short-range plans

1) воен. с малым радиусом действия; ближнего действия; с малой дальностью полета

2) общ. кратковременный, краткосрочный, рассчитанный на короткий срок

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1) (not reaching a long distance: short-range missiles.) kortdistanse-

2) (not covering a long time: a short-range weather forecast.) kortsiktig

adj. \/ˌʃɔːtˈreɪndʒ\/, \/ˈʃɔːtreɪndʒ\/

1) kortdistanse-

2) på kloss hold

• that was a short-range shot

3) kortsiktig

• he only makes short-range plans

1. преим. воен. с малым радиусом действия; ближнего действия; с малой дальностью полёта

2. рассчитанный на короткий срок

3. спец. короткодействующий, близкодействующий

1 corto; breve; conciso; di breve durata: He has short legs, ha le gambe corte; This jacket is short on you, questa giacca ti è corta; a short journey, un viaggio breve; a short answer, una risposta breve; short hair, capelli corti; short wind, fiato corto; (aeron.) short landing, atterraggio corto; short dash, breve scatto; volata; a short way off, a breve distanza; (elettr.) a short circuit, un corto circuito; un cortocircuito; ( radio) short waves, onde corte; a short speech [style], un discorso [uno stile] conciso; Short, weak governments, governi deboli, di breve durata

2 basso; piccolo ( di statura): He's too short to play volleyball, è troppo basso per giocare a pallavolo

3 scarso; insufficiente: short weight, peso scarso; short measure, misura insufficiente; a short ten miles, dieci miglia scarse; meno di dieci miglia

4 brusco; rude; secco; sgarbato: a short reply, una brusca risposta; Don't be short with me!, non essere sgarbato con me!

5 friabile; frollo: short coal, carbone friabile; short pastry, pasta frolla

6 (metall.) fragile: short iron, ferro fragile

7 (comm.) a breve scadenza: a short bill, una cambiale a breve scadenza

8 (rag.: di somma, ecc.) parziale

9 ( Borsa) corto; allo scoperto: short position, posizione corta; short sale [seller], vendita [venditore] allo scoperto; short selling, il vendere (o vendite) allo scoperto

10 (market.: di un prodotto, una derrata, ecc.) che scarseggia; non disponibile

11 (trasp.) incompleto; in meno ( di quanto pattuito): short delivery, consegna in meno; short shipment, spedizione incompleta

12 (fon.: di vocale) breve

13 (pred.) mancante, privo; che si trova qc. in meno; a corto di: to run short, finire, venire a mancare; We are two cases [200 dollars] short, (ci) mancano due casse [200 dollari]; He's short on brains, è corto di cervello; I was short of breath, ero senza fiato; I'm short of money, sono a corto di quattrini; They are a mile short of their goal, manca loro un miglio alla meta

14 (fam.) a corto di soldi: DIALOGO → - Local shop 1- I'm a bit short, sono un po' a corto di soldi

15 (fam.: di liquore) liscio

● (med.) short-acting, ad azione breve □ ( d'oratore, di un discorso) to be short and to the point, essere conciso e pertinente □ (fam.: di un discorso) short and sweet, (piacevolmente) conciso; essenziale, stringato □ ( tennis) a short-angled volley, una volée molto angolata □ short-armed, dalle braccia corte □ (giorn.) short article, trafiletto □ (fin.) short bond, titolo di stato a breve (termine) □ (elettr.) short-contact switch, interruttore cortocircuitante □ ( Borsa) short covering, copertura di una posizione corta; il coprirsi da una vendita allo scoperto □ (comm.: di cambiale, ecc.) short-dated, a breve scadenza □ a short drink, una bevanda (o una bibita) servita in un bicchiere piccolo; un bicchierino ( di liquore); (spec.) un aperitivo □ (cinem.) a short film, un cortometraggio □ short for, abbreviazione di; diminutivo di: Sam, short for Samuel, Sam, diminutivo di Samuele □ short fuse, miccia corta; (fig. fam.) irascibilità, eccitabilità □ short-haired, dai capelli corti; ( d'animale) dal pelo corto □ to be short-handed, essere a corto di manodopera, essere sotto organico; (naut.: di nave) avere l'equipaggio incompleto □ (trasp.) short-haul, a breve distanza; a breve raggio: a short-haul run, un viaggio a breve distanza; a short-haul plane, un aereo a breve raggio □ (ipp.) a short head, mezza testa, meno d'una incollatura: to win by a short head, ( di cavallo) vincere per una mezza testa; (fig.) vincere per un pelo □ (comm.) to be short in one's payments, essere in arretrato coi pagamenti; essere moroso □ short-legged, dalle gambe corte □ short list, lista ristretta (o dei favoriti); rosa dei candidati □ short-lived, che ha breve vita; (biol.) che ha la vita corta; (fig.) di breve durata, passeggero: short-lived enthusiasm, entusiasmo passeggero □ short loan, mutuo a breve termine; prestito a breve scadenza □ (fam.) a short one, un bicchierino di liquore; un cicchetto □ (econ.) short period (o short range), breve periodo; breve termine: in the short period, nel breve periodo □ short-range, (econ., meteor.) a breve (termine); (tecn.) a corto raggio, a corta gittata (o portata): short-range forecast, previsione a breve termine; a short-range missile, un missile a corto raggio; short-range plans, progetti a breve termine; a short-range rifle, un fucile a corta gittata (o portata) □ (anat.) short ribs, costole mobili □ short run, (econ.) breve periodo, breve termine; (giorn.) piccola tiratura □ short-run (agg.), (econ.) a breve termine, nel breve periodo; ( editoria: di un libro, ecc.) stampato in un numero limitato di copie: (econ.) short-run planning, programmazione a breve termine □ (naut.) a short sea, mare corto; maretta □ ( tennis) short serve (o short service), servizio corto; battuta corta □ ( sport) short shot, tiro corto; palla corta; ( anche) tiro da vicino □ short sight, vista corta, miopia; (fig.) imprevidenza, miopia □ short-sighted, corto di vista, miope; (fig.) miope, imprevidente □ short-sightedness, vista corta, miopia; (fig.) imprevidenza, miopia □ short sharp shock, incarcerazione dei delinquenti minorili a scopo di dissuasione; punizione severa e senza preavviso; maniere forti □ short-spoken, di poche parole; laconico □ short-staffed, a corto di personale; sotto organico □ a short story, un racconto; una novella: a short short story, un racconto cortissimo □ ( a carte) short suit, sequela corta; meno di quattro carte dello stesso seme □ short supply, scarsità ( di merce e fig.): Good teachers are in short supply, c'è scarsità di bravi insegnanti □ (aeron.) short take-off and landing (abbr. STOL), decollo e atterraggio corto □ short temper, irascibilità: He has a short temper, è irascibile □ short-tempered, collerico; irascibile; stizzoso □ short-term, (econ., fin.) a breve scadenza, a breve (termine); (econ.) congiunturale: short-term action, interventi a breve ( sull'economia); short-term bank debt, indebitamento a breve verso le banche; short-term borrowing, indebitamento a breve; short-term economic policy, politica congiunturale; short-term financing, finanziamento a breve; short-term fluctuations of demand, fluttuazioni congiunturali della domanda; short-term paper, titolo di credito a breve termine □ short-term saving, risparmio a breve termine □ (fig.) short-termism, il progettare a breve, in vista di un vantaggio immediato; miopia (spec. in politica, economia e finanza) □ ( sport) a short throw, un lancio corto □ (ind.) short time, orario ridotto: to be on short time (o to work short time) lavorare a orario ridotto; The workers were put on short time, gli operai hanno avuto una riduzione di orario □ (ind.) short-time working, lavoro a orario ridotto □ a short time ago, poco tempo fa □ (spec. USA) short ton, tonnellata americana ( pari a 2000 libbre, cioè a 907 kg circa) □ short waist, vita (troppo) alta ( in un vestito) □ short-waisted, che ha la vita (troppo) alta □ short walk, passeggiata breve; (equit.) passo corto ( del cavallo) □ ( radio) a short-wave broadcast, una trasmissione sulle onde corte □ a short-wave radioset, un apparecchio radio a onde corte □ short-winded, dal fiato corto, bolso, sfiatato; (fig.) conciso, stringato □ short-windedness, fiato corto; bolsaggine; (fig.) concisione, stringatezza □ short-witted, di poco cervello; stupido; tonto □ at short notice, con breve preavviso; entro breve termine □ at short range, a breve distanza; a corto raggio □ to cut a long story short, per farla corta (o breve) □ to get short, abbreviarsi, accorciarsi: The days are getting shorter and shorter, le giornate si accorciano sempre più □ to give short weight, dare il peso scarso; rubare sul peso □ to make short work of st., consumare (o finire, distruggere) qc. rapidamente; liquidare (o sbrigare, divorare, fare fuori) qc. in quattro e quattr'otto; ( sport) liquidare, sbarazzarsi facilmente di ( un avversario) □ to make a long story short, per farla breve; per tagliar corto; volendo essere conciso □ to take short views, guardare solo al presente; non pensare al futuro; vivere alla giornata.

1 (fon.) vocale (o sillaba) breve; (una) breve

2 ( prosodia) segno di breve

3 (cinem., TV) short; cortometraggio; corto

4 (pubbl., TV) short pubblicitario; spot

5 (giorn.) trafiletto

6 (rag.) somma parziale

7 (pl.) (ind.) sfridi; ritagli

8 (pl.) (ind.) cruschello

9 (pl.) (tecn.) sopravaglio

10 (pl.) ( Borsa) titoli di stato a breve termine

11 ammanco ( di denaro)

12 ( Borsa) = short sale [seller] ► short (1), def. 9

13 (fam.) cortocircuito; corto (fam.)

14 (fam.) bicchierino di liquore

15 (pl., slang USA) – the shorts, l'essere a corto di soldi: Mine is a case of the shorts, sono proprio in bolletta

● for short, per brevità: They call him Sam for short, per brevità, lo chiamano Sam (abbr. di Samuel); il suo diminutivo è Sam □ in short, in breve; in poche parole □ the long and the short of it, tutto quel che c'è da dire.

1 bruscamente; di botto; di colpo; improvvisamente; tutt'a un tratto: The car stopped short, l'automobile si è arrestata bruscamente; to stop st. short, fermare bruscamente qc.; to stop sb. short, interrompere q. ( che parla)

2 bruscamente; rudemente; in modo sgarbato: He talks short with everybody, parla in modo brusco con tutti

3 ( Borsa) allo scoperto: to sell short, vendere ( titoli, ecc.) allo scoperto

4 ( sport, ecc.) corto: to play short, giocare corto

● short of, all'infuori di; tranne; ad esclusione di; eccetto: Short of going on strike, I don't see how we can get a pay rise, all'infuori di uno sciopero, non vedo come si possa ottenere un aumento salariale □ short of actually stealing, pur senz'arrivare al furto vero e proprio □ (fam.) to be caught short = to be taken short ► sotto □ to cut short, farla corta, tagliar corto; abbreviare ( la procedura, ecc.); interrompere ( uno che parla) □ to cut the matter (o it) short, (per) farla corta; (per) tagliar corto; alle corte □ to fall (o to come) short of, non raggiungere, restare indietro a; rimanere al di sotto di, essere inadeguato (o insufficiente); venir meno a, deludere: This poem falls short of perfection, questa poesia non raggiunge la perfezione; His action fell short of the occasion, la sua azione fu inadeguata al caso; The result has come short of our expectations, il risultato ha deluso le nostre speranze □ (fam.) to go short of st., restare a corto di qc. □ to let sb. go short, lasciare q. senza (qc.); far mancare (qc.) a q. □ nothing short of, a dir poco; addirittura; senz'altro: a victory nothing short of miraculous, una vittoria a dir poco miracolosa □ ( di un veicolo) to pull up short, fermarsi di botto; arrestarsi bruscamente □ to run short, venir meno; scarseggiare; esaurirsi: Our supplies ran short, le nostre provviste erano finite □ to run short of st., restare a corto di qc., rimanere senza qc.: We've run short of bread, siamo rimasti senza pane □ to sell a crop short, vendere un raccolto anzitempo; vendere il grano in erba □ a shot that falls short, un tiro corto ( di fucile, ecc.) □ to stop short of doing st., fermarsi prima di fare qc. □ to take sb. up short, interrompere bruscamente q. □ (fam.) to be taken (o caught) short, essere messo in difficoltà; sentire un improvviso bisogno corporale; dover scappare in bagno (fam.).

A v. t.

1 causare un cortocircuito in ( un impianto); mettere in cortocircuito; cortocircuitare

2 ( USA, = to shortchange) dare il resto sbagliato a (q.)

3 ( USA) far mancare qc. a (q.); lesinare a (q.): I shorted him on beer, his favorite drink, gli lesinai la birra, la sua bevanda preferita

B v. i.

(elettr.) andare in corto (circuito): Mind that the battery connections don't short, bada che i collegamenti della batteria non vadano in corto!

● ( USA) to short sb. at the scales, rubare a q. sul peso □ to short out, (elettr.) andare in corto; (fig. USA) andare su tutte le furie; esplodere (fig.); infuriarsi.

- ad hoc plan

1. n

1) план, программа

2) проект

3) план, схема

2. v

1) составлять план

2) проектировать

3) намереваться

мен. план; проект; програма

заздалегідь розроблена, підготовлена менеджментом (management²) програма дій, процедур тощо, за якою передбачають виконання організаційних цілей, завдань, обсягу роботи і т. ін.

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action plan план заходів; advertising plan план реклами • рекламний план • план рекламної кампанії; allocation plan план розподілу чого-небудь; alternative plan варіант плану • альтернативний план; amended plan уточнений план; annual plan річний план; appraisal plan система оцінювання; approved plan затверджений план; assistance plan план допомоги; balanced plan збалансований план; basic plan основний план • опорний план; bonus plan система заохочення • система заохочувальних винагород; brand plan план випуску марки • план випуску марочного товару; budget plan кошторисний план; business plan комерційний план • бізнес-план • план ділової активності; business-building plan план розширення діяльності; business-portfolio plan план розвитку сфери діяльності; campaign plan план рекламної кампанії; capacity plan план підвищення продуктивності • план розвитку виробничої потужності; capital investment plan план капіталовкладень; capital spending plan програма капіталовкладень; coherent plan послідовний план • внутрішньо скоординований план; combined plan поєднаний план; communications plan план комунікації; company-wide plan загальнофірмовий план; compensation plan програма відшкодовування; complete plan комплексний план; comprehensive plan комплексний план; concrete plan конкретний план; consumption plan план споживання; contingent consumption plan умовний план споживання; coordinated plan координований план; copy plan структура тексту; cost finding plan система калькуляційних відомостей; counter plan зустрічний план; coupon plan купонна програма; creative plan творчий план; credit plan кредитний план; current plan поточний план; daily plan добовий план • план на добу; decision plan схема прийняття рішень; delivery plan план постачання; departmental plan план відділу; development plan план розвитку; differential time plan почасово-прогресивна система заробітної плати; distribution plan план розподілу; draft plan проект плану; economic plan економічний план • господарський план; editorial plan редакційний план; elaborate plan старанно продуманий план; emergency plan план на випадок надзвичайних обставин • план на непередбачені випадки; employment plan програма забезпечення зайнятості; export plan план експорту; export-import plan план експорту-ім-порту товарів; family assistance plan програма допомоги багатодітним родинам; feasible plan допустимий план (у задачах лінійного програмування); financial plan фінансовий план; financing plan план фінансування; fixed plan твердий план • встановлений план; food stamp plan програма харчових купонів; formal plan формальний план; general plan загальний план; health insurance plan план медичного страхування; housing development plan програма житлового будівництва; implementation plan план здійснення наміченого; import plan план імпорту; initial plan вихідний план; inspection plan план інспекції • план приймального контролю; instalment plan план купівлі на виплат; integrated plan комплексний план; introductory plan ввідний план • план виходу на ринок; investment plan програма капіталовкладень; layaway plan відкладання і сплачування товару на виплат; lease plan план оренди; long-range plan перспективний план • довгостроковий план; long-term plan перспективний план • довгостроковий план; management plan план організаційної діяльності; market plan план роботи на ринку • план ринкової діяльності; marketing plan план збуту • план маркетингу; master plan генеральний план • зведений план; media plan план застосування засобів реклами • медіа-план; medium-term plan середньостроковий план; multistage plan багатоетапний план; multiple-time plan відрядно-прогресивна система заробітної плати; national plan національний план; national economic plan народногосподарський план; national media plan план застосування загальнонаціональних засобів реклами; objectionable plan неприйнятний план; on-going plan поточний план • план, який здійснюється в поточний період; operating plan виробничий план • оперативний фінансовий план; operational plan оперативний план; optimal plan оптимальний план; organization plan схема організаційної структури; organizational plan організаційний план • організаційна структура; outline plan схематичний план; output plan план випуску продукції; overall plan всеосяжний план; package plan комплексний план • пакет заходів • комплекс заходів; pay plan порядок виплати зарплати; payment plan план виплати; payout plan схема виплати; pension plan система пенсійного забезпечення; practicable plan здійсненний план; preliminary plan попередній план; procurement plan план закупівлі; product plan план виробництва товару • план випуску товару; product promotion plan план просування товару; production plan виробничий план; profit plan заходи для отримання прибутку; profit-sharing plan система участі в прибутках; projected plan план на майбутнє; promotion plan план стимулювання збуту • план стимулювання; provisional plan тимчасовий план; publicity plan план популяризації • рекламний план; purchase plan план закупівлі; quality assurance plan програма забезпечення якості продукції; quarterly plan квартальний план; recruitment plan план набору персоналу; research plan план досліджень; retirement plan план пенсійного забезпечення • пенсійна програма; revised plan переглянутий план; rough plan приблизний план • орієнтовний план; sales plan план збуту; sales promotion plan план стимулювання збуту; sampling plan програма вибіркового обстеження • план вибіркового контролю; short-range plan короткостроковий план; short-term plan короткостроковий план; spending plan програма витрат; stowage plan план розміщення вантажу в вантажних приміщеннях судна; strategic plan стратегічний план; summary plan зведений план; supply plan план постачання; support plan план допомоги; survey plan план обстеження; systematic plan комплексний план; tactical plan тактичний план; target profit plan заходи для отримання цільового прибутку; technical plan технічний план; trial-use plan пробне вживання товару; turnover plan план обороту; unacceptable plan неприйнятний план; underestimated plan нереальний план; wage plan система заробітної плати; workable plan здійсненний план; working plan робочий план; yearly plan річний план; zone plan зональний план

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according to plan згідно з планом • за планом • відповідно до плану; plan for expansion програма розвитку; plan of action план дій; plan of distribution план розподілу • план розміщення; plan of operation план роботи; to abandon a plan відмовлятися/відмовитися від плану • скасовувати/скасувати план; to adhere to a plan дотримуватися/дотриматися плану • додержуватися/додержатися плану; to adjust a plan вивіряти/вивірити план • коригувати/відкоригувати план; to approve a plan затверджувати/затвердити план; to carry out a plan виконувати/ виконати план; to coordinate plans координувати/скоординувати плани; to draw up a plan упорядковувати/упорядкувати план • накреслювати/накреслити план; to elaborate onaplan розробляти/розробити план; to execute a plan виконувати/ виконати план; to finance a plan фінансувати план; to fund a plan фінансувати план; to go ahead with plans реалізовувати/реалізувати план; to implement a plan виконувати/виконати план; to incorporate in a plan включати/включити в план; to interfere with plans розладнувати/розладнати плани; to launch a plan братися/взятися за виконання плану; to make plans складати/скласти плани; to negotiate a plan обговорювати/обговорити план; to offer a plan пропонувати/запропонувати план; to outline a plan накреслювати/накреслити план; to prepare a plan готувати/підготувати план; to propose a plan пропонувати/запропонувати план; to put forward a plan висувати/висунути план; to reconsider a plan переглядати/переглянути план; to refine a plan уточнювати/уточнити план; to revise a plan переглядати/переглянути план; to spoil plans розладнувати/розладнати плани; to submit a plan подавати/подати план на розгляд; to work out a plan розробляти/розробити план

1. n

1) план; программа; проект

- make up a plan

- form a plan

- draw a plan

- initiate a plan

- put forward a plan

- sponsor a plan

- further plans

- shape a plan

- outline a plan

- submit a plan

- welcome a plan

- foist a plan upon smb.

- back out of a plan

- scuttle a plan

- on a year's installment plan

2) замысел, намерение

- according to plan

- change a plan

- upset one's plans

- camouflage militaristic plans

3) схема, чертёж

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- state plan

- preconcerted plan

- general plan

- research plan

- financing plan

- long-range plan

- conversion plan

- package plan

- endorsement of the state plan

- consumption plan

- five-year plan

- curtailed plan

- preliminary plan

- operating plan

- short-range plan

- counter plan

- combined plan

- objectionable plan

- appraisal plan

- rough plan

- development plan

- workable plan

- national economic plan

- practicable plan

- plan of the premises showing the allocation of rooms

- capital spending plan

- bonus plan

- Morris plan

- investment plan

- overall plan

- fixed plan

- short-term plan

- coherent plan

- long-term plan

- basic plan

- management plan

- plan of the premises

- game plan

- spending plan

- medium-term plan

- Marshall plan

2. v

— accommodation officer

— accredited officer

— acting officer

— action officer

— action staff officer

— active officer

— administration officer

— administrative officer

— adviser duty officer

— aerial delivery officer

— aerial surveillance officer

— aeromedical evacuation control officer

— aeromedical evacuation coordinating officer

— aeromedical evacuation liaison officer

— aeromedical evacuation operations officer

— aeronautical evacuation control officer

— agent finance officer

— air commanding officer

— air contact officer

— air control/antiair warfare officer

— air defense artillery officer

— air liaison officer

— air movement officer

— air officer of the day

— air officer

— air operations officer

— air reconnaissance liaison officer

— air reconnaissance officer

— air support officer

— air surveillance officer

— air training officer

— air transport liaison officer

— air transport operations officer

— air transportation officer

— air weapons training officer

— airborne control officer

— airborne force liaison officer

— aircraft maintenance officer

— aircraft warning officer

— airlift duty officer

— airlift liaison coordination officer

— alcohol and drug control officer

— ammunition officer

— ammunition technical officer

— amphibian tractor officer

— antiair warfare officer

— antimechanized officer

— antisubmarine officer

— approach line control officer

— area intelligence officer

— area petroleum officer

— armament and electronics officer

— armament officer

— armament operation officer

— armament systems officer

— armored officer

— army artillery officer

— Army aviation officer

— Army Emergency Relief officer

— Army's Chief Personnel Selection officer

— artillery air officer

— artillery forward observation officer

— artillery intelligence officer

— artillery liaison officer

— artillery maintenance officer

— artillery officer

— artillery ordnance officer

— aspirant officer

— assessing officer

— assignment officer

— assistant administrative officer

— assistant artillery officer

— assistant central control officer

— assistant commanding officer

— assistant division aviation officer

— assistant military landing officer

— assistant officer

— assistant operations officer

— assistant staff officer

— AT officer

— athletics and recreation officer

— atomic demolition munition staff officer

— automatic data processing systems analysis officer

— automation management officer

— automotive officer

— aviation safety officer

— base operations officer

— battery assistant executive officer

— battery control officer

— battery executive officer

— battery gun position officer

— battery officers

— bi-functional staff officer

— billeting officer

— bomb disposal officer

— bomb reconnaissance officer

— bombardment liaison officer

— briefing officer

— brigade officer

— buildings and grounds officer

— burial supervising officer

— cable officer

— Cadet Instruction List officer

— cadet officer

— camouflage officer

— career officer

— career reserve officer

— careers officer

— carrier-borne ground liaison officer

— cartographic officer

— case officer

— casual officer

— casualty clearing officer

— catering officer

— censorship officer

— central force control officer

— chemical maintenance officer

— chemical officer

— chemical processing officer

— chemical supply officer

— chief administrative officer

— chief administrative staff officer

— chief chemical officer

— chief cipher officer

— chief decontamination officer

— chief disbursing officer

— chief education officer

— chief engineer officer

— chief general staff officer

— chief intelligence officer

— chief medical officer

— chief ordnance officer

— chief public affairs officer

— Chief Public Relations officer

— chief recruiting officer

— chief signal officer

— Chief Signals officer

— chief staff officer

— chief supply and transport officer

— chief transportation officer

— cipher officer

— civil affairs officer

— civil defence officer

— civil defense warning officer

— civil liaison officer

— civilian personnel officer

— civil-military operations officer

— claims officer

— classification and assignment officer

— classification officer

— classified material control officer

— collection management officer

— colour officer

— combat cargo officer

— combat reports officer

— combat service support coordination officer

— combatant officer

— COMINT officer

— command duty officer

— Command Security officer

— commanding artillery officer

— Commanding officer of Troops

— commissioned officer

— commissioned warrant officer

— communications and electronics security officer

— communications duty officer

— communications officer

— communications security officer

— communications watch officer

— communications/electronics officer

— community relations officer

— company execution officer

— company executive officer

— company grade officer

— compensation officer

— complex safety officer

— confinement officer

— conservation officer

— construction engineer officer

— continuity officer

— contracting officer

— coordinating officer

— correspondence officer

— counter mortar officer

— counterbattery intelligence officer

— counterbattery officer

— counterbombardment officer

— counterfire officer

— counterintelligence officer

— countermortar intelligence officer

— countermortar liaison officer

— courier transfer officer

— court-martial officer

— CP officer

— crew evaluation officer

— criminal investigations officer

— cryptanalysis officer

— cryptographical officer

— cryptologic officer

— DA air traffic coordinating officer

— damage-control officer

— debarkation medical officer

— debarkation officer

— decontamination officer

— defense attache liaison officer

— Defense Communications officer

— Defense Liaison officer to the President

— deferred officer

— demolition officer

— departure airfield control officer

— deplaning officer

— depot commanding officer

— deputy commanding officer

— deputy public affairs officer

— desk officer

— detail officer

— detraining officer

— development projects officer

— disbursing officer

— dispatching officer

— disposal officer

— district engineering officer

— district intelligence officer

— division ammunition officer

— division artillery executive officer

— division chemical officer

— division materiel officer

— division officer

— division ordnance officer

— division property book officer

— division signal officer

— division's commanding officer

— drop zone control officer

— drop zone safety officer

— dump officer

— duty cypher officer

— duty intelligence officer

— duty officer

— ECM officer

— education services officer

— elementary schools officer

— embarkation and combat cargo officer

— embarkation billeting officer

— embarkation control officer

— embarkation medical officer

— embarkation staff officer

— emergency traffic coordinating officer

— emplaning officer

— engineer grounds and maintenance officer

— engineer officer

— engineer operations officer

— engineer reconnaissance officer

— engineer supply officer

— engineering assignment officer

— engineering duty officer

— engineering officer

— entertainments officer

— entraining officer

— equal opportunity staff officer

— equipment and maintenance officer

— escort officer

— evacuation officer

— EW officer

— EW/cryptologic tactical operations officer

— examining officer

— exchange officer

— executive officer

— extraction zone control officer

— FA fire support officer

— family welfare officer

— female officer

— field grade officer

— field officer of the day

— field petroleum officer

— field press censorship officer

— field security officer

— field services officer

— fighter director officer

— fighter duty officer

— fighter liaison officer

— finance and accounting officer

— fire direction officer

— fire prevention officer

— fire support coordination officer

— fire support officer

— firing officer

— fiscal officer

— flag officer assault and lodgement area

— flag officer

— flag-rank officer

— fleet marine officer

— flight officer

— flight safety officer

— flying officer

— food service officer

— force gunnery officer

— force modernization action officer

— foreign area officer

— forward air control officer

— forward area support coordinating officer

— forward control officer

— forward observer officer

— front-line officer

— fuels officer

— gangplank officer

— gas identification officer

— general and organizational action officer

— general duty officer

— General officer Commanding

— General officer Commanding-in-Chief

— general staff officer

— general supply officer

— GM operations officer

— grad officer

— ground defense officer

— ground liaison officer

— ground officer

— ground training officer

— guidance control officer

— guidance systems officer

— gun position officer

— gunnery officer

— heavy engineer equipment officer

— helicopter loading zone control officer

— high-ranking officer

— highway traffic officer

— highway transportation officer

— housing officer

— human relations officer

— immediate commanding officer

— in-addition-to-other-duties officer

— income tax assistance officer

— indorsing officer

— infantry officer

— information activities officer

— inspection officer

— installation intelligence and security officer

— installation transportation officer

— installations officer

— instructor officer

— insurance officer

— intelligence communications officer

— intelligence language officer

— intelligence liaison officer

— intelligence officer

— intelligence research officer

— interpreter officer

— interrogation officer

— investigating officer

— junior officer of the day

— junior officer of the watch

— junior officer of the week

— junior rank officer

— land liaison officer

— landing control officer

— landing-craft control officer

— landing-force loading officer

— language officer

— launch-control officer

— laundry officer

— law enforcement officer

— legal assistance officer

— liaison duty officer

— liaison officer to departure airfield

— liaison officer

— liaison staff officer

— limited duty officer

— line officer

— line specialist officer

— loading officer

— local claims officer

— local purchasing officer

— local transport officer

— logistics assignment officer

— logistics assistance officer

— logistics control officer

— logistics officer

— logistics readiness officer

— long-term officer

— mail officer

— main officers

— maintenance officer

— make an officer

— mapping and intelligence officer

— marshaling area control officer

— materiel readiness officer

— medical commanding officer

— medical officer

— medical regulating officer

— medical regulation officer

— mess officer

— message transmission releasing officer

— meteorological officer

— middle rank officer

— military intelligence officer

— military intelligence reserve officer

— military interviewing officer

— military justice officer

— military landing officer

— military officer

— military personnel procurement officer

— military supply officer

— military transport officer

— minority group officer

— missile control officer

— missile flight control officer

— missile launch officer

— missile operations officer

— missile range safety officer

— morale officer

— motor maintenance officer

— motor officer

— motor transportation officer

— movement control officer

— movement liaison officer

— movements identification officer

— munitions officer

— national service officer

— naval air liaison officer

— naval chief air intelligence officer

— naval control of shipping officer

— naval embarkation officer

— naval gunfire liaison officer

— naval intelligence officer

— naval liaison officer

— naval officer

— Navy liaison officer

— NBC defense officer

— NBC weapons employment officer

— neutral officer

— noncommissioned officer

— nonpromotion list officer

— nonrated officer

— nuclear operations officer

— nuclear safety officer

— nuclear weapon courier officer

— nuclear weapons requirement officer

— nursing officer

— officer commanding

— officer conducting the exercise

— officer conducting the serial

— officer in command

— officer in tactical command

— officer in waiting

— officer of the day in waiting

— officer of the day

— officer of the deck

— officer of the guard

— officer of the rounds

— officer of the week

— officer scheduling the exercise

— officer serving afloat

— OP officer

— operationally oriented officer

— operations and training officer

— operations duty officer

— order of battle officer

— orderly officer

— ordnance engineering duty officer

— ordnance GM officer

— ordnance officer

— ordnance staff officer

— organizational effectiveness staff officer

— orientation officer

— other than Regular Army officer

— over-the-hill officer

— pay officer

— personal liaison officer

— personal staff officer

— personnel information security officer

— personnel management officer

— personnel officer

— personnel records officer

— personnel selection officer

— personnel staff officer

— personnel/logistics officer

— petroleum officer

— physical training officer

— planning officer

— plans officer

— platoon officer

— Post Billeting officer

— Post Exchange officer

— postal officer

— presiding officer of the JCS

— press officer

— pretrial investigating officer

— primary control officer

— primary staff officer

— principal administrative officer

— principal Army technical information officer

— principal embarkation officer

— principal military landing officer

— principal staff officer

— probationary subaltern officer

— procurement contracting officer

— procurement officer

— professional development officer

— project officer

— propaganda officer

— property book officer

— property disposal officer

— Protocol officer for the Secretary of Defense

— psychological operations officer

— psychological warfare officer

— public affairs officer

— public information officer

— public relations officer

— public works officer

— purchasing and contracting officer

— race relations/equal opportunity officer

— radar intercept officer

— radar officer

— radio officer

— radiological defense officer

— radiological protection officer

— radiological survey officer

— railhead officer

— railroad station traffic officer

— railroad transportation officer

— range officer

— ranking officer

— rated officer

— rating officer

— real estate and claims officer

— rear link officer

— rear seat officer

— reconnaissance and survey officer

— reconnaissance duty officer

— reconnaissance liaison officer

— reconnaissance officer

— reconnaissance systems officer

— recruiting and induction officer

— recruiting and retention officer

— reenlistment officer

— regiment officer

— regimental medical officer

— regiment's commanding officer

— regular commissioned officer

— regulating officer

— releasing officer

— religious service officer

— reports control officer

— reserve officer

— resettlement officer

— road officer

— road traffic officer

— sales commissary officer

— sanitation officer

— school liaison officer

— sea transport officer

— secondary control officer

— security control officer

— senior bombardment liaison officer

— Senior British Naval officer

— senior chief officer

— senior embarkation officer

— senior general officer

— senior general staff officer

— senior intelligence officer

— senior landing officer

— senior medical officer

— senior officer

— senior personnel staff officer

— senior rank officer

— senior signal officer

— senior staff officer

— serving officer

— ship embarkation officer

— ship's combat cargo officer

— shore party officer

— SIGINT officer

— signal officer

— signal security officer

— smoke control officer

— special security officer

— special services officer

— specialist officer

— spotting officer

— squadron command officer

— squadron duty officer

— staff chemical officer

— staff duties officer

— staff duty officer

— staff loading officer

— staff officer

— staff planning officer

— staff security officer

— staff signal officer

— Standing Group Liaison officer to the North Atlantic Council

— strategic intelligence officer

— strategic plans officer

— strategic SIGINT officer

— student officer

— superintendent ammunition supply officer

— superior officer

— supervisory officer

— supply and service control officer

— supply management officer

— survey officer

— surveying officer

— survivor assistance officer

— systems project officer

— tactical action officer

— tactical air control officer

— tactical air liaison officer

— tactical airlift duty officer

— tactical airlift liaison officer

— tactical control officer

— tactical evaluating officer

— tactical intelligence officer

— tactical officer

— tactical surveillance officer

— tank officer

— tank unit landing officer

— target control officer

— target selection officer

— targets officer

— team embarkation officer

— technical grade officer

— technical liaison officer

— technical officer

— technical supply officer

— technical telecommunications officer

— terrain intelligence officer

— territorial officer

— topographic officer

— track production officer

— trailing officer

— train officer

— training aids officer

— training officer

— transportation officer

— travel officer

— troop loading officer

— troop officer

— unconventional warfare officer

— understudy staff officer

— unit commanding officer

— unit communications officer

— unit emplaning officer

— unit loading officer

— unit personnel officer

— unit postal officer

— unit readiness officer

— unrestricted line officer

— vehicle column control officer

— venereal disease control officer

— warrant officer

— watch officer

— water intelligence officer

— water supply officer

— water traffic officer

— weapon coordination officer

— weapon liaison officer

— weapon system officer

— weapon training officer

— weather officer

— wire officer

— wireless officer

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1) набор; комплект

- domino set

- optimum set of conditions

- snap set

- socket-powered set

- spring set

2) партия

3) совокупность; множество

- set of variate values

- specification set

4) установка; агрегат

- carrier set

- cross-task measuring set

- Diesel-electric set

- flywheel set

- gear set

- hand telephone set

- house set

- key pulsing telephone set

- radio set

- reflection measuring set

- shaft-sinking set

- short-wave set

- side-tone telephone set

- Sierpinski set

- single-operator welding set

- station set

- subscriber set

- table-top set

- telephone set

- transmission measuring set

- turbine-driven set

- turbine-generator set

- twin-arc welding set

5) регулировка; настройка || регулировать; настраивать

6) группа; ансамбль

7) класс; семейство

8) остаточная деформация

9) схватывание || схватываться

10) затвердевание || затвердевать

11) крепление || закреплять

12) геол. свита пород

13) осадка (грунта) || оседать ( о грунте)

14) радиоточка

15) спорт сет

16) включать, приводить в действие

17) мат. множество

- absolute set

- absolutely closed set

- absorbing set

- abstract set

- acceptable solutions set

- accessible set

- acyclic set

- additive set

- adjacency set

- adjacent set

- admissible set

- adsolutely summable set

- affine set

- affinely dependent set

- algebraic set

- algebraically dependent set

- allowable set

- almost closed set

- ambiguous set

- ample set

- analytic set

- analytically negligible set

- antidiagonal set

- antinomous set

- antipodal set

- antisymmetric set

- aposyndetic point set

- applicative set

- approximately compact set

- approximation set

- arcwise connected set

- arithmetical set

- arithmetically definable set

- articulation set

- asymptotic set

- asymptotically decomposable set

- atomic set

- attainable set

- automorphic set

- auxiliary base set

- axiom set

- balanced set

- basic set

- benign set

- bicompact set

- biconnected set

- bifurcation set

- biordered set

- bisimplicial set

- bodily set

- border set

- boundary cluster set

- boundary cluster set

- boundary set

- boundaryless set

- bounded set

- boundedly compact set

- buffer set

- calculable set

- canonical set

- canonically closed set

- capacious set

- capacitable set

- catastrophe set

- categorical set

- centrally-symmetric set

- chained set

- characteristic set

- choice set

- chordal cluster set

- circled set

- classical set

- clear set

- closed set

- closed-in-rays set

- closed-open set

- cluster set

- cofinal set

- cofinite set

- cogenerating set

- cohesive set

- cohomology set

- coimmune set

- coinfinite set

- coinitial set

- coisolated set

- collectively bounded set

- collinear set

- colorable set

- comaximal set

- combination set

- commutative set

- compact-in-itself set

- compactly connected set

- compensation set

- complementary set

- complete set

- completed set

- completely arithmetically productive set

- compound set

- conditionally compact set

- confidence set

- confinal set

- conformal set

- conjugate set

- conjunction set

- consistent set

- constant set

- constraint set

- constructible set

- constructive set

- constructively infinite set

- context-free set

- continuity set

- continuous set

- continuously ordered set

- continuum set

- contractible set

- contrafundamental set

- contrastandard set

- control set

- convergence set

- convergent set

- converse set

- convex set

- convexly connected set

- correctness set

- countable set

- countably compact set

- course set

- coverable set

- covered set

- covering set

- creative set

- critical set

- cubic set

- curvilinear cluster set

- cut set

- cyclic factor set

- cylinder set

- decidable set

- decision set

- decisive set

- decreasing set

- deductively consistent set

- defect set

- deficient set

- definable set

- deformable set

- degeneracy set

- degenerate set

- dendrit set

- dendritic set

- dense set

- dense-in-itself set

- densely ordered set

- dentable set

- denumerable set

- derivative set

- derived set

- determined set

- determining set

- diagonalizable set

- difference set

- diffuse set

- directed set

- disagreement set

- disconnected set

- disconnecting set

- discontinuing set

- discontinuous set

- discrete set

- discriminant set

- discriminating set

- disjointed set

- disjunct set

- dispersed set

- divergent set

- dividing set

- dominated set

- dominating set

- doubly indexed set

- dyadic set

- dynamically decomposable set

- effector set

- eigenfuzzy set

- elementarily definable set

- elementary set

- elliptic set

- embedded set

- empty set

- enchained set

- enlarged set

- enlarging set

- enumerably infinite set

- equicontinuous set

- equivariantly contractible set

- ergodic set

- evanescent set

- event set

- everywhere dense set

- exceptional set

- exhaustive set

- existence set

- existential set

- explicable set

- explicitly definable set

- extendable set

- extended set

- extensive set

- externally stable set

- extraordinary set

- extremally disconnected set

- extreme set

- factor set

- faithful set

- fanlike set

- feasible set

- filter over set

- filtering set

- finely open set

- finite-dimensional set

- finitely compact set

- flat set

- focal set

- frequency set

- frontier set

- full productive set

- full set

- fully ordered set

- generable set

- general recursive set

- generated set

- generic set

- global set

- goal set

- ground set

- grounded set

- harmonic set

- hereditary set

- heretical set

- holomorphic set

- homogeneous set

- homothetic set

- hyperarithmetical set

- hyperarithmetically simple set

- hyperbolic set

- hyperhyperimmune set

- hyperhypersimple set

- image set

- implicitly definable set

- imprimitive set

- incompletable set

- inconsistent set

- increasing set

- indecomposable set

- independent set

- index set

- indexed set

- indexing set

- indiscernible set

- indivisible set

- inductive set

- inductively ordered set

- information set

- inseparable set

- integer set

- integrable set

- internally negligible set

- interpolation set

- interpretable set

- invariant set

- inverse image set

- inverse set

- irrational set

- irreducible set

- irregular set

- isometric set

- joint maximal set

- knot set

- labeled set

- lacunary set

- lattice-ordered set

- learning set

- left admissible set

- level set

- lexicographically ordered set

- limit set

- limited set

- limiting set

- linearly bounded set

- located set

- logarithmic set

- magic set

- majorized set

- massive set

- meager set

- measurable set

- mesoic set

- metarecursively enumerable set

- minimum set

- minorized set

- mobile set

- model set

- model-closed set

- model-complete set

- model-consistent set

- modular set

- monochromatic set

- monomorphic set

- monotonic set

- more-than-countable set

- motor-generator set

- multiperiodic set

- multiplicative set

- multiply connected set

- multisimplicial set

- naturally associated set

- nebular set

- negligible set

- nested set

- nil weakly closed set

- nilpotent set

- nodal set

- no-more-than countable set

- nonadjacent set

- noncalculable set

- noncontractible set

- noncountable set

- noncountably infinite set

- nondecisive set

- nondegenerate set

- nondense set

- nondenumerable set

- nondenumerable set

- nonempty set

- nonenumerable set

- nonenumerable set

- nonmeager set

- nonmeasurable set

- nonpoint set

- nonrecursive set

- nonscattered set

- nonseparable set

- nonstandard set

- nonvacuous set

- nonwandering set

- norm compact set

- normal set

- normally convex set

- normed set

- nowhere dense set

- nowhere-dense set

- null set

- nullity set

- number set

- numeral set

- numerated set

- object set

- one-element set

- one-parameter set

- one-point set

- one-sided cluster set

- open-closed set

- opening set

- operator's set

- opportunity set

- optimal strategy set

- orderable set

- ordering set

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   1) A Comparison of the Digital Computer and the Brain

   The brain has been compared to a digital computer because the neuron, like a switch or valve, either does or does not complete a circuit. But at that point the similarity ends. The switch in the digital computer is constant in its effect, and its effect is large in proportion to the total output of the machine. The effect produced by the neuron varies with its recovery from [the] refractory phase and with its metabolic state. The number of neurons involved in any action runs into millions so that the influence of any one is negligible.... Any cell in the system can be dispensed with.... The brain is an analogical machine, not digital. Analysis of the integrative activities will probably have to be in statistical terms. (Lashley, quoted in Beach, Hebb, Morgan & Nissen, 1960, p. 539)

   2) Computers Do Not Crunch Numbers, They Manipulate Symbols

   It is essential to realize that a computer is not a mere "number cruncher," or supercalculating arithmetic machine, although this is how computers are commonly regarded by people having no familiarity with artificial intelligence. Computers do not crunch numbers; they manipulate symbols.... Digital computers originally developed with mathematical problems in mind, are in fact general purpose symbol manipulating machines....

   The terms "computer" and "computation" are themselves unfortunate, in view of their misleading arithmetical connotations. The definition of artificial intelligence previously cited-"the study of intelligence as computation"-does not imply that intelligence is really counting. Intelligence may be defined as the ability creatively to manipulate symbols, or process information, given the requirements of the task in hand. (Boden, 1981, pp. 15, 16-17)

   3) Getting Computers to Explain Things to Themselves

   The task is to get computers to explain things to themselves, to ask questions about their experiences so as to cause those explanations to be forthcoming, and to be creative in coming up with explanations that have not been previously available. (Schank, 1986, p. 19)

   4) Some Limits of Artificial Intelligence

   In What Computers Can't Do, written in 1969 (2nd edition, 1972), the main objection to AI was the impossibility of using rules to select only those facts about the real world that were relevant in a given situation. The "Introduction" to the paperback edition of the book, published by Harper & Row in 1979, pointed out further that no one had the slightest idea how to represent the common sense understanding possessed even by a four-year-old. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 102)

   5) The Computer as a Humanizing Influence

   A popular myth says that the invention of the computer diminishes our sense of ourselves, because it shows that rational thought is not special to human beings, but can be carried on by a mere machine. It is a short stop from there to the conclusion that intelligence is mechanical, which many people find to be an affront to all that is most precious and singular about their humanness.

   In fact, the computer, early in its career, was not an instrument of the philistines, but a humanizing influence. It helped to revive an idea that had fallen into disrepute: the idea that the mind is real, that it has an inner structure and a complex organization, and can be understood in scientific terms. For some three decades, until the 1940s, American psychology had lain in the grip of the ice age of behaviorism, which was antimental through and through. During these years, extreme behaviorists banished the study of thought from their agenda. Mind and consciousness, thinking, imagining, planning, solving problems, were dismissed as worthless for anything except speculation. Only the external aspects of behavior, the surface manifestations, were grist for the scientist's mill, because only they could be observed and measured....

   It is one of the surprising gifts of the computer in the history of ideas that it played a part in giving back to psychology what it had lost, which was nothing less than the mind itself. In particular, there was a revival of interest in how the mind represents the world internally to itself, by means of knowledge structures such as ideas, symbols, images, and inner narratives, all of which had been consigned to the realm of mysticism. (Campbell, 1989, p. 10)

   6) The Intentionality of Computers Is Essentially Borrowed, Hence Derivative

   [Our artifacts] only have meaning because we give it to them; their intentionality, like that of smoke signals and writing, is essentially borrowed, hence derivative. To put it bluntly: computers themselves don't mean anything by their tokens (any more than books do)-they only mean what we say they do. Genuine understanding, on the other hand, is intentional "in its own right" and not derivatively from something else. (Haugeland, 1981a, pp. 32-33)

   7) The Possibility of Computer Thought

   he debate over the possibility of computer thought will never be won or lost; it will simply cease to be of interest, like the previous debate over man as a clockwork mechanism. (Bolter, 1984, p. 190)

   8) We Are Getting Better at Building Even Better Computers, an Ever- Escalating Upward Spiral

   t takes us a long time to emotionally digest a new idea. The computer is too big a step, and too recently made, for us to quickly recover our balance and gauge its potential. It's an enormous accelerator, perhaps the greatest one since the plow, twelve thousand years ago. As an intelligence amplifier, it speeds up everything-including itself-and it continually improves because its heart is information or, more plainly, ideas. We can no more calculate its consequences than Babbage could have foreseen antibiotics, the Pill, or space stations.

   According to weak AI, the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion than before. But according to strong AI the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. And according to strong AI, because the programmed computer has cognitive states, the programs are not mere tools that enable us to test psychological explanations; rather, the programs are themselves the explanations. (Searle, 1981b, p. 353)

    10) Why People Are Smarter Than Computers

   What makes people smarter than machines? They certainly are not quicker or more precise. Yet people are far better at perceiving objects in natural scenes and noting their relations, at understanding language and retrieving contextually appropriate information from memory, at making plans and carrying out contextually appropriate actions, and at a wide range of other natural cognitive tasks. People are also far better at learning to do these things more accurately and fluently through processing experience.

   What is the basis for these differences? One answer, perhaps the classic one we might expect from artificial intelligence, is "software." If we only had the right computer program, the argument goes, we might be able to capture the fluidity and adaptability of human information processing. Certainly this answer is partially correct. There have been great breakthroughs in our understanding of cognition as a result of the development of expressive high-level computer languages and powerful algorithms. However, we do not think that software is the whole story.

   In our view, people are smarter than today's computers because the brain employs a basic computational architecture that is more suited to deal with a central aspect of the natural information processing tasks that people are so good at.... hese tasks generally require the simultaneous consideration of many pieces of information or constraints. Each constraint may be imperfectly specified and ambiguous, yet each can play a potentially decisive role in determining the outcome of processing. (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, 1986, pp. 3-4)