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cool

1. mod. unabashed; unruffled; relaxed. (see also keep one’s cool, lose one’s cool.) She is totally cool and easygoing.

2. mod. good; excellent. This is a really cool setup!

3. mod. [of music] mellow; smooth. This stuff is so cool, I’m just floating.

4. mod. no less than [some amount of money]. She cleared a cool forty thousand on the Wilson deal.

5. in. to die; to become cold after death. (Medical euphemism.) We were afraid that he would cool.

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MTV is positioning itself as the Cool Channel on the still hot tarmac of the Info Supersuckway.

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When Cool moved to Southern California 12 years ago, after earning a computer studies degree from Ohio State, his dream was to learn to surf.

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An influx of unsaturated air capable of absorbing moisture is required for a sand cooling system to effectively cool sand using evaporation.

Controlling Hot Sand to Ensure Mold, Casting Quality

The company is exploring new infiltration materials for SLS, including beryllium-copper, Ampco 940 nickel-silicon-chromium-copper alloy, tungsten carbide and aluminum, and silicon-bronze, which reportedly can make tools that will cool up to 40% faster than conventional molds.

Rapid tooling: it's faster in molding, too: rapid tooling technology is not just about speedy moldmaking. Now it also signifies higher productivity in molding. The latest RT technology achieves dramatically faster cooling and stands up to long-run molding, as well

There are archives of cool sites, a list of Web events - updated daily, of course - and a list of serious tips on how to make your own site look good.

SITES LET WEB BROWSERS KEEP UP APPEARANCE OF BEING NET-SAVVY : ROUNDUP OF SITES

12 Nature, may someday offer computer makers a simple way to cool their machines' hardware, making possible faster and more powerful circuitry for computing and communicating.

Optical refrigeration proves really cool

Much of today's cool came from one man - one moody boy, really: James Dean.

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Garrett's efforts to cool gases with sound began at Los Alamos (N.

A refrigerator with the coolest sound

The news was mostly in components that are more compact, more durable, less prone to leaking or corrosion, and able to heat or cool your molds with less energy.

Water & oil temperature control: whether your molds run cold or hot, new chillers, TCUs, and cooling towers can save you energy, floor space, and maintenance costs. Some of them even talk to you over the Web

Provided that the sample is allowed to cool below the eutectoid transformation point [[less than]1292F (700C)], the system can also predict pearlite and Brinell hardness.

Optimizing iron quality through artificial intelligence

Campbell and McAndrews mimicked the Little Ice Age by gradually lowering the man annual temperature in southern Ontario by 2 [degrees] CC over the 650-year cool span.

Minor climate change can unravel a forest

The function of the lower tandem mixer is to accept the hot batch and to cool it prior to addition and incorporation and dispersion of the curatives.