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  • 1 выше

    Efficiency is better than 96% at full load.

    If the pressure is above (or higher than, or over) 3 mm,...

    When heating is continued beyond 1403°C the gamma iron changes to delta iron.

    Temperatures upwards of 50 million degrees are required.

    II

    In the reactions described above (or in the above-described reactions)...

    The coefficients DAB and DAM employed in the foregoing (or above, or previously) are the common mutual diffusion coefficients.

    Water production above a given point on the river...

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    Выше -- above, beyond, higher, in excess of, plus, upwards
     Cooling fans and thermocouple reader were timed to switch on and remain so as long as the furnace temperature was above 100oC.
     As the heat flux increased beyond this value, additional sites became active.
     The water-cooled combustor operating with preheated air produces combustion gas products at temperatures in excess of 4600° F.
     We would like to know if you have done or have contemplated doing any higher speed work (e.g. 10,000 plus rpm). (... например, выше 10 000 об/мин)
     There is no reason why this type of apparatus should not work at 10,000 rpm and upwards.
    Выше на (15-25%)-- The measured torque of all the arched bearings was 15 to 25 percent higher in every case than that of the conventional bearing.
    —выше на

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  • 2 возрастать

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    Возрастать -- to build up, to increase, to grow, to climb, to rise
     The surface roughness is seen to increase quite sharply within the initial 10,000 to 20,000 cycles of operation, and thereafter climb at a relatively moderate rate.
     If conditions are right, it is possible that the initiated oscillations will grow in magnitude. (... возрастут по амплитуде)
     The measured values of the drag coefficient climb to values which are 20 percent to 30 percent higher than corresponding steady-state values.
    —возрастать ежегодно на

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  • 3 соответствовать установившейся практике

    Соответствовать установившейся практике-- The basic composition of the bath corresponds to usual practice. Соответствующий - appropriate (to); associated, involved, applicable, relevant, along the lines of (имеющий отношение к делу); proper, suitable, matching (подходящий); commensurate with, associated, corresponding (связанный зависимостью); corresponding, respective (при сопоставлении нескольких результатов, деталей); conforming to, complying with (подчиняющийся)
     The appropriate values are shown in Table and Fig.
     Physical properties appropriate to methanol boiling at atmospheric pressure were used throughout this analysis.
     It is important to note that the engine contained the normal regenerator disk and associated seals.
     It is possible that it [resonance] is not recognized as the casual agent and a general beefing-up of the parts involved is undertaken as a fix for the problem.
     The supplier shall establish procedures for identifying the product from applicable drawings.
     sT, sr are the stresses to give a specific strain or rupture in the lifetime of the vessel at the relevant temperature.
     Emergency shower, drench hose, and combination units are not a substitute for proper primary protective devices.
     A manipulator along the lines of Fig. has been examined by X.
     It is preferable to accept weaker weld metals with good ductility, rather than a weld metal which has matching strength but poor ductility.
     The atomizing air is preheated to the same temperature as the heated (temperature commensurate with 100 SSU viscosity) residual fuel oil entering the burner oil tube.
     Over the past few decades the generator capacity has been increasing steadily, warranting a corresponding increase in the rotor diameter.
     The initially measured value of the drag coefficient in each run is 10 percent to 12 percent higher than the corresponding steady-state value.
     Surrounding the stagnation zone are streak lines indicating that the fluid adjacent to the plate surface is flowing outward toward the respective edges.

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  • 4 больше

    This was 0.1% above the true value.

    Saturated hydrocarbons absorb only very high energy radiation, usually beyond 160 nm.

    Over (or In excess of, or More than) 50 kilos...

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    Больше -- greater, higher, more; better Больше на (15 -- 25%)-- The measured torque of all the arched bearing was 15 to 25 percent higher in every case than that of the conventional bearing.
    —вынуждает больше полагаться на

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  • 5 всё время

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    Всё время -- at all times, all the time, all along; ever, consistently, repeatedly (неизменно); steadily (стабильно); continually (непрерывно)
     It is recommended that the operator maintain an updated version of the file at all times.
     The same worn surface is in contact with the wearing material all the time
     With an ever restoring gyroscopic moment, steps (...) and (...) are skipped.
     Measured Nusselt numbers are consistently 15 percent higher than Nusselt number predictions obtained with the popular B. equation.
     If the overload guard trips repeatedly, the sludge is so hard that the drum must be dismantled.
     After the transition from adhesive to mild wear, the roughness will be steadily reduced.

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  • 6 dividendo

    m.
    dividend (finance & math).
    dividendo a cuenta interim dividend
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    1 dividend
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    noun m.
    * * *
    * * *
    a) (Fin) dividend

    dar dividendos — to pay off, pay dividends

    b) (Mat) dividend
    c) (Chi) ( cuota) payment
    * * *
    Ex. The article has the title ' Dividends: the value of public libraries in Canada'.
    ----
    * producir dividendos = return + dividends.
    * * *
    a) (Fin) dividend

    dar dividendos — to pay off, pay dividends

    b) (Mat) dividend
    c) (Chi) ( cuota) payment
    * * *

    Ex: The article has the title ' Dividends: the value of public libraries in Canada'.

    * producir dividendos = return + dividends.

    * * *
    1 ( Fin) dividend
    dividendo acumulado/provisional accrued/interim dividend
    repartir dividendos to distribute dividends
    dar dividendos to pay off, pay dividends
    2 ( Mat) dividend
    3 ( Chi) (cuota) payment, repayment
    Compuesto:
    peace dividend
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    dividendo sustantivo masculino
    dividend
    dividendo sustantivo masculino
    1 Fin dividend: el dividendo de este año se ha incrementado un diez por cien respecto al año anterior, this year's dividend is ten percent higher than last year's
    2 Mat dividend
    ' dividendo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    anual
    English:
    dividend
    * * *
    1. Mat dividend
    2. Fin dividend;
    cobrar/repartir dividendos to be paid/distribute dividends;
    dar/obtener dividendos to pay/receive dividends
    dividendo en acciones dividends in esp Br shares o esp US stock(s);
    dividendo acumulado accumulated dividends;
    dividendo complementario final dividend;
    dividendo a cuenta interim dividend
    * * *
    m dividend
    * * *
    : dividend

    Spanish-English dictionary > dividendo

  • 7 на ... больше

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    На... больше-- The load predicted by a two-dimensional calculation is 15 percent higher than that from a three-dimensional simulation.

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  • 8 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 9 superior

    adj.
    1 top.
    la parte superior (de algo) the top (of something)
    la mitad superior the top o upper half
    2 higher.
    ser superior en número, ser numéricamente superior to have a numerical advantage
    3 superior.
    es superior a la media it's above average
    4 excellent (excelente).
    5 upper (anatomy & geography).
    6 higher (education).
    m.
    superior (jefe).
    * * *
    1 (encima de) upper, top
    2 (por encima de) greater (a, than), higher (a, than), above (a, -)
    4 figurado (calidad etc) superior, high, excellent
    5 EDUCACIÓN higher
    1 (jefe) superior
    2 RELIGIÓN superior
    \
    calidad superior top quality, high quality
    * * *
    1. noun m. 2. adj.
    * * *
    I
    1. ADJ
    1) (=más alto) [estante, línea] top antes de s ; [labio, mandíbula] upper
    2) (=mejor) superior, better

    ser superior a algo — to be superior to sth, be better than sth

    3) (=excelente)
    4) [cantidad]
    5) [en categoría] [animal, especie] higher
    6) (Educ) [curso, nivel] advanced; [enseñanza] higher
    2.
    SM [en rango] superior
    II superior, -a ( Rel)
    1.
    2.
    SM / F superior/mother superior
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) <parte/piso> top (before n), upper (before n); < nivel> higher
    b) <labio/mandíbula> upper (before n)
    2)
    a) ( en calidad) superior

    superior A algo/alguien — superior to something/somebody

    b) ( en jerarquía) < oficial> superior; < clase social> higher
    c) (en cantidad, número)

    un número superior a 9a number greater than o higher than o above 9

    II
    - riora masculino, femenino
    a) (Relig) (m) Superior; (f) Mother Superior
    b) superior masculino ( en rango) superior
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    I
    1)
    a) <parte/piso> top (before n), upper (before n); < nivel> higher
    b) <labio/mandíbula> upper (before n)
    2)
    a) ( en calidad) superior

    superior A algo/alguien — superior to something/somebody

    b) ( en jerarquía) < oficial> superior; < clase social> higher
    c) (en cantidad, número)

    un número superior a 9a number greater than o higher than o above 9

    II
    - riora masculino, femenino
    a) (Relig) (m) Superior; (f) Mother Superior
    b) superior masculino ( en rango) superior
    * * *
    superior1
    1 = superior, superordinate.

    Ex: Under pressure from colleagues, superiors, and families to perform well, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.

    Ex: Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.
    * Posesivo + superiores = Posesivo + betters.

    superior2
    2 = better, high [higher -comp., highest -sup.], higher, pre-eminent [preeminent], superior, upper, heightened, enriched, high-end, preemptive [pre-emptive], top-tier [top tier].

    Ex: Some degree of ignorance of this kind is not unusual since the usual objective in consulting an information source is to become better informed.

    Ex: Lower specificity will be associated with lower precision but high recall.
    Ex: Relief must be secured from the laborious detailed manipulation of higher mathematics as well, if the users of it are to free their brains for something more than repetitive detailed transformations.
    Ex: Often it is this factor which is pre-eminent in a decision to provide an in-house bulletin.
    Ex: Superior cataloguing may result, since more consistency and closer adherence to standard codes are likely to emerge with cataloguers who spend all of their time cataloguing, than with a librarian who tackles cataloguing as one of various professional tasks.
    Ex: The upper and lower limits for the value are first entered.
    Ex: The heightened level of community awareness has led some local authorities to take the initiative and to become information disseminators in their own right.
    Ex: Union Catalogues may also decide that they need more enriched records because of specific needs.
    Ex: The system provides extensive map facilities which until now have been available only on high-end hypermedia systems like Intermedia.
    Ex: Coincidentally there has emerged a pre-emptive new technology for the storage, handling and transmission of information, potentially better suited to the convenience of users.
    Ex: It is much to the credit of the British government that in the current reorganisation of local government it has insisted that public libraries be controlled by the top-tier authorities, those responsible for education and other major services.
    * biblioteca de institución de enseñanza superior = tertiary library.
    * borde superior = top edge.
    * compartimento superior = overhead bin, overhead locker.
    * contra fuerzas superiores = against (all/the) odds.
    * cubierta superior = upper deck.
    * de calidad superior = best-quality.
    * de la parte superior = topmost [top most].
    * demostrar ser superior = prove + superior.
    * de nivel superior = upper-level, higher-level.
    * de una clase social superior = above + Posesivo + class.
    * educación superior = higher education.
    * en la parte superior = at the top, uppermost, uppermost.
    * enseñanza superior = higher education, higher learning, tertiary education.
    * Espacio Europeo para la Educación Superior (EEES) = European Space for Higher Education (ESHE).
    * esquina superior derecha = upper right corner, upper right-hand corner.
    * esquina superior izquierda = top left corner, upper left corner, top left-hand corner.
    * extremidades superiores = upper extremities, upper limbs.
    * hacer superior = give + Nombre + an edge.
    * institución de enseñanza superior = tertiary institution.
    * institución de enseñanza superior no universitaria = college of higher education.
    * la parte superior izquierda de = the upper left of.
    * límite superior = upper bound.
    * madre superiora = abbess, Mother Superior.
    * mandíbula superior = maxilla [maxillae, -pl.], upper jaw.
    * margen superior = top margin.
    * maxilar superior = maxilla [maxillae, -pl.], upper jaw.
    * miembros superiores = upper extremities, upper limbs.
    * nivel superior = top layer.
    * paleolítico superior, el = Upper Palaeolithic.
    * parte superior = top, topside.
    * pensamiento de orden superior = higher-order thinking.
    * primer año de estudios superiores = freshman year.
    * quijada superior = upper jaw.
    * relativo a la enseñanza superior = tertiary.
    * ser muy superior a los demás = be way above all the others.
    * ser muy superior a los otros = be way above all the others.
    * ser superior = supreme being, higher being, superior being.
    * superior al 10 por ciento = double digit.
    * superior a los demás = a cut above the rest, a cut above.
    * término superior = top term, TT.
    * título superior = advanced degree.

    * * *
    A
    1 ‹parte/piso› top ( before n), upper ( before n)
    en el ángulo superior derecho de la hoja in the top right-hand corner of the page
    en los pisos superiores del edificio on the upper o uppermost o top floors of the building
    2 ‹labio› upper ( before n), top ( before n); ‹mandíbula› upper ( before n)
    3 ( Astron) ‹planeta› superior
    B
    1 (en calidad) superior
    un vino de calidad superior a superior o an excellent wine, a wine of superior quality
    superior A algo/algn superior TO sth/sb
    es muy superior al modelo anterior it is far better than o far superior to the previous model
    se siente superior a los demás he thinks he's above o superior to everyone else, he thinks he's better than everyone else
    una inteligencia superior a la media above-average intelligence
    un oficial superior a mí an officer superior to me, a superior o higher-ranking officer
    alumnos de los cursos superiores students from higher o more advanced courses
    órdenes superiores orders from above
    3
    (en cantidad, número): los atacantes eran superiores en número the attackers were greater o more in number
    superior A algo above sth
    temperaturas superiores a los cuarenta grados temperatures above o higher than forty degrees
    un número superior a 9 a number greater than o higher than o above 9
    el peso es superior a los 20 kilos the weight is above 20 kilos, the weight exceeds 20 kilos
    es superior a mis fuerzas it's more than I can bear
    masculine, feminine
    1 ( Relig) ( masculine) Superior; ( feminine) Mother Superior
    2
    ¿quién es su superior? who is your superior?
    * * *

     

    superior 1 adjetivo
    1 ( en posición) ‹parte/piso top ( before n), upper ( before n);
    nivel higher;
    labio/mandíbula upper ( before n)
    2

    superior A algo/algn superior to sth/sb;

    una inteligencia superior a la media above-average intelligence

    clase social higher
    c) (en cantidad, número):

    los atacantes eran superiores en número the attackers were greater o more in number;

    superior A algo above sth;
    un número superior a 9 a number greater than o higher than o above 9
    superior 2
    ◊ - riora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    a) (Relig) (m) Superior;

    (f) Mother Superior
    b)

    superior sustantivo masculino ( en rango) superior

    superior
    I adjetivo
    1 (que está más alto) top, upper
    el piso superior, the upper floor
    2 (que es mejor) superior, better: su sueldo es superior al mío, his salary is higher than mine
    3 (en número) un número superior a 10, a number greater o higher o more than 10
    4 (indicando grado: en enseñanza) higher
    (:en el ejército, la policía) superior
    II m (rango militar, policial) superior
    Rel Superior
    ' superior' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ápice
    - Cesid
    - CSIC
    - encima
    - ser
    - extra
    - innegablemente
    - larga
    - largo
    - licenciatura
    - pala
    - superiora
    - abogado
    - brazo
    - carrera
    - creer
    - derecho
    - educación
    - exceder
    - jefe
    - madre
    - mejor
    - normal
    - superar
    - titulado
    English:
    above
    - advanced
    - average
    - change up
    - cut
    - degree
    - education
    - expanse
    - high
    - higher
    - higher education
    - higher-up
    - outnumber
    - outrank
    - preeminent
    - registrar
    - rise above
    - self-righteous
    - senior
    - staff college
    - superior
    - tertiary
    - top
    - top-heavy
    - upper
    - advantage
    - A level
    - barrister
    - better
    - boss
    - commission
    - excess
    - fancy
    - first
    - mother
    - move
    * * *
    superior, -ora
    adj
    1. [de arriba] top;
    los pisos superiores tienen mejores vistas the upper floors have better views;
    la parte superior (de algo) the top (of sth);
    la mitad superior the top o upper half
    2. [mayor] higher (a than);
    ser superior en número, ser numéricamente superior to have a numerical advantage;
    temperaturas superiores a los 12 grados temperatures above 12 degrees;
    una cifra superior a 100 a figure greater than 100;
    lo venden a un precio un 30 por ciento superior al del mercado they are selling it at 30 percent above the market price;
    por un periodo no superior a tres años for a period not exceeding three years
    3. [mejor] superior (a to);
    es superior a la media it's above average;
    una mujer de inteligencia superior a la media a woman of above-average intelligence;
    no me creo superior a nadie I don't consider myself superior to anyone
    4. [excelente] excellent;
    productos de calidad superior superior-quality products
    5. Fam
    es superior a mí o [m5] a mis fuerzas [no lo puedo soportar] it's too much for me
    6. Biol
    los mamíferos superiores the higher mammals
    7. Anat upper;
    el labio/la mandíbula superior the upper lip/jaw
    8. Geog upper
    9. Educ higher
    10. Rel superior
    11. Geol upper;
    el Paleolítico superior the Upper Palaeolithic
    nm,f
    Rel superior, f mother superior
    nm
    [jefe] superior
    * * *
    I adj
    1 labio, piso etc upper
    2 en jerarquía superior;
    ser superior a be superior to
    II m superior
    * * *
    1) : superior
    2) : upper
    nivel superior: upper level
    3) : higher
    educación superior: higher education
    4)
    superior a : above, higher than, in excess of
    : superior
    * * *
    superior1 adj
    1. (en general) higher
    3. (en calidad) superior
    superior2 n superior

    Spanish-English dictionary > superior

  • 10 reducir

    v.
    1 to reduce.
    nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut
    reducir algo a algo to reduce something to something
    reducir algo al absurdo to make a nonsense of something
    Ella redujo la velocidad She reduced the speed.
    2 to suppress, to subdue (someter) (país, ciudad).
    3 to convert (Mat) (convertir).
    4 to set (medicine).
    5 to shorten, to shrink.
    Ellos redujeron las tablas They shortened the boards.
    6 to cut down, to depress, to de-escalate, to deescalate.
    Ellos redujeron los gastos They cut down expenses.
    7 to conquer, to subdue, to subjugate.
    Ellos redujeron a los nativos They conquered the natives.
    8 to hydrogenate.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ CONDUCIR], like link=conducir conducir
    1 (gen) to reduce
    2 (disminuir) to reduce, cut, cut down on
    3 (vencer) to subdue
    4 MEDICINA to set
    5 (una salsa, etc) to reduce, boil down
    1 AUTOMÓVIL to change down, change to a lower gear
    1 (gen) to be reduced; (decrecer) to decrease
    2 (resultar) to come down (a, to)
    * * *
    verb
    1) to reduce, cut
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=disminuir)
    a) [en cantidad] [+ gastos, inflación, precio] to reduce, bring down, cut; [+ tensión, ansiedad] to reduce; [+ riesgo] to reduce, lessen

    el autobús redujo su velocidad — the bus reduced speed, the bus slowed down

    el banco redujo su beneficio un 12% — the bank saw its profits fall by 12%

    reducir algo en algo — to reduce sth by sth, cut sth by sth

    tenemos que reducir la producción en un 20% — we have to reduce o cut production by 20%

    reducir a la mínima expresiónto reduce to the bare minimum

    reducir algo al mínimoto reduce o cut sth to the minimum

    reducir algo a la mitadto cut sth by half

    b) [en tiempo] [+ jornada laboral] to reduce, shorten; [+ sentencia] to reduce

    han reducido la mili a nueve mesesthey have reduced o cut military service to nine months

    c) [en tamaño] [+ copia] to reduce; [+ discurso, artículo] to cut down, shorten
    2)

    reducir algo a algo —

    a) (=limitar) to limit sth to sth; (=simplificar) to reduce sth to sth
    b) (=convertir) [+ cantidad, medida] to convert sth into sth; [+ fracción, ecuación] to reduce sth into sth
    3) (=someter) [+ ladrón, fugitivo, loco] to overpower; [+ alborotadores] to subdue; [+ fortaleza] to subdue, reduce frm

    reducir a algn a la obedienciato bring sb to heel

    reducir a algn al silencio[por la fuerza, por miedo] to silence sb; [por vergüenza, humillación] to reduce sb to silence

    4) (Med) [+ hueso, hernia] to set, reduce frm
    5) (Quím) to reduce
    6) LAm [en el mercado negro] to get rid of *
    2.
    VI (Aut) to change down
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

    reducir al mínimo los riesgosto minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

    le redujeron la penathey shortened o reduced his sentence

    reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

    b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce
    2)

    reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

    b) (Quím) to reduce
    c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)
    3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower
    4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
    2.
    1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down
    2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
    3.
    reducirse v pron

    reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

    * * *
    = abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.
    Ex. Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.
    Ex. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.
    Ex. In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.
    Ex. The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
    Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex. Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.
    Ex. Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.
    Ex. More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.
    Ex. The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex. If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.
    Ex. Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.
    Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex. But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.
    Ex. 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.
    Ex. Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.
    Ex. This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
    Ex. Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex. He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.
    Ex. Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.
    Ex. In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
    Ex. By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.
    Ex. However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex. The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.
    Ex. However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex. Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex. The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex. Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex. May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.
    Ex. You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex. The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex. They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
    ----
    * que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.
    * reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.
    * reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].
    * reducir costes = reduce + costs.
    * reducir de plantilla = downsize.
    * reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.
    * reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.
    * reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.
    * reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.
    * reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.
    * reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.
    * reducir el valor = reduce + value.
    * reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.
    * reducir gradualmente = scale down.
    * reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.
    * reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.
    * reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.
    * reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.
    * reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.
    * reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.
    * reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.
    * reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.
    * reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.
    * reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.
    * reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.
    * reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).
    * reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.
    * reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

    reducir al mínimo los riesgosto minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

    le redujeron la penathey shortened o reduced his sentence

    reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

    b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce
    2)

    reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

    b) (Quím) to reduce
    c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)
    3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower
    4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
    2.
    1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down
    2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
    3.
    reducirse v pron

    reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

    * * *
    = abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.

    Ex: Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.

    Ex: A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.
    Ex: In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.
    Ex: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
    Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex: Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.
    Ex: Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.
    Ex: More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.
    Ex: The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.
    Ex: Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.
    Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex: But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.
    Ex: 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.
    Ex: Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.
    Ex: This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
    Ex: Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex: He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.
    Ex: Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.
    Ex: In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
    Ex: By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.
    Ex: However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex: The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.
    Ex: However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex: Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex: The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex: Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.
    Ex: You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex: The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex: They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
    * que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.
    * reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.
    * reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].
    * reducir costes = reduce + costs.
    * reducir de plantilla = downsize.
    * reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.
    * reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.
    * reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.
    * reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.
    * reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.
    * reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.
    * reducir el valor = reduce + value.
    * reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.
    * reducir gradualmente = scale down.
    * reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.
    * reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.
    * reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.
    * reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.
    * reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.
    * reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.
    * reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.
    * reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.
    * reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.
    * reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.
    * reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.
    * reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).
    * reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.
    * reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.

    * * *
    reducir [I6 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹gastos/costos› to cut, cut down on, reduce; ‹velocidad› to reduce; ‹producción/consumo› to reduce
    hemos reducido el número de casos we have brought down o reduced the number of cases
    redujeron el número de plazas they cut the number of places o the number of places was reduced
    han prometido reducir los impuestos they have promised to cut o reduce taxes
    con esto se intenta reducir al mínimo el riesgo de infección this is intended to minimize o to reduce to a minimum the risk of infection
    ejercicios para reducir (la) cintura exercises to reduce your waistline
    reducir algo A algo to reduce sth TO sth
    han reducido el texto a 50 páginas they have shortened o reduced the text to fifty pages
    le han reducido la pena a dos años they have commuted o shortened o reduced his sentence to two years
    la población quedó reducida a la mitad the population was reduced to half of its former size
    reducir algo a su mínima expresión ( Mat) to reduce sth to its simplest expression o form
    el suéter quedó reducido a su mínima expresión ( hum); the sweater shrank to nothing
    reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth BY sth
    pretenden reducir el gasto en cinco millones they aim to reduce costs by five million
    2 ‹fotocopia/fotografía› to reduce
    B
    1 (transformar) reducir algo A algo:
    reducir los gramos a miligramos to convert the grams to milligrams
    reducir quebrados a un mínimo común denominador to reduce fractions to their lowest common denominator
    quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes
    2 ( Quím) to reduce
    3 ( AmS) ‹objeto robado› to receive, fence ( colloq)
    C (dominar, someter) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue; ‹ladrón› to overpower
    reducir a un pueblo a la esclavitud to reduce a people to slavery
    D ‹fractura/hernia› to set, reduce ( tech)
    E (CS) ‹cadáver/restos mortales› to exhume ( for reburial in a niche or smaller coffin)
    ■ reducir
    vi
    A ( Coc) to reduce, boil down
    dejar reducir la salsa leave the sauce to boil down o reduce
    B ( Auto) to shift into a lower gear, change down ( BrE)
    reducirse A algo:
    todo se reduce a saber interpretar las cifras it all comes down to knowing how to interpret the figures
    todo se redujo a una visita a la catedral y un paseo por el río in the end it was just a visit to the cathedral and a walk along the river
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    reducir ( conjugate reducir) verbo transitivo
    1
    a)gastos/costos to cut, reduce;

    velocidad/producción/consumo to reduce;

    reducir algo A algo to reduce sth to sth;
    reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth by sth
    b)fotocopia/fotografía to reduce

    2


    quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes
    b) (AmS) ‹ objeto robado to receive, fence (colloq)

    3 ( dominar) ‹enemigo/rebeldes to subdue;
    ladrón to overpower
    reducirse verbo pronominal:

    reducir
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (disminuir) to reduce
    reducir algo en algo, to reduce sthg by sthg
    (gastos, consumo, etc) to cut (down), minimize
    2 (convertir, transformar) to reduce: el incendio redujo el bosque a cenizas, the fire reduced the wood to ashes
    3 (subyugar) to subdue
    II vi Auto to change down, US to downshift

    ' reducir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bajar
    - ceniza
    - encaminada
    - encaminado
    - moler
    - disminuir
    - minimizar
    - mínimo
    - mira
    English:
    administrative
    - austerity
    - ax
    - axe
    - change down
    - corner
    - curtail
    - cut
    - cut back
    - cut down
    - decrease
    - deficit
    - deplenish
    - deplete
    - depress
    - downsize
    - effective
    - halve
    - lighten
    - lower
    - narrow down
    - prune
    - pulp
    - rate
    - receive
    - reduce
    - retrench
    - scale down
    - shorten
    - slow
    - wind down
    - bring
    - cost
    - deaden
    - decelerate
    - diminish
    - discount
    - get
    - lessen
    - loss
    - minimize
    - over
    - pare
    - scale
    - slacken
    - traffic
    - whittle
    - wind
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    vt
    1. [disminuir] to reduce;
    [gastos, costes, impuestos, plantilla] to cut; [producción] to cut (back on);
    nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut;
    reduzca la velocidad [en letrero] reduce speed now;
    reducir algo a algo to reduce sth to sth;
    el edificio quedó reducido a escombros the building was reduced to a pile of rubble;
    reducir algo al mínimo to reduce sth to a minimum;
    reducir algo a o [m5] en la mitad to reduce sth by half;
    tú todo lo reduces a tener dinero the only thing you care about is money;
    reducir a la mínima expresión to cut down to the bare minimum
    2. [fotocopia] to reduce
    3. [someter] [país, ciudad] to suppress, to subdue;
    [atracador, ladrón, sublevados] to overpower
    4. Mat [unidades de medida] to convert (a to); [fracciones, ecuaciones] to cancel out
    5. Med [hueso] to set
    6. Quím to reduce
    7. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce
    8. Andes, RP [objetos robados] to receive, to fence
    9. RP [cadáver] to exhume [for reburial in smaller container]
    vi
    1. [en el automóvil]
    reducir (de marcha o [m5] velocidad) to change down;
    reduce a tercera change down into third (gear)
    2. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce
    * * *
    v/t
    1 reduce (a to); gastos cut;
    reducir personal cut jobs, reduce staff numbers;
    reducir la marcha AUTO downshift, shift into a lower gear
    2 MIL overcome
    * * *
    reducir {61} vt
    1) disminuir: to reduce, to decrease, to cut
    2) : to subdue
    3) : to boil down
    * * *
    reducir vb to reduce

    Spanish-English dictionary > reducir

  • 11 Preis

    Preis m (Pr.) GEN charge, price, pr. alles hat seinen Preis GEN, MGT (infrml) there is no such thing as a free lunch die Preise frisieren BÖRSE (infrml) fake the marks, (infrml) doctor the prices die Preise gaben nach GEN prices receded (Volumen) die Preise sind herabgesetzt worden BÖRSE prices have been marked down Preis (ist) Verhandlungssache rate to be agreed, r.t.b.a. Preise hochschrauben V&M push up prices Preise hochtreiben V&M push up prices Preise reduzieren V&M cut prices, reduce prices, sink prices sich durch zu hohe Preise vom Markt ausschließen V&M price oneself out of the market sich nach dem besten Preis umsehen V&M shop around for the best price unter Preis anbieten V&M underprice unter Preis angeboten V&M underpriced unter Preis verkaufen V&M undercut zu Preisen zwischen x und y GEN at prices ranging from x to y
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    m (Pr.) < Geschäft> charge, price (pr.) ■ alles hat seinen Preis <Geschäft, Mgmnt> there is no such thing as a free lunch infrml ■ die Preise frisieren infrml < Börse> fake the marks infrml, doctor the prices infrml ■ die Preise gaben nach < Geschäft> Volumen prices receded ■ die Preise sind herabgesetzt worden < Börse> prices have been marked down ■ Preise hochschrauben <V&M> push up prices ■ Preise hochtreiben <V&M> push up prices ■ Preise reduzieren <V&M> cut prices, reduce prices, sink prices ■ sich durch zu hohe Preise vom Markt ausschließen <V&M> price oneself out of the market ■ sich nach dem besten Preis umsehen <V&M> shop around for the best price ■ unter Preis anbieten <V&M> underprice ■ unter Preis angeboten <V&M> underpriced ■ unter Preis verkaufen <V&M> undercut ■ zu Preisen zwischen x und y < Geschäft> at prices ranging from x to y
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    Preis
    price, (Belohnung) reward, premium, (Fahrgeld) fare, (Gebühr) charge, fee, (Kosten) cost[s], expense, price, (Satz) rate, figure, (Summe) amount, sum, (Tarif) rate, tariff, charge, (Wert) value, (im Wettbewerb) prize, award;
    auf der Grundlage der Preise vom Jahr 2002 at 2002 survey prices;
    bei anziehenden Preisen in a rising market, with attractive prices;
    bei sinkenden Preisen by (with) declining prices, at prices dropping;
    bis zum Preise von as high as;
    durch überhöhte Preise aus dem Markt gedrängt priced out of the market;
    mit Preisen versehen priced, price-tagged;
    niedrig im Preis low-priced;
    um jeden Preis for love of money;
    unter [dem Selbstkosten] Preis priced below cost;
    zu erhöhten Preisen at a higher price;
    zu ermäßigten Preisen at reduced (cut) prices;
    zu bedeutend ermäßigten Preisen at a sweeping reduction;
    zu festem Preis at a firm rate;
    zu herabgesetztem Preis at a reduced price, reduced, cut-price, at reduced rates, (Taxpreis) at a damaged valuation;
    zu teuren Preisen at a high cost;
    zu überhöhten Preisen eingekauft dear-bought, bought at excessive cost;
    zu unerschwinglichen Preisen at prices beyond one’s means;
    zu unveränderten Preisen at unchanged prices;
    zu einem vereinbarten Preis at an arranged price;
    zu zurückgesetztem Preis at a reduced price;
    zu einem Preis von etwa 10 Pfund at a cost of roughly L 10;
    zum Preise von costing, at the charge (rate) of;
    zum ermäßigten Preis at a lower rate;
    zum festgesetzten Preis at the given price;
    zum amtlich festgesetzten Preis at the established price;
    zum halben Preis at half price, for half the price;
    zum niedrigsten Preis dirt-cheap;
    zum vereinbarten Preis at the understood price;
    in verbindlichen Angeboten abgegebene Preise prices quoted in tenders;
    [vertraglich] abgemachter (abgesprochener, abgestimmter) Preis settled (stipulated) price, price agreed upon [by arrangement];
    abweichende Preise diverging prices;
    von der Preisliste abweichender Preis irregular price;
    überhöhter, vom Kunden akzeptierter Preis class price;
    allerniedrigster Preis rock-bottom price;
    amtlicher Preis official price;
    nicht amtlicher Preis (Börse) sidewalk price (US);
    angebotener Preis price offered;
    verbindlich angebotene Preise prices quoted in tenders;
    angegebener (angesetzter) Preis quoted price;
    auf der Rechnung angegebener Preis invoice[d] price;
    angehobener Preis advanced price;
    angemessener Preis reasonable (fair, adequate, equitable) price;
    annehmbarer Preis fair rate (price), reasonable price (terms);
    ansteigende Preise increasing prices;
    anziehender Preis attractive price;
    nachstehend aufgeführte Preise prices specified below;
    augenblicklicher Preis market price;
    vertraglich ausbedungener Preis price agreed upon, contract price;
    ausgehandelte Preise prices negotiated;
    ausgemachter Preis settled price, price agreed upon;
    ausgesetzter Preis offered price;
    ausgezeichneter Preis marked price;
    auskömmlicher Preis paying price;
    äußerster Preis rock-bottom (close, bedrock) price, cut rate, lowest computation (possible price), (Auktion) knockdown price;
    künstlich beeinflusster Preis manipulated price;
    vor Verkaufsbeginn von der Konkurrenz bekannt gegebener Preis open price;
    äußerst niedrig berechneter Preis rock-bottom price;
    bescheidene Preise moderate prices;
    vom Hersteller bestimmte Preise prices laid down by the manufacturer;
    beweglicher Preis elastic (flexible) price;
    bewirtschafteter Preis administered price;
    billiger Preis budget (moderate, low) price;
    bisheriger Preis previous rate;
    cif-Preis cif price;
    davonlaufende Preise prices running away;
    Herstellungs- und Generalkosten deckender Preis overhead price;
    nicht die Selbstkosten deckender Preis losing price;
    stark divergierende Preise wide prices;
    doppelter Preis (Anzeige) double rate;
    durchschnittlicher Preis average price;
    echter Preis commercial price;
    effektiver Preis real (actual) price;
    eingefrorene Preise frozen prices, price rigidity;
    eingependelter Preis established price;
    einheitlicher Preis uniform (standard) price;
    empfohlener Preis reference (suggested, recommended) price;
    über das Lohnniveau emporschnellende Preis prices outsoaring the wages;
    enormer Preis huge (ruinous) price;
    erhöhter Preis increased (inflated, higher, enhanced) price;
    ermäßigter Preis reduced (short, cut) price;
    Sicherungsvorschuss erschöpfender Preis (Termingeschäft) exhaust price;
    [tatsächlich] erzielter Preis price obtained, actual price;
    exorbitanter Preis exorbitant price;
    fakturierter Preis invoice[d] price;
    fallende Preise dropping (sagging, declining, receding, falling-off) prices;
    feste Preise standing (fixed, flat, steady) prices, (Schaufenster) no abatement (discount, reduction);
    fester Preis fixed (firm, standing) price;
    künstlich festgelegter Preis administered price;
    vertraglich festgelegter Preis stipulated price;
    festgesetzter Preis stated (fixed) price;
    amtlich festgesetzter Preis administered (controlled) price, price as fixed by the authorities;
    vertraglich festgesetzter Preis fixed contract price;
    fingierter Preis fictitious price;
    Frei-Grenze-Preis free-at-frontier price;
    Preis freibleibend, freibleibender Preis price subject to change without notice;
    friedensmäßige Preise prices at peace-time level;
    früherer Preis previous price;
    gangbarer Preis prevailing price;
    gängiger Preis salable price;
    garantierter Preis guaranteed price;
    gebotener Preis offer, bid (offered) price;
    gebundener Preis fixed (fixed-selling, maintained, controlled) price, (Einzelhandel) fixed (minimum) resale price, (Kartell) fixed cartel price;
    geforderter Preis asked price, charge;
    gegenwärtiger Preis ruling (current, prevailing, actual, market) price;
    künstlich gehaltener Preis pegged price;
    mit einem Index gekoppelter Preis index-linked price;
    gelenkter Preis controlled price;
    geltender Preis prevailing (ruling) price;
    augenblicklich geltender Preis ruling (present, going, market, current) price;
    in der ganzen Industrie geltender Preis industry-wide price;
    genauester Preis nearest price;
    genehmigter Preis approved price;
    genormter Preis standardized price;
    gepfefferte Preise steep prices;
    zu geringer Preis underrated price;
    gestaffelter Preis graduated (scheduled) price;
    gesteuerter Preis manipulated price;
    gestoppter Preis stop price;
    gestützter Preis pegged (support[ed]) price;
    gesunkener Preis reduced (diminished, dropped, sagged) price;
    gewöhnlicher Preis customary charge, common price (charge);
    für den Fortschritt gezahlter Preis price paid for progress;
    gleitender Preis price subject to amendment, escalation (sliding-scale) price;
    [augenblicklich] gültiger Preis going (current, market) price;
    allgemein gültiger Preis allround price;
    im internen Verrechnungsverkehr gültiger Preis internal price;
    günstige Preise favo(u)rable terms (prices);
    günstiger Preis favo(u)rable (attractive) price;
    sehr günstiger Preis highly concessional price;
    halber Preis half price;
    handelsüblicher Preis market (ruling) price;
    herabgesetzter Preis reduced (marked-down, cut rate) price;
    nicht herabgesetzter Preis full price;
    heraufgesetzter Preis put-up (marked-up) price;
    hochgestochener Preis high-flying price;
    höchster Preis ceiling (maximum) price, price ceiling;
    hoher Preis long (high, advanced) price;
    besonders hoher Preis extra high price;
    entschieden zu hohe Preise definitely too high prices;
    unverhältnismäßig hoher Preis excessive price;
    inflationistische (inflationäre) Preise inflationary prices;
    inländischer Preis domestic (home-market) price;
    jetzige Preise current prices;
    kalkulierter Preis calculated price;
    äußerst kalkulierter Preis rock-bottom price;
    niedrigst kalkulierter Preis bargain level;
    scharf kalkulierter Preis price cut very fine, cut-rate (close) price;
    knappheitsbedingter Preis scarcity price;
    konkurrenzfähiger Preis competitive (keener) price;
    nicht konkurrenzfähiger Preis uncompetitive price;
    konkurrenzloser Preis unrival(l)ed (unmatched) price;
    konstante Preise constant prices, price stability;
    kostendeckender Preis price covering the costs of production;
    kriminelle Preise cutthroat prices;
    laufender Preis ruling price;
    zugrunde zu legender Preis price to be considered;
    leidlicher Preis fairly good price;
    letzte Preise previous rates;
    letzter Preis lowest limit (price);
    limitierter Preis limited price;
    lohnender (lukrativer) Preis remunerative (paying) price;
    manipulierter Preis managed (manipulated) price;
    marktentscheidender Preis key price;
    marktgängige Preise usual market prices;
    marktgemäßer (marktgerechter) Preis fair market price;
    marktkonformer Preis full economic price;
    mäßiger Preis moderate (reasonable) price;
    minimaler Preis minimum price;
    mittlerer Preis average price;
    mörderischer Preis cutthroat (ruinously high) price;
    nachbörsliche Preise street (kerb) prices (Br.), outside (curb, US) prices;
    nachfragebedingter Preis demand-led price;
    nachgebende Preise easing (falling, sagging, receding) prices;
    niedriger Preis low price, undercharge;
    äußerst niedrige Preise keen prices;
    niedrigster Preis bottom ( lowest possible, minimum) price, bargain level;
    nomineller Preis nominal price;
    notierter Preis market (quoted, listed, US) value;
    fortlaufend notierter Preis consecutively quoted price;
    obiger Preis above quotation;
    optischer Preis charm price;
    ortsüblicher Preis customary (local) price;
    populäre Preise popular prices;
    psychologische Preise psychological price [point];
    purzelnde Preise tumbling prices;
    reduzierter Preis reduced (short, cut) price;
    äußerst reduzierter Preis lowest [possible] rate;
    reeller Preis fair (moderate) price;
    regulärer Preis regular price;
    regulierter Preis administered price;
    richtiger Preis adequate price;
    rückgängige Preise dropping (sagging, declining) prices;
    rückläufige Preise retrograde (receding, declining, falling, drooping) prices;
    ruinöser Preis ruinous (cutthroat) price;
    saisonbedingter Preis seasonal price;
    in die Höhe schnellende Preise soaring prices;
    ganz schöner Preis smart price (coll.);
    schwacher Preis weak price;
    schwankende Preise varying (fluctuating) prices;
    sinkende Preise sagging (declining, falling) prices;
    solider Preis moderate (fair) price;
    spekulativer Preis speculative price;
    spottbilliger Preis ridiculously low price;
    stabiler Preis steady (stable, settled, stationary, firm, sticky, US) price;
    starrer Preis rigid price;
    stehender Preis fixed price;
    steigende Preise increasing (rising, advancing) prices;
    langsam steigende Preise creeping prices;
    schnell steigende Preise soaring (booming) prices;
    sprunghaft steigende Preise soaring prices;
    subventionierter Preis subsidized (support[ed], pegged) price;
    nicht subventionierter Preis full economic price;
    tatsächlicher Preis actual price;
    tragbarer Preis reasonable price;
    überhöhter Preis class (stiff, coll., excessive, exaggerated, prohibitive) price;
    künstlich überhöhte Preise inflated (artificially high) prices;
    übermäßiger Preis exorbitant price;
    übersetzter Preis exaggerated (overcharged) price;
    üblicher Preis market (current, customary) price, customer charge;
    unabhängiger Preis free price;
    vom Lieferort unabhängiger Preis uniform delivered price (US);
    unangemessener Preis unreasonable price;
    unbescheidener Preis unreasonable price;
    unbeschränkter Preis unlimited price;
    unelastischer Preis rigid price;
    unerhörter Preis fabulous price;
    unerschwinglicher Preis prohibitive price;
    ungebundener Preis free (uncontrolled) price;
    unterschiedliche Preise discriminating prices;
    unterschwelliger Preis submarginal price;
    untragbare Preise prohibitive prices;
    unveränderte Preise unchanged rates (prices);
    unverbindliche Preise prices subject to alteration (without commitment);
    unverschämter Preis steep (outrageous, exorbitant) price;
    völlig unzulänglicher Preis inadequate price;
    verbindlicher Preis operative price;
    [vertraglich] vereinbarter Preis price agreed upon [by arrangement], stipulated (agreed, contract) price;
    vertretbarer Preis comparable price;
    volkstümlicher Preis popular price;
    voller Preis full price;
    vorgeschriebener Preis administered price;
    vorheriger Preis previous price;
    vorteilhafte Preise attractive prices;
    weichende Preise sagging (declining, retroactive, falling) prices;
    wettbewerbsfähiger Preis competitive price;
    willkürlicher Preis arbitrary price;
    zivile Preise moderate (reasonable) prices, moderate charges;
    auf den Höchstpreis zurückgesetzter Preis rollback price (US);
    Preis bei der Anlieferung landed cost;
    Preis für eine doppelseitige Anzeige in Heftmitte center- (centre-, Br.) spread price;
    Preis für vierfarbige Anzeigen 4-colo(u)r rate;
    Preis laut gültigem Anzeigentarif rate-card price;
    Preis bei Barzahlung cash price;
    Preis in Bausch und Bogen allround (overhead) price;
    Preise einschließlich Bedienung (Restaurant) terms inclusive of service;
    Preise unter Berücksichtigung der Qualität prices adjusted to quality;
    Preis frei Bestimmungshafen landed cost (price);
    Preis zur Einführung eines Produktes early-bird price;
    Preis per Einheit unit price;
    Preis für den Endverbraucher price for the ultimate consumer;
    Preise für Endverbraucher incl. Mehrwertsteuer (Mwst.) prices inclusive of VAT;
    Preis ab Erzeuger factory price;
    Preise der Erzeugnisse product (producer’s) prices;
    Preise landwirtschaftlicher Erzeugnisse agricultural (farm) prices;
    Preis ab Fabrik factory-gate price;
    Preis des trockenen Gedecks (Hotel) price of the dinner excluding wine; Preis
    einschließlich Gemeinkosten overhead price;
    Preis frei Grenze (EU) free-to-frontier price;
    Preis für Güter und Dienstleistungen cost of goods and services;
    Preis zweiter Hand secondhand price;
    Preis frei Haus delivered-in price, in-the-mail price;
    Preis einschließlich aller Kosten allround price;
    Preis einschließlich (incl.) sämtlicher Kosten bis zum Schiff, Preis frei Längsseite Schiff free alongside ship price, price free alongside ship;
    Preis ab Lager ex-store price; Preis
    einschließlich Lieferkosten delivered price;
    Preis für künftige Lieferung forward (terminal, Br.) price;
    Preis bei sofortiger Lieferung price ex store, spot quotation;
    Preis eines Markenerzeugnisses brand price;
    Preise verstehen sich einschließlich Mehrwertsteuer prices include value-added tax (VAT);
    Preis für greifbare Mengen spot price;
    Preise bei Mengenabnahme prices shaded for quantities;
    Preis mit Mengenrabatt quantity (multi-unit, Br.) price;
    Preis einschließlich Porto und Verpackung price inclusive of postage and packing;
    Preise für eine Produktfamilie price combination (Br.);
    Preis bei Ratenzahlung hire-purchase (Br.) (time, deferred-payment, US) price;
    Preis außerhalb der Saison off-season price;
    Preis ab Schacht pithead price;
    Preis ab Speicher ex-warehouse price;
    Preis für Stromverbrauch electricity rate;
    Preis pro Stück unit price;
    Preise nach dem Tarif tariff rates;
    Preis für Termingeschäfte futures price (US);
    Preis für Übernachtung und Frühstück price for bed and breakfast;
    Preis unverzollt price ex tax;
    Preis ist Verhandlungssache price is a matter for negotiation;
    Preis ohne Verpackung price excluding packing;
    Preis ab Versandbahnhof at-station price;
    Preise für Vorsteuerabzugsberechtigte prices exclusive of VAT;
    Preis für unverzollte Ware im Zolllager in-bond price;
    Preis auf dem Weltmarkt world price;
    Preis ab Werk price ex works, trade (factory) price;
    Preis unter dem Wert underprice;
    Preis für Wiederverkäufer discount price;
    Preis ab Zeche pithead price;
    Preise in Zeiten der Hochkonjunktur boomtime prices;
    Preise abbauen to cut (reduce) prices;
    Preis abflachen to flatten prices;
    vom Preis abhandeln to obtain a reduction;
    zum alten Preis ablassen to charge the old price;
    Preise absprechen to settle prices;
    jem. einen Preis für etw. abverlangen to charge s. o. a price for s. th.;
    auf die Preise abwälzen to pass on prices;
    vom Preis abziehen to knock off the price;
    Preise angeben to quote (state) prices;
    äußersten Preis angeben to quote the outside price;
    Preise auch in Euro angeben to mark prices also in euros;
    Preise wahrheitsgemäß angeben to state prices truthfully;
    Preise angleichen to adjust prices;
    Preise schrittweise angleichen (EU) to approximate prices progressively;
    Preise anheben to jack up (coll.) (increase) prices;
    Preise anpassen to adjust (align) prices;
    Preis ansetzen to price;
    im Preis aufschlagen to go (run) higher, to put on the price;
    hohe Preise aufzwingen to corner;
    Preis aushandeln to negotiate a price;
    Preis ausmachen to agree upon a price;
    Preis aussetzen to put a premium (prize) on;
    Preis für jds. Kopf aussetzen to put a price on s. one’s head;
    mit einem Preis auszeichnen to distinguish with a prize;
    mit einem höheren Preis auszeichnen to mark up;
    Preise beeinflussen to influence prices;
    seinen Preis beibehalten to hold its price;
    in einem Wettbewerb den ersten Preis bekommen to obtain the first prize in a competition;
    etw. zu einem exorbitanten Preis bekommen to obtain s. th. at a ransom price;
    Preis berechnen to arrive at (calculate) a price;
    alten Preis berechnen to charge the old price;
    jem. einen zu hohen Preis berechnen to overcharge s. o.;
    niedrige Preise berechnen to ask moderate prices;
    Preis bestimmen to fix (go into, determine) a price;
    angemessenen Preis für etw. bezahlen to buy s. th. for what it is worth;
    doppelten Preis bezahlen to pay double the price;
    Preis bieten to offer a price;
    angemessenen Preis bieten to bid a fair price;
    Preise durcheinander bringen to put a crimp in prices (sl.);
    Preis davontragen to carry the day (away the bell), to take the cake;
    Preise drücken to bring (run, beat, coll.) down (bang) prices, to cut off prices;
    Preise einfrieren to freeze prices (US);
    sich auf einen Preis einigen to agree upon a price;
    Preis empfehlen to recommend (suggest) a price;
    sich durch überhöhte Preise den Markt entfremden to price o. s. out of the market;
    Preis erfragen to enquire about the price;
    Preis erhöhen to advance (raise, put up, increase, spike) a price;
    Preise sprunghaft erhöhen to jump prices;
    Preise immer weiter erhöhen to pyramid prices;
    sich nach dem Preis erkundigen to ask (enquire about) the price;
    Preis ermäßigen to bring down (decrease) a price;
    Preis ermitteln to arrive at a price;
    Preis erreichen (erzielen) to realize (obtain, reach) a price;
    bessere Preise erzielen to secure higher prices;
    im Preis fallen to sag in price, to depreciate;
    um den Preis feilschen to haggle over (about) the price;
    Preis festlegen (festsetzen, feststellen) to price, to quote (determine, make, arrive at, ascertain, name, fix, lay down) a price, to tariff;
    Preis amtlich festlegen (festsetzen) to establish a price;
    Preise entsprechend dem amtlichen Preisindex festsetzen to gear prices to formulas based on government price indexes;
    als Preis fordern to charge (name) a price, to tax (US);
    nach dem Preis fragen to enquire about (ask) the price;
    Preise freigeben to release (decontrol) prices;
    Preis genehmigen to approve of a price;
    Preis gewinnen to obtain (win) a prize;
    ersten Preis auf einer Landwirtschaftsausstellung gewinnen to take the first prize at an agricultural show;
    höchste Preise bei einem Wettbewerb gewinnen to win top hono(u)rs in a competition;
    seinen Preis haben to have a certain value;
    Auswirkungen auf die Preise haben to have repercussions on prices;
    verschiedene Preise haben to differ in price;
    auf Preise halten to stick to prices;
    sich weitgehend an die festgesetzten Preise halten to keep as near as possible to the prices quoted;
    sich im Preis halten to hold up its price;
    Preis auf einer amtlich festgesetzten Höhe halten to freeze a price (US);
    Preise niedrig halten to keep prices down, to hold down prices
    Preise stabil halten to hold the line on prices;
    Preis herabdrücken to bring (force) down (depress, send, squeeze down) the price;
    Preis herabsetzen to abate (sink, bring down, mark down) a price, to cheapen;
    Preise stark herabsetzen to chop prices;
    Preise stillschweigend herabsetzen to cut prices on the quiet;
    Preis heraufsetzen to put up (increase) a price;
    Preise herauftreiben to jump up prices;
    Preise herunterdrücken to bring (force, send, squeeze) down (screw) prices;
    mit dem Preis heruntergehen to reduce the price;
    Preis herunterhandeln to get a price reduced, to beat down a price (coll.);
    Preise hinaufschrauben to level (screw, send) up prices, to rig the market;
    Preise hinauftreiben to boost prices;
    Preise hochhalten to keep prices up;
    Preis hochschrauben to screw up (lift) prices;
    Preise hochtreiben to boost (puff up) prices, to bull (rig, Br.) the market;
    sich einen Preis holen to land a prize (coll.);
    Preis kalkulieren to arrive at (make out, calculate) a price;
    Preise schärfstens kalkulieren to cut prices to the minimum;
    Preis sehr vorsichtig kalkulieren to establish a price at a low level;
    zu festen Preisen kaufen to buy firm (on the scale);
    etw. zu herabgesetzten Preis kaufen to buy s. th. at a bargain;
    unter Preis kaufen to underbuy;
    völlig unsinnigen Preis kosten to cost prohibitively high;
    Preise lenken to control prices;
    unter dem Preis losschlagen to sell under value, to let go under price;
    zu jedem Preis losschlagen to sell at a sacrifice;
    Preis mindern to reduce a price;
    [vom] Preis nachlassen to take off the (make an allowance upon, make a reduction in, abate a) price;
    Preis nennen to indicate (name) a price;
    mit der Ladenkasse den Preis notieren to ring up the price;
    Preis realisieren to obtain a price;
    Preis reduzieren to lower (reduce) a price;
    Preis regulieren to control a price;
    nicht auf den Preis sehen not to consider the price;
    mit einem Preis einverstanden sein to be willing to pay a price;
    im Preis konkurrenzfähig sein to be competitively priced;
    Preis senken to lower (reduce) a price;
    Preis drastisch senken to slash a price dramatically;
    Preise durch Subventionsmaßnahmen senken to roll back prices (US);
    im Preise sinken to look down[wards], to run off;
    Preise stabilisieren to stabilize prices;
    im Preis stehen to be worth;
    hoch im Preis stehen to command a high price;
    im Preis steigen to increase (advance, enhance, go up) in price, to get (run) up, to bull;
    im Preis steigern to raise price;
    Preise stützen to peg (buttress, support, US) prices;
    Preise in die Höhe treiben to drive up the prices, to bid up [prices], to rig the market;
    Preise überbieten to outbid prices;
    amtlich festgelegten Preis überschreiten to sell s. th. above the established price;
    Preise unterbieten (verderben) to undercut (cut s. one’s) prices;
    Preis vereinbaren to agree upon (negotiate) a price;
    über einen Preis verhandeln to negotiate a price;
    zu einem festen Preis verkaufen to sell at a fixed price;
    etw. zum halben Preis verkaufen to sell s. th. half-price;
    zu höheren als den amtlich festgesetzten Preisen verkaufen to sell above the established prices;
    zu niedrigerem Preis verkaufen to sell under value, to undersell;
    über Preis verkaufen to sell s. th. above the established price;
    unter Preis verkaufen to sell under price;
    zu einem vernünftigen Preis verkaufen to sell at a reasonable rate;
    Preis verlangen to demand a price;
    zu hohen Preis verlangen to overprice;
    während der Saison enorm hohe Preise verlangen to stick it on during the busy season;
    zu hohe Preise für eine Lieferung verlangen to overcharge goods;
    mit einem Preis versehen to price;
    Preise verteilen to distribute (present) the prizes;
    im Preise billiger werden to decline in price;
    zu wettbewerbsfähigen Preisen von der landwirtschaftlichen Bevölkerung erzeugt werden to be produced at competitive prices by the farming population;
    durch hohe Preise vom Markt verdrängt werden to be priced out of the market;
    ermäßigte Preise durch große Umsätze wettmachen to sell at a low price and recoup o. s. by large sales;
    vollen Preis zahlen to pay full fare;
    im Preis zurückgehen to be on the decline;
    Preise gelten nur bei postwendender Bestellung prices valid subject to immediate acceptance;
    Frühstück ist im Preis einbezogen the terms are inclusive of breakfast;
    die Preise sind ins Bodenlose gesunken the bottom has fallen out of the market;
    der Preis spielt keine Rolle price is no object;
    der Preis unterliegt einem Rabatt von fünf Prozent the price is subject to a discount of five percent;
    Preise ziehen heftig (kräftig) an prices rise sharply;
    Preisabbau price cut, cut in (cutting of, fall in, decline in, reduction of, lowering of) prices;
    Preisabfall decline in prices;
    Preis abkommen, Preisabmachung price[-fixing] agreement;
    staatliches Preisabkommen price code (Br.);
    Preis- und Förderungsabkommen (OPEC) agreement on pricing and production;
    Preisabnahme fall (drop, decline) in prices;
    Preisabrede price [-fixing] agreement, pricing arrangement;
    Preisabschlag discount, allowance, price deduction (reduction), abatement;
    jem. einen Preisabschlag einräumen (gewähren) to allow a reduced price to s. o., to make an allowance on the (a reduction in) price;
    durchschnittlicher Preisabschlag von 3% bei hundert Grundnahrungsmitteln erzwingen to trim 3% on average off the prices of some 100 basic items;
    Preisabschwächung easing (sagging) of prices, price weakness;
    Preisabsprache price agreement (arrangement, scheme), (Kartell) price fixing;
    verbotene Preisabsprache illegal price fixing;
    Preisabstand disparity in prices, margin;
    Preisabstufung graduation of prices;
    Preisabweichung price (value) variance, price difference;
    Preisaktion price action;
    Preisänderung price change (variance, modifications, alterations), alteration in price;
    Preisänderungen vorbehalten subject to alterations, prices subject to change without notice;
    relative Preisänderung proportionate change in price;
    Preisänderungsklausel repricing clause;
    Preisänderungsmitteilung price-change slip;
    Preisanfrage inquiry as to price, price inquiry, request for quotation.

    Business german-english dictionary > Preis

  • 12 jefe

    adj.
    chief, top.
    m.
    1 boss, principal, chief, manager.
    2 chief, chieftain, leader, ringleader.
    3 boss, woman in charge, headwoman, top woman.
    4 boss.
    * * *
    nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 boss, head, chief
    2 COMERCIO (hombre) manager; (mujer) manageress
    3 PLÍTICA leader
    4 MILITAR officer in command
    interjección ¡jefe!
    1 familiar waiter!
    1 familiar the old lady, the wife
    \
    jefe de estación station master
    jefe de Estado Head of State
    jefe de Estado Mayor Chief of Staff
    jefe de redacción editor in chief
    jefe de ventas sales manager
    jefe supremo commander-in-chief
    * * *
    (f. - jefa)
    noun
    1) boss
    2) head
    * * *
    jefe, -a
    SM / F
    1) (=superior) boss; (=director) head; (Pol) leader; (Com) manager; (Mil) officer in command; [de tribu] chief

    ¿quién es el jefe aquí? — who's in charge around here?

    jefe/a civil — Caribe registrar

    jefe/a de almacén — warehouse manager/manageress

    jefe/a de bomberos — fire chief, chief fire officer

    jefe/a de cabina — (Aer) chief steward/stewardess

    jefe/a de camareros — head waiter/waitress

    jefe/a de cocina — head chef

    jefe/a de equipo — team leader

    jefe/a de estación — station master, station manager

    jefe/a de estado — head of state

    jefe/a de estado mayor — chief of staff

    jefe/a de estudios — (Escol) director of studies

    jefe/a de filas — (Pol) party leader

    jefe/a de máquinas — (Náut) chief engineer

    jefe/a de márketing — marketing manager

    jefe/a de obras — site manager

    jefe/a de oficina — office manager/manageress

    jefe/a de personal — personnel manager

    jefe/a de pista — ringmaster

    jefe/a de plató — (Cine, TV) floor manager

    jefe/a de producción — production manager

    jefe/a de protocolo — chief of protocol

    jefe/a de realización — (Cine, TV) production manager

    jefe/a de redacción — editor-in-chief

    jefe/a de sala — head waiter/waitress

    jefe/a de taller — foreman

    jefe/a de tren — guard, conductor (EEUU)

    jefe/a de ventas — sales manager

    jefe/a ejecutivo/a — chief executive

    jefe/a supremo/a — commander-in-chief

    2) [como apelativo]

    ¡oiga jefe! — hey!, mate! *

    sí, mi jefe — esp LAm yes, sir o boss

    * * *
    - fa masculino, femenino, jefe masculino y femenino
    a) ( superior) boss
    b) ( de empresa) manager; ( de sección) head; ( de tribu) chief
    c) (Pol) leader
    d) ( como apelativo) buddy (AmE colloq), mate (BrE colloq)
    e) jefes masculino plural (fam) ( padres) folks (pl) (colloq)
    * * *
    = boss [bosses, -pl.], chief, employer, chief honcho, top official, top position, head honcho, honcho, gaffer, leader.
    Ex. The dependence on bosses for recognition, rewards, and advancement breeds an artificiality of relationship, a need to be polite and agreeable.
    Ex. He subsequently served as chief of that Division, chief of the Serial Record Division, Assistant Director for Cataloging of the Processing Department, Director of the Processing Department, and Assistant Librarian of Processing Services.
    Ex. But we have an obligation to these students, to their future employers and colleagues, to society in general and to ourselves to ensure that our 'processing' makes an important difference.
    Ex. 'We should be more sympathetic and persuasive with the chief honchos'.
    Ex. Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex. In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex. Only 17 percent of head honchos say research and development (R&D) drives innovation in their business, a new study has found.
    Ex. Of course, no one but a few honchos at IBM and Oracle know the real answer.
    Ex. Watford gaffer believes his team's home games hold the key to their ability to survive in the Premiership.
    Ex. The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    ----
    * ¡cómo se nota que no está el jefe! = while the cat's away, the mice will play.
    * editor jefe = editor-in-chief.
    * jefa de oficina de correos = postmistress.
    * jefe de cocina = chef.
    * jefe de escuadrón = squadron leader.
    * jefe de espías = spymaster.
    * jefe de estado = head of state, chief of state.
    * jefe de facturación = billing clerk.
    * jefe de la tribu = tribal chief.
    * jefe del estado mayor = Chief of Staff.
    * jefe de los servicios de gestión del conocimiento = chief knowledge officer (CKO).
    * jefe de los servicios de información = chief information officer (CIO).
    * jefe del servicio de catalogación = cataloguing head.
    * jefe del servicio de referencia = reference head.
    * jefe de milicia = warlord.
    * jefe de oficina = office manager.
    * jefe de oficina de correos = postmaster.
    * jefe de personal = personnel officer, welfare officer, staff manager.
    * jefe de personal de la biblioteca = library personnel officer.
    * jefe de policía = chief constable, police chief.
    * jefe de prensa = press officer.
    * jefe de recursos humanos = human resource manager.
    * jefe de sección = section head.
    * jefe de taller = overseer.
    * jefe militar = army official, army officer.
    * muchos jefes y pocos trabajadores = too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
    * ser el jefe = be in charge, call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost.
    * * *
    - fa masculino, femenino, jefe masculino y femenino
    a) ( superior) boss
    b) ( de empresa) manager; ( de sección) head; ( de tribu) chief
    c) (Pol) leader
    d) ( como apelativo) buddy (AmE colloq), mate (BrE colloq)
    e) jefes masculino plural (fam) ( padres) folks (pl) (colloq)
    * * *
    = boss [bosses, -pl.], chief, employer, chief honcho, top official, top position, head honcho, honcho, gaffer, leader.

    Ex: The dependence on bosses for recognition, rewards, and advancement breeds an artificiality of relationship, a need to be polite and agreeable.

    Ex: He subsequently served as chief of that Division, chief of the Serial Record Division, Assistant Director for Cataloging of the Processing Department, Director of the Processing Department, and Assistant Librarian of Processing Services.
    Ex: But we have an obligation to these students, to their future employers and colleagues, to society in general and to ourselves to ensure that our 'processing' makes an important difference.
    Ex: 'We should be more sympathetic and persuasive with the chief honchos'.
    Ex: Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex: In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex: Only 17 percent of head honchos say research and development (R&D) drives innovation in their business, a new study has found.
    Ex: Of course, no one but a few honchos at IBM and Oracle know the real answer.
    Ex: Watford gaffer believes his team's home games hold the key to their ability to survive in the Premiership.
    Ex: The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    * ¡cómo se nota que no está el jefe! = while the cat's away, the mice will play.
    * editor jefe = editor-in-chief.
    * jefa de oficina de correos = postmistress.
    * jefe de cocina = chef.
    * jefe de escuadrón = squadron leader.
    * jefe de espías = spymaster.
    * jefe de estado = head of state, chief of state.
    * jefe de facturación = billing clerk.
    * jefe de la tribu = tribal chief.
    * jefe del estado mayor = Chief of Staff.
    * jefe de los servicios de gestión del conocimiento = chief knowledge officer (CKO).
    * jefe de los servicios de información = chief information officer (CIO).
    * jefe del servicio de catalogación = cataloguing head.
    * jefe del servicio de referencia = reference head.
    * jefe de milicia = warlord.
    * jefe de oficina = office manager.
    * jefe de oficina de correos = postmaster.
    * jefe de personal = personnel officer, welfare officer, staff manager.
    * jefe de personal de la biblioteca = library personnel officer.
    * jefe de policía = chief constable, police chief.
    * jefe de prensa = press officer.
    * jefe de recursos humanos = human resource manager.
    * jefe de sección = section head.
    * jefe de taller = overseer.
    * jefe militar = army official, army officer.
    * muchos jefes y pocos trabajadores = too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
    * ser el jefe = be in charge, call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost.

    * * *
    jefe -fa
    masculine, feminine
    1 (superior) boss
    aquí el jefe soy yo I'm the boss here, I'm in charge here
    2 (de una sección, un departamento) head
    4 (de un partido, una banda) leader
    5 (como apelativo) buddy ( AmE colloq), mate ( BrE colloq), guv ( BrE colloq dated)
    6 jefes mpl ( fam) (padres) folks (pl) ( colloq), parents (pl)
    Compuestos:
    jefe/jefa de bomberos
    fire chief
    jefe/jefa de cocina
    chef
    jefe/jefa de departamento
    head of department
    jefe/jefa de estación
    stationmaster
    jefe/jefa de Estado
    head of state
    jefe/jefa de Estado Mayor
    Chief of Staff
    jefe/jefa de estudios
    director of studies
    jefe/jefa de filas
    group leader
    jefe/jefa de gobierno
    (primer ministro) prime minister; (presidente) president
    jefe/jefa de la guerrilla
    guerrilla leader
    jefe/jefa de la oposición
    leader of the opposition
    jefe/jefa de la policía
    chief of police
    jefe/jefa de los espías
    spymaster
    jefe/jefa de máquinas
    chief engineer
    jefe/jefa de negociado
    head of section, head of department
    jefe/jefa de oficina
    chief clerk, office manager
    jefe/jefa de personal
    personnel manager
    jefe/jefa de planta
    floor manager
    jefe/jefa de producción
    production manager
    jefe/jefa de producto
    product manager
    jefe/jefa de redacción
    editor-in-chief
    jefe/jefa de sección
    section head
    jefe/jefa de seguridad
    chief of security
    jefe/jefa de taller
    supervisor, foreman
    jefe/jefa de tren
    head conductor, train manager ( BrE)
    jefe/jefa de ventas
    sales manager
    * * *

     

    jefe
    ◊ -fa sustantivo masculino, femenino, jefe sustantivo masculino y femenino

    a) ( superior) boss;


    jefe de personal/ventas personnel/sales manager;
    jefe de redacción editor-in-chief

    ( de sección) head;
    ( de tribu) chief
    c) (Pol) leader;

    jefe de Estado/gobierno head of state/government

    jefe,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 boss
    Com manager
    jefe de estación, station master
    jefe de informativos, news editor
    jefe de personal, personnel manager
    jefe de redacción, editor-in-chief
    jefe de ventas, sales manager
    2 (líder) leader: es el jefe de la tribu, he's the chief of the tribe
    jefe de Estado, Head of State
    3 Mil comandante en jefe, commander-in-chief
    ' jefe' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    arder
    - bailar
    - bebida
    - cabestro
    - congraciarse
    - definitivamente
    - encima
    - faltar
    - gastar
    - gusano
    - jefa
    - mondarse
    - patrón
    - patrona
    - patrono
    - quemada
    - quemado
    - redactor
    - redactora
    - sapo
    - sheriff
    - tal
    - trinar
    - abajo
    - canciller
    - citar
    - comandante
    - condición
    - enfermero
    - facultar
    - mandar
    - pensar
    - plantear
    - quedar
    - rabiar
    - robar
    - salir
    - ver
    English:
    absence
    - abuse
    - anybody
    - approachable
    - around
    - ask for
    - bluster
    - boss
    - busywork
    - by
    - by-product
    - chancellor
    - chief
    - chieftain
    - clear
    - comeback
    - cow
    - deal with
    - departmental
    - deputy
    - discount
    - doormat
    - edit
    - even
    - expect
    - forceful
    - foreman
    - forge
    - frustrated
    - grievance
    - guard
    - head
    - higher-up
    - imagine
    - in
    - initially
    - leader
    - manager
    - marshal
    - mate
    - of
    - pass over
    - pat
    - pool
    - postmaster
    - promise
    - Secretary of State
    - sister
    - staff nurse
    - take over
    * * *
    jefe, -a nm,f
    1. [persona al mando] boss;
    [de empresa] manager, f manageress; [líder] leader; [de tribu, ejército] chief; [de departamento] head; Mil
    en jefe in-chief;
    Méx Fam
    como jefe: entró a la oficina como jefe he walked into the office as if he owned the place
    jefe de bomberos fire chief;
    jefe de compras purchasing manager;
    jefe de estación stationmaster;
    jefe de Estado head of state;
    jefe del estado mayor chief of staff;
    jefe de estudios director of studies;
    Dep jefe de fila(s) team leader [driver or cyclist];
    jefe de gabinete chief of staff;
    jefe de gobierno prime minister;
    una reunión de jefes de gobierno a meeting of heads of government;
    jefe de policía police chief, chief of police, Br chief constable;
    jefe de prensa press officer;
    jefe de producción production manager;
    jefe de producto product line manager;
    jefe de protocolo chief of protocol;
    jefe de proyecto project manager;
    jefe de redacción editor-in-chief;
    jefe de sección departmental head o chief;
    jefe de ventas sales manager
    2. Fam [como apelativo]
    pregúntale al jefe qué se debe ask the guy for the bill;
    jefe, pónganos dos cervezas give us two beers, Br guv o US mac
    3. Méx Fam [padre, madre] old man, f old girl
    4. Esp Fam
    mis jefes [mis padres] my folks
    * * *
    m, jefa f de departamento, organización head; ( superior) boss; POL leader; de tribu chief
    :
    mi jefe my dad fam ;
    mi jefa my mom fam
    * * *
    jefe, -fa n
    1) : chief, head, leader
    jefe de bomberos: fire chief
    2) : boss
    * * *
    jefe n
    1. (superior) boss [pl. bosses]
    3. (de un partido, de una asociación) leader

    Spanish-English dictionary > jefe

  • 13 занижать

    Занижать (значение величины) -- to underestimate, to underpredict, to be low, to be on the low side (о формуле, расчёте); to read low (о приборе)
     They underestimate the experimental values.
     The model is also seen to slightly underpredict for F = l and overpredict for F = 625.
    Занижать на (занижать 50%)-- For low Re the present data are about 50 percent lower, however for higher Re the deviation is only 20 percent.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > занижать

  • 14 отклоняться в сторону низких значений

    Отклоняться в сторону низких значений-- For low Re the present data are about 50 percent lower, however for higher Re the deviation is only 20 percent.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > отклоняться в сторону низких значений

  • 15 превышать

    Превышать - to be above, to be over, to be higher, to be in excess of, to be on the high side; to exceed; to increase above, to dominate over, to rise to over
     With 0.91 availability the pipeline delivery loss is over seven percent.
     High temperature corrosion is usually encountered in those areas of the furnace where temperatures of the combustion gases are in excess of 1000oF.
     They become independent of the stiffness ratio after the latter exceeds the value of 5.
     Fig. shows that as SO3 exceeds 6 percent, the relaxation time increases above 20 ms.
     With the activation of the Scottish Feeders, this number (of compressors) will rise to over 40.
     The calculated phase velocities are all on the high side (Все расчётные скорости фазы превышают [измеренные]).
     This behavior indicates that inertial losses dominate over friction losses (... инерционные потери превышают потери на трение).

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > превышать

  • 16 Education

       In Portugal's early history, education was firmly under the control of the Catholic Church. The earliest schools were located in cathedrals and monasteries and taught a small number of individuals destined for ecclesiastical office. In 1290, a university was established by King Dinis (1261-1325) in Lisbon, but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, where it remained. Coimbra University, Portugal's oldest, and once its most prestigious, was the educational cradle of Portugal's leadership. From 1555 until the 18th century, primary and secondary education was provided by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The Catholic Church's educational monopoly was broken when the Marquis of Pombal expelled the Jesuits in 1759 and created the basis for Portugal's present system of public, secular primary and secondary schools. Pombal introduced vocational training, created hundreds of teaching posts, added departments of mathematics and natural sciences at Coimbra University, and established an education tax to pay for them.
       During the 19th century, liberals attempted to reform Portugal's educational system, which was highly elitist and emphasized rote memorization and respect for authority, hierarchy, and discipline.
       Reforms initiated in 1822, 1835, and 1844 were never actualized, however, and education remained unchanged until the early 20th century. After the overthrow of the monarchy on the Fifth of October 1910 by Republican military officers, efforts to reform Portugal's educational system were renewed. New universities were founded in Lisbon and Oporto, a Ministry of Education was established, and efforts were made to increase literacy (illiteracy rates being 80 percent) and to resecularize educational content by introducing more scientific and empirical methods into the curriculum.
       Such efforts were ended during the military dictatorship (192632), which governed Portugal until the establishment of the Estado Novo (1926-74). Although a new technical university was founded in Lisbon in 1930, little was done during the Estado Novo to modernize education or to reduce illiteracy. Only in 1964 was compulsory primary education made available for children between the ages of 6 and 12.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 disrupted Portugal's educational system. For a period of time after the Revolution, students, faculty, and administrators became highly politicized as socialists, communists, and other groups attempted to gain control of the schools. During the 1980s, as Portuguese politics moderated, the educational system was gradually depoliticized, greater emphasis was placed on learning, and efforts were made to improve the quality of Portuguese schools.
       Primary education in Portugal consists of four years in the primary (first) cycle and two years in the preparatory, or second, cycle. The preparatory cycle is intended for children going on to secondary education. Secondary education is roughly equivalent to junior and senior high schools in the United States. It consists of three years of a common curriculum and two years of complementary courses (10th and 11th grades). A final year (12th grade) prepares students to take university entrance examinations.
       Vocational education was introduced in 1983. It consists of a three-year course in a particular skill after the 11th grade of secondary school.
       Higher education is provided by the four older universities (Lisbon, Coimbra, Oporto, and the Technical University of Lisbon), as well as by six newer universities, one in Lisbon and the others in Minho, Aveiro, Évora, the Algarve, and the Azores. There is also a private Catholic university in Lisbon. Admission to Portuguese universities is highly competitive, and places are limited. About 10 percent of secondary students go on to university education. The average length of study at the university is five years, after which students receive their licentiate. The professoriate has four ranks (professors, associate professors, lecturers, and assistants). Professors have tenure, while the other ranks teach on contract.
       As Portugal is a unitary state, the educational system is highly centralized. All public primary and secondary schools, universities, and educational institutes are under the purview of the Ministry of Education, and all teachers and professors are included in the civil service and receive pay and pension like other civil servants. The Ministry of Education hires teachers, determines curriculum, sets policy, and pays for the building and upkeep of schools. Local communities have little say in educational matters.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Education

  • 17 inferior

    adj.
    1 bottom.
    la mitad inferior the bottom o lower half
    la parte inferior (de algo) the bottom (of something)
    2 lower.
    temperaturas inferiores a diez grados temperatures lower than o below ten degrees
    una cifra inferior a cien a figure under o below one hundred
    3 inferior.
    es inferior a la media it's below average
    f. & m.
    inferior.
    trata con desprecio a sus inferiores he treats those beneath him with contempt
    * * *
    2 (cantidad) less, lower
    3 (en calidad) inferior (a, to)
    1 (en rango) subordinate; (en calidad) inferior
    * * *
    noun mf. adj.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [en el espacio] lower

    labio inferiorbottom o lower lip

    2) [en categoría, jerarquía] inferior

    de calidad inferior — of inferior quality, inferior

    3) [con cantidades, números] lower

    temperaturas inferiores a los 20° — temperatures lower than 20°, temperatures below 20°

    2.
    * * *
    I
    1) ( en el espacio) lower
    2) ( en jerarquía) <especie/rango> inferior
    3) ( en comparaciones) lower

    inferior a algo: temperaturas inferiores a los 10° temperatures lower than o below 10°; el número de votantes fue inferior a lo previsto the number of voters was lower than expected; nació con un peso inferior al normal he was below average weight when he was born; un número inferior al 20 — a number below twenty

    II
    masculino y femenino inferior
    * * *
    = inferior, low [lower -comp., lowest -sup.], lower, nether, low-end.
    Ex. A subordinate body is a corporate body that forms an integral part of a larger body in relation to which it holds an inferior hierarchical rank.
    Ex. Carlton Duncan discussed the difficulties built into the educational processes which led to under-performance at school and the resulting low representation in higher education and low entry into the professions.
    Ex. The upper and lower limits for the value are first entered.
    Ex. Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
    Ex. Therefore real time interaction is feasible on both low-end and high-end machines.
    ----
    * clases inferiores, las = lower orders, the.
    * cubierta inferior = lower deck.
    * de calidad inferior = low-end.
    * de inferior calidad = low-end, sub-par.
    * de la gama inferior = low-end.
    * esquina inferior derecha = right bottom corner, bottom right.
    * esquina inferior izquierda = left bottom corner, bottom left.
    * extremidades inferiores = lower extremities, lower limbs.
    * extremo inferior izquierdo = lower left.
    * inferior a = no match for.
    * inferior al título = sub-degree [subdegree].
    * límite inferior = lower bound.
    * mandíbula inferior = lower jaw.
    * margen inferior = bottom margin.
    * maxilar inferior = lower jaw.
    * miembros inferiores = lower extremities, lower limbs.
    * mitad inferior = lower half.
    * parte inferior = bottom.
    * parte inferior derecha = lower right.
    * paso inferior = underpass, subway.
    * paso inferior de peatones = pedestrian underpass.
    * paso inferior para peatones = pedestrian underpass.
    * quijada inferior = lower jaw.
    * vender en el extranjero a precios inferiores que en el país de origen = dump.
    * * *
    I
    1) ( en el espacio) lower
    2) ( en jerarquía) <especie/rango> inferior
    3) ( en comparaciones) lower

    inferior a algo: temperaturas inferiores a los 10° temperatures lower than o below 10°; el número de votantes fue inferior a lo previsto the number of voters was lower than expected; nació con un peso inferior al normal he was below average weight when he was born; un número inferior al 20 — a number below twenty

    II
    masculino y femenino inferior
    * * *
    = inferior, low [lower -comp., lowest -sup.], lower, nether, low-end.

    Ex: A subordinate body is a corporate body that forms an integral part of a larger body in relation to which it holds an inferior hierarchical rank.

    Ex: Carlton Duncan discussed the difficulties built into the educational processes which led to under-performance at school and the resulting low representation in higher education and low entry into the professions.
    Ex: The upper and lower limits for the value are first entered.
    Ex: Squeezed between the upper and nether milestones of increasing demand and dwindling resources, individual librarians develop ways in which to make their jobs easier.
    Ex: Therefore real time interaction is feasible on both low-end and high-end machines.
    * clases inferiores, las = lower orders, the.
    * cubierta inferior = lower deck.
    * de calidad inferior = low-end.
    * de inferior calidad = low-end, sub-par.
    * de la gama inferior = low-end.
    * esquina inferior derecha = right bottom corner, bottom right.
    * esquina inferior izquierda = left bottom corner, bottom left.
    * extremidades inferiores = lower extremities, lower limbs.
    * extremo inferior izquierdo = lower left.
    * inferior a = no match for.
    * inferior al título = sub-degree [subdegree].
    * límite inferior = lower bound.
    * mandíbula inferior = lower jaw.
    * margen inferior = bottom margin.
    * maxilar inferior = lower jaw.
    * miembros inferiores = lower extremities, lower limbs.
    * mitad inferior = lower half.
    * parte inferior = bottom.
    * parte inferior derecha = lower right.
    * paso inferior = underpass, subway.
    * paso inferior de peatones = pedestrian underpass.
    * paso inferior para peatones = pedestrian underpass.
    * quijada inferior = lower jaw.
    * vender en el extranjero a precios inferiores que en el país de origen = dump.

    * * *
    mandíbula/labio inferior lower jaw/lip
    en los pisos inferiores on the lower floors
    las capas inferiores de la atmósfera the lower layers of the atmosphere
    B (en una jerarquía) ‹especie› inferior
    no somos seres inferiores we are not inferior beings
    pero el número puede haber sido muy inferior but the number may have been much lower
    inferior A algo:
    temperaturas inferiores a los 10° temperatures lower than o below 10°
    un número inferior al 20 a number less than o below twenty
    el número de votantes fue inferior a lo que se había previsto the number of voters was lower than expected
    el bebé nació con un peso inferior al normal the baby was below average weight when it was born
    D (pobre) poor
    inferior
    trata a todos sus compañeros como sus inferiores he treats all his workmates as inferiors
    * * *

     

    inferior adjetivo
    1 ( en el espacio) ‹piso/planta lower
    2 ( en jerarquía) ‹especie/rango inferior
    3 ( en comparaciones) lower;
    temperaturas inferiores a los 10° temperatures lower than o below 10°;

    un número inferior al 20 a number below twenty
    inferior
    I adjetivo
    1 (en posición) lower
    2 (en calidad) inferior
    3 (en cantidad) lower, less
    un volumen de ventas inferior a la media, below average turnover
    4 (en rango) inferior
    II mf (persona) subordinate, inferior
    ' inferior' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    señor
    - base
    English:
    average
    - below
    - bottom
    - down-market
    - downgrade
    - downstairs
    - inferior
    - lower
    - par
    - relegate
    - second
    - second-best
    - second-class
    - subaltern
    - substandard
    - third-rate
    - underneath
    - underside
    - beneath
    - jowls
    - less
    - mean
    - third
    - under
    - way
    * * *
    adj
    1. [de abajo] bottom;
    la parte inferior (de algo) the bottom (of sth);
    la mitad inferior the bottom o lower half;
    labio/mandíbula inferior lower lip/jaw
    2. [menor] lower (a than);
    ser inferior en número, ser numéricamente inferior to be fewer in number;
    temperaturas inferiores a los 10 grados temperatures below 10 degrees;
    una cifra inferior a 100 a figure under o below 100;
    lo venden a un precio un 30 por ciento inferior al del mercado they are selling it for 30 percent less than the market price;
    por un periodo no inferior a tres años for a period of not less than three years
    3. [peor] inferior (a to);
    es inferior a la media it's below average;
    un producto de calidad inferior an inferior o a poor-quality product;
    no me creo inferior a nadie I don't consider myself inferior to anybody
    4. Geog
    curso inferior lower reaches
    5. Geol lower;
    el Paleolítico inferior the Lower Paleolithic
    nm
    inferior;
    el jefe trata con desprecio a sus inferiores the boss treats those beneath him with contempt
    * * *
    I adj inferior (a to); en el espacio lower (a than)
    II m/f inferior
    * * *
    : inferior, lower
    : inferior, underling
    * * *
    1. (más bajo) lower
    2. (en cantidad) below / under
    3. (en calidad) inferior

    Spanish-English dictionary > inferior

  • 18 угол (геометрический)


    angle
    - (кабины, панели) — corner
    указатель установлен в верхнeм левом углу приборной доски. — the indicator is located on the upper left corner of the instrument panel.
    - (при определении географических и навигационных параметров) — angle, angular distance
    - (эл. сигнал, соответствующий угловой величине) — angular information the angular information is supplied to the stator windinq.
    - азимута (e)azimuth
    -, азимутальный (в полярных координатах) — azimuth angle
    угловая величина, отсчитываемая по часовой или против часовой стрелки от северного или южного направления от о град, до 90 или 180 град. — measured from 0о at the north or south reference direction clockwise or counterclockwise through 90о or 180о.
    -, азимутальный (курс) — azimuth
    - азимутальный (гироппатфор'мы), отсчитываемый от местного географического меридиана — stable platform azimuth angle measured from local geographic meridian
    - азимутальный, направленно' гo луча антенны — azimuth angle of antenna beams
    - атаки (а) — angle of attack (alpha, aat)
    угол, заключенный между линией отсчета, жестко связанной с планером (крылом) самолета и направлением движения ла. — the angle between a referелее line fixed with respect to an airframe and a lipe in the direction of the aircraft.
    лампа сигнализации выключенного обогрева автомата угпа атаки. (ауасп обогр. выкл.) — alpha off light
    - атаки (англ. термин) — angle of incidence (british usage)
    - атаки, индуктивный — induced angle of attack
    составная часть любого текущего угла атаки, превышающая эффективный угол атаки. — а part of any given angle of attack over and above the effective angle of attack.
    - атаки крыла (профиля)wing angle оf attack
    угол, заключенный между хордой профиля и направлением набегающего потока воздуха (рис.135). — the angle between the chord line of the wing (airfoil) and the relative airflow.
    - атаки, большой — high angle of attack
    - атаки, вызывающий срабатывание системы предотвращения сваливания (выхода на критический угол атаки) — stall barrier actuation angle of attack. the system suppresses the stall warning and barrier асtuation angles of attack to prevent stall overshoot.
    - атаки, докритический — pre-stall(ing) angle of attack
    - атаки, закритический — angle of attack beyond stall
    - атаки, критический, — angle of sfall, stalling angle, stall
    угол атаки, соответствующий максимальному значению коэффициента подъемной силы. — the angle of attack correspending to the maximum lift coefficient.
    - атаки, местный — local angle of attack
    - атаки нулевой подъемной силыzero lift angle of attack
    - атаки, отрицательный — negative angle of attack
    - атаки, положительный — positive angle of attack
    - атаки, средний — medium angle of attack
    - атаки, текущий (a тем) — present angle of attack
    - атаки, эффективный — effective angle of attack
    -, боевой магнитный путевой (бмпу) — run-in magnetic track angle /course/
    - бокового скольженияangle of sideslip
    - ветра (ув)wind angle (u)
    угол, заключенный между вектором путевой скорости и вектором ветра (рис. 124). — the angle between the true course and the direction from which the wind is blowing, measured from the true course toward the right or left, from 0 to 180°.
    - ветра, курсовой — wind angle
    - взмахаflapping angle
    острый угол, образованный продольной осью лопасти неcyщeгo винта вертолета и плоскостью вращения втулки винта при повороте лопасти относительно горизонтальногo шарнира. — the difference between the coning angle and the instantaneous angle of the span axis of a blade of a rotary wing system relative to the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
    - видимости аэронавигационного огня (ано) (рис. 97) — navigation light dihedral angle
    - видимости левого ано (угол "л") — navigation light dihedral angle l (left)
    - видимости правого ано (угол "п") — navigation light dihedral angle r (riqht)
    - видимости хвостового ано (угол "x") — navigation light dihedral angle a (aft)
    - визирования — sight angle, angle of sight
    - возвышения — angle of elevation, elevation
    угол в вертикальной плоскости между горизонталью и наклонной линией от наблюдателя до объекта (рис. 129). — the angle in a vertical plane between the local horizontal and ascending line, as from an observer to an object.
    - волнового конусаmach angle

    the angle between a mach line and the direction of movement of undisturbed flow.
    - вращенияangle of rotation
    - выставки телеблока — telescope /telescopic/ - sensor alignment angle
    - гироппатформы, азимутапьный (инерциальной системы) — stable platform azimuth
    - глиссадыglide slope angle
    угол в вертикальной плоскости между глиссадой и горизонталью (рис. 120). — angle in vertical plane between the glide slope and the horizontal.
    -, гринвичский часовой — greenwich hour angle (gha)
    угол к западу от астрономического гринвичского меридиана. — angular distance west of the greenwich celestial meridian.
    - датчика (угла) гироскопаgyro-pickoff angle
    -, двугранный (ано) — dihedral angle
    - действия (см. видимости) — navigation light dihedral angle
    -, заданный путевой (зпу) (рис. 124) — desired track angle (dsrtk) (dtk)
    - заклинения (установки несущей поверхности) — angle of setting, rigging angle of incidence
    фиксированный угол между плоскостью хорды крыла (стабилизатора) и продольной осью самолета (осью тяги) при горизонтальном положении самолета (рис. 135). — а fixed angle between the plane of the wing chord and the line of thrust or any other longitudinal line which is level when the fuselage is level longitudinally.
    - заклинения горизонтального оперенияangle of stabilizer setting
    острый угоп между продольной осью самолета и хордой (горизонтального) стабилизатора. угол является положительным при превышении передней кромки стабилизатора над задней. — the acute angle between the line of thrust of an airplane and the chord of the stabillzer. the angle is positive when the leading edge is higher than the trailing edge.
    - заклинения крылаangle of wing setting
    острый угол между плоскостью хорды крыла и продольной осью самолета. угол является положительным при превышении передней кромки крыла над задней. — the acute angle between the plane of the wing chord and the longitudinal axis of the airplane. the angle is positive when the leading edge is higher than the trailing edge.
    - заклинения крыла у корняangle of wing setting at root
    - заклинения крыльев (биплана)decalaqe
    разность между углами установки верхнего и нижнего крыльев. острый угол между линиями хорд крыльев в плоскости, параллельной плоскости симметрии самолета. — a difference in the angles of setting of the wings of a biplane. the decalage is measured by the acute angle between tfle chords in a plane parallel to the plane of symmetry.
    - застоя (картушки компаса)angular friction error (of compass card)
    - затенения (огня), телесный — solid angle of obstructed (light) visibility
    - зренияangle of view
    -, исходный путевой — initial departure track angle
    - кабиныcorner ot cabin
    - картыdrivation

    the angle between the grid datum and the magnetic meridian.
    - карты (в автоматическом навигационном планшете) — map /chart/ angle (ca)
    задатчик ук устанавливается на заданный пеленг в каждой точке разворота. если дм (магн, склонение) = +8о то ум = 352о, если дм = -5о, то ук = 5о ук = мпу главной ортодромии — the map or chart angle selector is set to the appropriate bearing at each turning point.
    - конусности (лопасти несущего винта)coning angle
    угол между продольной осью лопасти и плоскостью круга ометаемого законцовкой винта. — the angle between the longitudinal axis of а blade and the tip-path plane.
    - крена (у) — angle of roll, bank (angle)
    угол между поперечной осью самолета и горизонтальной плоскостью. угол считается положительным при правом крене (рис. 135). — the angle between the lateral axis and a horizontal plane. the angle of roll is considered positive if the roll is to starboard.
    - крена, командный — commanded bank angle
    - крена при (для) выходе (выхода) на заданный курсroll steering bank angle (for smooth roll out on the selected heading)
    - крена, текущий — present angle of roll, present bank
    - крыла, установочный (рис. 135). — angle of wing setting
    - курса (путевой угол)track angle
    - курса (самолета, ч) — heading (ч)
    - курса (инерциальной системы)azimuth
    - курсовой (кур)relative bearing (rb)
    автоматический радиокомnac определяет курсовой угол радиостанции, а в сочетанин с компасом или курсовой системой - пеленг радиостанции, как сумму курса и курсового угла (рис. 127). — angle measurement in navigation, measured from the heading of an aircraft, as relative bearing.
    -, курсовой (на экране рлс) — azimuth (relative to aircraft)

    the indicator display shows targets in terms of range and azimuth relative to aircraft.
    - лопасти (возд. винта) — blade angle
    угол между нижней поверхностью части лопасти винта и плоскостью вращения, — the angle between the lower surface of an element of a propeller and plane of rotation.
    - маневра (курс, крен, тангаж) — attitude change angle
    - махаmach angle
    -, местный часовой — local hour angle (lha)
    - набора высотыangle of climb
    угол между линией траектории полета набирающего высоту ла и горизонталью. — the angle between the flight path оf а climbing aircraft and local horizontal.
    - наведения антенны (радиоастрономическсго корректора)antenna pointing angle
    - наведения астрокорректораstar tracker pointing angle

    inertial navigation system provides an accurate azimuth and vertical reference for measurement of the star tracker pointing angles.
    - наведения астротелескопа (телеблока)star-telescope pointing angle
    - наклона (подвижных элементов. напр., автомата перекоса) — tilt angle
    - наклона скачка уплотненияshock wave angle
    - наклона траектории полетаflight path angle
    угол между горизонталью и касательной к данной точке траектории. — the angle between the horizontal and а tangent to the flightpath at a point.
    - "ножниц" (рассогласования) закрылков — flaps asymmetry /disagreement/ angle
    - "ножниц" (рассогласования) стабилизатора — 'stabilizer (halves) asymmetry /disagreement/ angle
    - образованный с... (между) — angle formed with... (between)
    - обратной стреловидности (крыла)sweepforward angle
    - опережения зажиганияignition advance angle
    - ортодромии, путевой (пуо) — great circle track angle
    - отворота, расчетный (при заходе на посадку) — estimated turn angle (eta)
    - отклонения (от направления)angle of deviation
    - отклонения (поверхности управления) — angle of deflection, (control surface) angle
    - отклонения закрылка (закрылков)flap setting
    - отклонения закрылков, взлетный — flap takeoff setting
    - отклонения закрылков для захода на посадкуflap approach setting
    - отклонения закрылков, посадочный — flap landing setting
    - отклонения поверхности управленияcontrol surface angle
    угол между хордой поверхности управления и хордой несущей (или стабилизирующей) поверхности (крыло, киль, стабилизатор). — control surface angle is an angle between the chord of control surface and the chord of the corresponding fixed surface.
    - отклонения руля высотыelevator angle
    - отклонения руля направленияrudder angle
    - отклонения ручки (управления) — control stick displacement /deflection/ angle
    - отклонения скачка уплотненияshock wave deflection angle
    - отклонения (переставного) стабилизатораhorizontal stabilizer (adjustable) setting
    - отклонения элеронаaileron angle
    - отрицательной стреловидностиsweepforward angle
    - отсекаcorner of compartment
    - отсчета радиокомпаса (орк) — indicated /observed/ bearing (of radio station)
    угол разворота рамочной антенны, отличающийся от курсового угла радиостанции (кур) в результате искажения общего электромагнитного поля металлическими частями самолета (т.е. наличием радиодевиации) (рис. 86). — bearing correction is true radio bearing minus indicated (or observed) radio bearing. plot bearing corrections against observed radio bearings.
    -, отсчитываемый от... — angle measured from...
    -, отсчитываемый (по часавой стрелке) от северного направления географическоro меридиана — angle measured (clockwise) from north reference direction of geographical meridian.
    - пересечения курса (луча на маяк) — (localizer) course /radial/ intersection angle
    - пикированияangle of dive
    - планированияgliding angle
    угол между горизонтом и глиссадой самолета (рис. 135). — the angle between the horizontal and the glide path of an aircraft.
    - (гиро) платформы, азимутальный — platform azimuth
    - поворота валаshaft angle
    - поворота переднего колеса (колес)nose wheel steering angle
    система управления передним колесом шасси обеспечивает угол поворота колec(a) ё45о. — the steering system gives the nose wheel steering angles up to plus or minus 45 deg.
    - поворота рамы (гироскопа)rotation angle (of gimbal)

    the rotation angle of the gimbal about the output axis.
    -, подаваемый на индикацию (прибор, счетчик) — angular information supplied to be displayed on (indicator, counter, etc.)
    - положенияposition angle
    - поперечного "v", отрицательный (рис. 136) — anhedral (angle)
    - поперечного "v" по линии носков, положительный (по передней кромке) — dihedral at leading edge (le)
    - поперечного "v", положительный — dihedral angle
    острый угол между перпендикуляром к плоскости симметрии самолета и продольной осью крыла в плоскости, перпендикулярной продольной оси самолета (рис. 136). — the acute angle between а line perpendicular to the plane of symmetry and the projection of the wing axis on а plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the airplane.
    - поправки на ветерwind correction angle (wca)

    the stronger the wind, the greater the wca.
    -, посадочный (самолета) — landing angle
    - прицеливания — sighting /aiming/ angle
    - проема (напр., аварийного выхода) — opening corner
    -, промежуточный (шага винта) — (normal) flight low pitch (angle)
    - пространственного положения (ла)attitude angle
    - путевой (пу) — track angle (тк), course angle) (crs)
    угол, заключенный между северным направлением меридиана и вектором путевой скорости (линии пути), т.е. направлением движения самолета относительно земной поверхности (рис.124). — а direction of intended movement given as an angle from some reference direction, ordinarily given as a measurement clockwise from the true north or the magnetic north in degrees.
    -, путевой, боевой (бпу) — run-in /attack/ track angle
    -, путевой, боевой, магнитный (бмпу) — magnetic run-in /attack/ track angle
    -, путевой, заданный (зпу) (рис.124) — desired track angle (dsrtk, dtk)
    -, путевой, заданный магнитный (змпу) — desired magnetic track angle (dsrmtk, dmtk)
    -, путевой истинный (рис.124). — true track angle, true track, true tk
    -, путевой, исходный — initial departure track angle
    -, путевой магнитный (мну) — magnetic track angle (mtk)
    -, путевой, ортодромии (пуо) — great circle track angle
    отсчитывается от сев. направления географического меридиана через точку мс до положения направления оси у по часовой стрелке.
    -, путевой, при безветрии (при нулевом ветре) — zero-wind track angle
    -, путевой, текущий (тпу) — present track angle
    -, путевой, условный (рис.124). — grid track angle, grid track, rid tk
    -, путевой, фактический — (actual) track angle (tk)
    -, путевой, фактический магнитный (фмпу) — actual magnetic track angle
    -, путевой, штилевой — zero wind track angle
    - радиостанции, курсовой (кур) — relative bearing of radio station (rb)
    угол между направлением продольной оси самолета и направлением на наземную радиостанцию, отсчитывается по часовой стрелке от о до 360 град (рис. 127). — the bearing of a radio station or object relative to the heading of an airplane.
    - разворотаangle of turn
    - разворота переднего колеса (колес)nose wheel steering angle
    - распыла (топлива в форсунке)(fuel) spray pattern
    - рассогласованияerror angle
    - рассогласования закрылков — flaps asymmetry /disagreement/ angle
    - рассогласования по крену (курсу, тангажу) (в сельсинной передаче) — bank (azimuth, pitch) synchro error angle
    - рассогласования предкрылков — (le) slats disagreement /asymmetry/ angle
    - рыскания (ч)angle of yaw
    угол между продольной осью самолета и заданным направлением полета. угол считается положительным, если передний конец продольной оси самолета отклоняется вправо (рис.135). — the angle, as seen from above, between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft and a chosen reference direction. this angle is positive when the forward part of the longitudinal axis is directed to starboard.
    - сближения (схождения) меридиановearth convergency angle
    - свеса (лопасти несущего винта)droop angle
    - скоса потока вверхangle of upwash
    - скоса потока внизangle of downwash
    - сниженияangle of descent
    угол между направлением траектории снижающегося самолета и горизонтом, — the angle between the flight path of a descending aircraft and the local horizontal.
    - сноса (ус)drift angle (da)
    угол, заключенный между вектором воздушной скорости и вектором путевой скорости. если впс располагается правее ввс, углу сноса приписывается (+), если левee, тo (-) (рис. 124). — the horizontal angle between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft and its path relative to the ground, i.e. any angular difference existing between the heading and course (or track).
    - сноса от измерителя дисс (доплеровского измерителя сноса и путевой скорости) — doppler drift angle (dad)
    - солнца, гринвичский часовой — greenwich hour angle of sun (sun gha)
    - срабатывания сигнализацииwarning aetuation angle
    - срабатывания сигнализации критического угла атакиwarning actuation angle of stall
    - срабатывания системы предупреждения выхода на критический угол атакиstall barrier actuation angle
    - срыва ламинарного потока — burble point /angle/

    а point reached in an increasing angle of attack at which burble begins.
    -, стояночный. угол наклона продольной оси самолета относительно плоскости касания колес основного шасси и переднего (хвостового) колеса. — static ground angle (in pitch and bank)
    - стреловидностиsweep angle
    угол в плоскости крыла между линией, проходящей по размаху крыла (по четвертям хорд, передней или задней кромке) и перпендикуляром к плоскости симметрии самолета (рис. 8). — sweep is an angle in plan between the specified spanwise line (quarter-chord, le, те) along the aerofoil and the normal to the plane of the aircraft symmetry.
    - стреловидности (отрицательный)sweepforward angle
    - стреловидности (прямой или положительный)sweepback angle
    - стреловидности по линии четвертей хорд — sweepback (angle) at quarterchord line /at 25 percent of chord/
    - стреловидности по передней кромке — sweepback (angle) at leading edge, sweepback at le
    - схождения меридианов угол между меридианом точки и вертикальной координатной линией. — earth /meridian/ convergence angle
    - тангажа (v)angle of pitch (v)
    угол в вертикальной плоскости между продольной осью самолета и горизонтальной плоскостью. угол считается положительным при наклоне передней части продольной оси вверх (рис.135). — the angle, as seen from the side, between the longitudinal axis of an aircraft and a chosen reference line or plane, usually the horizontal plane. this angle is positive when the forward part of the longitudinal axis is directed above the reference line.
    - тангажа на кабрированиеnose-up pitch angle
    - тангажа на пикированиеnose-down pitch angle
    - тангажа, текущий — present pitch angle, present angle of pitch
    -, текущий путевой (тпу) — present track angle
    - текущий путевой, запомненный (тзпу) — present stored track angle
    - точки весеннего равноденствия, часовой, западный (астр.) — sidereal hour angle (sha) angular distance west of the vernal equinox.
    -, тупой — obtuse angle
    угол более 90о и менее 180о. — an obtuse angle is more than 90о but less than 180о.
    - увлечения (картушки компаса)compass card drift ang
    - упреждения (для парирования сноса самолета при посадке)drift-correction angle
    - установки (см. угол заклинения аэродинамической поверхности) — setting angle
    - установки горизонтального оперенияangle of stabilizer setting
    - установки крыла (заклинение) — angle of wing setting, rigging angle of wing incidence
    угол между корневой хордой крыла и базовой линией фюзеляжа (рис.135). — angle between the wing chord line and aircraft longitudinal axis.
    - установки лопасти (винта)blade angle
    острый угол между хордой сечения лопасти возд.(или несущего, хвостового) винта и плоскостью перпендикулярной оси вращения (рис.58). — the acute angle between the chord of а section of a propeller, or of a rotary wing system, and a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
    - установки рычага управл. двигателем (руд) — throttle setting
    - установки стабилизатора (заклинение) — angle of stabilizer setting, rigging angle of horizontal stabilizer incidence
    угол между корневой хордой стабилизатора и базовой линией фюзеляжа (рис. 135). — angle between the stabilizer root chord line and aircraft longitudinal axis.
    - установки (переставного) стабилизатораstabilizer (incidence) setting
    - установки стабилизатора, взлетный — takeoff stabilizer setting
    - установки стабилизатора, посадочный — landing stabilizer setting
    -, установочный (крыла, стабилизатора) — (wing, stabilizer) setting angle
    -, фактический путевой (рис. 124) — (actual) track angle (tk)
    - цели, курсовой — (target) angle-off
    -, часовой — hour angle

    angular distance west of a celestial meridian or hour circle.
    - часовой, западный, точки весеннего равноденствия (астр.) — sidereal hour angle (sha)
    выход за критический у. атаки — stall (angle) overshoot
    выход на критический у. атаки — reaching of stall(ing) angle
    диапазон у. атаки — angle-of-attack range
    под углом к... — at angle to...

    enter downwind at 90 to reference line.
    полет на критическом у. атаки — stall flight
    поправка на у. сноса — crosswind correction
    расположение (нескольких элементов) под углом... град — spacing... deg. apart the propeller blades are spaced l20 apart.
    с автоматическим учетом у. сноса — with crosswind (drift) correction automatically computed
    выходить на закритический у. атаки — exceed the stalling angle
    выходить на критический у. атаки — reach the stalling angle
    задавать путевой у. — select (desired) track angle
    закруглять у. (детали) — round (off) the corner
    изменять у. атаки — change angle of attack
    образовывать у. с... — make angle with...

    the cable makes an angle of 10 degrees with the vertical line.
    отклонять на у. (-10 град.) — deflect /displace/ (approximately 10 deg.)
    отсчитывать у. — read the angle
    поворачиваться на у. — turn /rotate/ through аn angle
    подавать у. (т.е. эл. сигнал, соответствующий к-л. угловой величине) на (статор сельсина) — supply /transmit/ angular information to (synchro stator)
    располагаться под у. град. (вокруг оси) — be located /spaced/... degrees apart (about axis)
    устанавливать (закрылки) на желаемый у. — set (flaps) at desired angle

    Русско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > угол (геометрический)

  • 19 Brain

       Among the higher mammals the great development of neocortex occurs.
       In each group of mammals there is a steady increase in the area of the association cortex from the most primitive to the evolutionarily most recent type; there is an increase in the number of neurons and their connections. The degree of consciousness of an organism is some function of neuronal cell number and connectivity, perhaps of neurons of a particular type in association cortex regions. This function is of a threshold type such that there is a significant quantitative break with the emergence of humans. Although the importance of language and the argument that it is genetically specified and unique to humans must be reconsidered in the light of the recent evidence as to the possibility of teaching chimpanzees, if not to speak, then to manipulate symbolic words and phrases, there are a number of unique human features which combine to make the transition not merely quantitative, but also qualitative. In particular these include the social, productive nature of human existence, and the range and extent of the human capacity to communicate. These features have made human history not so much one of biological but of social evolution, of continuous cultural transformation. (Rose, 1976, pp. 180-181)
       [S]ome particular property of higher primate and cetacean brains did not evolve until recently. But what was that property? I can suggest at least four possibilities...: (1) Never before was there a brain so massive; (2) Never before was there a brain with so large a ratio of brain to body mass; (3) Never before was there a brain with certain functional units (large frontal and temporal lobes, for example); (4) Never before was there a brain with so many neural connections or synapses.... Explanations 1, 2 and 4 argue that a quantitative change produced a qualitative change. It does not seem to me that a crisp choice among these four alternatives can be made at the present time, and I suspect that the truth will actually embrace most or all of these possibilities. (Sagan, 1978, pp. 107-109)
       The crucial change in the human brain in this million years or so has not been so much the increase in size by a factor of three, but the concentration of that increase in three or four main areas. The visual area has increased considerably, and, compared with the chimpanzee, the actual density of human brain cells is at least 50 percent greater. A second increase has taken place in the area of manipulation of the hand, which is natural since we are much more hand-driven animals than monkeys and apes. Another main increase has taken place in the temporal lobe, in which visual memory, integration, and speech all lie fairly close together. And the fourth great increase has taken place in the frontal lobes. Their function is extremely difficult to understand... ; but it is clear that they're largely responsible for the ability to initiate a task, to be attentive while it is being done, and to persevere with it. (Bronowski, 1978, pp. 23-24)
       The human brain works however it works. Wishing for it to work in some way as a shortcut to justifying some ethical principle undermines both the science and the ethics (for what happens to the principle if the scientific facts turn out to go the other way?). (Pinker, 1994, p. 427)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Brain

  • 20 дистанционное техническое обслуживание

    1. remote sevice
    2. remote maintenance

     

    дистанционное техническое обслуживание
    Техническое обслуживание объекта, проводимое под управлением персонала без его непосредственного присутствия.
    [ОСТ 45.152-99 ]

    Параллельные тексты EN-RU из ABB Review. Перевод компании Интент

    Service from afar

    Дистанционный сервис

    ABB’s Remote Service concept is revolutionizing the robotics industry

    Разработанная АББ концепция дистанционного обслуживания Remote Service революционизирует робототехнику

    ABB robots are found in industrial applications everywhere – lifting, packing, grinding and welding, to name a few. Robust and tireless, they work around the clock and are critical to a company’s productivity. Thus, keeping these robots in top shape is essential – any failure can lead to serious output consequences. But what happens when a robot malfunctions?

    Роботы АББ используются во всех отраслях промышленности для перемещения грузов, упаковки, шлифовки, сварки – всего и не перечислить. Надежные и неутомимые работники, способные трудиться день и ночь, они представляют большую ценность для владельца. Поэтому очень важно поддерживать их в надлежащей состоянии, ведь любой отказ может иметь серьезные последствия. Но что делать, если робот все-таки сломался?

    ABB’s new Remote Service concept holds the answer: This approach enables a malfunctioning robot to alarm for help itself. An ABB service engineer then receives whole diagnostic information via wireless technology, analyzes the data on a Web site and responds with support in just minutes. This unique service is paying off for customers and ABB alike, and in the process is revolutionizing service thinking.

    Ответом на этот вопрос стала новая концепция Remote Service от АББ, согласно которой неисправный робот сам просит о помощи. C помощью беспроводной технологии специалист сервисной службы АББ получает всю необходимую диагностическую информацию, анализирует данные на web-сайте и через считанные минуты выдает рекомендации по устранению отказа. Эта уникальная возможность одинаково ценна как для заказчиков, так и для самой компании АББ. В перспективе она способна в корне изменить весь подход к организации технического обслуживания.

    Every minute of production downtime can have financially disastrous consequences for a company. Traditional reactive service is no longer sufficient since on-site service engineer visits also demand great amounts of time and money. Thus, companies not only require faster help from the service organization when needed but they also want to avoid disturbances in production.

    Каждая минута простоя производства может привести к губительным финансовым последствиям. Традиционная организация сервиса, предусматривающая ликвидацию возникающих неисправностей, становится все менее эффективной, поскольку вызов сервисного инженера на место эксплуатации робота сопряжен с большими затратами времени и денег. Предприятия требуют от сервисной организации не только более быстрого оказания помощи, но и предотвращения возможных сбоев производства.

    In 2006, ABB developed a new approach to better meet customer’s expectations: Using the latest technologies to reach the robots at customer sites around the world, ABB could support them remotely in just minutes, thereby reducing the need for site visits. Thus the new Remote Service concept was quickly brought to fruition and was launched in mid-2007. Statistics show that by using the system the majority of production stoppages can be avoided.

    В 2006 г. компания АББ разработала новый подход к удовлетворению ожиданий своих заказчиков. Использование современных технологий позволяет специалистам АББ получать информацию от роботов из любой точки мира и в считанные минуты оказывать помощь дистанционно, в результате чего сокращается количество выездов на место установки. Запущенная в середине 2007 г. концепция Remote Service быстро себя оправдала. Статистика показывает, что её применение позволило предотвратить большое число остановок производства.

    Reactive maintenance The hardware that makes ABB Remote Service possible consists of a communication unit, which has a function similar to that of an airplane’s so-called black box 1. This “service box” is connected to the robot’s control system and can read and transmit diagnostic information. The unit not only reads critical diagnostic information that enables immediate support in the event of a failure, but also makes it possible to monitor and analyze the robot’s condition, thereby proactively detecting the need for maintenance.

    Устранение возникающих неисправностей Аппаратное устройство, с помощью которого реализуется концепция Remote Service, представляет собой коммуникационный блок, работающий аналогично черному ящику самолета (рис. 1). Этот блок считывает диагностические данные из контроллера робота и передает их по каналу GSM. Считывается не только информация, необходимая для оказания немедленной помощи в случае отказа, но и сведения, позволяющие контролировать и анализировать состояние робота для прогнозирования неисправностей и планирования технического обслуживания.

    If the robot breaks down, the service box immediately stores the status of the robot, its historical data (as log files), and diagnostic parameters such as temperature and power supply. Equipped with a built-in modem and using the GSM network, the box transmits the data to a central server for analysis and presentation on a dedicated Web site. Alerts are automatically sent to the nearest of ABB’s 1,200 robot service engineers who then accesses the detailed data and error log to analyze the problem.

    При поломке робота сервисный блок немедленно сохраняет данные о его состоянии, сведения из рабочего журнала, а также значения диагностических параметров (температура и характеристики питания). Эти данные передаются встроенным GSM-модемом на центральный сервер для анализа и представления на соответствующем web-сайте. Аварийные сообщения автоматически пересылаются ближайшему к месту аварии одному из 1200 сервисных инженеров-робототехников АББ, который получает доступ к детальной информации и журналу аварий для анализа возникшей проблемы.

    A remotely based ABB engineer can then quickly identify the exact fault, offering rapid customer support. For problems that cannot be solved remotely, the service engineer can arrange for quick delivery of spare parts and visit the site to repair the robot. Even if the engineer must make a site visit, service is faster, more efficient and performed to a higher standard than otherwise possible.

    Специалист АББ может дистанционно идентифицировать отказ и оказать быструю помощь заказчику. Если неисправность не может быть устранена дистанционно, сервисный инженер организовывает доставку запасных частей и выезд ремонтной бригады. Даже если необходимо разрешение проблемы на месте, предшествующая дистанционная диагностика позволяет минимизировать объем работ и сократить время простоя.

    Remote Service enables engineers to “talk” to robots remotely and to utilize tools that enable smart, fast and automatic analysis. The system is based on a machine-to-machine (M2M) concept, which works automatically, requiring human input only for analysis and personalized customer recommendations. ABB was recognized for this innovative solution at the M2M United Conference in Chicago in 2008 Factbox.

    Remote Service позволяет инженерам «разговаривать» с роботами на расстоянии и предоставляет в их распоряжение интеллектуальные средства быстрого автоматизированного анализа. Система основана на основе технологии автоматической связи машины с машиной (M2M), где участие человека сводится к анализу данных и выдаче рекомендаций клиенту. В 2008 г. это инновационное решение от АББ получило приз на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго (см. вставку).

    Proactive maintenance 
    Remote Service also allows ABB engineers to monitor and detect potential problems in the robot system and opens up new possibilities for proactive maintenance.

    Прогнозирование неисправностей
    Remote Service позволяет инженерам АББ дистанционно контролировать состояние роботов и прогнозировать возможные неисправности, что открывает новые возможности по организации профилактического обслуживания.

    The service box regularly takes condition measurements. By monitoring key parameters over time, Remote Service can identify potential failures and when necessary notify both the end customer and the appropriate ABB engineer. The management and storage of full system backups is a very powerful service to help recover from critical situations caused, for example, by operator errors.

    Сервисный блок регулярно выполняет диагностические измерения. Непрерывно контролируя ключевые параметры, Remote Service может распознать потенциальные опасности и, при необходимости, оповещать владельца оборудования и соответствующего специалиста АББ. Резервирование данных для возможного отката является мощным средством, обеспечивающим восстановление системы в критических ситуациях, например, после ошибки оператора.

    The first Remote Service installation took place in the automotive industry in the United States and quickly proved its value. The motherboard in a robot cabinet overheated and the rise in temperature triggered an alarm via Remote Service. Because of the alarm, engineers were able to replace a faulty fan, preventing a costly production shutdown.

    Первая система Remote Service была установлена на автозаводе в США и очень скоро была оценена по достоинству. Она обнаружила перегрев материнской платы в шкафу управления роботом и передала сигнал о превышении допустимой температуры, благодаря чему инженеры смогли заменить неисправный вентилятор и предотвратить дорогостоящую остановку производства.

    MyRobot: 24-hour remote access

    Having regular access to a robot’s condition data is also essential to achieving lean production. At any time, from any location, customers can verify their robots’ status and access maintenance information and performance reports simply by logging in to ABB’s MyRobot Web site. The service enables customers to easily compare performances, identify bottlenecks or developing issues, and initiate the most

    Сайт MyRobot: круглосуточный дистанционный доступ
    Для того чтобы обеспечить бесперебойное производство, необходимо иметь регулярный доступ к информации о состоянии робота. Зайдя на соответствующую страницу сайта MyRobot компании АББ, заказчики получат все необходимые данные, включая сведения о техническом обслуживании и отчеты о производительности своего робота. Эта услуга позволяет легко сравнивать данные о производительности, обнаруживать возможные проблемы, а также оптимизировать планирование технического обслуживания и модернизации. С помощью MyRobot можно значительно увеличить выпуск продукции и уменьшить количество выбросов.

    Award-winning solution
    In June 2008, the innovative Remote Service solution won the Gold Value Chain award at the M2M United Conference in Chicago. The value chain award honors successful corporate adopters of M2M (machine–to-machine) technology and highlights the process of combining multiple technologies to deliver high-quality services to customers. ABB won in the categoryof Smart Services.

    Приз за удачное решение
    В июне 2008 г. инновационное решение Remote Service получило награду Gold Value Chain (Золотая цепь) на конференции M2M United Conference в Чикаго. «Золотая цепь» присуждается за успешное масштабное внедрение технологии M2M (машина – машина), а также за достижения в объединении различных технологий для предоставления высококачественных услуг заказчикам. АББ одержала победу в номинации «Интеллектуальный сервис».

    Case study: Tetley Tetley GB Ltd is the world’s second-largest manufacturer and distributor of tea. The company’s manufacturing and distribution business is spread across 40 countries and sells over 60 branded tea bags. Tetley’s UK tea production facility in Eaglescliffe, County Durham is the sole producer of Tetley tea bags 2.

    Пример применения: Tetley Компания TetleyGB Ltd является вторым по величине мировым производителем и поставщиком чая. Производственные и торговые филиалы компании имеются в 40 странах, а продукция распространяется под 60 торговыми марками. Чаеразвесочная фабрика в Иглсклифф, графство Дарем, Великобритания – единственный производитель чая Tetley в пакетиках (рис. 2).

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which can help extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the cost of automated production.

    Предлагаемые АББ контракты на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и общую стоимость автоматизированного производства.

    Robots in the plant’s production line were tripping alarms and delaying the whole production cycle. The spurious alarms resulted in much unnecessary downtime that was spent resetting the robots in the hope that another breakdown could be avoided. Each time an alarm was tripped, several hours of production time was lost. “It was for this reason that we were keen to try out ABB’s Remote Service agreement,” said Colin Trevor, plant maintenance manager.

    Установленные в технологической линии роботы выдавали аварийные сигналы, задерживающие выполнение производственного цикла. Ложные срабатывания вынуждали перезапускать роботов в надежде предотвратить возможные отказы, в результате чего после каждого аварийного сигнала производство останавливалось на несколько часов. «Именно поэтому мы решили попробовать заключить с АББ контракт на дистанционное техническое обслуживание», – сказал Колин Тревор, начальник технической службы фабрики.

    To prevent future disruptions caused by unplanned downtime, Tetley signed an ABB Response Package service agreement, which included installing a service box and system infrastructure into the robot control systems. Using the Remote Service solution, ABB remotely monitors and collects data on the “wear and tear” and productivity of the robotic cells; this data is then shared with the customer and contributes to smooth-running production cycles.

    Для предотвращения ущерба в результате незапланированных простоев Tetley заключила с АББ контракт на комплексное обслуживание Response Package, согласно которому системы управления роботами были дооборудованы сервисными блоками с необходимой инфраструктурой. С помощью Remote Service компания АББ дистанционно собирает данные о наработке, износе и производительности роботизированных модулей. Эти данные предоставляются заказчику для оптимизации загрузки производственного оборудования.

    Higher production uptime
    Since the implementation of Remote Service, Tetley has enjoyed greatly reduced robot downtime, with no further disruptions caused by unforeseen problems. “The Remote Service package has dramatically changed the plant,” said Trevor. “We no longer have breakdown issues throughout the shift, helping us to achieve much longer periods of robot uptime. As we have learned, world-class manufacturing facilities need world-class support packages. Remote monitoring of our robots helps us to maintain machine uptime, prevent costly downtime and ensures my employees can be put to more valuable use.”

    Увеличение полезного времени
    С момента внедрения Remote Service компания Tetley была приятно удивлена резким сокращением простоя роботов и отсутствием незапланированных остановок производства. «Пакет Remote Service резко изменил ситуацию на предприятии», – сказал Тревор. «Мы избавились от простоев роботов и смогли резко увеличить их эксплуатационную готовность. Мы поняли, что для производственного оборудования мирового класса необходим сервисный пакет мирового класса. Дистанционный контроль роботов помогает нам поддерживать их в рабочем состоянии, предотвращать дорогостоящие простои и задействовать наш персонал для выполнения более важных задач».

    Service access
    Remote Service is available worldwide, connecting more than 500 robots. Companies that have up to 30 robots are often good candidates for the Remote Service offering, as they usually have neither the engineers nor the requisite skills to deal with robotics faults themselves. Larger companies are also enthusiastic about Remote Service, as the proactive services will improve the lifetime of their equipment and increase overall production uptime.

    Доступность сервиса
    Сеть Remote Service охватывает более 700 роботов по всему миру. Потенциальными заказчиками Remote Service являются компании, имеющие до 30 роботов, но не имеющие инженеров и техников, способных самостоятельно устранять их неисправности. Интерес к Remote Service проявляют и более крупные компании, поскольку они заинтересованы в увеличении срока службы и эксплуатационной готовности производственного оборудования.

    In today’s competitive environment, business profitability often relies on demanding production schedules that do not always leave time for exhaustive or repeated equipment health checks. ABB’s Remote Service agreements are designed to monitor its customers’ robots to identify when problems are likely to occur and ensure that help is dispatched before the problem can escalate. In over 60 percent of ABB’s service calls, its robots can be brought back online remotely, without further intervention.

    В условиях современной конкуренции окупаемость бизнеса часто зависит от соблюдения жестких графиков производства, не оставляющих времени для полномасштабных или периодических проверок исправности оборудования. Контракт Remote Service предусматривает мониторинг состояния роботов заказчика для прогнозирования возможных неисправностей и принятие мер по их предотвращению. В более чем 60 % случаев для устранения неисправности достаточно дистанционной консультации в сервисной службе АББ, дальнейшего вмешательства не требуется.

    ABB offers a flexible choice of service agreements for both new and existing robot installations, which helps extend the mean time between failures, shorten the time to repair and lower the total cost of ownership. With four new packages available – Support, Response, Maintenance and Warranty, each backed up by ABB’s Remote Service technology – businesses can minimize the impact of unplanned downtime and achieve improved production-line efficiency.

    Компания АББ предлагает гибкий выбор контрактов на выполнение технического обслуживания как уже имеющихся, так и вновь устанавливаемых роботов, которые позволяют значительно увеличить среднюю наработку на отказ, сократить время ремонта и эксплуатационные расходы. Четыре новых пакета на основе технологии Remote Service Support, Response, Maintenance и Warranty – позволяют минимизировать внеплановые простои и значительно повысить эффективность производства.

    The benefits of Remote Sevice are clear: improved availability, fewer service visits, lower maintenance costs and maximized total cost of ownership. This unique service sets ABB apart from its competitors and is the beginning of a revolution in service thinking. It provides ABB with a great opportunity to improve customer access to its expertise and develop more advanced services worldwide.

    Преимущества дистанционного технического обслуживания очевидны: повышенная надежность, уменьшение выездов ремонтных бригад, уменьшение затрат на обслуживание и общих эксплуатационных расходов. Эта уникальная услуга дает компании АББ преимущества над конкурентами и демонстрирует революционный подход к организации сервиса. Благодаря ей компания АББ расширяет доступ заказчиков к опыту своих специалистов и получает возможность более эффективного оказания технической помощи по всему миру.

    Тематики

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