This term is used by companies that offer subscription services to clients for example, telephone carriers, Internet service providers, and hosts. It is a measure of the revenue generated by one customer phone, pager, etc., per unit time, typically per year or month.
filch. vb. 1. (tr) to steal or take surreptitiously in small amounts; pilfer. [C16 filchen to steal, attack, perhaps from Old English gefylce band of men].
puddling. (metallurgy). A process for the production of wrought iron by agitation of a bath of molten pig iron with iron oxide in order to reduce the carbon, silicon, phosphorus, and manganese content.uddle, clay puddle, puddling. Clay to which a little water has been added and which then has been tempered, to make it homogeneous and to increase its plasticity; used to prevent the passage of water.