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1 electric
electric [ɪ'lektrɪk](a) (cooker, cable, current, musical instrument) électrique;∎ figurative the atmosphere of the meeting was electric l'atmosphère de la réunion était électrique;∎ the effect of her words was electric ses mots ont eu un effet électrisant(b) Ichthyology électrogène2 noun►► Technology electric arc arc m électrique;British electric blanket couverture f chauffante;electric blue bleu m électrique;Ichthyology electric catfish silure m électrique, malaptérure m;electric central heating chauffage m central électrique;electric chair chaise f électrique;∎ to go to the electric chair être envoyé à la chaise électrique;electric charge charge f électrique;Ichthyology electric eel anguille f électrique;electric eye œil m électrique;electric fence clôture f électrique;electric field champ m électrique;electric fire appareil m de chauffage électrique;electric guitar guitare f électrique;electric heater appareil m de chauffage électrique;electric light (individual appliance) lumière f électrique; (lighting) éclairage m ou lumière f électrique;electric motor moteur m électrique;electric organ Music orgue f électrique; Ichthyology appareil m électrogène;electric power station centrale f électrique;Ichthyology electric ray torpille f;electric shock décharge f électrique;∎ I got an electric shock from the switch j'ai reçu une décharge en touchant l'interrupteur;Medicine electric shock therapy or electric shock treatment traitement m par électrochocs;electric storm orage m;electric underblanket protège-matelas m chauffant;Cars electric window glace f ou vitre f électrique -
2 IDEA
1) Компьютерная техника: Interactive Data Extraction And Analysis2) Техника: interface and display electronics assembly3) Ветеринария: In The Defense Of Earth And Animals4) Сокращение: International Defence Equipment & Aerospace Exhibition, Институт демократии и поддержки избирательных систем, Identify, Design, Execute, Augment (Process for changing anything.)5) Университет: Instructional Development And Effectiveness Assessment, Internet Delivery Of Exams And Assignments, Internet Differential Equations Activities6) Вычислительная техника: Interactive Digital Electronic Appliance, Internet Design, Engineering, and Analysis notes (IETF), International Data Encryption Algorithm (Verschluesselung)8) Деловая лексика: Institutional Data Easy Access9) Образование: Individual Development And Educational Assessment, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Instant Digital Education Assistant, Interior Distance Education Of Alaska, (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) Закон об образовании лиц с инвалидностью10) Расширение файла: International Data Encryption Algorithm11) Должность: Innovation Development Employment And Applications -
3 idea
1) Компьютерная техника: Interactive Data Extraction And Analysis2) Техника: interface and display electronics assembly3) Ветеринария: In The Defense Of Earth And Animals4) Сокращение: International Defence Equipment & Aerospace Exhibition, Институт демократии и поддержки избирательных систем, Identify, Design, Execute, Augment (Process for changing anything.)5) Университет: Instructional Development And Effectiveness Assessment, Internet Delivery Of Exams And Assignments, Internet Differential Equations Activities6) Вычислительная техника: Interactive Digital Electronic Appliance, Internet Design, Engineering, and Analysis notes (IETF), International Data Encryption Algorithm (Verschluesselung)8) Деловая лексика: Institutional Data Easy Access9) Образование: Individual Development And Educational Assessment, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Instant Digital Education Assistant, Interior Distance Education Of Alaska, (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) Закон об образовании лиц с инвалидностью10) Расширение файла: International Data Encryption Algorithm11) Должность: Innovation Development Employment And Applications -
4 misuse
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5 apparatus
1. n прибор, инструмент; аппарат2. n аппаратура3. n машина, механизм4. n физиол. система органов5. n государственная машина6. n аппарат7. n справочный аппаратcritical apparatus, apparatus criticus — справочный критический материал
8. n снарядfixed apparatus — закрепил снаряд; закрепленный снаряд
Синонимический ряд:1. device (noun) appliance; contraption; contrivance; device; gadget; gizmo; machine; mechanism; tool2. equipment (noun) accouterments; equipment; gear; habiliments; implements; machinery; material; materials; materiel; outfit; paraphernalia; rig; tackle; tackling; turnout -
6 Westinghouse, George
[br]b. 6 October 1846 Central Bridge, New York, USAd. 12 March 1914 New York, New York, USA[br]American inventor and entrepreneur, pioneer of air brakes for railways and alternating-current distribution of electricity.[br]George Westinghouse's father was an ingenious manufacturer of agricultural implements; the son, after a spell in the Union Army during the Civil War, and subsequently in the Navy as an engineer, went to work for his father. He invented a rotary steam engine, which proved impracticable; a rerailing device for railway rolling stock in 1865; and a cast-steel frog for railway points, with longer life than the cast-iron frogs then used, in 1868–9. During the same period Westinghouse, like many other inventors, was considering how best to meet the evident need for a continuous brake for trains, i.e. one by which the driver could apply the brakes on all vehicles in a train simultaneously instead of relying on brakesmen on individual vehicles. By chance he encountered a magazine article about the construction of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, with a description of the pneumatic tools invented for it, and from this it occurred to him that compressed air might be used to operate the brakes along a train.The first prototype was ready in 1869 and the Westinghouse Air Brake Company was set up to manufacture it. However, despite impressive demonstration of the brake's powers when it saved the test train from otherwise certain collision with a horse-drawn dray on a level crossing, railways were at first slow to adopt it. Then in 1872 Westinghouse added to it the triple valve, which enabled the train pipe to charge reservoirs beneath each vehicle, from which the compressed air would apply the brakes when pressure in the train pipe was reduced. This meant that the brake was now automatic: if a train became divided, the brakes on both parts would be applied. From then on, more and more American railways adopted the Westinghouse brake and the Railroad Safety Appliance Act of 1893 made air brakes compulsory in the USA. Air brakes were also adopted in most other parts of the world, although only a minority of British railway companies took them up, the remainder, with insular reluctance, preferring the less effective vacuum brake.From 1880 Westinghouse was purchasing patents relating to means of interlocking railway signals and points; he combined them with his own inventions to produce a complete signalling system. The first really practical power signalling scheme, installed in the USA by Westinghouse in 1884, was operated pneumatically, but the development of railway signalling required an awareness of the powers of electricity, and it was probably this that first led Westinghouse to become interested in electrical processes and inventions. The Westinghouse Electric Company was formed in 1886: it pioneered the use of electricity distribution systems using high-voltage single-phase alternating current, which it developed from European practice. Initially this was violently opposed by established operators of direct-current distribution systems, but eventually the use of alternating current became widespread.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsLégion d'honneur. Order of the Crown of Italy. Order of Leopold.BibliographyWestinghouse took out some 400 patents over forty-eight years.Further ReadingH.G.Prout, 1922, A Life of "George Westinghouse", London (biography inclined towards technicalities).F.E.Leupp, 1918, George Westinghouse: His Life and Achievements, Boston (London 1919) (biography inclined towards Westinghouse and his career).J.F.Stover, 1961, American Railroads, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 152–4.PJGR
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