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PRIMING
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Priming
[steam engine] Priming (foaming in North America) is a condition in the boiler of a steam engine in which water is carried over into the steam delivery. It may be caused by impurities in the water, which foams up as it boils, or simply too high a water level. It is harmful to the valves and ...
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[science] Priming is a cleaning and preparation process that involves cleaning scientific equipment with the same liquid chemical it will come into contact with during the experiment. During scientific experiments that require high levels of accuracy and involve liquid chemicals, the equipme...
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[agriculture] Priming in botany and agriculture is a form of seed planting preparation in which the seeds are pre-soaked before planting. Priming is not an extremely widely-used method. In general, most kinds of seeds experimented with so far have shown an overall advantage over seeds that a...
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[media] Priming is a theory in which the activation of one thought may trigger related thoughts. The priming theory states that media images stimulate related thoughts in the minds of audience members. For example, if a person were to see a cartoon character play a trick that inflicts pain o...
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A term to designate the harvesting of ripe tobacco leaves from the stalk as they ripen, beginning at the bottom and progressing upward.
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[n] - the act of making something ready
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The act of pre-exposing subjects to memory test material prior to the memory test proper being applied. This might involve something as simple as deliberately pre-using items from a word list prior to the delivery of that list (item priming), or of pre-presenting semantically related items (semantic...
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Sealing of a porous surface so that compounds will not stain, lose elasticity, shrink excessively, etc. because of loss of oil or vehicle into the surround.
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Treatment that does not in itself elicit a response from a system but that induces a greater capacity to respond to a second stimulus.
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Prim'ing noun 1. The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm. 2. (Paint.) The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.
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Treatment that does not in itself elicit a response from a system but that induces a greater capacity to respond to a second stimulus. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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• (n.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prime • (n.) The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface. • (n.) The powder or other combustible used to communic...
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PRIMING
Sealing of a porous surface so that compounds will not stain, lose elasticity, shrink excessively, etc. because of loss of oil or vehicle into the surround.
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priming
- the act of making something ready
- any igniter by which an explosive charge is ignited
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
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charging storage elements to a potential suitable for writing
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The selective portrayal of political events and personalities by the media which in turn affects public opinion.
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The method of adding a small amount of fermentable sugar prior to bottling to give the beer carbonation.
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Addition of sugar to promote a secondary fermentation.
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[immunology] The first contact of a T or B cell with its specific antigen is called priming and causes differentiation into effector T or B cells (cytotoxic, cytokine, antibody). ...
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[psychology] Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences a response to a later stimulus. It can occur following perceptual, semantic, or conceptual stimulus repetition. For example, if a person reads a list of words including the word table, and is later a...
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priming
1) Preparation 2) Readying
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