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1 X-ray interferometer
Макаров: рентгеновский интерферометр -
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English-russian dictionary of physics > X-ray interferometer
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3 X-ray interferometer
English-Russian electronics dictionary > X-ray interferometer
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4 X-ray interferometer
The New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > X-ray interferometer
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5 Bonse-Hart X-ray interferometer
English-russian dictionary of physics > Bonse-Hart X-ray interferometer
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6 interferometer
- acoustical interferometer
- active interferometer
- antiresonant ring interferometer
- automatic fringe-counting interferometer
- cliff interferometer
- confocal interferometer
- curved-mirror interferometer
- Dyson interferometer
- Dyson-type interferometer
- Fabry-Perot interferometer
- fiber-optic interferometer
- Fizeau interferometer
- flat-plate interferometer
- F-P interferometer
- gaseous interferometer
- grating interferometer
- high-resolution interferometer
- holographic interferometer
- intensity interferometer - laser interferometer
- laser speckle interferometer
- laser speckle pattern interferometer
- LBL interferometer
- long-baseline interferometer - maser interferometer
- Michelson interferometer
- microwave interferometer
- mirror interferometer
- multiple-aerial interferometer
- multiple-beam interferometer
- multiple-wave interferometer
- one-junction Josephson interferometer
- optical interferometer
- passive interferometer
- phase interferometer
- phase-sensitive interferometer
- phase-sweeping interferometer
- phase-switching interferometer
- phase-tracking interferometer
- plane-parallel mirror interferometer
- polarization interferometer
- radio interferometer
- Rayleigh interferometer
- rotating-lobe interferometer
- scanning interferometer
- semiconfocal interferometer
- speckle-shearing interferometer
- spherical-mirror interferometer
- stellar interferometer
- swept-lobe interferometer
- switched-lobe interferometer
- switching interferometer
- thin-film interferometer
- tunable interferometer
- twin-wave interferometer
- two-junction Josephson interferometer
- Twynian-Green interferometer
- variable-baseline interferometer
- vertical interferometer - wavefront-reversing interferometer
- wavefront-shearing interferometer
- wavefront-solitting interferometer
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7 interferometer
- acoustical interferometer
- active interferometer
- antiresonant ring interferometer
- automatic fringe-counting interferometer
- cliff interferometer
- confocal interferometer
- curved-mirror interferometer
- Dyson interferometer
- Dyson-type interferometer
- Fabry-Perot interferometer
- fiber-optic interferometer
- Fizeau interferometer
- flat-plate interferometer
- F-P interferometer
- gaseous interferometer
- grating interferometer
- high-resolution interferometer
- holographic interferometer
- intensity interferometer
- Josephson interferometer
- Kösters interferometer
- laser interferometer
- laser speckle interferometer
- laser speckle pattern interferometer
- LBL interferometer
- long-baseline interferometer
- Mach-Zehnder interferometer
- magnetostrictively scanned interferometer
- maser interferometer
- Michelson interferometer
- microwave interferometer
- mirror interferometer
- multiple-aerial interferometer
- multiple-beam interferometer
- multiple-wave interferometer
- one-junction Josephson interferometer
- optical interferometer
- passive interferometer
- phase interferometer
- phase-sensitive interferometer
- phase-sweeping interferometer
- phase-switching interferometer
- phase-tracking interferometer
- plane-parallel mirror interferometer
- polarization interferometer
- radio interferometer
- Rayleigh interferometer
- rotating-lobe interferometer
- scanning interferometer
- semiconfocal interferometer
- speckle-shearing interferometer
- spherical-mirror interferometer
- stellar interferometer
- swept-lobe interferometer
- switched-lobe interferometer
- switching interferometer
- thin-film interferometer
- tunable interferometer
- twin-wave interferometer
- two-junction Josephson interferometer
- Twynian-Green interferometer
- variable-baseline interferometer
- vertical interferometer
- very long baseline interferometer
- VLB interferometer
- wavefront-reversing interferometer
- wavefront-shearing interferometer
- wavefront-solitting interferometer
- X-ray interferometerThe New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > interferometer
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8 X-ray/optical interferometer
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > X-ray/optical interferometer
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9 spectrometer
- analytical spectrometer
- Auger spectrometer
- automatic ultrasonic-absorption spectrometer
- bent-crystal spectrometer
- beta-ray spectrometer
- Bragg spectrometer
- Brillouin spectrometer
- Brillouin-scattering spectrometer
- concave-crystal spectrometer
- convex-crystal spectrometer
- crystal spectrometer
- dispersion spectrometer
- double-axis spectrometer
- double-crystal spectrometer
- electric-resonance molecular-beam spectrometer
- electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectrometer
- electron-spin-resonance spectrometer
- flat-crystal spectrometer
- Fourier spectrometer
- Fourier-transform spectrometer
- gamma-ray spectrometer
- grating spectrometer
- Hadamard spectrometer
- Hadamard-transform spectrometer
- image-forming spectrometer
- inelastic electron scattering spectrometer
- infrared interferometer spectrometer
- interference spectrometer
- interferometric spectrometer
- interferometric spectrometer with selection by amplitude of modulation
- ionization spectrometer
- ion mass spectrometer
- laser spectrometer
- magnetic-deflection mass spectrometer
- mass spectrometer
- microwave spectrometer
- Mössbauer spectrometer
- neutral-mass spectrometer
- non-dispersion spectrometer
- nuclear-paramagnetic-resonance spectrometer
- nuclear-quadrupole-resonance spectrometer
- photon-counting Raman spectrometer
- pulsed spectrometer
- quadrupole mass spectrometer
- radiation spectrometer
- Raman spectrometer
- Raman-scattering spectrometer
- Rayleigh spectrometer
- Rayleigh-scattering spectrometer
- scanning spectrometer
- scintillation spectrometer
- triple-axis spectrometer
- triple-crystal spectrometer
- vacuum UV spectrometer
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10 spectrometer
- analytical spectrometer
- Auger spectrometer
- automatic ultrasonic-absorption spectrometer
- bent-crystal spectrometer
- beta-ray spectrometer
- Bragg spectrometer
- Brillouin spectrometer
- Brillouin-scattering spectrometer
- concave-crystal spectrometer
- convex-crystal spectrometer
- crystal spectrometer
- dispersion spectrometer
- double-axis spectrometer
- double-crystal spectrometer
- electric-resonance molecular-beam spectrometer
- electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectrometer
- electron-spin-resonance spectrometer
- flat-crystal spectrometer
- Fourier spectrometer
- Fourier-transform spectrometer
- gamma-ray spectrometer
- grating spectrometer
- Hadamard spectrometer
- Hadamard-transform spectrometer
- image-forming spectrometer
- inelastic electron scattering spectrometer
- infrared interferometer spectrometer
- interference spectrometer
- interferometric spectrometer with selection by amplitude of modulation
- interferometric spectrometer
- ion mass spectrometer
- ionization spectrometer
- laser spectrometer
- magnetic-deflection mass spectrometer
- mass spectrometer
- microwave spectrometer
- Mössbauer spectrometer
- neutral-mass spectrometer
- non-dispersion spectrometer
- nuclear-paramagnetic-resonance spectrometer
- nuclear-quadrupole-resonance spectrometer
- photon-counting Raman spectrometer
- pulsed spectrometer
- quadrupole mass spectrometer
- radiation spectrometer
- Raman spectrometer
- Raman-scattering spectrometer
- Rayleigh spectrometer
- Rayleigh-scattering spectrometer
- scanning spectrometer
- scintillation spectrometer
- triple-axis spectrometer
- triple-crystal spectrometer
- vacuum UV spectrometer
- X-ray spectrometerThe New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > spectrometer
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11 laser
1) лазер
2) лазерный
3) оптический квантовый генератор
– activelylocked laser
– activery-stabilized laser
– astigmatic laser
– avalanche laser
– beam-expanded laser
– bimorph laser
– bomb-pumped laser
– buried laser
– buried-stripe laser
– cavity laser
– chemical laser
– cleaved laser
– cleaved-coupled-cavity laser
– communication laser
– cross-pumped laser
– double-doped laser
– double-mode laser
– dual-cavity laser
– dual-line laser
– dual-polarization laser
– dye laser
– epitaxial laser
– excimer laser
– exciplex laser
– explosion laser
– external-mirror laser
– far infrared laser
– fiber laser
– fiber-tailed laser
– free-running laser
– frequency-tuned laser
– gain-switched laser
– gamma-ray laser
– gas discharge laser
– gas laser
– gas-discharge laser
– giant-pulse laser
– glass laser
– high-power laser
– higt-efficiency laser
– infra-red laser
– infrared laser
– initiating laser
– injection laser
– internal-mirror laser
– laser alignment
– laser blanking
– laser bonding
– laser communication
– laser cutting
– laser effeciency
– laser equipment
– laser frequency
– laser guidance
– laser gun
– laser head
– laser indicator
– laser interferometer
– laser ionization
– laser line
– laser linewidth
– laser link
– laser material
– laser microscope
– laser moda
– laser mode
– laser noise
– laser plazma
– laser pumping
– laser radar
– laser radiation
– laser ranger
– laser ranging
– laser resonator
– laser spraying
– laser transmitter
– laser welding
– laser writing
– lens-coupled laser
– liquid laser
– millimeter-wave laser
– mode-coupled laser
– molecular laser
– multichip laser
– multiline laser
– multimode laser
– needle laser
– nonstorage laser
– photopumped laser
– plazma laser
– pulse laser
– pulsed laser
– Q-factor of laser
– quantum-well laser
– Raman laser
– RF excited laser
– ring laser
– ruby laser
– self-focused laser
– separate-confinement laser
– single-frequency laser
– single-mode laser
– slave laser
– solid-state laser
– spiked laser
– spin laser
– spin-flip laser
– storage-ring laser
– streamer laser
– stripe-geometry laser
– superradiant laser
– swept laser
– symmetric laser
– telescope-expanded laser
– three-level laser
– toroidal laser
– travelling-wave laser
– triangular laser
– two-frequency laser
– two-level laser
– two-mode laser
– two-photon laser
– two-pulse laser
– vizible laser
– waveguide-coupled laser
– white laser
– x-ray laser
anorganic varop laser — лазер на парах неорганических соединений
continuous wave laser — лазер непрерывного излучения, лазер непрерывного режима работы
laser ablation plasma — <phys.> плазма лазерная эрозионная
magnetically confined laser — лазер с магнитной фокусировкой
molecularly stabilized laser — стабилизированный по молекулярному поглощению лазер
passively stabilized laser — лазер с пассивной схемой стабилизации
phase-modulated mode-locked laser — лазер с синхронизацией мод путем фазовой модуляции
photon terminated laser — <phys.> лазер фотонный
switch laser Q to a low value — выключать добротность лазера
temporally tunable laser — лазер с изменением длительности генерируемых импульсов
time-sharing two frequency laser — лазер с попеременной генерацией двух частот
transverse-junction stripe laser — лазер полосковый с поперечно расположенным переходом
tunable solid-state laser — <phys.> лазер твердотельный импульсный с перестраиваемой частотой
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12 cavity
1) полость; впадина2) проточка, канал4) раковина, газовый пузырь; пора ( дефект отливки)•-
adjustable cavity
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air cavity
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aligned cavity
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beer-barrel cavity
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bimodal cavity
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bistable cavity
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built-in cavity
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chip Fabry-Perot cavity
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circular cavity
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coaxial cavity
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collimated-output cavity
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concave-convex cavity
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concentric cavity
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confocal cavity
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contraction cavity
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corrosion cavity
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coupled cavities
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degenerate cavity
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disk stylus cavity
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dislocation cavity
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double-concave cavity
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double-gap cavity
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double-phase-conjugate cavity
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drain cavity
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duplex cavity
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edge-coupled cavity
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elliptical cavity
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elongated cavity
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end cavity
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exposure cavity
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externally driven cavity
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fixed cavity
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folded cavity
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frequency-selective cavity
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gas cavity
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grain boundary cavities
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grating cavity
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guide cavity
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high-gain cavity
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highly regenerative cavity
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integral cavity
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interferometer cavity
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iris-coupled cavities
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laser cavity
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lasing cavity
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loaded cavity
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lossless cavity
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lossy cavity
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low-loss cavity
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magazine receiving cavity
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maser cavity
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matched cavity
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mechanical seal cavity
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microwave cavity
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mirrorless cavity
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mode-selective cavity
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mold cavity
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multimode cavity
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multiple-pass cavity
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narrow-band cavity
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optically coupled cavities
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output cavity
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parallel-mirror cavity
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phase conjugate cavity
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pipe cavity
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plane-concave cavity
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plane-parallel cavity
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pumping cavity
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pump cavity
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reactor cavity
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reentrant cavity
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reference cavity
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resonant cavity
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ring cavity
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seal cavity
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seal leakage cavity
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selective cavity
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shrinkage cavity
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single-frequency cavity
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single-gap cavity
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single-mode cavity
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spacing cavity
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temperature-compensated cavity
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thermostatically controlled cavity
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total-internal-reflection cavity
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transmission-type cavity
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tunable cavity
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wavelength-selective cavity
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1) луч
2) балка
3) балок
4) бимс
5) бимсовый
6) брус
7) брусовой
8) грядиль
9) кладень
10) лучевой
11) партионный
12) светоделительный
13) бревенчатый
14) бревно
15) ширина судна
16) балансир
17) коромысло
18) пучок
19) балочный
20) излучать
21) испускать
22) <engin.> сноп
23) <engin.> ширина наибольшая
– anchorage beam
– atomic beam
– azimuth beam
– balance beam
– beam alignment
– beam angle
– beam antenna
– beam aperture
– beam athwartship
– beam attenuation
– beam balance
– beam block
– beam boundary
– beam bracket
– beam bridge
– beam cathode
– beam ceiling
– beam chamber
– beam chopper
– beam chopping
– beam compas
– beam compass
– beam convergence
– beam current
– beam dynamics
– beam end
– beam energy
– beam engine
– beam focusing
– beam forming
– beam guidance
– beam injection
– beam intensity
– beam interferometer
– beam is diffracted
– beam jitter
– beam length
– beam mill
– beam modulation
– beam modulator
– beam multiplex
– beam octode
– beam of light
– beam on the sea
– beam pen
– beam pentode
– beam scales
– beam span
– beam spar
– beam splitter
– beam splitting
– beam spread
– beam straightener
– beam suppression
– beam tetrod
– beam tetrode
– beam texture
– beam the warp
– beam trace
– beam trap
– beam trestle
– beam voltage
– beam waist
– beam wave
– beam width
– bell beam
– blank the beam
– bond beam
– bridge beam
– broad beam
– buffer beam
– built-up beam
– bulb beam
– cant beam
– cantilever beam
– chop beam
– chopped beam
– collapsible beam
– collar beam
– collimate beam
– confine the beam
– constrained beam
– continuous beam
– continuous-wave beam
– control beam
– convergent beam
– converging beam
– cross beam
– curved beam
– cylinder beam
– dam beam
– deck beam
– deep beam
– deflect the beam
– deflected beam
– defocus beam
– divergent beam
– electron beam
– emergent beam
– emit the beam
– equalizing beam
– equispan beam
– erasing beam
– extract beam
– fibers of beam
– fixed beam
– flange beam
– flange of beam
– foam-separating beam
– focus beam
– footing beam
– framing beam
– guard beam
– hatch-end beam
– hatchway beam
– haunched beam
– heterogeneous beam
– hinged beam
– hold beam
– hold-down beam
– holding beam
– hollow beam
– ice beam
– imaging beam
– incident beam
– ion beam
– knife-edge beam
– landing beam
– lattice beam
– light beam
– localizer beam
– longitudinal beam
– low-altitude beam
– lower beam
– main beam
– molecular beam
– monochromatic beam
– multispan beam
– multisupport beam
– narrow beam
– overhang of beam
– overhanging beam
– pencil beam
– plasma beam
– plough beam
– portable beam
– positioning of beam
– pulsed beam
– reading beam
– reconstruction beam
– reflect beam
– reflected beam
– ribbon beam
– ride the beam
– rigid beam
– roller beam
– safety-trip beam
– scanning beam
– scatter beam
– shifted beam
– simple beam
– single beam
– skid beam
– slow-electron beam
– span of beam
– spring beam
– square beam
– squared beam
– support beam
– supporting beam
– sweep beam
– T-shaped beam
– thin-webbed beam
– top-trolley beam
– toroidal beam
– transmitted beam
– trussed beam
– tubular beam
– undecked beam
– uniform-strength beam
– upper beam
– viewing beam
– walking beam
– web beam
– web of beam
– weigh beam
– welded beam
– well-defined beam
– wide-angle beam
– wooden beam
– writing beam
– X-ray beam
half-power beam width — < radio> ширина луча на половинной мощности
high-intensity electron beam — пучок электронный сильноточный
pencil beam antenna — антенна с игольчатой диаграммой направленности
statically indeterminate beam — статически неопределимая балка
swing filter out of beam — выводить светофильтр из пути луча
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1) Техника: X-band interferometer antenna2) Фирменный знак: X-Ray Instrumentation Associates -
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Техника: X-ray/optical interferometer -
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1) Техника: X-band interferometer antenna2) Фирменный знак: X-Ray Instrumentation Associates -
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X-ray/optical interferometer - рентгеновский и оптический интерферометр -
18 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)
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раздвижная зрительная труба@dual-rate draw-tubeтелескоп с лунно-планетным приводом@elbow draw-tubeколенчатый телескоп@equatorial draw-tubeтелескоп на экваториальной установке@finder draw-tubeискатель@fast draw-tubeсветосильный телескоп@fork(-mounted) draw-tubeтелескоп на вилочной монтировке@front view draw-tubeтелескоп прямого зрения@fully steerable draw-tubeполноповоротный (радиотелескоп)@galactic radio draw-tubeрадиотелескоп для исследования галактического радиоизлучения@Galilean draw-tubeгалилеева зрительная труба@giant radio draw-tubeгигантский радиотелескоп@great draw-tubeбольшой телескоп@Gregorian reflecting draw-tubeтелескоп системы Грегори@ground-based draw-tubeназемный телескоп@guide draw-tubeгид@guiding draw-tubeискатель@Herschelian reflecting draw-tubeтелескоп системы Гершеля-Ломоносова@high-power draw-tubeсветосильный телескоп@horizontal draw-tubeгоризонтальный телескоп@horizontal solar draw-tubeгоризонтальный солнечный телескоп@Hubble draw-tubeкосмический телескоп Хаббла@ideal draw-tubeидеальный телескоп@infrared draw-tubeтелескоп с приемником инфракрасного излучения@infrared electronic draw-tubeинфракрасный электронный телескоп@interferometer radio draw-tubeрадиоинтерферометр@inverting draw-tubeтелескоп, оборачивающий изображение@Keplerian draw-tubeкеплеровский телескоп@large draw-tubeкрупный телескоп@large-aperture draw-tubeсветосильный телескоп@long-focus draw-tubeдлиннофокусный телескоп@low-power draw-tubeмалосветосильный телескоп@main draw-tubeосновной телескоп@Maksutov draw-tubeменисковый телескоп Максутова@meniscus draw-tubeменисковый телескоп Максутова@meridian draw-tubeмеридианный инструмент@mirror draw-tubeтелескоп-рефлектор@mirror-lens draw-tubeзеркально-линзовый телескоп@moderate draw-tubeтелескоп средних размеров@neutrino draw-tubeнейтринный телескоп@Newtonian draw-tubeньютоновский телескоп@optical draw-tubeоптический телескоп@parabolic draw-tubeтелескоп с параболическим зеркалом@photographic draw-tubeастрограф@photometric draw-tubeтелескоп для фотометрических исследований@planetary draw-tubeпланетный телескоп@polar draw-tubeполярный телескоп@Polaris draw-tubeполярный телескоп для исследования качества астрономических изображений@powerfull draw-tubeмощный телескоп@radio draw-tubeрадиотелескоп@reading draw-tubeотсчетная зрительная труба@reflecting draw-tubeрефлектор@refracting draw-tubeрефрактор@remotely controled draw-tubeтелескоп с дистанционным управлением@research draw-tubeастрофизический телескоп@Ritchey–Chrétien draw-tubeтелескоп системы Ричи-Кретьена@rotary draw-tubeпанорамная зрительная труба@Schmidt draw-tubeтелескоп системы Шмидта@scissors draw-tubeстереотруба@sighting draw-tubeвизирная труба@site draw-tubeтелескоп для выбора места обсерватории@small draw-tubeмалый телескоп@small-aperture draw-tubeмалосветосильный телескоп@solar draw-tubeсолнечный телескоп@space draw-tubeкосмический телескоп@steerable{ (radio) draw-tubeподвижный (радио)телескоп@stellar draw-tubeтелескоп для исследований звезд@stereoscopic draw-tubeстереотруба@symmetrical(-class) draw-tubeтелескоп на симметричной установке@terrestrial draw-tubeподзорная труба@tower draw-tubeбашенный телескоп@tracking draw-tubeследящий (за движением объекта) телескоп@transit draw-tubeмеридианный телескоп@vacuum tower draw-tubeбашенный солнечный телескоп с откачанным из башни горячим воздухом@visual draw-tubeвизуальный телескоп@well-instrumented draw-tubeхорошо оснащенный телескоп@wide-angle draw-tubeширокоугольный телескоп@X-ray draw-tubeрентгеновский телескоп@zenith draw-tubeзенит-телескоп@ -
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