HP TextEngineer Technical Writing Guide - Manual (Page 13)

Company Writer's Guide
[For Illustration Only] 1-13
post-heat
post-test
preheat
preoperational
pre-procurement
pre-service (um)
proactive
pushbutton
read-out (n, um)
real-time (um)
record-keeping (um)
remote-handled (um)
roundtable
self-sufficient (um)
set point
shear wave (um)
shutdown
sign-off (n, um)
socioeconomic
soil-structure (um)
stand-alone
standup
startup
state-of-the-art (um)
Statement of Work
subassembly
subunit
thousand
through-wall (um)
time-history (um)
time-out
Title II
topcoat
trade-off (n, um)
two-dimensional (um)
Type 304
Type A
U.S. (um)
unisolatable
United States (n)
up-front (um)
VAC
VDC
versus
videodisk
videotape
walkdown
warmup
water-reducing (um)
watertight
wave-front (um)
work-around (n, um)
work scope
workday
workstation
world-class (um)
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±0.5
1990s
Notes:
1. Certain compound or joined words may become two words when used as a verb. Example: We will start up
the process next month.
2. Certain words are hyphenated when they are adjectives (unit modifiers), but not when they stand alone.
Example: The computer is off line.