Term: department of defense laboratory system: a defense laboratory that provides essential services in fundamental science for national security and environmental protection and provides technologies that contribute to industrial competitiveness
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: malnutrition: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: life cycle: the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: jerboa kangaroo: brush-tailed rat kangaroo
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: trunk hose: puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: extraversion: (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: petit mal epilepsy: epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities)
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: anastylosis: the archeological reassembly of ruined monuments from fallen or decayed fragments (incorporating new materials when necessary)
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: phone message: a message transmitted by telephone
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: weapon of mass destruction: a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)
Broader: agency: an administrative unit of government | Unrelated: payena: genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha