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A rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using X-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports.  Synonym: explosive detection system.






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"Eds" Quotes from Famous Books



... referred to again, but that it stood between Ramsey and any entertainment to be obtained of the gentler but less trustworthy sex. And when other Brethren of the "frat" would have pressed Ramsey to join them in various frivolous enterprises concerning "co-eds," or to be shared by "co-eds," Fred thought it better to explain to them privately (all being sacred among Brethren) how Ramsey's life, so far as Girls went, had been toyed with by ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington

... dressing-room of the gymnasium, where the football squad dressed in the sweat-reeking air and shouted at one another, balancing each on one leg before small lockers, and rubbing themselves with brown, unclean Turkish towels; in the neat rooms of girl co-eds with their banners and cushions and pink comforters and chafing-dishes of nut fudge and photographic postal-cards showing the folks at home; in the close, horse-smelling, lap-robe and whip scattered office of the town livery-stable, where Mr. ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... course the famous national holiday arrived, and at about nine o'clock in the morning the family sallied forth on their memorable expedition. The two Eds went first, hurling torpedoes as if they were trade-marks, and now and then touching off a cracker, after having assured themselves that there was no policeman near. Then came the father and mother, arm ...
— Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... An' ye're goin' to seek service in Lunnon? Take my word for't, my gel, they won't want any folks there wi' sort o' gammon like that in their 'eds—they're all on the make there, an' they don't care for nothin' 'cept money an' 'ow to grab it. I ain't bin there, but I've ...
— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli

... is the reading of the first ed. and also of that of 1768. Most of the modern eds. ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray



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