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Intensity Control: A control for regulating the intensity of background illumination on the radarscope. Also called brilliance control.

Media Access Control (MAC) Address: In networking, MAC Address refers to the globally unique hardware address of an Ethernet network interface card.

National Priorities List For Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites: (National Priorities List or NPL) EPA's list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the United States. The NPL is updated on a regular basis.

Loss-Control Activities: Actions that an insured person or company takes at the instigation of an insurance company in order to prevent accidents or losses.

Negative Feedback Control: Occurs when information produced by the feedback reverses the direction of the response; regulates the secretion of most hormones.

Local Control: Method of controlling the final quality of a print by increasing or decreasing the exposure given to localized areas of the print by selective masking.

Lighting Intensity: The power of a light source. Regarding the relative intensity of lighting sources, see three-point lighting.

Online Medical Control: When taking care of a patient in the field, paramedics must sometimes communicate with a physician.

Primary Control Tide Station: A tide station at which continuous observations have been made over a minimum of 19 years. Its purpose is to provide data for computing accepted values of the harmonic and non-harmonic const . . . View Full Definition

Quality Control: Activities or programs whose purpose is to ensure that all quality specifications for products or services are being met and are of consistently high quality.