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1 BF
1) Компьютерная техника: Big File, Blank Filling, Block Fill, Bold Font, Boot Floppy, Bridging Fault, Brute Force2) Медицина: онкогенный фактор (blastogenic factor)3) Американизм: Before Founding4) Спорт: Ball Face, Before Fall5) Военный термин: Ballast Factor, Battle Field, Before The Fall, Bomb Factory, Bomb Finder, British Forces, Burst Fire, backup forces, base fuze, battle fatigue, bayonet fighting, blind flying, block fuel, blue force6) Техника: Broken Freezer, Bronze Fitted, back feed, back focal, ballistic focusing, band filter, bandpass filter, bandwidth factor, beam forming, bearing finder, binary function, branching filter, breakdown field, broad fraction of light hydrocarbons, feedback7) Сельское хозяйство: Blend Factor8) Шутливое выражение: Brace Face, Broadband Forever9) Математика: Basis Function, Bayes Formula, Best Fit, Boundary Fitted, Branching Factor10) Религия: Bahai Faith11) Юридический термин: Baby's Father, Black Female, Body Found, Burglary Fire12) Бухгалтерия: Bankruptcy Failure13) Грубое выражение: Big And Fat, Big Fat, Big Fool, Bitchy Fit, Buck Fuck, Butt Fat, Butt Fucker, Butt Fucking14) Металлургия: blast furnace, доменная печь, домна15) Политика: Bahamas16) Телевидение: burst flag17) Сокращение: Back-Feed, Base Fuzed, Battle Force, Black Friday, Bomber-Fighter, Booking Fees, Burkina Faso, backface, beat frequency, bell and flange, boiler feed, boldface type, both faces18) Физика: Back And Forth19) Физиология: Before Food, Blood flow, Bodily Function, Bone Fragment, Breastfeeding, Burn Factor20) Шахматы: Bobby Fischer21) Электроника: Brightfield23) Нефть: barrels of fluid, buoyant factor, число баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)24) Банковское дело: перенесённый на другой счёт (brought forward), British Funds (первоклассные или гарантированные ценные бумаги (преим. государственные))25) Пищевая промышленность: Boiled Feet26) Упаковка: фактор разрывного сопротивления, burst factor27) Фирменный знак: Bharat Forge, Brown And Forsythe28) Холодильная техника: bypass factor29) СМИ: Bound Form30) Деловая лексика: Bankrupt Firm, Big Foot, перенесённый на следующую страницу (brought forward)31) Бурение: баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: broad fraction (of light hydrocarbons)33) Инвестиции: brought forward34) Сетевые технологии: Browser File35) Полимеры: bulk factor36) Программирование: Bit Field, Bring Forward, Busy Flag37) Сахалин Ю: broad fraction, flare gas38) Механизмы: подвесной (bearing-free)39) Расширение файла: Bad Flag40) Электротехника: base fuse, bottom face, breaker failure41) Фантастика Blade Fury42) Имена и фамилии: Benjamin Franklin43) Должность: Bad Fisherman, Best Friend44) Чат: Best Friends, Bisexual Female, Boy Friend45) Программное обеспечение: Bug Fix46) Единицы измерений: Board Foot47) Базы данных: Box Fill -
2 Bf
1) Компьютерная техника: Big File, Blank Filling, Block Fill, Bold Font, Boot Floppy, Bridging Fault, Brute Force2) Медицина: онкогенный фактор (blastogenic factor)3) Американизм: Before Founding4) Спорт: Ball Face, Before Fall5) Военный термин: Ballast Factor, Battle Field, Before The Fall, Bomb Factory, Bomb Finder, British Forces, Burst Fire, backup forces, base fuze, battle fatigue, bayonet fighting, blind flying, block fuel, blue force6) Техника: Broken Freezer, Bronze Fitted, back feed, back focal, ballistic focusing, band filter, bandpass filter, bandwidth factor, beam forming, bearing finder, binary function, branching filter, breakdown field, broad fraction of light hydrocarbons, feedback7) Сельское хозяйство: Blend Factor8) Шутливое выражение: Brace Face, Broadband Forever9) Математика: Basis Function, Bayes Formula, Best Fit, Boundary Fitted, Branching Factor10) Религия: Bahai Faith11) Юридический термин: Baby's Father, Black Female, Body Found, Burglary Fire12) Бухгалтерия: Bankruptcy Failure13) Грубое выражение: Big And Fat, Big Fat, Big Fool, Bitchy Fit, Buck Fuck, Butt Fat, Butt Fucker, Butt Fucking14) Металлургия: blast furnace, доменная печь, домна15) Политика: Bahamas16) Телевидение: burst flag17) Сокращение: Back-Feed, Base Fuzed, Battle Force, Black Friday, Bomber-Fighter, Booking Fees, Burkina Faso, backface, beat frequency, bell and flange, boiler feed, boldface type, both faces18) Физика: Back And Forth19) Физиология: Before Food, Blood flow, Bodily Function, Bone Fragment, Breastfeeding, Burn Factor20) Шахматы: Bobby Fischer21) Электроника: Brightfield23) Нефть: barrels of fluid, buoyant factor, число баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)24) Банковское дело: перенесённый на другой счёт (brought forward), British Funds (первоклассные или гарантированные ценные бумаги (преим. государственные))25) Пищевая промышленность: Boiled Feet26) Упаковка: фактор разрывного сопротивления, burst factor27) Фирменный знак: Bharat Forge, Brown And Forsythe28) Холодильная техника: bypass factor29) СМИ: Bound Form30) Деловая лексика: Bankrupt Firm, Big Foot, перенесённый на следующую страницу (brought forward)31) Бурение: баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: broad fraction (of light hydrocarbons)33) Инвестиции: brought forward34) Сетевые технологии: Browser File35) Полимеры: bulk factor36) Программирование: Bit Field, Bring Forward, Busy Flag37) Сахалин Ю: broad fraction, flare gas38) Механизмы: подвесной (bearing-free)39) Расширение файла: Bad Flag40) Электротехника: base fuse, bottom face, breaker failure41) Фантастика Blade Fury42) Имена и фамилии: Benjamin Franklin43) Должность: Bad Fisherman, Best Friend44) Чат: Best Friends, Bisexual Female, Boy Friend45) Программное обеспечение: Bug Fix46) Единицы измерений: Board Foot47) Базы данных: Box Fill -
3 bf
1) Компьютерная техника: Big File, Blank Filling, Block Fill, Bold Font, Boot Floppy, Bridging Fault, Brute Force2) Медицина: онкогенный фактор (blastogenic factor)3) Американизм: Before Founding4) Спорт: Ball Face, Before Fall5) Военный термин: Ballast Factor, Battle Field, Before The Fall, Bomb Factory, Bomb Finder, British Forces, Burst Fire, backup forces, base fuze, battle fatigue, bayonet fighting, blind flying, block fuel, blue force6) Техника: Broken Freezer, Bronze Fitted, back feed, back focal, ballistic focusing, band filter, bandpass filter, bandwidth factor, beam forming, bearing finder, binary function, branching filter, breakdown field, broad fraction of light hydrocarbons, feedback7) Сельское хозяйство: Blend Factor8) Шутливое выражение: Brace Face, Broadband Forever9) Математика: Basis Function, Bayes Formula, Best Fit, Boundary Fitted, Branching Factor10) Религия: Bahai Faith11) Юридический термин: Baby's Father, Black Female, Body Found, Burglary Fire12) Бухгалтерия: Bankruptcy Failure13) Грубое выражение: Big And Fat, Big Fat, Big Fool, Bitchy Fit, Buck Fuck, Butt Fat, Butt Fucker, Butt Fucking14) Металлургия: blast furnace, доменная печь, домна15) Политика: Bahamas16) Телевидение: burst flag17) Сокращение: Back-Feed, Base Fuzed, Battle Force, Black Friday, Bomber-Fighter, Booking Fees, Burkina Faso, backface, beat frequency, bell and flange, boiler feed, boldface type, both faces18) Физика: Back And Forth19) Физиология: Before Food, Blood flow, Bodily Function, Bone Fragment, Breastfeeding, Burn Factor20) Шахматы: Bobby Fischer21) Электроника: Brightfield23) Нефть: barrels of fluid, buoyant factor, число баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)24) Банковское дело: перенесённый на другой счёт (brought forward), British Funds (первоклассные или гарантированные ценные бумаги (преим. государственные))25) Пищевая промышленность: Boiled Feet26) Упаковка: фактор разрывного сопротивления, burst factor27) Фирменный знак: Bharat Forge, Brown And Forsythe28) Холодильная техника: bypass factor29) СМИ: Bound Form30) Деловая лексика: Bankrupt Firm, Big Foot, перенесённый на следующую страницу (brought forward)31) Бурение: баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: broad fraction (of light hydrocarbons)33) Инвестиции: brought forward34) Сетевые технологии: Browser File35) Полимеры: bulk factor36) Программирование: Bit Field, Bring Forward, Busy Flag37) Сахалин Ю: broad fraction, flare gas38) Механизмы: подвесной (bearing-free)39) Расширение файла: Bad Flag40) Электротехника: base fuse, bottom face, breaker failure41) Фантастика Blade Fury42) Имена и фамилии: Benjamin Franklin43) Должность: Bad Fisherman, Best Friend44) Чат: Best Friends, Bisexual Female, Boy Friend45) Программное обеспечение: Bug Fix46) Единицы измерений: Board Foot47) Базы данных: Box Fill -
4 B
1) Общая лексика: В-образный, вторая буква английского алфавита, второй по счёту, второй сорт, имеющий форму буквы В, имеющий форму буквы В2) Компьютерная техника: Bruce4) Американизм: отметка "хорошо"6) Военный термин: Blank, British, Browning, Buster, band, battery, battle, beam, bearing, boat, body, bomb, bombardier, bottom, boundary, brigadier, bulletin, восточно-европейское время, категория подготовки ЛС ВВС (ежегодно 24 учебных занятия в составе резерва и 25 дней службы в регулярных войсках), обычно надёжный источник разведывательной информации, (bomber) бомбардировщик (самолёт)7) Техника: B-display, Baume, Baume hydrometer scale, Bracket, Button, beacon, blanking, boils at..., branch, brass, broadcast, broken, bulb, degree Baume, film thickness, susceptance, telegraph speed in bauds, volume modulus of elasticity, бор, символ для обозначения магнитной индукции8) Шутливое выражение: The Baddest9) Математика: ( b) b (обозначение известного числа), Bitwise, основание (base)12) Биржевой термин: Buy13) Грубое выражение: BITCH/BASTARD, Bastard, Bitch, Bitchin14) Музыка: Bass, нота си, си, СИ (нота настройки)16) Телекоммуникации: Bridge, Interpolated Pictures (MPEG)17) Сокращение: Belgium, Book, Boron, Bravo (phonetic alphabet), Civil aircraft marking (China, People's Republic), Time zone 22.5 E - 37.5 E (GMT -2), bel (sound pressure), bomber, breakthrough, Bering Standard Time (GMT - 1100), base (electron device), British Thermal Unit, baggage, bale, best, board, brightness, budget, buyer18) Физика: Bored20) Шахматы: Bishop21) Сленг: бензедрин23) Нефть: angle between interface and bed, barrel, base, bottom of, boundstone, cation mobility, current-return electrode, degree Beaume, formation volume factor, magnetic induction, turbulence24) Иммунология: Biological25) Биохимия: nuclear factor kappa B26) Связь: bias27) Картография: bay, black buoy, blue, brook, дорога с шириной проезжей части до 15 футов с отдельными объездами, дорога с шириной проезжей части до 15 футов с отдельными объездами, проходимая только в сухую погоду, дорога, проходимая для всех видов мототранспорта только летом и в сухое время, якорная стоянка для судов с малой осадкой28) Банковское дело: переводный вексель (bill of exchange), тратта (bill of exchange)33) Бурение: градус Боме (degree Beaume), нижняя ограничивающая поверхность пласта (base), подошва пласта (base)34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: КОС35) Образование: Boys36) Инвестиции: British Patent, bill of exchange37) Полимеры: Baume scale, bar, batch, build-up specimen, маркировка изделий в Японии, означающая, что обработка изделии произведена в соответствии с японским стандартом (на процесс)39) Расширение файла: BASIC language source code file, Batch list, Modula-3 Base program41) Должность: Boss42) Чат: Bisexual43) NYSE. Barnes Group, Inc.44) Программное обеспечение: Byte45) Единицы измерений: Bytes46) СМС: Be -
5 b
1) Общая лексика: В-образный, вторая буква английского алфавита, второй по счёту, второй сорт, имеющий форму буквы В, имеющий форму буквы В2) Компьютерная техника: Bruce4) Американизм: отметка "хорошо"6) Военный термин: Blank, British, Browning, Buster, band, battery, battle, beam, bearing, boat, body, bomb, bombardier, bottom, boundary, brigadier, bulletin, восточно-европейское время, категория подготовки ЛС ВВС (ежегодно 24 учебных занятия в составе резерва и 25 дней службы в регулярных войсках), обычно надёжный источник разведывательной информации, (bomber) бомбардировщик (самолёт)7) Техника: B-display, Baume, Baume hydrometer scale, Bracket, Button, beacon, blanking, boils at..., branch, brass, broadcast, broken, bulb, degree Baume, film thickness, susceptance, telegraph speed in bauds, volume modulus of elasticity, бор, символ для обозначения магнитной индукции8) Шутливое выражение: The Baddest9) Математика: (b) b (обозначение известного числа), Bitwise, основание (base)12) Биржевой термин: Buy13) Грубое выражение: BITCH/BASTARD, Bastard, Bitch, Bitchin14) Музыка: Bass, нота си, си, СИ (нота настройки)16) Телекоммуникации: Bridge, Interpolated Pictures (MPEG)17) Сокращение: Belgium, Book, Boron, Bravo (phonetic alphabet), Civil aircraft marking (China, People's Republic), Time zone 22.5 E - 37.5 E (GMT -2), bel (sound pressure), bomber, breakthrough, Bering Standard Time (GMT - 1100), base (electron device), British Thermal Unit, baggage, bale, best, board, brightness, budget, buyer18) Физика: Bored20) Шахматы: Bishop21) Сленг: бензедрин23) Нефть: angle between interface and bed, barrel, base, bottom of, boundstone, cation mobility, current-return electrode, degree Beaume, formation volume factor, magnetic induction, turbulence24) Иммунология: Biological25) Биохимия: nuclear factor kappa B26) Связь: bias27) Картография: bay, black buoy, blue, brook, дорога с шириной проезжей части до 15 футов с отдельными объездами, дорога с шириной проезжей части до 15 футов с отдельными объездами, проходимая только в сухую погоду, дорога, проходимая для всех видов мототранспорта только летом и в сухое время, якорная стоянка для судов с малой осадкой28) Банковское дело: переводный вексель (bill of exchange), тратта (bill of exchange)33) Бурение: градус Боме (degree Beaume), нижняя ограничивающая поверхность пласта (base), подошва пласта (base)34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: КОС35) Образование: Boys36) Инвестиции: British Patent, bill of exchange37) Полимеры: Baume scale, bar, batch, build-up specimen, маркировка изделий в Японии, означающая, что обработка изделии произведена в соответствии с японским стандартом (на процесс)39) Расширение файла: BASIC language source code file, Batch list, Modula-3 Base program41) Должность: Boss42) Чат: Bisexual43) NYSE. Barnes Group, Inc.44) Программное обеспечение: Byte45) Единицы измерений: Bytes46) СМС: Be -
6 Psychology
We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly. This knowledge, as it is the end and term of natural philosophy in the intention of man, so notwithstanding it is but a portion of natural philosophy in the continent of nature.... [W]e proceed to human philosophy or Humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate, or distributively; the other congregate, or in society. So as Human philosophy is either Simple and Particular, or Conjugate and Civil. Humanity Particular consisteth of the same parts whereof man consisteth; that is, of knowledges which respect the Body, and of knowledges that respect the Mind... how the one discloseth the other and how the one worketh upon the other... [:] the one is honored with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other of Hippocrates. (Bacon, 1878, pp. 236-237)The claims of Psychology to rank as a distinct science are... not smaller but greater than those of any other science. If its phenomena are contemplated objectively, merely as nervo-muscular adjustments by which the higher organisms from moment to moment adapt their actions to environing co-existences and sequences, its degree of specialty, even then, entitles it to a separate place. The moment the element of feeling, or consciousness, is used to interpret nervo-muscular adjustments as thus exhibited in the living beings around, objective Psychology acquires an additional, and quite exceptional, distinction. (Spencer, 1896, p. 141)Kant once declared that psychology was incapable of ever raising itself to the rank of an exact natural science. The reasons that he gives... have often been repeated in later times. In the first place, Kant says, psychology cannot become an exact science because mathematics is inapplicable to the phenomena of the internal sense; the pure internal perception, in which mental phenomena must be constructed,-time,-has but one dimension. In the second place, however, it cannot even become an experimental science, because in it the manifold of internal observation cannot be arbitrarily varied,-still less, another thinking subject be submitted to one's experiments, comformably to the end in view; moreover, the very fact of observation means alteration of the observed object. (Wundt, 1904, p. 6)It is [Gustav] Fechner's service to have found and followed the true way; to have shown us how a "mathematical psychology" may, within certain limits, be realized in practice.... He was the first to show how Herbart's idea of an "exact psychology" might be turned to practical account. (Wundt, 1904, pp. 6-7)"Mind," "intellect," "reason," "understanding," etc. are concepts... that existed before the advent of any scientific psychology. The fact that the naive consciousness always and everywhere points to internal experience as a special source of knowledge, may, therefore, be accepted for the moment as sufficient testimony to the rights of psychology as science.... "Mind," will accordingly be the subject, to which we attribute all the separate facts of internal observation as predicates. The subject itself is determined p. 17) wholly and exclusively by its predicates. (Wundt, 1904,The study of animal psychology may be approached from two different points of view. We may set out from the notion of a kind of comparative physiology of mind, a universal history of the development of mental life in the organic world. Or we may make human psychology the principal object of investigation. Then, the expressions of mental life in animals will be taken into account only so far as they throw light upon the evolution of consciousness in man.... Human psychology... may confine itself altogether to man, and generally has done so to far too great an extent. There are plenty of psychological text-books from which you would hardly gather that there was any other conscious life than the human. (Wundt, 1907, pp. 340-341)The Behaviorist began his own formulation of the problem of psychology by sweeping aside all medieval conceptions. He dropped from his scientific vocabulary all subjective terms such as sensation, perception, image, desire, purpose, and even thinking and emotion as they were subjectively defined. (Watson, 1930, pp. 5-6)According to the medieval classification of the sciences, psychology is merely a chapter of special physics, although the most important chapter; for man is a microcosm; he is the central figure of the universe. (deWulf, 1956, p. 125)At the beginning of this century the prevailing thesis in psychology was Associationism.... Behavior proceeded by the stream of associations: each association produced its successors, and acquired new attachments with the sensations arriving from the environment.In the first decade of the century a reaction developed to this doctrine through the work of the Wurzburg school. Rejecting the notion of a completely self-determining stream of associations, it introduced the task ( Aufgabe) as a necessary factor in describing the process of thinking. The task gave direction to thought. A noteworthy innovation of the Wurzburg school was the use of systematic introspection to shed light on the thinking process and the contents of consciousness. The result was a blend of mechanics and phenomenalism, which gave rise in turn to two divergent antitheses, Behaviorism and the Gestalt movement. The behavioristic reaction insisted that introspection was a highly unstable, subjective procedure.... Behaviorism reformulated the task of psychology as one of explaining the response of organisms as a function of the stimuli impinging upon them and measuring both objectively. However, Behaviorism accepted, and indeed reinforced, the mechanistic assumption that the connections between stimulus and response were formed and maintained as simple, determinate functions of the environment.The Gestalt reaction took an opposite turn. It rejected the mechanistic nature of the associationist doctrine but maintained the value of phenomenal observation. In many ways it continued the Wurzburg school's insistence that thinking was more than association-thinking has direction given to it by the task or by the set of the subject. Gestalt psychology elaborated this doctrine in genuinely new ways in terms of holistic principles of organization.Today psychology lives in a state of relatively stable tension between the poles of Behaviorism and Gestalt psychology.... (Newell & Simon, 1963, pp. 279-280)As I examine the fate of our oppositions, looking at those already in existence as guide to how they fare and shape the course of science, it seems to me that clarity is never achieved. Matters simply become muddier and muddier as we go down through time. Thus, far from providing the rungs of a ladder by which psychology gradually climbs to clarity, this form of conceptual structure leads rather to an ever increasing pile of issues, which we weary of or become diverted from, but never really settle. (Newell, 1973b, pp. 288-289)The subject matter of psychology is as old as reflection. Its broad practical aims are as dated as human societies. Human beings, in any period, have not been indifferent to the validity of their knowledge, unconcerned with the causes of their behavior or that of their prey and predators. Our distant ancestors, no less than we, wrestled with the problems of social organization, child rearing, competition, authority, individual differences, personal safety. Solving these problems required insights-no matter how untutored-into the psychological dimensions of life. Thus, if we are to follow the convention of treating psychology as a young discipline, we must have in mind something other than its subject matter. We must mean that it is young in the sense that physics was young at the time of Archimedes or in the sense that geometry was "founded" by Euclid and "fathered" by Thales. Sailing vessels were launched long before Archimedes discovered the laws of bouyancy [ sic], and pillars of identical circumference were constructed before anyone knew that C IID. We do not consider the ship builders and stone cutters of antiquity physicists and geometers. Nor were the ancient cave dwellers psychologists merely because they rewarded the good conduct of their children. The archives of folk wisdom contain a remarkable collection of achievements, but craft-no matter how perfected-is not science, nor is a litany of successful accidents a discipline. If psychology is young, it is young as a scientific discipline but it is far from clear that psychology has attained this status. (Robinson, 1986, p. 12)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Psychology
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