incipient


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Synonyms for incipient

of, relating to, or occurring at the start of something

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Synonyms for incipient

only partly in existence

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"It massively increases the message that the back end of the car is moving," says Harty, "to the extent that--if you let go of the steering wheel--the back of the car will very elegantly steer itself out of an incipient spin."
In persons with light skin color, the standard syphygmomanometer cuff tourniquet test has been widely used to screen children in outpatient settings; a positive test result is an early warning of incipient DHF.
Notifier, a manufacturer of commercial fire alarm technology and systems and part of Honeywell's Life Safety Group, offers Onyx Intelligent Sensing, Designed to increase speed and accuracy of response, Onyx Intelligent Sensing delivers rapid, intelligent response to incipient fire conditions while reducing nuisance alarms caused by dust, moisture, or spurious smoke.
Intelligent sensing technology delivers rapid response to incipient fire signatures while reducing nuisance alarms.
His hips had caused him pain for years, a typical symptom of an incipient problem, but he ignored it.
Maggots hatch from the eggs, burrow into the bulbs and eat the insides, including the incipient flower.
The tester offers complete computer control and impact velocities up to 22 m/sec for rigorous testing in the fields of quality control and R&D to determine important data such as the ductile-to-brittle transition point, ductility, incipient damage, max load, and absorbed energy.
Servicing land and ensuring that equipment and facilities are in satisfactory operating condition by providing for systematic inspection, detection, and correction of incipient failures either before they occur or before they develop into major defects is called preventive maintenance.
However, with this caveat, the book is likely to prove an indispensable reference for incipient and experienced clients to dip into at different stages of a project's progress.
This paper investigates the application of acoustic emission (AE) for detecting incipient cavitation.
Figaro himself, the lively and charming Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, on opening night showed no signs of an incipient indisposition, though he had not sung the dress rehearsal, bowed out after Act II at the second performance and missed all subsequent performances.
In its monthly economic report for September, the government said, ''the economy is moving toward an incipient recovery.''