| avoidant personality | A personality characterised by a hypersensitivity to potential rejection, humiliation, or shame, an unwillingness to enter into relationships without unusually strong guarantees of uncritical acceptance, social withdrawal in spite of a desire for affection and acceptance, and low self-esteem. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| avoided costs | An investment guideline describing the value of a conservation or generation resource investment by the cost of more expensive resources that a utility would otherwise have to acquire. (05 Dec 1998) |
| avoirdupois | 1. Goods sold by weight. 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea. The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62 deg Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. (See Troy weight) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240 pounds (sometimes called a long ton). Origin: OE. Aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF. Peis weight, F. Poids, L. Pensum. See Aver, and Poise, n. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| avoset | <zoology> A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana. Alternative forms: avocette. Origin: F. Avocette: cf. It. Avosetta, Sp. Avoceta. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| AVP | <abbreviation> Antiviral protein; arginine vasopressin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aVR | <abbreviation> Augmented electrocardiographic leads from the right arm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avulsed wound | A wound caused by or resulting from avulsion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avulsion | Tearing away. A nerve can be avulsed by an injury, as can part of a bone. (12 Dec 1998) |
| avulsion fracture | A fracture that occurs when a joint capsule, ligament, or muscle insertion of origin is pulled from the bone as a result of a sprain dislocation or strong contracture of the muscle against resistance; as the soft tissue is pulled away from the bone, a fragment or fragments of the bone may come away with it. (05 Mar 2000) |