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Administrative

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.

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Administer 74% connected

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…

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Administer 74% connected

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…

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Administration 66% connected

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office…

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Administerial adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

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Assize noun · 78% connection

The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in th…

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Autopsorin noun · 78% connection

That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.

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Bohr theory noun · 78% connection

(physics) a theory of atomic structure that combined Rutherford's model with the quantum theory; electrons orbiting a nucleus can only…

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Comfortment noun · 78% connection

Act or process of administering comfort.

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Directory noun · 78% connection

A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

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Division noun · 78% connection

One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

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Dynamical adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force.

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Energy level noun · 78% connection

a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules; "according…

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Energy of activation noun · 78% connection

the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur; "catalysts are said to red…

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Energy state noun · 78% connection

a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules; "according…

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Enthalpy noun · 78% connection

(thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume and pressure; "entha…

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Erg noun · 78% connection

The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimete…

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Exchange energy noun · 78% connection

the energy involved in the exchange interaction.; "Exchange energy splittings are very elusive to calculate for molecular systems at l…

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Executive adjective · 78% connection

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the…

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Executory adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.

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Exhibition noun · 78% connection

The act of administering a remedy.

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Force noun · 78% connection

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising…

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