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fine

a monetary penalty imposed in criminal matters. Itmaybe accepted in instalments, and in some cases, essentially based on means, the court may remit (extinguish) the fine. In the UK there are maximum levels of fines laid down for certain offences. Some levels are changed every so often in accord with the change in the value of money. There are sometimes statutory equivalent periods of imprisonment laid down for failure to pay fines.

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Various grades provide finer cell structures and smooth surfaces.

Blowing agents

High-energy electrons have extremely short wavelengths, making possible the creation of much finer patterns than can be made with other methods.

Fine lines for chips: competing technologies for downsizing the transistor

But even here, chemical blowing agents (CBAs) often serve as nucleating agents to improve processing and yield a finer cell structure.

Blowing agents for thermoplastics: endothermics on the rise

In addition to discerning finer details than current methods, this technique could require a lower overall X-ray dose to produce an image.

Low-dose X rays can sharpen fine details

"We want to move in the direction of finer geometry.

'Rapid tooling' gains swift acceptance

Now, the sharp-eyed, repaired Hubble has captured this remnant in finer detail.

A supernova remnant's shocking trail

In response to reader requests, we are providing a finer breakout of clamp-tonnage categories at both the large and small ends of the machine size range.

Hourly-rate upturn due?

"The finer the changes, the more carefully you can tune your experiments."

A new way to synthesize 'natural' proteins

Likewise, Union Carbide says it has identified selected silicone copolymer surfactants that yield finer foam cell structure to balance the higher thermal conductivity and plasticizing effect of HCFC-123.

Environmental issues top agenda at polyurethanes conference

But the dominance of larger grains at Andromeda's core would pose another puzzle: Why and when were the more typical, finer dust grains destroyed?

Andromeda's twin peaks

ITASCA The Finer Line of Itasca was recently named the Awards and Personalization Association's (APA) 2018-2019 Large Business Retailer of the Year.