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advancing

[əd′vans·iŋ]

(mining engineering)

Mining outward from the shaft toward the boundary.

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The hesitation created some suspicion in the three friends, and Athos, advancing a few paces in front of the others, cried in a firm voice, "Who goes there?

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Then Mahtoree, who did not suffer a muscle or a joint to betray the wonder and surprise he actually experienced, motioned towards the advancing friends of the trapper with an air of assumed civility, and a smile, that lighted his fierce, dark, visage, as the glare of the setting sun reveals the volume and load of the cloud, that is charged to bursting with the electric fluid.

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Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation is engaged in the development of advanced production systems and processes for bringing previously unavailable medical isotopes to the marketplace and advancing systems for local product production.

UTEK Completes Technology Transfer to Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation; Transfer includes license to a compact generator to produce medical isotopes