The first official meeting of a group of people who will be working together on a project. The agenda will usually include introductions, statement(s) of mission, and organization of teams or working-groups. The implication is that there will be more meetings to follow.

Used to form the names of measuring devices.

The appointed time at which a meal is served or eaten.

(mechanics) A mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion, using an intermittent gear where the drive wheel has a pin that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel and thereby advances it by one step, and having a raised circular blocking disc that locks the driven wheel in position between steps.

The Dayi system of text input for Chinese characters.

A marine cargo vessel.

(photography) An instrument that measures the intensity of the light reflected from or falling on a subject, and calculates the optimum exposure depending on the film speed.

The dactylic hexameter.

Alternative form of kilogram-metre

(photography) An exposure meter / Any of various devices that measure some property of light