptiles), Aves (birds), and Mammalia (mammals) of the subphylum Vertebrata. The remaining vertebrates, including the several classes ...

myriapoda

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A collective vernacular name sometimes used to designate four classes of the phylum Arthropoda as coordinate with the class Insecta (Hexapoda), but no longer considered a natural ...

micelle

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A colloidal aggregate of a unique number (50 to 100) of amphipathic molecules, which occurs at a well-defined concentration called the critical micelle concentration. In polar ...