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self-destruction

[¦self di¦strək·shən]
(ordnance)
The event, due to fuse or tracer action without outside stimulus when provided for in the design, in which the fuse or tracer effects projectile or missile destruction, after flight to a range greater than that of the target.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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A NEW type of text message which self-destructs in 40 seconds has been launched.
These mines often Fail to self-destruct, and "are usually used in great numbers, and spread over huge areas, impossible to map or mark; while active, they are indiscriminate, just like dumb mines."
With ZENworks, corporate information stored on mobile devices is secured via password enforcement and self-destruct or lockout capabilities.
"A bear market in the early years will self-destruct a plan;' said David Zander, a certified financial planner with Lincoln National Life Insurance Co.
In such a situation, the only reasonable solution is to send a self-destruct command.
military began actively seeking self-destruct solutions for its fuzing in 1987.
Once inside the cell, the resistance enzyme catalyzes the release and activation of the toxin causing the cell to self-destruct. Although the ECTA drug may enter normal cells, diseased cells are more susceptible to the drug and its hidden payload because they have much higher concentrations of the resistance enzyme.
By the early '70s, worn out by a flamboyant, peripatetic lifestyle, he began to self-destruct. He was always ending up naked in fountains.
Sitcom episodes will air a single time and then self-destruct. Crummy old cable stations that show nothing but ancient reruns will cease to exist, and TV sets will be equipped with decoders that will destroy any old programs that happen to leach into the system.
TPS could solve this problem." Because Terminator's built-in self-destruct gene would exist in the rice pollen, red rice infected with the herbicide-resistant gene would theoretically produce only sterile seed.
The problem of the method lies in Lerer's exaggeration in defining as exclusively Pandaric the Tudor court's reading of Troilus and Criseyde and then going farther: "It is this 'privy' Pandarus that defines courtly poetics for the Henrician age and, more generally, that shapes the making of the early modern reader." Such reduction tends to self-destruct. The single point of critical entry - Pandarus - cannot bear the epic sweep of stage one, all courtly poetics in this period, or stage two, the making of all early modern readers.
Mark's choices today are to accept the risk that his policies may self-destruct, to start right away to pay higher annual premiums and thus reduce the actuarial risk, or to try to exchange his universal contracts for some type of whole-life insurance.
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