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1 gradual improvement
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2 ♦ improvement
♦ improvement /ɪmˈpru:vmənt/n.1 [cu] miglioramento; perfezionamento; progresso: an improvement in living standards, un miglioramento del tenore di vita; a gradual improvement, un graduale miglioramento3 miglioria; restauro● improvement area, zona di risanamento (urbano) □ (fisc.) improvement charge (o improvement tax), contributo per oneri di urbanizzazione □ This novel is an improvement on (o over) her last, questo romanzo è migliore dell'ultimo che ha scritto. -
3 ♦ gradual
♦ gradual (1) /ˈgrædʒʊəl/a.gradualnessn. [u]gradualità.gradual (2) /ˈgrædʒʊəl/n.(relig.) graduale. -
4 improvement
nулучшение, совершенствование; оздоровление (международного климата и т.п.)- further improvement
- gradual improvement
- growing improvement
- long-term improvement
- marked improvement
- noticeable improvement
- permanent improvement
- radical improvement of international relations
- rapid improvement
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5 gradual
Adj1. क्रमिकThere has been a gradual improvement in his studies. -
6 gradual
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7 gradual
(happening gently and slowly: a gradual rise in temperature.) gradualgradual adj gradual / paulatino
gradual adjetivo gradual
gradual adjetivo gradual ' gradual' also found in these entries: Spanish: paulatina - paulatino - progresiva - progresivo - suave English: gradual - piecemeal - rundown - bytr['grædjʊəl]1 gradual, paulatino,-agradual ['græʤʊəl] adj: gradual, paulatinoadj.• gradual adj.• paulatino, -a adj.n.• gradual s.m.'grædʒuəl['ɡrædjʊǝl]ADJ1) (=slow) [change, improvement, decline] gradual, paulatino2) (=not steep) [slope, incline] suave* * *['grædʒuəl] -
8 постепенное улучшение
Русско-английский политический словарь > постепенное улучшение
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9 Besserung
f; nur Sg. improvement; (Wende zum Besseren) change for the better; (Erholung, auch MED. Genesung) recovery; auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zeichnet sich eine allmähliche Besserung ab there is a gradual improvement ( oder upswing) in the job market; auf dem Wege der Besserung sein be recovering, be on the road to recovery; gute Besserung! I hope you feel better soon; auf Karten: get well soon!* * *die Besserungrecovery; upturn; amendment; reform; betterment; improvement; reformation* * *Bẹs|se|rung ['bɛsərʊŋ]f -, no plimprovement; (von Verbrecher etc) reformation; (= Genesung) recoveryauf dem Wege der Besserung sein — to be getting better, to be improving; (Patient auch) to be on the road to recovery
* * *Bes·se·rung<->1. (Gesundheitszustand) improvementgute \Besserung! get well soon!auf dem Weg der \Besserung sein to be on one's way to recovery2. Lage, Situation an improvement [or a change for the better] [in a situation]; Preis, Kurs gain, advancees soll nie wieder vorkommen, hiermit gelobe ich \Besserung it won't happen again, from now on I'm a reformed character* * *die; Besserung1) (Genesung) recovery[ich wünsche dir] gute Besserung — [I hope you] get well soon
sich auf dem Wege der Besserung befinden — be on the road to recovery or on the mend
2) (Verbesserung) improvement (Gen. in); (eines Kriminellen) reform* * *Besserung f; nur sg improvement; (Wende zum Besseren) change for the better; (Erholung, auch MED Genesung) recovery;auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zeichnet sich eine allmähliche Besserung ab there is a gradual improvement ( oder upswing) in the job market;auf dem Wege der Besserung sein be recovering, be on the road to recovery;gute Besserung! I hope you feel better soon; auf Karten: get well soon!* * *die; Besserung1) (Genesung) recovery[ich wünsche dir] gute Besserung — [I hope you] get well soon
sich auf dem Wege der Besserung befinden — be on the road to recovery or on the mend
2) (Verbesserung) improvement (Gen. in); (eines Kriminellen) reform* * *f.betterment n.improvement n.recovery n.reform n. -
10 Aufheiterung
f1. einer Person: cheering up* * *Auf|hei|te|rungf -, -en(= Erheiterung) cheering up; (von Rede, Leben) brightening up; (MET) brighter periodzunehmende Áúfheiterung — gradually brightening up
* * ** * *Auf·hei·te·rung<-, -en>f1. (das Aufheitern) cheering up2. (Nachlassen der Bewölkung) bright period, improvementzunehmende \Aufheiterung gradual improvement, bright periods of increasing length* * *die; Aufheiterung, Aufheiterungen1) cheering up2) (des Wetters) bright period* * *1. einer Person: cheering up2. pl; METEO clearing up, brightening;zeitweise Aufheiterungen sunny spells, bright periods* * *die; Aufheiterung, Aufheiterungen1) cheering up2) (des Wetters) bright period -
11 Aufheiterung
Auf·hei·te·rung <-, -en> f1) ( das Aufheitern) cheering up2) ( Nachlassen der Bewölkung) bright period, improvement;zunehmende \Aufheiterung gradual improvement, bright periods of increasing length -
12 Erholung
Erholung f 1. BÖRSE rallying; 2. WIWI (infrml) pick-up, recovery, respite • die Erholung ist im Gang WIWI the recovery is under way* * *f 1. < Börse> rallying; 2. <Vw> pick-up infrml, recovery, respite ■ die Erholung ist im Gang <Vw> the recovery is under way* * *Erholung
(Arbeitsruhe) recreation, relaxation, (Ferien) holiday, vacation (US), (Markt) improvement recovery, recuperation, revival, pick-up (US coll.);
• finanzielle Erholung financial recovery;
• rasche Erholung speedy (quick) recovery;
• schnelle Erholung (Kurse) rally;
• wirtschaftliche Erholung economic recuperation (improvement);
• Erholung der Aktienkurse improvement in stocks;
• Erholung der Konjunktur revival in business;
• konsumbedingte Erholung der Konjunktur consumer-led recovery;
• Erholung der Kurse recovery of (comeback, rally in) prices;
• Erholung der Weltwirtschaft world economic recovery;
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13 oplemenjivanje
n ennobling, ennoblement, making/becoming noble; grafting; refining, refinement; improving, improvement; impf gradual/repeated ennoblement (ili refinement, improvement) | farm - bilja plant selection; plant breeding; crop improvement; vet - domaćih životi* * *• breeding• plant breeding -
14 aumento
m.1 increase, rise.un aumento del 10 por ciento a 10 percent increaseun aumento de los precios a price riselas temperaturas experimentarán un ligero aumento temperatures will rise slightlyir en aumento to be on the increaseaumento de sueldo pay rise2 promotion.3 magnifying power.4 jump.pres.indicat.1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: aumentar.* * *1 increase, growth2 (óptica) magnification3 (fotos) enlargement4 (sonido) amplification5 (salario) rise, US raise\ir en aumento to be on the increaseaumento de precios rise in prices* * *noun m.1) increase2) raise* * *SM1) [de tamaño] increase; (Fot) enlargement; (Ópt) magnification2) [de cantidad, producción, velocidad, intensidad] increase; [de precio] increase, risese registró un aumento de temperatura — an increase o rise in temperature was recorded
aumento de peso — [en objeto] increase in weight; [en persona] weight gain
aumento de sueldo, aumento salarial — (pay) rise
3) (Elec, Radio) amplification4)5) (Ópt) magnification6) Méx (=posdata) postscript* * *a) ( incremento) rise, increasepedir un aumento — to ask for a raise (AmE) o (BrE) rise
las tarifas sufrirán un ligero aumento — there will be a small increase o rise in fares
aumento de algo: aumento de peso increase in weight; aumento de temperatura rise in temperature; aumento de precio price rise o increase; aumento de sueldo — salary increase, pay raise (AmE), pay rise (BrE)
b) (Ópt) magnificationlentes con or de mucho aumento — glasses with very strong lenses
* * *= boost, build-up [buildup], extension, growth, increase, rise, tide, expansion, deepening, augmentation, increase in numbers, growth in number, surge, upswing, widening, waxing, enlargement, heightening.Ex. Consequently, Leforte came to expect -- perhaps even take for granted -- the periodic boosts of ego and income that the evaluations provided.Ex. No problem usually with terminals and micros but there could be an undesirable temperature build-up in confined areas.Ex. These can be seen as extensions of the supportive role provided by Neighbourhood Advice Centres to community groups.Ex. This document contains information on such concepts as settlement, urban growth, field patterns, forest clearance and many others.Ex. The term you have chosen indicates an increase in specificity, since it is one of the members of the group described by the basic term.Ex. The rapid rise of computer literacy in the world has led to a demand for the easy availability of many kinds of information.Ex. What has happened is that yet another institution has so overlapped with our own that we are being swept along on the tide of the technological revolution.Ex. This is not a simple general expansion of a description but an increasing emphasis upon aspects of the book.Ex. There is a categorical moral imperative for a deepening and a renewal of the concept of collegiality -- that is a blend of intense competition and mutual support -- in relations between research scholars and research librarians.Ex. If the budget will not permit staff augmentation, then the reference librarian must help the department head to make the most of available resources.Ex. The present increase in numbers of overseas students in Australia tertiary institutions has implications for libraries.Ex. The growth in number of national, regional and international agricultural organisations has resulted in a vast output of scientific and technical literature, issued in a wide variety of forms.Ex. The Internet is also creating a new surge of interest in information in all forms, and a revitalized interest in reading.Ex. The author discusses the current upswing in paperback sales of children's books in the USA and the slump in hardback sales.Ex. Despite growth in export volume in recent years, there has been a widening of the national current account deficit from 8.8% to over 20%.Ex. This waning of one discipline and waxing of another represents the fundamental incommensurability, yet mutual dependence, of existing disciplinary categories of knowledge.Ex. This enlargement of interests forms the basis of the claim to provide an information education appropriate to other than library-type environments.Ex. The arts can serve the heightening of our sensibilities to the theological dimensions of cultural movements.----* aumento acelerado = spurt.* aumento acusado = sharp increase.* aumento asociado a la inflación = inflation-adjusted.* aumento de = increased.* aumento de cantidad = increase in quantity.* aumento de costes = increased costs, cost increase.* aumento de la demanda = increase in (the) demand, increased demand.* aumento de la producción = increased production.* aumento de las diferencias entre... y = widening gap between... and, widening of the gap beween.... and.* aumento del conocimiento = knowledge building.* aumento de los impuestos = tax increase.* aumento del uso = increased use.* aumento de pecho = breast augmentation, breast enlargement.* aumento de peso = weight gain.* aumento de precios = price increase, increased price.* aumento de tamaño = increase in size.* aumento en espesor = thickening.* aumento notable = rising tide.* aumento repentino = upsurge.* aumento salarial = salary increase, pay rise, salary rise.* aumento salarial por méritos = merit salary increase.* aumento transitorio de tensión = surge.* aumento vertiginoso = explosion, spiralling [spiraling, -USA].* conceder aumento salarial = award + salary increase.* en aumento = burgeoning, increasing, mounting, rising, on the rise, growing, heightening.* en aumento gradual = gradually quickening.* en continuo aumento = ever-increasing.* espejo de aumento = magnifying mirror.* experimentar un aumento = experience + rise.* experimentar un aumento vertiginoso = experience + explosion.* gran aumento = heavy increase.* ir en aumento = be on the increase.* lector de aumento = magnifying reader.* lente de aumento = magnifying glass, magnifier.* mamoplastía de aumento = augmentation mammoplasty.* ritmo de aumento = rate of increase.* tasa de aumento = growth rate, rate of growth, rate of increase.* * *a) ( incremento) rise, increasepedir un aumento — to ask for a raise (AmE) o (BrE) rise
las tarifas sufrirán un ligero aumento — there will be a small increase o rise in fares
aumento de algo: aumento de peso increase in weight; aumento de temperatura rise in temperature; aumento de precio price rise o increase; aumento de sueldo — salary increase, pay raise (AmE), pay rise (BrE)
b) (Ópt) magnificationlentes con or de mucho aumento — glasses with very strong lenses
* * *= boost, build-up [buildup], extension, growth, increase, rise, tide, expansion, deepening, augmentation, increase in numbers, growth in number, surge, upswing, widening, waxing, enlargement, heightening.Ex: Consequently, Leforte came to expect -- perhaps even take for granted -- the periodic boosts of ego and income that the evaluations provided.
Ex: No problem usually with terminals and micros but there could be an undesirable temperature build-up in confined areas.Ex: These can be seen as extensions of the supportive role provided by Neighbourhood Advice Centres to community groups.Ex: This document contains information on such concepts as settlement, urban growth, field patterns, forest clearance and many others.Ex: The term you have chosen indicates an increase in specificity, since it is one of the members of the group described by the basic term.Ex: The rapid rise of computer literacy in the world has led to a demand for the easy availability of many kinds of information.Ex: What has happened is that yet another institution has so overlapped with our own that we are being swept along on the tide of the technological revolution.Ex: This is not a simple general expansion of a description but an increasing emphasis upon aspects of the book.Ex: There is a categorical moral imperative for a deepening and a renewal of the concept of collegiality -- that is a blend of intense competition and mutual support -- in relations between research scholars and research librarians.Ex: If the budget will not permit staff augmentation, then the reference librarian must help the department head to make the most of available resources.Ex: The present increase in numbers of overseas students in Australia tertiary institutions has implications for libraries.Ex: The growth in number of national, regional and international agricultural organisations has resulted in a vast output of scientific and technical literature, issued in a wide variety of forms.Ex: The Internet is also creating a new surge of interest in information in all forms, and a revitalized interest in reading.Ex: The author discusses the current upswing in paperback sales of children's books in the USA and the slump in hardback sales.Ex: Despite growth in export volume in recent years, there has been a widening of the national current account deficit from 8.8% to over 20%.Ex: This waning of one discipline and waxing of another represents the fundamental incommensurability, yet mutual dependence, of existing disciplinary categories of knowledge.Ex: This enlargement of interests forms the basis of the claim to provide an information education appropriate to other than library-type environments.Ex: The arts can serve the heightening of our sensibilities to the theological dimensions of cultural movements.* aumento acelerado = spurt.* aumento acusado = sharp increase.* aumento asociado a la inflación = inflation-adjusted.* aumento de = increased.* aumento de cantidad = increase in quantity.* aumento de costes = increased costs, cost increase.* aumento de la demanda = increase in (the) demand, increased demand.* aumento de la producción = increased production.* aumento de las diferencias entre... y = widening gap between... and, widening of the gap beween.... and.* aumento del conocimiento = knowledge building.* aumento de los impuestos = tax increase.* aumento del uso = increased use.* aumento de pecho = breast augmentation, breast enlargement.* aumento de peso = weight gain.* aumento de precios = price increase, increased price.* aumento de tamaño = increase in size.* aumento en espesor = thickening.* aumento notable = rising tide.* aumento repentino = upsurge.* aumento salarial = salary increase, pay rise, salary rise.* aumento salarial por méritos = merit salary increase.* aumento transitorio de tensión = surge.* aumento vertiginoso = explosion, spiralling [spiraling, -USA].* conceder aumento salarial = award + salary increase.* en aumento = burgeoning, increasing, mounting, rising, on the rise, growing, heightening.* en aumento gradual = gradually quickening.* en continuo aumento = ever-increasing.* espejo de aumento = magnifying mirror.* experimentar un aumento = experience + rise.* experimentar un aumento vertiginoso = experience + explosion.* gran aumento = heavy increase.* ir en aumento = be on the increase.* lector de aumento = magnifying reader.* lente de aumento = magnifying glass, magnifier.* mamoplastía de aumento = augmentation mammoplasty.* ritmo de aumento = rate of increase.* tasa de aumento = growth rate, rate of growth, rate of increase.* * *1 (incremento) rise, increaselas tarifas experimentarán or sufrirán un ligero aumento there will be a small increase o rise in faresla tensión va en aumento tension is growing o mounting o increasingel aumento de las cotizaciones en las bolsas the rise in stock market pricesla velocidad del cuerpo va en aumento a medida que … the speed of the object increases as …aumento DE algo:aumento de peso increase in weight, weight gainaumento de temperatura rise in temperatureaumento de precio price rise o increase2 ( Ópt) magnificationun microscopio de 20 aumentos a microscope with a magnifying power o magnification of 20tiene gafas or ( AmL) lentes con or de mucho aumento he wears glasses with very strong lenses* * *
Del verbo aumentar: ( conjugate aumentar)
aumento es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo
aumentó es:
3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo
Multiple Entries:
aumentar
aumento
aumentar ( conjugate aumentar) verbo transitivo
‹precio/sueldo› to increase, raiseb) (Opt) to magnify
verbo intransitivo [temperatura/presión] to rise;
[ velocidad] to increase;
[precio/producción/valor] to increase, rise;
aumento de algo ‹de volumen/tamaño› to increase in sth;
aumentó de peso he put on o gained weight
aumento sustantivo masculino
aumento de temperatura rise in temperature;
aumento de precio price rise o increase;
aumento de sueldo salary increase, pay raise (AmE), pay rise (BrE)b) (Ópt) magnification;
aumentar
I verbo transitivo to increase
Fot to enlarge
Ópt to magnify
II vi (una cantidad) to go up, rise
(de valor) to appreciate
aumento sustantivo masculino
1 increase
aumento de sueldo, pay rise
2 Fot enlargement
3 Ópt magnification
' aumento' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
lente
- más
- petición
- producción
- progresiva
- progresivo
- salarial
- agudo
- auge
- aumentar
- autorizar
- bonificación
- escalada
- nubosidad
- prever
- prometido
- rápido
- representar
- retroactivo
- sensible
- triple
- valorización
- votar
English:
appreciation
- attribute
- bolster
- build-up
- by
- gain
- growing
- growth
- hike
- hysteria
- improvement
- increase
- leap
- mount
- negotiate
- of
- raise
- rise
- surge
- wage increase
- build
- glass
- jump
- pay
- rising
- settlement
- up
* * *aumento nm1. [de temperatura, precio, gastos, tensión] increase, rise;[de sueldo] Br rise, US raise; [de velocidad] increase;un aumento del 10 por ciento a 10 percent increase;un aumento de los precios a price rise;las temperaturas experimentarán un ligero aumento temperatures will rise slightly;aumento lineal [de sueldo] across-the-board pay Br rise o US raise;aumento de sueldo pay increase;2. [en óptica] magnification;una lente de 20 aumentos a lens of magnification x 20* * *de sueldo raise, Br (pay) rise;ir en aumento be increasing* * *aumento nmincremento: increase, rise* * *aumento n increase / riseir en aumento to be increasing / to be rising -
15 refinement
rɪˈfaɪnmənt сущ.
1) очищение, очистка( от примесей), рафинирование( каких-л. технических продуктов, как, напр., металла, спирта и т. п.), рафинация (сахара) ;
обработка, отделка;
повышение качества refinement of nitre ≈ очистка селитры the surface of iron undergoes refinement ≈ поверхность железа подвергается обработке
2) улучшение, усовершенствование (процесс или результат усовершенствования;
тж. приспособление, устройство, улучшающее работу, повышающее качество) all the refinements of his artful policy ≈ все усовершенствования его искусной политики Syn: improvement, perfection, cultivation
3) утонченность, изящество;
изощренность, изысканность (манер, вкуса и т. п.) There was a certain refinement in his temper which won him affection. ≈ В его характере была какая-то определенная утонченность, за которую его все любили. Syn: finesse
1., subtlety, elegance, polish
1. утонченность, изысканность;
тонкость( вкуса и т. п.) ;
изящество - * of morals чистота нравов - * of taste тонкость вкуса, изысканный вкус - with gradual * of the public taste по мере постепенного развития вкуса публики - his solicitude was a * of cruelty его забота была лишь утонченной жестокостью часто( ироничное) благовоспитанность;
(высокая) культура - lack of * вульгарность;
невоспитанность тонкость - to go into *s вдаваться в тонкости - *s of metaphysical thought дебри метафизики усовершенствование - a wireless set with all the largest *s радиоприемник со всеми новейшими усовершенствованиями /приспособлениями/ (специальное) повышение качества (математика) уточнение( формулы и т. п.) incremental ~ вчт. пошаговое уточнение refinement очищение, рафинирование;
обработка, отделка;
повышение качества ~ усовершенствование ~ утонченность, изящество;
изысканность;
refinement of cruelty утонченная жестокость ~ утонченность, изящество;
изысканность;
refinement of cruelty утонченная жестокость step-wise ~ вчт. пошаговое уточнение stepwise ~ вчт. пошаговое уточнениеБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > refinement
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16 постепенное усовершенствование
1) General subject: gradual elaboration2) Advertising: step-by-step improvementУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > постепенное усовершенствование
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17 переход
Переход - changeover, crossover, change, transition, transformation, switch, switching, conversionThis causes the crossover in the comparison between the P values for the array and the duct.Переход наConversion to single-foil bearings is accomplished simply by removing the inboard foils.Since going to direct coloring we have found absolutely no deterioration in quality.Переход от... кSince the selection of fuel burning equipment determines the type of air pollution control required, the change from stoker to pulverized coal may indeed be considered.The gradual transition from case to core makes the boundary difficult to locate precisely.The changeover from higher pressures on the opposite-blockage wall to higher pressures on the blockage wall occurs at x/D = 1.5.The internal structure of the precipitates changes as a transformation from coherency to incoherency occurs.As a result, switching from one type of drill to another is time consuming.The switch from centrifugal to axial compression at 1350-1800 t/d yields a very small cost improvement.Conversion from one fuel to another is accomplished quickly and conveniently.Переход с... на-- Changeover from the failed to the back-up devices shall be bumpless.Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > переход
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18 progressive
progressive [prəˈgresɪv]1. adjectivea. progressifb. [party, person, outlook] progressiste ; [age] de progrès2. nounprogressiste mf* * *[prə'gresɪv] 1.noun progressiste mf2.1) ( gradual) [increase, change] progressif/-ive; [illness] évolutif/-ive2) ( radical) [person, art, idea, policy] progressiste; [school] parallèle; [age, period] progressif/-ive3) Linguistics progressif/-ive -
19 progressive
A n2 Ling progressif m.B adj1 ( gradual) [increase, change] progressif/-ive ; [illness] évolutif/-ive ; progressive taxation impôt progressif ; to show a progressive improvement s'améliorer progressivement ;2 ( radical) [person, idea, policy] progressiste ; [school] parallèle ; [age, period] progressif/-ive ; progressive rock Mus rock m progressiste ;3 Ling progressif/-ive.
См. также в других словарях:
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