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1 Rapid Response Group
Полицейский термин: Группа немедленного реагирования (ГНР) -
2 response
1) реакция ( на воздействие); срабатывание ( устройства), ответ; отклик; выходной сигнал2) характеристика; зависимость•-
adjacent-channel response
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amplitude-frequency response
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aperture response
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audio response
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automatic-gain-control response
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background response
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bandpass response
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baseband-frequency response
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baseband response
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biological response
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color response
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control response
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counting response
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delayed response
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dependent time-lag response
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diffuse-field response
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Dirak response
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dose-rate response
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double-hump response
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dynamic response
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earphone response
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electrochemical response
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electrode response
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excitation response
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excitation system response
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exciter response
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false response
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fast response
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fatigue response
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finite duration impulse response
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finite impulse response
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flat response
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forced response
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fracture response
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free-field response
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frequency response
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group-delay response
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hardening response
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harmonic spectral response
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highpass-filter attenuation response
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image response
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impulse response of film
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impulse response
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infinite duration impulse response
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infinite impulse response
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inhibitor response
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junction spectral response
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lead response
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lowpass-filter attenuation response
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neutron response
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octane number response
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organism response
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partial response
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peak response
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phase response
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photocurrent spectral response
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photomaterial response
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plastic response
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poor frequency response
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pulse response
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quick response
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radar response
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rapid response
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real-time response
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receiving response
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relative spectral response
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sine-wave response
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skirt response
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slow response
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speaker pressure-frequency response
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spectral response
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spurious response
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square-wave response
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stable response
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steady-state response
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step response
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structural response
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throttle response
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time response
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transient response
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unit-impulse response
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unit-step response
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unsolicited response
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voice response
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3 Группа немедленного реагирования
Police term: Rapid Response Group (ГНР)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Группа немедленного реагирования
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4 force(s)
сила; группа; группировка; формирования; части и соединения [подразделения]; мор. отряд; соединение; pl. войска, силы; вооруженные силы, ВС; форсироватьACE mobile force(s), Air — мобильные ВВС ОВС НАТО в Европе
ACE mobile force(s), Land — мобильные СВ ОВС НАТО в Европе
Air forces, Gulf — Бр. ВВС в районе Персидского залива
Air forces, Northern Army Group BBC — Северной группы армий (ОВС НАТО в Европе)
Allied forces, Central [Northern, Southern] Europe — ОВС НАТО на Центрально-Европейском [Северо-Европейском, Южно-Европейском] ТВД
Allied forces, Europe OBC — НАТО в Европе
Allied Land forces, Northern [Southern] Europe — ОСВ НАТО на Северо-Европейском [Южно-Европейском] ТВД
Allied Naval forces, Northern [Southern] Europe — ОВМС НАТО на Северо-Европейском [Южно-Европейском] ТВД
carrier submarine detection [search] and striking force — ПЛ авианосная поисково-ударная группа
earmarked (for assignment) forces — войска [силы], выделенные [предназначенные] для передачи в оперативное подчинение (командования НАТО)
insert a force (into the area) — высаживать десант; десантировать (часть, подразделение)
mobile logistical (support) force — соединение сил [судов] подвижного тылового обеспечения (ВМС)
mobile logistics (support) force — соединение сил [судов] подвижного тылового обеспечения (ВМС)
NATO-earmarked (for assignment) forces — войска, выделенные [предназначенные] для передачи в оперативное подчинение командования НАТО
On-Call Naval force, Mediterranean — оперативное соединение ОВМС НАТО на Средиземном море для действий по вызову
rapid deployment force, Air — авиационный компонент СВР
rapid deployment force, Army — сухопутный компонент СВР
rapid deployment force, Navy — военноморской компонент СВР
special service force (mobile command) — Кан. группа войск специального назначения (мобильного командования)
Standing Naval force, Atlantic — постоянное оперативное соединение ОВМС НАТО на Атлантике
UN Peace Keeping forces, Cyprus — ВС ООН по поддержанию мира на Кипре
US forces, Europe — ВС США в Европейской зоне
— ACE mobile forces— amphibious assault force— BM force— conventional armed forces— counterforce-capable forces— divert forces from— experimental naval forces— fleet-based air force— frontier-guarding force— garrison forces— in force— international forces— link-up force— main battle forces— nuclear forces— special action forces— tactical nuclear-capable forces— unconventional warfare forces— visiting armed force -
5 force(s)
сила; группа; группировка; формирования; части и соединения [подразделения]; мор. отряд; соединение; pl. войска, силы; вооруженные силы, ВС; форсироватьACE mobile force(s), Air — мобильные ВВС ОВС НАТО в Европе
ACE mobile force(s), Land — мобильные СВ ОВС НАТО в Европе
Air forces, Gulf — Бр. ВВС в районе Персидского залива
Air forces, Northern Army Group BBC — Северной группы армий (ОВС НАТО в Европе)
Allied forces, Central [Northern, Southern] Europe — ОВС НАТО на Центрально-Европейском [Северо-Европейском, Южно-Европейском] ТВД
Allied forces, Europe OBC — НАТО в Европе
Allied Land forces, Northern [Southern] Europe — ОСВ НАТО на Северо-Европейском [Южно-Европейском] ТВД
Allied Naval forces, Northern [Southern] Europe — ОВМС НАТО на Северо-Европейском [Южно-Европейском] ТВД
carrier submarine detection [search] and striking force — ПЛ авианосная поисково-ударная группа
earmarked (for assignment) forces — войска [силы], выделенные [предназначенные] для передачи в оперативное подчинение (командования НАТО)
insert a force (into the area) — высаживать десант; десантировать (часть, подразделение)
mobile logistical (support) force — соединение сил [судов] подвижного тылового обеспечения (ВМС)
mobile logistics (support) force — соединение сил [судов] подвижного тылового обеспечения (ВМС)
NATO-earmarked (for assignment) forces — войска, выделенные [предназначенные] для передачи в оперативное подчинение командования НАТО
On-Call Naval force, Mediterranean — оперативное соединение ОВМС НАТО на Средиземном море для действий по вызову
rapid deployment force, Air — авиационный компонент СВР
rapid deployment force, Army — сухопутный компонент СВР
rapid deployment force, Navy — военноморской компонент СВР
special service force (mobile command) — Кан. группа войск специального назначения (мобильного командования)
Standing Naval force, Atlantic — постоянное оперативное соединение ОВМС НАТО на Атлантике
UN Peace Keeping forces, Cyprus — ВС ООН по поддержанию мира на Кипре
US forces, Europe — ВС США в Европейской зоне
— ACE mobile forces— amphibious assault force— BM force— conventional armed forces— counterforce-capable forces— divert forces from— experimental naval forces— fleet-based air force— frontier-guarding force— garrison forces— in force— international forces— link-up force— main battle forces— nuclear forces— special action forces— tactical nuclear-capable forces— unconventional warfare forces— visiting armed force -
6 respuesta
f.1 answer, reply.en respuesta a in reply torespuesta afirmativa affirmative2 response.3 result, response.4 reaction, action resulting from a stimulus, response, responding.5 riposte, ripost.* * *1 (gen) answer, reply2 (reacción) response\en respuesta a in response to* * *noun f.answer, reply, response* * *SF1) (=contestación) [a pregunta, en examen, test] answer; [a carta, comentario] reply2) (=reacción)a) [ante un estímulo, ataque] responsela inflamación es una respuesta defensiva del organismo — the inflammation is a defensive response of the body
estoy satisfecho de la respuesta positiva del público — I am satisfied with the positive response from the public
b) [a problema] answerla falta de respuesta del gobierno a los problemas medioambientales — the government's failure to answer environmental problems
respuesta inmune, respuesta inmunitaria — immune response
* * *1)a) (a carta, mensaje) reply, answer, response (frml)b) ( reacción) response; (Psic) response2) ( solución) answer, solution* * *= answer, feedback, rejoinder, reply, response, satisfaction, take-up, retort, uptake.Ex. The combination of title lines, instruction line, and allowable answers is designed to tell you what step of the procedure you have reached.Ex. The statements are framed one at a time, and feedback is available at each stage, hence the term 'interactive searching'.Ex. The rejoinder was, I am sure, made in pursuit of a little humour.Ex. CRT displays, which produce their replies out of pure light, do provide rapid response.Ex. She had, suddenly, a new feeling, like a tardy response to the stimulus of an unfamiliar drug.Ex. Data retrieval involves the satisfaction of a request for information by providing the information as a direct answer to the question.Ex. One of the reasons for the relatively slow take-up of microcomputers in libraries in the Philippines is the problem caused by the multitude of languages used in the island group.Ex. All she would get would be the conundrum of her vague smile and the familiar retort: 'We'll look into that some other time'.Ex. The project is investigating the factors which promote or inhibit the uptake of computers in primary schools.----* buscar una respuesta = pursue + answer.* como respuesta a = in reply to, in response to.* dar respuesta = provide + answer, elicit + answer, develop + answer.* dar una respuesta = furnish + answer, frame + response.* de respuesta breve = short-answer.* de respuesta rápida = fast-fact.* en respuesta a = in reply to, in response to, be responsive to.* esperamos su repuesta = look forward to + hearing from you.* forzar una respuesta = coerce + a response.* incitar una respuesta = provoke + response.* índice de respuesta = response rate, rate of response.* no aceptar un no por respuesta = not take + no for an answer.* no tener respuesta = be unanswerable.* número de respuestas recibidas = response rate, rate of response.* ofrecer una respuesta = provide + answer.* plazo de respuesta = turnaround time, turnabout time.* pregunta con respuesta = answerable question.* pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.* pregunta sin respuesta = unanswerable question.* preguntas y respuestas = questions and answers [Q&A].* proporcionar una respuesta = furnish + answer.* respuesta + buscar = answer + lie.* respuesta + encontrar = answer + lie.* respuesta galvánica de la piel = skin conductivity, skin electrical conductivity.* respuesta inmune = immune response.* respuesta positiva = positive response.* respuesta sí/no = yes/no response.* servicio de respuesta = turnaround.* suscitar una respuesta = evoke + response, elicit + response.* tasa de respuesta = response rate, rate of return, return rate, rate of response.* tiempo de respuesta = response time, turnaround time, turnabout time, fill time, reaction time.* * *1)a) (a carta, mensaje) reply, answer, response (frml)b) ( reacción) response; (Psic) response2) ( solución) answer, solution* * *= answer, feedback, rejoinder, reply, response, satisfaction, take-up, retort, uptake.Ex: The combination of title lines, instruction line, and allowable answers is designed to tell you what step of the procedure you have reached.
Ex: The statements are framed one at a time, and feedback is available at each stage, hence the term 'interactive searching'.Ex: The rejoinder was, I am sure, made in pursuit of a little humour.Ex: CRT displays, which produce their replies out of pure light, do provide rapid response.Ex: She had, suddenly, a new feeling, like a tardy response to the stimulus of an unfamiliar drug.Ex: Data retrieval involves the satisfaction of a request for information by providing the information as a direct answer to the question.Ex: One of the reasons for the relatively slow take-up of microcomputers in libraries in the Philippines is the problem caused by the multitude of languages used in the island group.Ex: All she would get would be the conundrum of her vague smile and the familiar retort: 'We'll look into that some other time'.Ex: The project is investigating the factors which promote or inhibit the uptake of computers in primary schools.* buscar una respuesta = pursue + answer.* como respuesta a = in reply to, in response to.* dar respuesta = provide + answer, elicit + answer, develop + answer.* dar una respuesta = furnish + answer, frame + response.* de respuesta breve = short-answer.* de respuesta rápida = fast-fact.* en respuesta a = in reply to, in response to, be responsive to.* esperamos su repuesta = look forward to + hearing from you.* forzar una respuesta = coerce + a response.* incitar una respuesta = provoke + response.* índice de respuesta = response rate, rate of response.* no aceptar un no por respuesta = not take + no for an answer.* no tener respuesta = be unanswerable.* número de respuestas recibidas = response rate, rate of response.* ofrecer una respuesta = provide + answer.* plazo de respuesta = turnaround time, turnabout time.* pregunta con respuesta = answerable question.* pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.* pregunta sin respuesta = unanswerable question.* preguntas y respuestas = questions and answers [Q&A].* proporcionar una respuesta = furnish + answer.* respuesta + buscar = answer + lie.* respuesta + encontrar = answer + lie.* respuesta galvánica de la piel = skin conductivity, skin electrical conductivity.* respuesta inmune = immune response.* respuesta positiva = positive response.* respuesta sí/no = yes/no response.* servicio de respuesta = turnaround.* suscitar una respuesta = evoke + response, elicit + response.* tasa de respuesta = response rate, rate of return, return rate, rate of response.* tiempo de respuesta = response time, turnaround time, turnabout time, fill time, reaction time.* * *A1 (a una carta, un mensaje) reply, answer, response ( frml)no obtuvo respuesta a su carta she received no reply to her letter2 (reacción) responsela respuesta del gobierno a los disturbios the government's response to the riots3 ( Psic) responseB (solución) answer, solution* * *
respuesta sustantivo femenino
respuesta sustantivo femenino
1 answer, reply: sus plegarias no tuvieron respuesta, her prayers went unanswered
2 (a un tratamiento, estímulo) response
' respuesta' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acertada
- acertado
- atinar
- callada
- corte
- evasiva
- hallar
- incorrecta
- incorrecto
- indigna
- indigno
- inmediatez
- nada
- no
- nunca
- ojalá
- pronta
- pronto
- soplar
- también
- tampoco
- tarascada
- acertar
- acierto
- afirmación
- afirmativo
- algo
- alguien
- antes
- apresurado
- atinado
- brusco
- categórico
- certero
- concluyente
- condescendiente
- contestación
- contundente
- copiar
- correcto
- cortado
- cortante
- cotejar
- definitivo
- desagradable
- desconcertar
- desear
- directo
- endulzar
- equivocado
English:
accurate
- answer
- backlash
- certainly
- concrete
- dark
- do
- grunt
- hazard
- ingenuous
- instantaneous
- name
- neither
- noncommittal
- pained
- prompt
- reply
- response
- retaliation
- right
- snappy
- stock
- straight
- straightforward
- unsatisfactory
- unsympathetic
- wrong
- yes-no question
- positively
- rejection
- will
* * *respuesta nf1. [contestación] answer, reply;[en exámenes] answer;en respuesta a in reply to;respuesta afirmativa affirmative reply2. [reacción] responseBiol respuesta inmunitaria immune response* * *f ( contestación) reply, answer; figresponse;en respuesta a in reply to; fig following* * *respuesta nf: answer, response* * *llamé, pero no obtuve respuesta I rang, but there was no answer2. (solución) answer3. (reacción) response -
7 RRRR
1) Железнодорожный термин: Rock and Rail Incorporated2) Банковское дело: Система быстрого ответа зарегистрированных представителей (на Нью-Йоркской фондовой бирже; Registered Representative Rapid Response System)3) Инвестиции: Registered Representative Rapid Response4) НАСДАК: Rare Medium Group, Inc. -
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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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. -
9 colaboración
f.1 collaboration, assistance, help, cooperation.2 contribution.* * *1 collaboration2 (prensa) contribution* * *noun f.* * *SF1) (=cooperación) collaboration2) [en periódico] [gen] contribution; (=artículo) article3) [de congreso] paper4) (=donativo) contribution* * *femenino collaborationen colaboración con alguien/algo — in collaboration with somebody/something
* * *= collaboration, contribution, cooperation [co-operation], linkage, partnership, synergy, cooperative effort, partnering, fertilisation [fertilization, -USA], team effort, input, engagement.Ex. A work of shared responsibility is one where the work has arisen from collaboration between two or more persons or corporative bodies.Ex. The major difference is that a periodical index relates to a number of issues and to contributions from a number of different authors.Ex. Combined catalogues showing the resources available to a group of libraries have been a feature of library co-operation for many years.Ex. We have just stated that the linkage of varying titles and varying forms of entry have to be done on the same basis in an automated situation as in a manual situation.Ex. The partnership between the CLT and industry is considered in some detail.Ex. The homogeneity, competitiveness and resulting synergy of this market is fostering significant advances in the capability of smaller computers to manage large massess of data.Ex. Conservation problems are so many and so complex that only dedicated cooperative efforts can reverse the current rapid deterioration of library stocks.Ex. These include partnering with: principals, teachers, community members, public librarians and businesses.Ex. The traditional methods of marketing and selling on-line bibliographic data base services have revolved around fertilisation between the marketing and sales departments.Ex. The planning of the library represented a total team effort of librarian, architect, consultant, and interior designer.Ex. In order to stimulate international input, the IFLA Office for UBC invited catalogers in unrepresented countries to recommend revisions of the AACR and to comment on the potential of the second edition as an international code.Ex. Any attempt to coerce a response without good reason based on that child's present predicament is to place in jeopardy the child's willing engagement now and in the future.----* acuerdo de colaboración = collaborative partnership, partnership agreement.* autoría en colaboración = collaborative writing.* colaboración en equipo = collaborative teamwork.* colaboración en la investigación = cooperative research.* colaboración estrecha = close collaboration.* colaboracion interdisciplinar = interdisciplinary collaboration.* colaboración perfecta = marriage made in heaven.* contar con la colaboración de = enjoy + cooperation with.* creación de acuerdo de colaboración = partnership building.* diseñar en colaboración = co-design.* editar en colaboración = coedit [co-edit].* en colaboración = collaborative, cooperative [co-operative], jointly, participatory, in concert, in consort, collaboratively, synergistic, synergistically, in tandem, in a tandem fashion, in partnership.* en colaboración con = in concert with, in consultation with, in collaboration with, in alliance with, in conjunction with, in partnership with.* en estrecha colaboración = in close collaboration.* en estrecha colaboración con = hand-in-glove with.* escribir en colaboración = co-write [cowrite].* establecer una colaboración = forge + collaboration.* financiar en colaboración = co-finance [cofinance].* investigación en colaboración = collaborative research.* organizar en colaboración = co-organise [co-organize, -USA].* patrocinar en colaboración con = co-host.* proyecto de colaboración = joint venture.* proyecto en colaboración = collaborative project.* trabajar en colaboración = team, interwork.* trabajar en colaboración (con) = team up (with).* trabajo en colaboración = interworking.* * *femenino collaborationen colaboración con alguien/algo — in collaboration with somebody/something
* * *= collaboration, contribution, cooperation [co-operation], linkage, partnership, synergy, cooperative effort, partnering, fertilisation [fertilization, -USA], team effort, input, engagement.Ex: A work of shared responsibility is one where the work has arisen from collaboration between two or more persons or corporative bodies.
Ex: The major difference is that a periodical index relates to a number of issues and to contributions from a number of different authors.Ex: Combined catalogues showing the resources available to a group of libraries have been a feature of library co-operation for many years.Ex: We have just stated that the linkage of varying titles and varying forms of entry have to be done on the same basis in an automated situation as in a manual situation.Ex: The partnership between the CLT and industry is considered in some detail.Ex: The homogeneity, competitiveness and resulting synergy of this market is fostering significant advances in the capability of smaller computers to manage large massess of data.Ex: Conservation problems are so many and so complex that only dedicated cooperative efforts can reverse the current rapid deterioration of library stocks.Ex: These include partnering with: principals, teachers, community members, public librarians and businesses.Ex: The traditional methods of marketing and selling on-line bibliographic data base services have revolved around fertilisation between the marketing and sales departments.Ex: The planning of the library represented a total team effort of librarian, architect, consultant, and interior designer.Ex: In order to stimulate international input, the IFLA Office for UBC invited catalogers in unrepresented countries to recommend revisions of the AACR and to comment on the potential of the second edition as an international code.Ex: Any attempt to coerce a response without good reason based on that child's present predicament is to place in jeopardy the child's willing engagement now and in the future.* acuerdo de colaboración = collaborative partnership, partnership agreement.* autoría en colaboración = collaborative writing.* colaboración en equipo = collaborative teamwork.* colaboración en la investigación = cooperative research.* colaboración estrecha = close collaboration.* colaboracion interdisciplinar = interdisciplinary collaboration.* colaboración perfecta = marriage made in heaven.* contar con la colaboración de = enjoy + cooperation with.* creación de acuerdo de colaboración = partnership building.* diseñar en colaboración = co-design.* editar en colaboración = coedit [co-edit].* en colaboración = collaborative, cooperative [co-operative], jointly, participatory, in concert, in consort, collaboratively, synergistic, synergistically, in tandem, in a tandem fashion, in partnership.* en colaboración con = in concert with, in consultation with, in collaboration with, in alliance with, in conjunction with, in partnership with.* en estrecha colaboración = in close collaboration.* en estrecha colaboración con = hand-in-glove with.* escribir en colaboración = co-write [cowrite].* establecer una colaboración = forge + collaboration.* financiar en colaboración = co-finance [cofinance].* investigación en colaboración = collaborative research.* organizar en colaboración = co-organise [co-organize, -USA].* patrocinar en colaboración con = co-host.* proyecto de colaboración = joint venture.* proyecto en colaboración = collaborative project.* trabajar en colaboración = team, interwork.* trabajar en colaboración (con) = team up (with).* trabajo en colaboración = interworking.* * *collaborationlo escribió en colaboración con dos colegas suyos he wrote it in collaboration with two of his colleaguescuento con su colaboración I am counting on your assistance o help* * *
colaboración sustantivo femenino
collaboration;◊ en colaboración con algn/algo in collaboration with sb/sth
colaboración sustantivo femenino
1 (ayuda) collaboration
2 Prensa contribution
' colaboración' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
concurso
- entre
- junta
- junto
- no
- prestar
- contribución
- estrecho
English:
call on
- collaboration
- contribution
- closely
- cooperation
- cooperative
* * *colaboración nf1. [cooperación] collaboration;hacer algo en colaboración con alguien to do sth in collaboration with sb;necesito tu colaboración para escribir el artículo I need your help to write this article;fue acusado de colaboración con banda armada he was accused of collaborating with o helping a terrorist organization2. [de prensa] contribution, article* * *f collaboration* * *colaboración n cooperation -
10 system
1) система || системный3) вчт операционная система; программа-супервизор5) вчт большая программа6) метод; способ; алгоритм•system halted — "система остановлена" ( экранное сообщение об остановке компьютера при наличии серьёзной ошибки)
- CPsystem- H-system- h-system- hydrogen-air/lead battery hybrid system- Ksystem- Lsystem- L*a*b* system- master/slave computer system- p-system- y-system- Δ-system -
11 acción
f.1 action, act, deed.2 share, equity, stock certificate, share certificate.3 action, acting.4 action, movement.5 operation.6 suit, lawsuit, action, case.* * *1 action (acto) act, deed2 (efecto) effect3 COMERCIO share4 DERECHO action, lawsuit5 TEATRO plot6 MILITAR action\ejercitar una acción contra alguien DERECHO to bring an action against somebodyentrar en acción MILITAR to go into actionponerse en acción to start doing somethingacción de gracias thanksgivingacción de guerra act of warcampo de acción field of actionhombre de acción man of actionpelícula de acción adventure film* * *noun m.1) action2) act, deed3) share, stock* * *SF1) (=actividad) action¡luces, cámara, acción! — lights, camera, action!
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en acción — in action•
hombre de acción — man of action•
película de acción — action film, action movie ( esp EEUU)acción directa — (Pol) direct action
2) (=acto) actdeben ser juzgados por sus acciones y no por sus palabras — they should be judged by their deeds, not by their words
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buena acción — good deed•
mala acción, sufrirán justo castigo por sus malas acciones — they will receive fair punishment for their evil deeds3) (=efecto) [de medicamento, viento] action4) (Mil) [gen] action; (=operación) operation•
muerto en acción — killed in action5) (Teat, Literat, Cine) (=trama) action6) (=movimiento) [de la cara, cuerpo] movement7) (Jur) actionacción judicial, acción legal — [gen] legal action; (=pleito) lawsuit
han presentado una acción judicial contra el periódico — they have taken out a lawsuit against the newspaper
8) (Com, Econ) shareemisión de acciones — share issue, stock issue
acción cotizada en bolsa — listed share, quoted share
acción ordinaria — ordinary share, common stock (EEUU)
acción preferente — preference share, preferred stock (EEUU)
acción primitiva — ordinary share, common stock (EEUU)
* * *1) (acto, hecho) actacciones dignas de elogio — praiseworthy acts o actions
2) ( actividad) actionluces, cámara, acción! — lights, camera, action!
3) (Mil) actionacción defensiva/ofensiva — defensive/offensive action
4) (influencia, efecto) action5) (Cin, Lit) ( trama) action, plot6) (Der) action, lawsuit7) (Fin) shareemitir acciones — to issue shares o stock
8) (Per) ( de una rifa) ticket* * *1) (acto, hecho) actacciones dignas de elogio — praiseworthy acts o actions
2) ( actividad) actionluces, cámara, acción! — lights, camera, action!
3) (Mil) actionacción defensiva/ofensiva — defensive/offensive action
4) (influencia, efecto) action5) (Cin, Lit) ( trama) action, plot6) (Der) action, lawsuit7) (Fin) shareemitir acciones — to issue shares o stock
8) (Per) ( de una rifa) ticket* * *acción11 = action, action, action project, deed.Ex: Coates believed that in order to conceptualise an action it is necessary to visualise the thing on which the action is being performed.
Ex: Americans, convinced that education could be the panacea for all their ills, answered with vigorous action.Ex: Action projects include a computer database of all parochial charities in England and Wales, a survey of all charities, and production of a charity newsheet.Ex: Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.* acción compensatoria = anti-dumping action, countervailing action.* acción concertada = concerted action project, concerted action.* acción contra el fuego = fire response.* acción de averiguar y resolver problemas = troubleshooting [trouble shooting].* acción de dar un nombre a Algo = naming.* acción de ejercer presión = lobbying.* acción de guardar documentos = save.* acción de marcar un número = dialling.* acción de mejora = improvement action.* acción de volver a contar algo = retelling.* acción de volver a tejar = retiling.* acción directa = direct action project, direct action.* acciones legales = legal proceedings.* acciones positivas = affirmative action.* acción indirecta = indirect action project.* acción innegable = estoppel.* acción legal = legal action.* acción militar = military action.* acción policial = police response.* acción popular = class action suit, class action.* acción positiva = positive action.* acción transitiva = transitive actions.* ámbito de acción = territory, sphere of influence.* amplio radio de acción = broad scope.* área de acción = remit.* aventura de acción = action adventure.* campo de acción = purview, scope.* con una sola acción = in one action.* de acción = action-centered.* dentro del radio de acción = within range.* ejecutar una acción = effect + execution.* emprender acciones legales = take + legal proceedings, take + legal action.* emprender una acción = initiate + action.* entrar en acción = enter + the picture.* grupo de acción ciudadana = citizen action group, community action group.* impulsar a la acción = galvanise into + action.* incitar a Alguien a la acción = stir + Nombre + into action.* investigación-acción = action research.* libertad de acción = leeway.* línea de acción = course of action.* lleno de acción = actionful [action-full], action-packed.* llevar a cabo una acción = effect + execution.* película de acción = action movie, action adventure.* persona de acción = doer.* radio de acción = radius of + Posesivo + action.* realizar una acción = perform + action, effect + execution.* seguir un curso de acción = follow + track.* término de acción = action term.* trazabilidad de las acciones = action tracking.acción22 = share, shareholding.Ex: Shares are generally bought and sold on the stock exchange.
Ex: This article discusses the possibility of joint ventures, with Western companies purchasing a shareholding to give them a say in the running of Soviet organisations.* acciones = equities, stock, equity shares.* acciones ordinarias = common stock.* cartera de acciones = portfolio.* compra de acciones = shareholding.* cotización de las acciones = share price.* opción de compra de acciones = stock option.* precio de las acciones = share price.* sacar acciones al mercado = go + public.* * *A (acto, hecho) acthacer una buena acción to do a good deeduna acción audaz a bold actacciones dignas de elogio praiseworthy acts o actionsCompuesto:thanksgivingB (actividad) actionpusieron el plan en acción they put the plan into actionpasaron a la acción they took actionmecanismo de acción retardada delayed action mechanismun hombre de acción a man of actionnovela de acción adventure story¡luces, cámara, acción! lights, camera, action!C ( Mil) actionentrar en acción to go into actionlas acciones del ejército contra los insurgentes the action taken by the army against the rebels, the raids o attacks by the army on the rebelsacción defensiva/ofensiva defensive/offensive actionno se descarta una acción militar contra ellos military action against them has not been ruled outmuerto en acción killed in actionCompuesto:acción de armas or de guerramilitary actionD (influencia, efecto) actionestá bajo la acción de un sedante she is under sedationla acción erosiva del agua the erosive action of waterla acción se desarrolla or transcurre en Egipto the action o the story o the plot takes place in EgyptF ( Der) action, lawsuitCompuesto:legal action, lawsuitG ( Fin) shareacciones en alza rising stocks o sharestiene el 51% de las acciones she holds 51% of the shares o stockemitir acciones to issue shares o stockCompuestos:voting sharefpl listed o quoted stock, listed o quoted shares o stocks (pl)fpl issued stock, issued shares (pl)fpl bonus stock, bonus shares (pl)● acciones nominales or nominativasfpl registered stock, registered shares (pl)fpl ordinary stock, ordinary shares (pl)● acciones preferentes or de preferenciafpl preference stock, preference shares (pl)priority stock, priority shares (pl)fpl unlisted o unquoted stock, unlisted o unquoted shares o stocks (pl)H ( Per) (de una rifa) ticket* * *
acción sustantivo femenino
1 (acto, hecho) act;◊ acciones dignas de elogio praiseworthy acts o actions;
hacer una buena acción to do a good deed;
acción de gracias thanksgiving
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novela de acción adventure story;
una película llena de acción an action-packed movie o (BrE) filmb) (Mil) action
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b) (Fin) share;
4 (Per) ( de una rifa) ticket
acción sustantivo femenino
1 action
(acto) act
acción de gracias, thanksgiving
hombre de acción, man of action
película de acción, adventure film
2 Fin share
' acción' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acuartelamiento
- alquiler
- ampliar
- andar
- arrendamiento
- asesinar
- asesoramiento
- burrada
- campo
- carga
- cierre
- clasificación
- coger
- comenzar
- compinche
- compra
- conducción
- construcción
- continuamente
- dar
- desagüe
- ejercer
- embarcación
- enfoque
- enjuague
- entablar
- envío
- estacionamiento
- estímulo
- estrechamiento
- expandir
- falsificación
- gesto
- hacer
- hasta
- hecha
- hecho
- hilada
- hilado
- impertinencia
- importación
- inocente
- lectura
- limpieza
- localización
- machada
- mezcla
- niñería
- objeto
- obra
English:
about
- acceptance
- accumulation
- accustom
- achievement
- act
- action
- action-packed
- adjourn
- apparition
- appearance
- assignment
- attachment
- begin
- bite
- blameless
- call
- cause
- cold-hearted
- concoct
- corrupt
- cranberry
- crime
- crooked
- cut
- data processing
- decision
- dedication
- delusion
- doing
- duplicate
- elevation
- favor
- favour
- feel
- foolish
- formidable
- fraud
- free rein
- honourable
- imitation
- immodest
- import
- impossible
- inept
- insane
- institute
- institution
- interest
- jaywalking
* * *♦ nf1. [efecto de hacer] action;en acción in action, in operation;pasar a la acción to take action;puso la maquinaria en acción she switched on the machinery;un hombre de acción a man of actionPol acción directa direct action2. [hecho] deed, act;una buena acción a good deedRel acción de gracias thanksgiving3. [influencia] effect, action;la acción de la luz sobre los organismos marinos the effect of sunlight on marine organisms;rocas erosionadas por la acción del viento rocks eroded by the windacción detergente detergent effect;acción y reacción action and reaction4. [combate] action5. [de relato, película] action;la acción tiene lugar en Venezuela the action takes place in Venezuela6. Fin share;acciones en cartera Br shares o US stock in portfolio;acción de oro golden share;acción al portador bearer share;acción legal lawsuit;iniciar acciones legales contra alguien to take legal action against sb;acción popular action brought by the People♦ interjaction!;¡luces!, ¡cámaras!, ¡acción! lights!, camera!, action!* * *f1 action;entrar en acción come into action;poner en acción put into action2 COM share;acciones pl stock sg, Br shares* * *1) : action2) acto: act, deed3) : share, stock* * *acción n1. (actividad) action2. (acto) act / deed3. (efecto) effect4. (parte de capital) share -
12 method
1) метод; приём; способ2) методика3) технология4) система•- accelerated strength testing method-
benching method-
bullhead well control method-
electrical-surveying method-
electromagnetic surveying method-
long-wire transmitter method-
operational method-
rule of thumb method-
straight flange method of rolling beams-
symbolical method-
tee-test method-
testing method-
triangulation method-
value-iteration method -
13 analysis
1) анализ2) исследование, изучение4) расчет ( обычно проверочный)5) состав6) теория•-
activation analysis
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algorithmic analysis
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amino acid analysis
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approximate analysis
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Auger-electron analysis
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backward analysis
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base ratio analysis
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behavioral analysis
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bending analysis
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bottom-up analysis
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boundary-element analysis
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brittle coating analysis
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buckling analysis
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bulk analysis
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carbon group analysis
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cepstral analysis
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chemical analysis
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chromatographic analysis
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circuit analysis
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circuit malfunotion analysis
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closed boundary analysis
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clustering analysis
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cluster analysis
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coal-sizing analysis
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combustion analysis
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comfirmatory analysis
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comparative analysis
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compensation analysis
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component analysis of casing head gas
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computer aided analysis
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core analysis
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correlation analysis
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coupled-mode analysis
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covariance analysis
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criticality analysis
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cross correlation analysis
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cross-field analysis
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cryoscopic analysis
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crystal analysis
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cylindrical mirror Auger analysis
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data analysis
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depth-area-duration analysis
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destructive analysis
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diagnostic analysis
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differential thermal analysis
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diffraction analysis
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dilatometric analysis
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discourse analysis
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discriminant analysis
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dispersion analysis
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distortion analysis
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dynamic force analysis
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ecological analysis
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economic analysis
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elastic-plastic stress analysis
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electron diffraction analysis
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electron microprobe analysis
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electron probe analysis
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emission analysis
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end-point analysis
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energy-dispersive analysis
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environmental analysis
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error analysis
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event-sequence analysis
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extinction analysis
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factor analysis
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failure analysis
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failure cause analysis
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fast neutron activation analysis
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field analysis
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fine-mesh analysis
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fingerprint analysis
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finite-element analysis
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float-and-sink analysis
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fluorescence analysis
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formation damage analysis
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four-dimensional analysis
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Fourier analysis
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fractional analysis
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frequency analysis
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frequency-domain analysis
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frequency-response analysis
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frontal analysis
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fuel analysis
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gamma-ray analysis
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gradation analysis of soil
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grading analysis
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gravimetric analysis
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grid-point analysis
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group analysis
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harmonic analysis
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Hempel analysis
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heteroduplex analysis
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hot-extraction gas analysis
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hydrograph analysis
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immunoblot analysis
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infrared analysis
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Interactive analysis
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interactive image analysis
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ion microprobe mass analysis
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ladle analysis
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large-sample analysis
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least-square analysis
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limit state analysis
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linear analysis
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logical analysis
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logic analysis
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magnetometric analysis
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malfunction analysis
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market analysis
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mass spectrographic analysis
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mass spectrometric analysis
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mathematical analysis
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matrix analysis
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measure analysis
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mechanical analysis
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mesh analysis
-
microprobe analysis
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microprobe-inclusion analysis
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microscopical analysis
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microstructure analysis
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mobility-shift analysis
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modal analysis
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model-based analysis
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model analysis
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moire stress analysis
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molecular spectrum analysis
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multilevel analysis
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multivariate analysis
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NDT analysis
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nearest neighbor analysis
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nephelometric analysis
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network analysis
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neutron diffraction analysis
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nodal analysis
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noise analysis
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nondestructive test analysis
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noninvasive analysis
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numerical analysis
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observational analysis
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octave analysis
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oil type analysis
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on-line analysis
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operations analysis
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opticospectral analysis
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parametric analysis
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particle-size analysis
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periodogram analysis
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perturbation analysis
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petrographic analysis
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phase shift analysis of the scattering
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phase-plane analysis
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photoelastic-coating analysis
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photoelasticity analysis
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polarographic analysis
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pore-size analysis
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postaccident criticality analysis
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posttest analysis
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predictive analysis
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pretest analysis
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probit analysis
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proximate analysis
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qualitative analysis
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quantitative analysis
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radioactive tracer analysis
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radiographic analysis
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RAM analysis
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rapid analysis
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real-time analysis
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regression analysis
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release analysis
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reliability analysis
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reliability availability maintainability analysis
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revolving field analysis
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ring analysis
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Rutherford scattering analysis
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safety transit analysis
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sample analysis
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sampling analysis
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scale analysis
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screen analysis
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sea-level analysis
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sedimentation analysis
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shear analysis
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sieve analysis
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signature analysis
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simulated network analysis
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single burst analysis
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slag analysis
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small signal analysis
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solar resource analysis
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spatial frequency analysis
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spectral analysis
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spectrophotometric analysis
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speculative analysis
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spot test analysis
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stack-gas analysis
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standing wave analysis
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statistical analysis
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stiffness analysis
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strain-gage analysis
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strength analysis
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stress analysis
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structural analysis
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subsynoptic-scale analysis
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symbolic analysis
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syntactic analysis
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systems analysis
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system analysis
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tapping analysis
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temporal pulse analysis
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tensor analysis
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test sieve analysis
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thermal analysis
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thermoeconomic analysis
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thermographic analysis
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thermogravimetric analysis
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thermomagneto-gravimetric analysis
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three-dimensional analysis
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time series analysis
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timing analysis
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top-down analysis
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trace analysis
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transient analysis
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triangular hydrograph analysis
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ultimate analysis
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upper-level analysis
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variance analysis
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vault-pathways analysis
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vector analysis
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wandering spot analysis
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water analysis
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wave analysis
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weather analysis
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wet analysis
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worst-case analysis
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X-ray absorption analysis
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X-ray analysis
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X-ray crystal analysis
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X-ray dispersive analysis
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X-ray emission analysis
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X-ray image analysis
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X-ray spectrum analysis
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X-ray structure analysis
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14 control
1) управление; регулирование || управлять; регулировать2) контроль || контролировать3) управляющее устройство; устройство управления; регулятор4) профессиональное мастерство, квалификация, техническая квалификация5) pl органы управления•"in control" — "в поле допуска" ( о результатах измерения)
to control closed loop — управлять в замкнутой системе; регулировать в замкнутой системе
- 2-handed controlsto control open loop — управлять в разомкнутой системе; регулировать в разомкнутой системе
- 32-bit CPU control
- acceptance control
- access control
- acknowledge control
- active process control
- adaptable control
- adaptive constraint control
- adaptive control for optimization
- adaptive control
- adaptive feed rate control
- adaptive quality control
- adjustable feed control
- adjustable rotary control
- adjustable speed control
- adjusting control
- adjustment control
- AI control
- air logic control
- analog data distribution and control
- analogical control
- analytical control
- application control
- arrows-on-curves control
- autodepth control
- autofeed control
- automated control of a document management system
- automated technical control
- automatic backlash control
- automatic control
- automatic editing control
- automatic gain control
- automatic gripper control
- automatic level control
- automatic process closed loop control
- automatic remote control
- automatic sensitivity control
- automatic sequence control
- automatic speed control
- automatic stability controls
- auxiliaries control
- balanced controls
- band width control
- bang-bang control
- bang-bang-off control
- basic CNC control
- batch control
- bibliographic control
- bin level control
- boost control
- built-in control
- button control
- cam control
- cam throttle control
- camshaft control
- carriage control
- Cartesian path control
- Cartesian space control
- cascade control
- C-axis spindle control
- cell control
- center control
- central control
- central supervisory control
- centralized control
- centralized electronic control
- central-station control
- changeover control
- chip control
- circumferential register control
- close control
- closed cycle control
- closed loop control
- closed loop machine control
- closed loop manual control
- closed loop numerical control
- closed loop position control
- clutch control
- CNC control
- CNC indexer control
- CNC programmable control
- CNC symbolic conversational control
- CNC/CRT control
- CNC/MDI control
- coarse control
- coded current control
- coded current remote control
- color control
- combination control
- command-line control
- compensatory control
- composition control
- compound control
- computed-current control
- computed-torque control
- computer control
- computer numerical control
- computer process control
- computer-aided measurement and control
- computer-integrated manufacturing control
- computerized control
- computerized numerical control
- computerized process control
- constant surface speed control
- constant value control
- contactless control
- contact-sensing control
- contamination control
- continuous control
- continuous path control
- continuous process control
- contour profile control
- contouring control
- conventional hardware control
- conventional numerical control
- conventional tape control
- convergent control
- conversational control
- conversational MDI control
- coordinate positioning control
- coordinate programmable control
- copymill control
- counter control
- crossed controls
- current control
- cycle control
- dash control
- data link control
- data storage control
- deadman's handle controls
- depth control
- derivative control
- dial-in control
- differential control
- differential gaging control
- differential gain control
- differential temperature control
- digital brushless servo control
- digital control
- digital position control
- digital readout controls
- dimensional control
- direct computer control
- direct control
- direct digital control
- direct numerical control
- direction control
- directional control
- dirt control
- discontinuous control
- discrete control
- discrete event control
- discrete logic controls
- dispatching control
- displacement control
- distance control
- distant control
- distributed control
- distributed numerical control
- distributed zone control
- distribution control
- dog control
- drum control
- dual control
- dual-mode control
- duplex control
- dust control
- dynamic control
- eccentric control
- edge position control
- EDP control
- electrical control
- electrofluidic control
- electromagnetic control
- electronic control
- electronic level control
- electronic speed control
- electronic swivel control
- elevating control
- emergency control
- end-point control
- engineering change control
- engineering control
- entity control
- environmental control
- error control
- error plus error-rate control
- error-free control
- external beam control
- factory-floor control
- false control
- feed control
- feed drive controls
- feedback control
- feed-forward control
- field control
- fine control
- finger-tip control
- firm-wired numerical control
- fixed control
- fixed-feature control
- fixture-and-tool control
- flexible-body control
- floating control
- flow control
- fluid flow control
- follow-up control
- foot pedal control
- force adaptive control
- forecasting compensatory control
- fork control
- four quadrant control
- freely programmable CNC control
- frequency control
- FROG control
- full computer control
- full order control
- full spindle control
- gage measurement control
- gain control
- ganged control
- gap control
- gear control
- generative numerical control
- generic path control
- geometric adaptive control
- graphic numerical control
- group control
- grouped control
- guidance control
- hairbreath control
- hand control
- hand feed control
- hand wheel control
- hand-held controls
- handle-type control
- hand-operated controls
- hardened computer control
- hardwared control
- hardwared numerical control
- heating control
- heterarchical control
- hierarchical control
- high-integrity control
- high-level robot control
- high-low control
- high-low level control
- high-technology control
- horizontal directional control
- humidity control
- hybrid control
- hydraulic control
- I/O control
- immediate postprocess control
- inching control
- in-cycle control
- independent control
- indexer control
- indirect control
- individual control
- industrial processing control
- industrial-style controls
- infinite control
- infinite speed control
- in-process control
- in-process size control
- in-process size diameters control
- input/output control
- integral CNC control
- integral control
- integrated control
- intelligent control
- interacting control
- interconnected controls
- interlinking control
- inventory control
- job control
- jogging control
- joint control
- joystick control
- just-in-time control
- language-based control
- laser health hazards control
- latching control
- lead control
- learning control
- lever control
- lever-operated control
- line motion control
- linear control
- linear path control
- linearity control
- load control
- load-frequency control
- local control
- local-area control
- logic control
- lubricating oil level control
- machine control
- machine programming control
- machine shop control
- macro control
- magnetic control
- magnetic tape control
- main computer control
- malfunction control
- management control
- manual control
- manual data input control
- manual stop control
- manually actuatable controls
- manufacturing change control
- manufacturing control
- master control
- material flow control
- MDI control
- measured response control
- mechanical control
- memory NC control
- memory-type control
- metering control
- metrological control of production field
- microbased control
- microcomputer CNC control
- microcomputer numerical control
- microcomputer-based sequence control
- microprocessor control
- microprocessor numerical control
- microprogrammed control
- microprogramming control
- milling control
- model reference adaptive control
- model-based control
- moisture control
- motion control
- motor control
- motor speed control
- mouse-driven control
- movable control
- multicircuit control
- multidiameter control
- multilevel control
- multimachine tool control
- multiple control
- multiple-processor control
- multiposition control
- multistep control
- multivariable control
- narrow-band proportional control
- navigation control
- NC control
- neural network adaptive control
- noise control
- noncorresponding control
- noninteracting control
- noninterfacing control
- nonreversable control
- nonsimultaneous control
- numerical contouring control
- numerical control
- numerical program control
- odd control
- off-line control
- oligarchical control
- on-board control
- one-axis point-to-point control
- one-dimensional point-to-point control
- on-line control
- on-off control
- open loop control
- open loop manual control
- open loop numerical control
- open-architecture control
- operating control
- operational control
- operator control
- optical pattern tracing control
- optimal control
- optimalizing control
- optimizing control
- oral numerical control
- organoleptic control
- overall control
- overheat control
- override control
- p. b. control
- palm control
- parameter adaptive control
- parameter adjustment control
- partial d.o.f. control
- path control
- pattern control
- pattern tracing control
- PC control
- PC-based control
- peg board control
- pendant control
- pendant-actuated control
- pendant-mounted control
- performance control
- photoelectric control
- physical alignment control
- PIC control
- PID control
- plugboard control
- plug-in control
- pneumatic control
- point-to-point control
- pose-to-pose control
- position/contouring numerical control
- position/force control
- positional control
- positioning control
- positive control
- postprocess quality control
- power adaptive control
- power control
- power feed control
- power-assisted control
- powered control
- power-operated control
- precision control
- predictor control
- preselective control
- preset control
- presetting control
- pressbutton control
- pressure control
- preview control
- process control
- process quality control
- production activity control
- production control
- production result control
- programmable adaptive control
- programmable cam control
- programmable control
- programmable logic adaptive control
- programmable logic control
- programmable machine control
- programmable microprocessor control
- programmable numerical control
- programmable sequence control
- proportional plus derivative control
- proportional plus floating control
- proportional plus integral control
- prototype control
- pulse control
- pulse duration control
- punched-tape control
- purpose-built control
- pushbutton control
- quality control
- radio remote control
- radium control
- rail-elevating control
- ram stroke control
- ram-positioning control
- rapid-traverse controls for the heads
- rate control
- ratio control
- reactive control
- real-time control
- reduced-order control
- register control
- registration control
- relay control
- relay-contactor control
- remote control
- remote program control
- remote switching control
- remote valve control
- remote-dispatch control
- resistance control
- resolved motion rate control
- retarded control
- reversal control
- revolution control
- rigid-body control
- robot control
- robot perimeter control
- robot teach control
- rod control
- safety control
- sampled-data control
- sampling control
- schedule control
- SCR's control
- second derivative control
- selective control
- selectivity control
- self-acting control
- self-adaptive control
- self-adjusting control
- self-aligning control
- self-operated control
- self-optimizing control
- self-programming microprocessor control
- semi-automatic control
- sensitivity control
- sensor-based control
- sequence control
- sequence-type control
- sequential control
- series-parallel control
- servo control
- servo speed control
- servomotor control
- servo-operated control
- set value control
- shaft speed control
- shape control
- shift control
- shop control
- shower and high-pressure oil temperature control
- shut off control
- sight control
- sign control
- single variable control
- single-flank control
- single-lever control
- size control
- slide control
- smooth control
- software-based NC control
- softwared numerical control
- solid-state logic control
- space-follow-up control
- speed control
- stabilizing control
- stable control
- standalone control
- start controls
- static control
- station control
- statistical quality control
- steering control
- step-by-step control
- stepless control
- stepped control
- stick control
- stock control
- stop controls
- stop-point control
- storage assignment control
- straight cut control
- straight line control
- stroke control
- stroke length control
- supervisor production control
- supervisory control
- swarf control
- switch control
- symbolic control
- synchronous data link control
- table control
- tap-depth controls
- tape control
- tape loop control
- teach controls
- temperature control
- temperature-humidity air control
- template control
- tension control
- test control
- thermal control
- thermostatic control
- three-axis contouring control
- three-axis point-to-point control
- three-axis tape control
- three-mode control
- three-position control
- throttle control
- thumbwheel control
- time control
- time cycle control
- time optimal control
- time variable control
- time-critical control
- time-proportional control
- timing control
- token-passing access control
- tool life control
- tool run-time control
- torque control
- total quality control
- touch-panel NC control
- touch-screen control
- tracer control
- tracer numerical control
- trajectory control
- triac control
- trip-dog control
- TRS/rate control
- tuning control
- turnstile control
- two-axis contouring control
- two-axis point-to-point control
- two-dimension control
- two-hand controls
- two-position control
- two-position differential gap control
- two-step control
- undamped control
- user-adjustable override controls
- user-programmable NC control
- variable flow control
- variable speed control
- variety control
- varying voltage control
- velocity-based look-ahead control
- vise control
- vision responsive control
- visual control
- vocabulary control
- vocal CNC control
- vocal numerical control
- voltage control
- warehouse control
- washdown control
- water-supply control
- welding control
- wheel control
- wide-band control
- zero set control
- zoned track controlEnglish-Russian dictionary of mechanical engineering and automation > control
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