| condensing power | Power generated through a final steam turbine stage where the steam is exhausted into a condenser and cooled to a liquid to be recycled back into a boiler. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| condensing turbine | A turbine used for electrical power generation from a minimum amount of steam. To increase plant efficiency, these units can have multiple uncontrolled extraction openings for feedwater heating. (05 Dec 1998) |
| condensing vacuole | <cell biology> Vacuole formed from the cis face of the Golgi by the fusion of smaller vacuoles. Within the condensing vacuole the contents are concentrated and may become semi crystalline (zymogen granules or secretory vesicles). (05 Jan 1998) |
| condensing, controlled extraction turbines | A controlled turbine that bleeds off (condenses) part of the main stream flow at one (single extraction) or two (double extraction) points. Used when process steam is required at pressures below the inlet pressure and above the exhaust pressure. (05 Dec 1998) |
| condiments | Aromatic substances added to food before or after cooking to enhance its flavor. These are usually of vegetable origin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| condition | A mode or state of being, the state of being fit: the physical status of the body as a whole or of one of its parts usually used to indicate abnormality. (18 Nov 1997) |
| conditional mutation | <molecular biology> A mutation that is only expressed under certain environmental conditions for example temperature sensitive mutants. (05 Jan 1998) |
| conditional probability | A probability quoted when the range of choices admitted is restricted, i.e., conditional; thus, the probability of the child of a colour-blind man inheriting the gene is 1/2 if the child is female and almost zero if the child is male. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conditional use permit | A permit, with conditions, allowing an approved use on a site outside the appropriate zoning class. (05 Dec 1998) |
| conditional-lethal mutant | A viral mutant that can replicate under some (permissive) conditions but not under other (restrictive or nonpermissive) conditions, the parent (wild type) strain being able to replicate under both conditions. See: suppressor-sensitive mutant, temperature-sensitive mutant. Synonym: conditional-lethal mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conditionally lethal mutant | A viral mutant that can replicate under some (permissive) conditions but not under other (restrictive or nonpermissive) conditions, the parent (wild type) strain being able to replicate under both conditions. See: suppressor-sensitive mutant, temperature-sensitive mutant. Synonym: conditional-lethal mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conditioned haemolysis | Haemolysis caused by complement when erythrocytes have been sensitised by specific complement-fixing antibody. Synonym: conditioned haemolysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conditioned medium | <cell biology> Cell culture medium that has already been partially used by cells. Although depleted of some components, it is enriched with cell derived material, probably including small amounts of growth factors, such cell conditioned medium will support the growth of cells at much lower density and, mixed with some fresh medium, is therefore useful in cloning. (18 Nov 1997) |
| conditioned reflex | A reflex that is gradually developed by training and association through the frequent repetition of a definite stimulus. See: conditioning. Synonym: acquired reflex, behaviour reflex, trained reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conditioned response | A response already in an individual's repertoire but which, through repeated pairings with its natural stimulus, has been acquired or conditioned anew to a previously neutral or conditioned stimulus. See: conditioning. Compare: unconditioned response. (05 Mar 2000) |