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Quotes: Work, Labor
A four-letter word that is avoided by many people: work quotes.
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labor-, laborat-
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work
1. Exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
2. Something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking.
3. Productive or operative activity.
4. Employment, as in some form of industry; especially, as a means of earning one's livelihood: "He was looking for work."
2. Something on which exertion or labor is expended; a task or undertaking.
3. Productive or operative activity.
4. Employment, as in some form of industry; especially, as a means of earning one's livelihood: "He was looking for work."
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(Greek > Latin: passive, unworkable, slow; a-, "without, not" + ergon, "work")
(Greek: work)
(Greek: work)
(Latin: work, toil)
(Latin: work)
(a four-letter and a five-letter word that are avoided by many people)
(Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal)
(Latin: key; to enclose, to comprise, to involve; to fit together, or to work together; pertaining to the collarbone [so named because of its keylike shape])
(The story of Beowulf was a literary work in Old English)
(a father of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin known as the Vulgate)
(Greek makhana, machana > Latin machina: machine, device, tool; an apparatus for applying mechanical power to do work; mekhanikos > machynen, decide a course of action, contrive, plot contrivance; a machine or the workings of machines)
(simplified connections of word parts which work together to form practical medical terms that can enhance one's understanding of several fields of medicine)
(Greek: toil, labor, work hard, fatigue; exertion; also, suffering, pain)
(robotic devices that work like humans making people unnecessary)
(a Czech word, robota meaning "serf" or "slave" or "forced work" which is now applied to any manufactured device that is capable of doing work ordinarily done by human beings)
(a classical example of phobias in famous art work)
(unit of measurement of electromotive force, or pressure, in an electrical circuit, or 'push', named for Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) renowned for his pioneering work in electricity)
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electronic work function
1. The energy which is necessary to remove an electron with the Fermi energy in a solid to the energy level of an electron at rest in a vacuum outside the solid.
2. The energy required to raise an electron with the Fermi energy (average energy of electrons in a metal) in a solid to the energy level of an inactive electron in a vacuum outside the solid.
2. The energy required to raise an electron with the Fermi energy (average energy of electrons in a metal) in a solid to the energy level of an inactive electron in a vacuum outside the solid.
The term Fermi energy is named after Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), an Italian nuclear physicist and refers to the level in the distribution of electron energies in a solid at which a quantum state is equally likely to be occupied or empty.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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funct-, fungi-
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ergonometrics, work measurement
An application of various procedures for determining the time for an operator to perform a task satisfactorily while using a standard method in the usual environmental conditions; for example, time study or work sampling.
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ergo-, erg-
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-ics, -tics [-ac after i]
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(Photo of world leaders at work)
(Various living organisms are organized from the smallest unit of cells to form tissues which form organs and organs work together to form organ systems)
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Words at Work in the Print Media: INDEX
Lists of words being used in news media headlines, subheadings, and excerpts from applicable articles.
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Index or Menu of Various Topics
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work function
1. The minimum energy needed to remove an electron from the Fermi level (average energy of electrons) of a metal to infinity; usually expressed in electrovolts.
2. The energy difference between the Fermi level and vacuum zero.
2. The energy difference between the Fermi level and vacuum zero.
The minimum amount of energy it takes to remove an electron from a substance into the vacuum.
The term Fermi refers to a unit of length, equal to 10-15 meters; used particularly in measuring nuclear distances.
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Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms +
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