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ponta da vanguarda; flecha da guarda avançadaEnglish-Portuguese dictionary of military terminology > advance guard point
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претходница, авангарда advance I==n ;1 движење напред, напредување ;2 аконтација; a travel advance guard аконтација за патување ;3 ( a1. (mil.) истуренadj. advance guard base истурена базаadj. advance guard command post истурено командно место ;2. (mil.) челенadj. advance guard detachment челен одредadj. advance guard point челна патрола ;3. претходан; advance guard inoformation претходно известување -
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[ədʹvɑ:nsgɑ:d] n1) воен. авангард2) авангард, авангардистыadvance-guard or experimental writing - авангардистская или экспериментальная литература
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ədˈvɑ:nsɡɑ:d сущ. авангард, передовой отряд, форпост(военное) авангард;
- * action бой авангарда;
- * point головной дозор;
- * reserve главные силы авангарда авангард, авангардисты;
- * or experimental writing авангардистская или экспериментальная литератураadvance-guard авангардБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > advance-guard
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advance [əd'vɑ:ns]∎ the date of the meeting was advanced by one week la réunion a été avancée d'une semaine(b) (further → project, work) avancer; (→ interest, cause) promouvoir; (→ growth, development) accélérer;∎ this discovery has advanced our research by months cette découverte nous a fait gagner plusieurs mois de recherches(c) (suggest → idea, proposition) avancer, mettre en avant; (→ opinion) avancer, émettre; (→ explanation) avancer∎ we advanced her £100 on her salary nous lui avons avancé 100 livres sur son salaire;∎ we will advance him £500 before completion of the contract nous lui verserons un acompte de 500 livres avant l'achèvement des travaux;∎ sum advanced avance f, acompte m(a) (go forward) avancer, s'avancer;∎ to advance on or towards sth avancer ou s'avancer vers qch;∎ the army advanced on Paris l'armée avançait ou marchait sur Paris(b) (make progress) avancer, progresser, faire des progrès∎ the shares advanced to their highest point in May les actions ont atteint leur valeur la plus haute au mois de mai3 noun∎ the enemy planned their advance on the city l'ennemi a organisé son avance ou sa marche sur la ville;∎ figurative the advance of old age le vieillissement(b) (progress) progrès m;∎ the great advance in medicine le progrès ou les progrès en médecine∎ he asked for an advance of £200 on his salary il a demandé une avance de 200 livres sur son salaire;∎ an advance on royalties une avance sur droits d'auteur;∎ advances on securities or against collateral prêts mpl sur titres∎ any advance? qui dit mieux?;∎ any advance on a hundred? cent, qui dit mieux?(prior) préalableavances fpl;∎ to make advances to sb faire des avances à qn(beforehand → pay, thank) à l'avance, d'avance; (→ prepare, reserve, write, know) à l'avance;∎ well in advance largement à l'avance;∎ we had to pay two weeks in advance il a fallu qu'on paie deux semaines d'avance;∎ the agency asked for £50 in advance l'agence a demandé 50 livres d'avance;∎ thanking you in advance (in letter) en vous remerciant à l'avance, avec mes remerciements anticipés;∎ he sent the messenger on in advance (ahead) il a envoyé le messager devantavant;∎ they arrived in advance of their guests ils sont arrivés en avance sur ou avant leurs invités;∎ their computer technology is far in advance of anything we have ils sont très en avance sur nous en matière d'informatique►► Finance advance account compte m d'avances;advance booking réservation f à l'avance;∎ advance booking is advisable il est recommandé de réserver à l'avance;advance booking office guichet m de location;Finance advance dividend dividende m anticipé;Military advance guard avant-garde f;advance notice préavis m, avertissement m;Finance advance payment paiement m anticipé, paiement m par anticipation;Military advance post poste m avancé;advance publicity publicité f d'amorçage;Advance Purchase Excursion = tarif préférentiel sujet à des restrictions de délai d'achat;advance warning avertissement m -
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advance-guard action бой авангарда;
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advance-guard point головной дозор;
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advance-guard reserve главные силы авангарда
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линия; цепь ( боевой порядок) ; линия фронта; развернутый строй; позиция; ( оборонительный) рубеж; проводная связь; провод, кабель; отмечаться по основному направлению— assault starting line— ASW line— bomb safety line— cable communication line— hot line— launching line— line one— lines of communications— O-O line— secured line— target sighting line -
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ˈkʌvə
1. сущ.
1) а) крышка, покрышка, колпак, колпачок The jewel box had a carved wooden cover. ≈ Крышка коробки для драгоценностей была украшена деревянной резьбой. б) обложка, переплет;
одна сторона обложки to read from cover to cover ≈ прочесть от корки до корки( о книге) Don't judge a book by its cover. ≈ Не суди о книге по ее обложке. Syn: binding
1. в) футляр;
чехол a mattress cover ≈ чехол на матрац г) конверт, пакет;
обертка under the same cover ≈ в том же конверте under separate cover ≈ в отдельном пакете, в отдельном конверте д) покрывало;
одеяло Do you want another cover on the bed? ≈ Ты хочешь другое покрывало на кровать? Syn: blanket
1., comforter, quilt
1., coverlet, eiderdown ∙ Syn: lid
1., top I
1., cap I
1., covering
1. ;
wrapper, case II
1., encasement, envelope, jacket
1.
2) а) убежище, укрытие;
воен. прикрытие, заслон under cover ≈ в укрытии, под защитой to take cover ≈ укрыться When the rain started, we took cover under a large tree. ≈ Когда начался дождь, мы спрятались под большим деревом. air cover ≈ воздушная защита Syn: protection, shelter
1., shield
1., guard
1., defence;
asylum, refuge
1., sanctuary, concealment б) покров under cover of darkness ≈ под покровом темноты Syn: cloak
1. в) перен. ширма;
предлог, отговорка under cover of friendship ≈ под личиной дружбы Syn: screen
1., disguise
1., pretence
3) а) охот. укрытие, логово( зверя) б) растительный покров
4) а) коммерч. гарантийный фонд б) страхование
5) прибор (обеденный)
2. гл.
1) накрывать, закрывать, покрывать to cover a wall with paper ≈ оклеивать стену обоями Grandmother always covered the table with a lace cloth. ≈ Бабушка всегда покрывает стол кружевной скатертью. The roof was covered with wooden shingles. ≈ Крыша была покрыта кровельной дранкой. to cover (one's head) ≈ надевать( шляпу и т. п.) Syn: put on, put over, lay on, overlay
2., blanket
3., clothe, sheathe, shroud, envelop, wrap
2., enwrap
2) защищать, ограждать, укрывать The tent covered the campers from the rain. ≈ Палатка предохранила отдыхающих от дождя. to cover a siege ≈ выдерживать осаду some woods which covered their retreat ≈ леса, которые прикрыли их отступление Syn: protect, shield
2., guard
2., shelter
2., defend
3) а) закрывать;
скрывать, маскировать, прятать She covered her face with her hands. ≈ Она закрыла лицо руками. Frank laughed to cover his anxiety. ≈ Фрэнк засмеялся, чтобы скрыть тревогу. to cover the retreat ≈ прикрывать отступление to cover one's tracks ≈ заметать свои следы Syn: hide II
2., conceal, obscure
2., secrete;
cloak
2., veil
2., hood
2., screen
2. ;
mask
2., disguise
2., camouflage
2. б) спорт закрывать, прикрывать (игрока соперника) ;
прикрывать (участок поля)
4) включать, содержать, охватывать;
относиться( к чему-л.) The history book covers the years of Eisenhower's presidency. ≈ Эта книга по истории охватывает годы президентства Эйзенхауэра. Syn: deal with, include, involve, contain;
embrace
2., embody, comprise, take in, comprehend
5) освещать (события и т. п.) в печати, на телевидении, по радио The reporter covered the convention for the local newspaper. ≈ Журналист давал материалы о партийном съезде в местную газету. Syn: report
2., tell of, describe, chronicle, write up
6) лежать, покрывать;
расстилаться;
распространяться Water covered the floor. ≈ Вода покрывает пол. His brewery covers nearly four acres of ground. ≈ Его пивоварня занимает почти четыре акра земли.
7) преодолевать, проходить( какое-л. расстояние) ;
спорт пройти( дистанцию) The distance covered was close on twenty miles. ≈ Пройденное расстояние равнялось почти двадцати милям. We covered three states in two days. ≈ Мы проехали три штата за два дня. Syn: travel through, pass over, pass through, traverse
2., cross
3.
8) а) комерч. покрывать, обеспечивать( денежным) покрытием б) страховать This insurance covers the traveler in any accident. ≈ Эта страховка страхует путешественника от любого несчастного случая. Syn: insure
9) предусматривать, разрешать The rules covers all cases. ≈ Правила предусматривают все случаи.
10) покрывать (кобылу;
по отношению к другим животным употребляется редко)
11) сидеть( на яйцах)
12) держать под прицелом ∙ cover for cover in cover over cover up (по) крышка;
обертка;
покрывало;
чехол;
футляр, колпак - a * for a saucepan крышка кастрлюли - a * for a chair чехол для стула - glass * стеклянный колпак конверт;
обертка;
упаковка - under plain * в конверте без фирменного штампа, в простом конверте - under separate * (канцелярское) в отдельном конверте - this is a receipt, the goods will be sent under separate * посылаем вам расписку, а товар будет выслан отдельно переплет;
обложка - soft * мягкая обложка - to read a book from * to * прочесть книгу от корки до корки убежище, укрытие;
прикрытие, "крышка" - * from fire (военное) укрытие от огня - * from view (военное) укрытие от наблюдения - under * в укрытиии - to take * найти убежище, спрятаться - to break * внезапно появиться;
выйти из укрытия - the spy's * was to act as a bartender шпион скрывался под видом бармена (спортивное) прикрытие, защита покров - land * растительный покров - sky * облачность, облачный покров (of) покрывало, покров - under * of darkness под покровом темноты лесной покров, полог леса (ботаника) покров семяпочки или семени (охота) нора, логовище - to break * поднять из логовища личина, маска - under * of friendship под личиной дружбы - under * of patriotism прикрываясь патриотизмом прибор, куверт - *s were laid for four стол был накрыт на четыре персоны плата "за куверт" (в ресторане, ночном клубе) (коммерческое) гарантийный фонд;
страхование (геология) покрывающие породы( автомобильное) покрышка (театроведение) замена;
заменяющий актер или -ая актриса;
исполнитель из второго состава > under * тайный;
секретный;
> he kept his activities under * он держал свою деятельность в тайне;
тайно;
секретно;
> they met under * они встречались тайно покрывать, закрывать, накрывать - to * a saucepan закрывать кастрюлю - to * up a baby укутать ребенка - to * plants with straw прикрыть растения соломой (редкое) покрывать (голову, плечи) ;
укрывать - to * one's head надеть шляпу - to remain *ed не снять шляпы - pray be *ed (устаревшее) прошу надеть шляпу прикрывать, ограждать, защищать - to * a retreat прикрывать отступление - the warships *ed the landing of the army военные корабли прикрывали высадку армии - the father *ed the boy from the fire with his own body отец своим телом укрыл мальчика от огня( спортивное) держать, закрывать (игрока) прятать, скрывать - to * one's face with one's hands закрыть лицо руками - the enemy were *ed from our sight by woods лес скрывал от нас неприятеля - to * one's shame скрыть стыд - to * one's tracks замести следы покрывать;
находить оправдания - his family kept *ing for him семья постоянно покрывала его - to * up for a friend покрывать друга;
выручать друга (книжное) покрыть, увенчать;
запятнать - to * oneself with glory покрыть себя славой покрывать, обдавать - you are *ed with dust ты весь в пыли - a passing motor *ed me with mud проезжавшая мимо машина обдала меня грязью обивать;
оклеивать - to * the seat of a chair with leather обить кожей сиденье стула - to * with wall-paper оклеить обоями покрывать;
распространяться;
расстилаться - snow *ed the ground земля была покрыта снегом, на земле лежал снег - enemy troops *ed the whole country вражеские войска наводнили всю страну - the floods *ed a large area наводнение распространялось на большую территорию покрывать, охватывать;
относиться - his researches * a wide field его исследования охватывают широкую область - documents *ing the sale документы, касающиеся продажи( for) (разговорное) заменять, подменять - please * for me at the counter for a few minutes пожалуйства, подмени меня у прилавка на несколько минут( театроведение) заменять держать под наблюдением - the police got all the roads *ed полиция перекрыла все дороги пройти, проехать - he *ed the distance in an hour он прошел расстояние за час - by evening we had *ed sixty miles к вечеру мы проехали шестьдесят миль( спортивное) пробежать дистанцию - to * the distance in great style показать на дистанции высокую технику бега освещать в печати - to * football matches давать репортаж о футбольных матчах - to * the theatres освещать театральную жизнь предусматривать - the rules * all cases правила предусматривают все случаи (коммерческое) обеспечить покрытие;
покрывать - to * one's expenses покрыть расходы - the loan was *ed many times сумма займа была перекрыта во много раз страховать - my policy *s me against loss from fire мое имущество застраховано от пожара - you should get yourself *ed as soon as possible тебе надо поскорее застраховаться( карточное) покрывать, крыть принять пари;
поставить( сельскохозяйственное) случать;
крыть (матку) сидеть (на яйцах) (военное) держать под обстрелом;
держать под прицелом - don't move, I have you *ed не шевелись, буду стрелять additional premium for short-term ~ дополнительная страховая премия за краткосрочное покрытие рисков advance ~ авансовое покрытие all risks ~ покрытие всех рисков back ~ четвертая сторонка обложки bank-note ~ покрытие банкнот blanket ~ общее страхование blanket ~ полный перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом ~ охватывать;
относиться (к чему-л.) ;
the book covers the whole subject книга дает исчерпывающие сведения по всему предмету cash ~ денежное покрытие ~ разрешать, предусматривать;
the circumstances are covered by this clause обстоятельства предусмотрены этим пунктом ~ расстилаться;
распространяться;
the city covers ten square miles город занимает десять квадратных миль cost escalation ~ покрытие роста издержек cover = cover-point ~ ком. гарантийный фонд ~ гарантийный фонд ~ гарантировать ~ давать материал, отчет( для прессы) ~ закрывать;
покрывать;
накрывать;
прикрывать;
перекрывать;
to cover a wall with paper оклеивать стену обоями ~ конверт;
under the same cover в том же конверте ~ конверт ~ (по) крышка;
обертка;
чехол;
покрывало;
футляр, колпак ~ обеспечение ~ обеспечивать покрытие ~ обеспечить покрытие (денежное) ~ обложка, переплет, крышка переплета;
to read from cover to cover прочесть от корки до корки (о книге) ~ полигр. обложка ~ обшивка ~ относиться (к чему-л.) ~ охватывать;
относиться (к чему-л.) ;
the book covers the whole subject книга дает исчерпывающие сведения по всему предмету ~ охватывать ~ полигр. переплет ~ перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом ~ покров;
under cover of darkness под покровом темноты ~ покрывать (кобылу и т. п.) ~ покрывать ~ покрытие ~ покрытие (денежное) ~ покупка ценных бумаг при сделках на срок ~ преодолевать, проходить (какое-л. расстояние) ;
спорт. пройти (дистанцию) ~ прибор (обеденный) ~ принимать на страх ~ разрешать, предусматривать;
the circumstances are covered by this clause обстоятельства предусмотрены этим пунктом ~ распространяться ~ расстилаться;
распространяться;
the city covers ten square miles город занимает десять квадратных миль ~ сидеть (на яйцах) ~ скрывать;
to cover one's confusion (annoyance) чтобы скрыть (или не показать) свое смущение( досаду) ~ страхование ~ страховать ~ убежище, укрытие;
прикрытие;
заслон;
under cover в укрытии, под защитой ;
to take cover укрыться ~ укрывать, ограждать, защищать;
he covered his friend from the blow with his own body он своим телом закрыл друга от удара ~ уплата( по счету, векселю) ~ целиться( из ружья и т. п.) ;
держать под угрозой ~ ширма;
предлог;
отговорка;
личина, маска;
under cover of friendship под личиной дружбы ~ закрывать;
покрывать;
накрывать;
прикрывать;
перекрывать;
to cover a wall with paper оклеивать стену обоями ~ for losses покрытие убытков ~ girl хорошенькая девушка, изображение которой помещают на обложке журнала;
журнальная красотка ~ in забросать землей( могилу) ~ in закрыть ~ of loss покрытие убытков ~ of loss покрытие ущерба ~ on death сумма страхового возмещения при смертельном исходе ~ скрывать;
to cover one's confusion (annoyance) чтобы скрыть (или не показать) свое смущение (досаду) to ~ one's face with one's hands закрыть лицо руками to ~ the retreat прикрывать отступление;
to cover one's tracks заметать свои следы ~ over скрыть, прикрыть to ~ the retreat прикрывать отступление;
to cover one's tracks заметать свои следы ~ up прятать ~ up спрятать, тщательно прикрыть cover = cover-point cover-point: cover-point спорт. защитник( в крикете) ~ спорт. место защитника (в крикете) demand for ~ требование покрытия depot under ~ хранилище под крышей dust ~ полигр. суперобложка exchange rate risk ~ страхование от риска изменения валютного курса exchange risk ~ страхование от валютного риска extended ~ расширенное страхование forward ~ бирж. срочное покрытие forward ~ бирж. форвардное покрытие front ~ первая сторонка обложки front ~ передняя часть обложки full ~ полное покрытие ~ укрывать, ограждать, защищать;
he covered his friend from the blow with his own body он своим телом закрыл друга от удара inside back ~ третья сторонка обложки inside front ~ вторая сторонка обложки insurance ~ объем страховой ответственности interest ~ обеспечение выплаты процентов liability insurance ~ риски, охватываемые страхованием гражданской ответственности margin ~ бирж. покрытие маржи master ~ суперобложка maximum ~ максимальный объем страховой ответственности minimum ~ минимальное покрытие molded ~ формованная накладка open ~ генеральный полис open ~ открытый полис primary ~ первичное страхование provide forward ~ бирж. предоставлять срочное обеспечение provide forward ~ бирж. предоставлять форвардное обеспечение ~ обложка, переплет, крышка переплета;
to read from cover to cover прочесть от корки до корки (о книге) reinsurance ~ объем ответственности при перестраховании reserve fund ~ покрытие резервного фонда risk ~ перечень рисков, охватываемых страховым полисом subsequent ~ последующая уплата по счету surplus ~ избыточное покрытие ~ убежище, укрытие;
прикрытие;
заслон;
under cover в укрытии, под защитой ;
to take cover укрыться ~ убежище, укрытие;
прикрытие;
заслон;
under cover в укрытии, под защитой ;
to take cover укрыться under: ~ heavy penalty под страхом сурового наказания;
under the necessity( of smth.) под давлением( каких-л.) обстоятельств;
under cover под прикрытием ~ покров;
under cover of darkness под покровом темноты ~ ширма;
предлог;
отговорка;
личина, маска;
under cover of friendship под личиной дружбы ~ конверт;
under the same cover в том же конверте vegetative ~ растительный покров vertex ~ вершинное покрытие -
13 circuit
1) схема; цепь; контур2) канал; линия; тракт3) тлф. шлейф5) круговое движение, движение по окружности || совершать круговое движение, двигаться по окружности•- 2D circuit
- 3D circuit
- absorbing circuit
- absorption circuit
- ac circuit
- acceptor circuit
- adaptive logic circuit
- additive printed circuit
- adjustable threshold logic circuit
- aerial circuit
- alive circuit
- aluminium-gate MOS integrated circuit
- aluminum-gate MOS integrated circuit
- AM detecting circuit
- analog circuit
- ancillary circuit
- AND circuit
- anode circuit
- antenna circuit
- anticlutter circuit
- anticoincidence circuit
- antihunt circuit
- antijamming circuit
- anti-Karp circuit
- antiresonance circuit
- antiresonant circuit
- antisidetone circuit
- aperiodic circuit
- application-specific integrated circuit
- approved circuit
- array integrated circuit
- astable circuit
- autodyne circuit
- automatic start circuit
- averaging circuit
- azimuth-sweep circuit
- back-plate circuit
- back-to-back circuit
- balanced circuit
- base-line marker circuit
- basic circuit
- beta circuit
- beta feedback circuit
- bias circuit
- bidirectional clamping circuit
- bilateral circuit
- bipolar circuit
- bipolar integrated circuit
- bistable circuit
- bistable multivibrator circuit
- black stretch circuit
- black-level restoring circuit
- black-level setting circuit
- blanking circuit
- bootstrap circuit
- bound circuit
- boxcar circuit
- branch circuit
- branched circuit
- bridge circuit
- bridged circuit
- broken circuit
- bubble annihilation circuit
- bubble circuit
- bubble detection circuit
- bubble propagation circuit
- bubble replication circuit
- bubble stretching circuit
- bubble switching circuit
- bubble-domain annihilation circuit
- bubble-domain detection circuit
- bubble-domain propagation circuit
- bubble-domain replication circuit
- bubble-domain stretching circuit
- bubble-domain switching circuit
- bucket-brigade circuit
- buffer circuit
- building-out circuit
- built-up circuit
- bulk-effect integrated circuit
- butterfly circuit
- butterfly tank circuit
- calibrating circuit
- call circuit
- capacitive differentiator circuit
- capacitive oscillatory circuit
- cathode circuit
- central-battery circuit
- ceramic printed circuit
- charge-coupled device integrated circuit
- chemically deposited printed circuit
- chemically reduced printed circuit
- chemically-assembled integrated circuit
- chevron bubble propagation circuit
- chevron bubble-domain propagation circuit
- chip integrated circuit
- cholesteric circuit
- chopping circuit
- chrominance matrix circuit
- chrominance separation circuit
- chrominance take-off circuit
- circuit of graph
- clamping circuit
- clamp-on circuit
- clipping circuit
- clock circuit
- clocked circuit
- close-coupled circuits
- closed circuit
- closed magnetic circuit
- CMOS integrated circuit
- coaxial circuit
- coincidence circuit
- collector circuit
- collector-diffusion isolated integrated circuit
- color processing circuit
- color purity circuit
- color-balance circuit
- color-indexing circuit
- color-killer circuit
- Colpitts oscillatory circuit
- combinational circuit
- combinatorial circuit
- combiner circuit
- common-base circuit
- common-battery circuit
- common-cathode circuit
- common-collector circuit
- common-drain circuit
- common-emitter circuit
- common-gate circuit
- common-grid circuit
- common-source circuit
- common-use circuit
- compander circuit
- comparator circuit
- comparison circuit
- compatible circuit
- compensating circuit
- complementary circuit
- complementary MOS integrated circuit
- complementary symmetry circuit
- complementary symmetry MOS integrated circuit
- complementary-output circuit
- composite circuit
- compound circuit
- compression circuit
- computer circuits
- conference circuit
- consumer integrated circuit
- contiguous-disk bubble propagation circuit
- contiguous-disk bubble-domain propagation circuit
- control circuit
- controller circuit
- convergence circuit
- cord circuit
- core-diode circuit
- core-transistor circuit
- correction input circuit
- COSMOS circuit
- countdown circuits
- counter circuit
- counter timer circuit
- counting circuit
- coupled circuits
- cross-control circuit
- crossed-waveguide circuit
- crosspoint integrated circuit
- cryotron circuit
- cue circuit
- current-access bubble circuit
- current-feedback circuit
- current-limited circuit
- current-source equivalent circuit
- custom circuit
- customer-specific integrated circuit
- custom-wired integrated circuit
- cutoff circuit
- damping circuit
- dash circuit
- data circuit
- dc circuit
- dc restoration circuit
- dead-on-arrival integrated circuit
- decision circuit
- decision making circuit
- decoupling circuit
- dedicated integrated circuit
- deep-submicron integrated circuit
- degenerative circuit
- delay circuit
- delay-insensitive circuit
- delay-sensitive circuit
- delta circuit
- demultiplexing circuit
- deposited integrated circuit
- derived circuit
- despiker circuit
- despiking circuit
- detector circuit
- detuned circuit
- dial toll circuit
- dial-up circuit
- diamond circuit
- die integrated circuit
- dielectric isolated integrated circuit
- differential-frequency circuit
- differentiating circuit
- diffused-isolation integrated circuit
- digital circuit
- digital integrated circuit
- digital logic circuit
- diode array integrated circuit
- diode integrated circuit
- diode-coupled circuit
- diplex circuit
- direct international circuit
- direct transit international circuit
- direct-coupled circuit
- direct-wire circuit
- discharge circuit
- discrete circuit
- discrete-component circuit
- disjunction circuit
- distributed-element circuit
- divided circuit
- dividing circuit
- Doppler tracking circuit
- dot circuit
- double-coincidence circuit
- double-ended cord circuit
- double-ridge easitron circuit
- double-ridge Karp circuit
- double-sided circuit
- double-tuned circuit
- down-scaled integrated circuit
- driven circuit
- dry circuit
- dry-processed integrated circuit
- DTF circuit
- dual-in-line integrated circuit
- duplex circuit
- duplicated circuit
- dynamic-convergence circuit
- dynamic-focus circuit
- dynamic-track following circuit
- earth circuit
- earthed circuit
- E-beam litho circuit
- EC circuit
- Eccles-Jordan circuit
- EITHER-OR circuit
- electric circuit
- electronic circuit
- elevated-electrode integrated circuit
- embossed-foil printed circuit
- emitter-coupled circuit
- emitter-follower logic integrated circuit
- engineering circuit
- epitaxial circuit
- epitaxial passivated integrated circuit
- equalization circuit
- equivalent circuit
- equivalent integrated circuit
- etched printed circuit
- evaporated circuit
- exclusive OR circuit
- expanded-sweep circuit
- expander circuit
- external circuit
- external magnetic circuit
- extra LSI circuit
- face-down integrated circuit
- fail-safe circuit
- fallback circuit
- fan-in circuit
- fan-out circuit
- fast time-constant circuit
- feed circuit
- feedback circuit
- ferrite-diode circuit
- ferrite-transistor circuit
- ferroresonant circuit
- field-access bubble circuit
- field-programmable integrated circuit
- filament circuit
- film integrated circuit
- fine-line integrated circuit
- fine-pattern integrated circuit
- flat-pack integrated circuit
- flexible printed circuit
- flip-chip integrated circuit
- flip-flop circuit
- flux transfer circuit
- flywheel circuit
- forced coupled circuits
- forked circuit
- four-wire circuit
- frame-grounding circuit
- frame-scanning circuit
- free coupled circuits
- freely oscillating coupled circuits
- free-running circuit
- frequency-changing circuit
- full-wave circuit
- fully integrated circuit
- function circuit
- g equivalent circuit
- ganged circuits
- gate circuit
- gate equivalent circuit
- Giacoletto circuit
- Goto-pair circuit
- grid circuit
- grounded circuit
- grounded-base circuit
- grounded-collector circuit
- grounded-emitter circuit
- grounded-grid circuit
- ground-return circuit
- grouping circuit
- guard-ring isolated monolithic integrated circuit
- Gunn-effect circuit
- h equivalent circuit
- half-phantom circuit
- half-wave circuit
- Hamilton circuit
- hardened circuit
- Hartley oscillatory circuit
- Hazeltine neutralizing circuit
- head circuit
- heater circuit
- high-temperature superconductor integrated circuit
- holding circuit
- horizontal scanning circuit
- horizontal sync circuit
- horizontal-deflection circuit
- hotline circuit
- hybrid circuit
- hybrid integrated circuit
- hybrid pi equivalent circuit
- hybrid thin-film circuit
- hybrid thin-film integrated circuit
- hybrid-type circuit
- I2L circuit
- ideal-transformer equivalent circuit
- identification circuit
- idler circuit
- ignition circuit
- image circuit
- impulsing circuit
- inclusive NOR circuit
- inclusive OR circuit
- incoming circuit
- individually wired circuit
- inductance-capacitance coupling circuit
- inductive circuit
- inductive differentiator circuit
- inductive oscillatory circuit
- inductively coupled circuit
- injection circuit
- injection integrated circuit
- input circuit
- inquiry circuit
- insulated-substrate integrated circuit
- integrate-and-dump circuit
- integrated circuit
- integrated injection logic circuit
- integrated optical circuit
- integrating circuit
- interaction circuit
- interface circuit
- inter-integrated circuit
- interlock circuit
- intermediate-frequency circuit
- inverter circuit
- ion-implanted bubble propagation circuit
- ion-implanted bubble-domain propagation circuit
- ion-implanted MOS integrated circuit
- iron circuit
- isolated integrated injection logic circuit
- isolated-substrate solid circuit
- isoplanar integrated circuit
- isoplanar-based integrated circuit
- joint circuit
- joint denial circuit
- Josephson logic integrated circuit
- Josephson-junction logic integrated circuit
- junction circuit
- junction-isolation integrated circuit
- Karp circuit
- keep-alive circuit
- keying circuit
- killer circuit
- label circuit
- ladder circuit
- lagging circuit
- large-scale hybrid integration circuit
- large-scale integration circuit
- laser-configured application-specific integrated circuit
- latched circuit
- latching Boolean circuit
- latching circuit
- leak circuit
- leakage circuit
- leased circuit
- line circuit
- linear circuit
- linear integrated circuit
- line-scan circuit
- line-scanning circuit
- live circuit
- load circuit
- local circuit
- local-battery circuit
- locking circuit
- Loftin-White circuit
- logic circuit
- long-distance telephone circuit
- longitudinal circuit
- losser circuit
- low-energy circuit
- low-temperature superconductor integrated circuit
- L-section circuit
- lumped circuit
- lumped-constant circuit
- made-to-order circuit
- magnetic circuit
- magnetic convergence circuit
- magnetic integrated circuit
- magnetic-core circuit
- majority circuit
- master-slice integrated circuit
- matching circuit
- matrix circuit
- matrix integrated circuit
- McCulloh circuit
- medium-scale integration circuit
- memory circuit
- merged transistor logic integrated circuit
- Mesny circuit
- message circuit
- metal-dielectric-semiconductor integrated circuit
- metallic circuit
- metal-oxide-semiconductor integrated circuit
- metal-oxide-semiconductor large scale integration circuit
- meter-current circuit
- meter-voltage circuit
- microcomputer integrated circuit
- microelectronic integrated circuit
- microenergy logic circuit
- micrologic circuit
- micropower circuit
- microprinted circuit
- microprocessor integrated circuit
- microprocessor logic-support circuit
- microprogrammed circuit
- microwatt circuit
- microwave circuit
- microwave integrated circuit
- mix circuit
- mixing circuit
- molecular integrated circuit
- monobrid integrated circuit
- monolithic integrated circuit
- monolithic microwave integrated circuit
- monophase integrated circuit
- monostable circuit
- MOS integrated circuit
- MOS-on-sapphire integrated circuit
- MTL integrated circuit
- mu circuit
- mu feedback circuit
- multibrid integrated circuit
- multichip integrated circuit
- multidrop circuit
- multifunctional integrated circuit
- multilayer circuit
- multilevel-metallized integrated circuit
- multiphase integrated circuit
- multiplanar circuit
- multiple circuit
- multiple-chip circuit
- multiple-substrate solid circuit
- multipoint circuit
- multistable circuit
- multistage circuit
- muting circuit
- NAND circuit
- nanotube integrated circuit
- n-channel logic MOS integrated circuit
- negative OR circuit
- NEITHER-NOR circuit
- neutral magnetic circuit
- neutralizing circuit
- noise equivalent circuit
- noise suppression circuit
- nondisjunction circuit
- noninductive circuit
- nonlinear circuit
- nonphantomed circuits
- nonredundant circuit
- NOR circuit
- NOT circuit
- NOT-AND circuit
- NOT-OR circuit
- off-the-shelf circuit
- one-chip integrated circuit
- one-sided circuit
- one-wire circuit
- open circuit
- open magnetic circuit
- open-wire circuit
- optical integrated circuit
- optically coupled circuit
- optoelectronic integrated circuit
- optron integrated circuit
- OR circuit
- OR-ELSE circuit
- oscillator circuit
- oscillatory circuit
- output circuit
- overcoupled circuits
- overlap telling circuit
- oxide-isolated integrated circuit
- packaged circuit
- painted printed circuit
- parallel circuit
- parallel LCR circuit
- parallel-resonant circuit
- parallel-series circuit
- passivated integrated circuit
- p-channel logic MOS integrated circuit
- peak-holding circuit
- peaking circuit
- peak-riding clipping circuit
- perforated bubble propagation circuit
- perforated bubble-domain propagation circuit
- periodic circuit
- peripheral integrated circuit
- permalloy circuit
- permanent virtual circuit
- phantom circuit
- phase-advance circuit
- phase-comparison circuit
- phase-compensating circuit
- phase-delay circuit
- phase-equalizing circuit
- phase-inverting circuit
- phase-lag circuit
- phase-shift circuit
- photonic integrated circuit
- physical circuits
- physical equivalent circuit
- pi circuit
- pickax bubble propagation circuit
- pickax bubble-domain propagation circuit
- piezoelectric-crystal equivalent circuit
- pilot circuit
- planar integrated circuit
- planex integrated circuit
- plastic integrated circuit
- plastic-encapsulated integrated circuit
- plate circuit
- plated circuit
- plated printed circuit
- p-n junction isolated integrated circuit
- point-to-point circuit
- polar circuit
- polarized magnetic circuit
- polling circuit
- polymer integrated circuit
- polymer logic circuit
- polymer-based logic circuit
- polyphase circuit
- positioning circuit
- potentiometer circuit
- potted circuit
- power adder circuit
- preemphasis circuit
- presetting circuit
- primary circuit
- primary series circuit
- printed circuit
- printed wiring circuit
- printed-component circuit
- program circuit
- programmed interconnection pattern large-scale integration circuit
- propagation circuit
- proprietary integrated circuit
- pulse-actuated circuit
- pulse-shaping circuit
- pulsing circuit
- pump circuit
- pumping circuit
- purity circuit
- push-pull circuit
- push-push circuit
- push-to-talk circuit
- push-to-type circuit
- quadruplex circuit
- quasi-bistable circuit
- quasi-monostable circuit
- quenching circuit
- quiet-tuning circuit
- r equivalent circuit
- radiating circuit
- radiation hardened integrated circuit
- radio circuit
- radio communication circuit
- radio-frequency integrated circuit
- radio-receiving circuit
- radio-transmitting circuit
- range-marker circuit
- range-sweep circuit
- range-tracking circuit
- rapid single flux quantum circuit
- RC circuit
- RCG circuit
- RCTL circuit
- RDTL circuit
- reactance control circuit
- reaction circuit
- reactive circuit
- read-and-write circuit
- redundant circuit
- reflex circuit
- regenerative circuit
- rejector circuit
- repeat circuit
- reset circuit
- reset control circuit
- reshaping circuit
- resistance-capacitance circuit
- resistance-inductance circuit
- resistance-inductance-capacitance circuit
- resistor-capacitor-transistor logic circuit
- resistor-coupled transistor logic circuit
- resistor-diode-transistor logic circuit
- resistor-transistor logic circuit
- resonant circuit
- retroactive circuit
- reverberation-controlled gain circuit
- right-plane circuit
- ring circuit
- ring-and-bar circuit
- ringdown circuit
- ringing circuit
- RL circuit
- RLC circuit
- RSFQ circuit
- RTL circuit
- sample-and-hold circuit
- sampling circuit
- scaled integrated circuit
- scale-of-eight circuit
- scale-of-ten circuit
- scale-of-two circuit
- scaling circuit
- scanning circuit
- scrambler circuit
- screened circuit
- sealed circuit
- sealed-junction integration circuit
- selective circuit
- self-holding circuit
- self-repairing circuit
- self-saturating circuit
- semiconductor integrated circuit
- semiconductor-magnetic circuit
- semicustom integrated circuit
- separation circuit
- series circuit
- series RLC circuit
- series-peaking circuit
- series-resonant circuit
- service circuit
- short circuit
- shunt circuit
- shunt-peaking circuit
- shunt-series circuit
- side circuits
- sidetone suppression circuit
- signal circuit
- signal-processing circuit
- silent circuit
- silicon integrated circuit
- silicon-on-sapphire integrated circuit
- simple parallel circuit
- simplex circuit
- single-chip integrated circuit
- single-ended circuit
- single-mask level bubble circuit
- single-phase circuit
- single-ridge easitron circuit
- single-ridge Karp circuit
- single-shot trigger circuit
- single-trip trigger circuit
- single-tuned circuit
- single-wire circuit
- slave circuit
- sliding short circuit
- slow-wave circuit
- small outline integrated circuit
- small-scale integrated circuit
- smoothing circuit
- sneak circuit
- software circuit
- solid-state circuit
- spare circuit
- spark circuit
- speaker circuit
- sprayed printed circuit
- square-rooting circuit
- squaring circuit
- squelch circuit
- stacked circuit
- staggered circuits
- stamped printed circuit
- standard scale circuit
- star-connected circuit
- starting circuit
- start-stop circuit
- static-induction transistor integrated circuit
- stenode circuit
- stick circuit
- stopper circuit
- storage circuit
- straightforward circuit
- stripline circuit
- submicron integrated circuit
- subscriber line interface circuit
- subscriber-line audio-processing circuit
- superconducting tank circuit
- superimposed circuit
- superposed circuit
- supervising circuit
- support circuit
- sweep circuit
- switch virtual circuit
- switched circuit
- switching circuit
- sync separator circuit
- sync stretch circuit
- synchronous circuit
- T2L circuit
- talk-back circuit
- tank circuit
- tantalum thin-film circuit
- tap circuit
- tapped circuit
- tapped resonant circuit
- tapped-capacitor circuit
- tapped-capacitor resonant circuit
- tapped-coil circuit
- tapped-coil resonant circuit
- tapped-inductor circuit
- tapped-inductor resonant circuit
- T-bar bubble propagation circuit
- T-bar bubble-domain propagation circuit
- T-circuit
- telegraph circuit
- telephone circuit
- telling circuit
- terminating circuit
- Thevenin equivalent circuit
- thick-film circuit
- thin-film circuit
- three-dimensional circuit
- three-phase circuit
- threshold circuit
- through circuit
- tie-line circuit
- time-base circuit
- time-delay circuit
- toll-circuit
- totem-pole circuit
- transfer circuit
- transformer-coupled circuit
- transistor equivalent circuit
- transistor-transistor logic circuit
- traveling-wave-tube interaction circuit
- tributary circuit
- trigger circuit
- trunk circuit
- trunk terminating circuit
- trunk-junction circuit
- tse circuit
- TTL circuit
- tube circuit
- tube equivalent circuit
- tuned circuit
- tuning circuit
- twin-circuit
- twin-T circuit
- two-dimensional circuit
- two-state circuit
- two-way circuit
- two-wire circuit
- UHS integrated circuit
- ultra-audion circuit
- ultra-high-speed integrated circuit
- unbalanced circuit
- undefined function circuit
- underdamped circuit
- unilateral circuit
- unipolar integrated circuit
- universal cord circuit
- vacuum integrated circuit
- vacuum-deposited integrated circuit
- vapor-deposited printed circuit
- vertical deflection circuit
- vertical scanning circuit
- vertical sync circuit
- very high-speed integrated circuit
- very large-scale integration circuit
- V-groove isolated integrated injection logic circuit
- vibrating circuit
- video circuit
- virtual circuit
- voltage-feedback circuit
- voltage-source equivalent circuit
- wafer-on-scale integrated circuit
- warning circuit
- watch integrated circuit
- waveguide circuit
- waveguide short circuit
- weakly superconducting circuit
- weighting circuit
- welded electronic circuit
- white circuit
- wire circuit
- wired circuit
- wire-wrapped circuit
- writing circuit
- X-bar bubble propagation circuit
- X-bar bubble-domain propagation circuit
- XNOR circuit
- XOR circuit
- X-ray litho integrated circuit
- y equivalent circuit
- Y-bar bubble propagation circuit
- Y-bar bubble-domain propagation circuit
- Y-connected circuit
- z equivalent circuit
- zig-zag asymmetrical permalloy-wedges circuit
- zigzag permalloy track circuitThe New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > circuit
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14 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. -
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absolute stop signal
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accelerating signal
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accompanying sound signal
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acknowledgement signal
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acoustic signal
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actuating signal
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addressing signal
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address signal
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advance signal
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alarm signal
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alternate mark inversion signal
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amplitude-modulated signal
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amplitude-shift keyed signal
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analog signal
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angle-modulated signal
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anisochronous signal
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antipodal signal
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arrival signal
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attention signal
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audible signal
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audio signal
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axis designation signal
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B signal
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background signal
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back-to-normal signal
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backup signal
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band-limited signal
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baseband signal
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beam indexing signal
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bell signal
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bidirectional signal
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binary signal
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bipolar signal
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black signal
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black-and-white signal
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blackout signal
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blanketing signal
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blanking signal
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blank-out signal
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blocking signal
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block-section signal
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bracket signal
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brightness signal
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broadband signal
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broadcasting television signal
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busy back signal
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busy signal
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B-Y signal
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cab signal
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calibration signal
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calling-on signal
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call-on signal
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carry signal
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caution signal
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chirp signal
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chroma signal
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clear signal
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clear-back signal
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clear-forward signal
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clearing signal
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clipped signal
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clock signal
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code signal
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color bar signal
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color burst sync signal
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color identification signal
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color signal
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color television signal
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color-difference signal
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color-separation signal
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common-mode signal
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complete video signal
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composite color video signal
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composite picture signal
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composite synchronization signal
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composite video signal
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compressed signal
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conflicting signal
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constant-amplitude signal
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contact detection signal
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contaminating signal
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continuous-phase signal
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control signal
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convolved signal
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correlated signal
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critical axis distance signal
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cross-hatch signal
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crosstalk signal
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cue signal
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danger signal
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dark signal
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data signal
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day signal
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decadic signal
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decrease signal
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departure signal
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detected signal
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detection signal
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deterministic signal
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difference signal
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differential-mode signal
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digital signal
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digital television signal
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digital video signal
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directional signal
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directivity signal
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disable signal
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discernible signal
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disconnect signal
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disk signal
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distance-representing signal
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distant switch signal
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distinguishable signal
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dither signal
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diversity signal
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Doppler-shift signal
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Doppler signal
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double-sideband signal
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drive signal
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driving signal
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dwarf semaphore signal
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echoed signal
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echo signal
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emergency signal
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enable signal
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enciphered signal
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end-of-impulsing signal
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end-of-pulsing signal
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end-of-conversion signal
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engage signal
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erase signal
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error signal
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facsimile signal
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failed signal
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false signal
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fault signal
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feed stop signal
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feedback signal
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field synchronization signal
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filtered signal
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fixed signal
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flashing signal
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flight urgency signal
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floodlight signal
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fluctuating signal
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fog repeater signal
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foreground signal
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four-aspect signal
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free-line signal
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frequency-hopped signal
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frequency-modulated signal
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frequency-shift keyed signal
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friendly signal
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G signal
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gate signal
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gating signal
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ghost signal
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grade signal
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grinding torque error signal
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ground signal
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guard signal
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hand signal
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hang-up signal
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high-level signal
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holding signal
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home signal
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homing signal
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hopping signal
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hump light signal
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hump signal
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I signal
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identification signal
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ident signal
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idle identification signal
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impulse signal
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increase signal
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inhibiting signal
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initiate shift signal
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in-phase signal
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in-position signal
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input signal
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insertion test signal
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interface signal
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interfering signal
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interlocked signal
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intermediate signal
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interrupt signal
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isochronous signal
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jamming signal
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junction signal
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keying signal
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leave signal
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left-hand signal
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level crossing signal
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light signal
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limited signal
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line clear signal
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line signal
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line synchronization signal
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line-frequency control signal
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line-identification signal
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locked-on signal
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locking signal
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logic signal
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longitudinal time and control signal
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low-level signal
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luminance signal
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main home signal
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marshaling signal
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medium-approach signal
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microwave signal
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minimum-phase signal
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mixed synchronization signal
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modulating signal
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monitoring signal
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monitor signal
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motion signal
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multiburst signal
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multichannel signal
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multiple frequency signal
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multiplexed signal
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narrow-band signal
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night signal
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noise signal
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noise-free signal
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noise-like signal
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nominal white signal
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nonband-limited signal
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nonminimum-phase signal
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normal-mode signal
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numeral signal
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off/on signal
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off-hook signal
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on-hook signal
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opposing signal
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output signal
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PAL line-identification signal
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partial-response signal
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permissive signal
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phase-modulated signal
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phase-shift keyed signal
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pickup signal
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picture signal
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pilot signal
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playback signal
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point signal
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polar signal
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position error signal
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position signal
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prescribed signal
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pressure feedback signal
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probe's signal
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probe signal
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probing signal
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proceed signal
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protection signal
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pseudonoise signal
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pseudorandom signal
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pseudo-ternary signal
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pulse and bar signal
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pulsed signal
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pulse signal
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Q signal
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quadrature signal
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quantized signal
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R signal
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radio-frequency signal
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radio signal
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random signal
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ranging signal
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reading signal
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read signal
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rectified signal
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reference signal
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reference white signal
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reminder signal
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request signal
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restrictive signal
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retract signal
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return video signal
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returned signal
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return signal
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RGB signal
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right-hand signal
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ring signal
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ring-back signal
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road crossing signal
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robust signal
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route signal
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run-in signal
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R-Y signal
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safety signal
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sampled signal
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saw-tooth signal
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scrambled signal
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searchlight signal
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seizing signal
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sense signal
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series-mode signal
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service signal
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shading compensation signal
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shadow signal
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shunt signal
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signal of distress
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silhouette signal
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sine signal
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single-sideband signal
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sinusoidal signal
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sonar signal
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sound signal
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sounding signal
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sound-program signal
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speech signal
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spread-spectrum signal
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spurious signal
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square-wave signal
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square signal
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start signal
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starting signal
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start-stop signal
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startup signal
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station light signal
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stop signal
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stop-and-proceed signal
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strobe signal
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suppressed-carrier signal
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swept signal
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switch signal
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synchronizing signal
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sync signal
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system pressure signal
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target signal
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television broadcast signal
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television sound signal
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test line signal
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test signal
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testing signal
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test-pattern signal
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three-aspect signal
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through signal
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time signal
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time-and-control signal
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timing signal
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tool change signal
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track signal
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train order signal
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train tail signal
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transverse-mode signal
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triggering signal
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trigger signal
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trouble signal
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tunnel signal
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two-head signal
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two-position signal
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U signal
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undesired signal
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unvoiced signal
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unwanted signal
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urgent signal
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V signal
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velocity feedback signal
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velocity signal
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vertical interval test signal
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vestigial sideband signal
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video signal
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visible signal
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voice signal
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voiced signal
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W signal
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warning signal
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wayside automatic signal
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wayside signal
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weather signal
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wideband signal
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window signal
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write signal
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abandon the takeoffпрекращать взлетabeam the left pilot positionна левом траверзеabeam the right pilot positionна правом траверзеabort the flightпрерывать полетabort the takeoffпрерывать взлетabove the glide slopeвыше глиссадыabsorb the shock energyпоглощать энергию удараaccelerate the rotorраскручивать роторaccelerate to the speedразгонять до скоростиadhere to the flight planпридерживаться плана полетаadhere to the trackпридерживаться заданного курсаadjust the cableрегулировать тросadjust the compassустранять девиацию компасаadjust the engineрегулировать двигатель до заданных параметровadjust the headingкорректировать курсadvice to follow the controller's advanceвыполнять указание диспетчераaffect the regularityвлиять на регулярностьaffect the safetyвлиять на безопасностьalign the aircraftустанавливать воздушное судноalign the aircraft with the center lineустанавливать воздушное судно по осиalign the aircraft with the runwayустанавливать воздушное судно по оси ВППalter the headingменять курсamplify the signalусиливать сигналapparent drift of the gyroкажущийся уход гироскопаapply the brakeприменять тормозapproach the beamприближаться к лучуapprove the limitationsутверждать ограниченияapprove the tariffутверждать тарифarea of coverage of the forecastsрайон обеспечения прогнозамиarrest the development of the stallпрепятствовать сваливаниюarrive over the aerodromeприбывать в зону аэродромаassess the damageопределять стоимость поврежденияassess the distanceоценивать расстояниеassess the suitabilityоценивать пригодностьassume the controlбрать управление на себяattain the powerдостигать заданной мощностиattain the speedразвивать заданную скоростьat the end ofв конце циклаat the end of segmentв конце участка(полета) at the end of strokeв конце хода(поршня) at the ground levelна уровне землиat the start of cycleв начале циклаat the start of segmentв начале участка(полета) avoid the obstacleизбегать столкновения с препятствиемbackward movement of the stickвзятие ручки на себяbalance the aircraftбалансировать воздушное судноbalance the control surfaceбалансировать поверхность управленияbalance the propellerбалансировать воздушный винтbear on the accidentиметь отношение к происшествиюbefore the turbineперед турбинойbelow the glide slopeниже глиссадыbelow the landing minimaниже посадочного минимумаbend the cotterpin endsзагибать усики шплинтаbe off the trackуклоняться от заданного курсаbe on the level on the hourзанимать эшелон по нулямblock the brakeставить на тормозboundary of the areaграница зоныbrake the propellerстопорить воздушный винтbreak the journeyпрерывать полетbring the aircraft backвозвращать воздушное судноbring the aircraft outвыводить воздушное судно из кренаby altering the headingпутем изменения курсаcage the gyroscopeарретировать гироскопcalibrate the compassсписывать девиацию компасаcalibrate the indicatorтарировать приборcalibrate the systemтарировать системуcalibrate the tankтарировать бакcancel the driftпарировать сносcancel the flightотменять полетcancel the forecastаннулировать сообщенный прогнозcancel the signalпрекращать подачу сигналаcapture the beamзахватывать лучcarry out a circuit of the aerodromeвыполнять круг полета над аэродромомcarry out the flightвыполнять полетcenter the autopilotцентрировать автопилотcenter the wiperцентрировать щеткуchange the frequencyизменять частотуchange the pitchизменять шагchange the trackизменять линию путиcheck the readingпроверять показанияchop the powerвнезапно изменять режимcircle the aerodromeлетать по кругу над аэродромомclean the aircraftубирать механизацию крыла воздушного суднаclean up the crackзачищать трещинуclearance of the aircraftразрешение воздушному суднуclearance over the thresholdбезопасная высота пролета порогаclear for the left-hand turnдавать разрешение на левый разворотclear the aircraftдавать разрешение воздушному суднуclear the obstacleустранять препятствиеclear the pointпролетать над заданной точкойclear the runwayосвобождать ВППclimb on the courseнабирать высоту при полете по курсуclose the bucketsзакрывать створкиclose the circuitзамыкать цепьclose the flightзаканчивать регистрацию на рейсcome clear of the groundотрываться от землиcommence the flightначинать полетcommence the landing procedureначинать посадкуcompare the readingsсравнивать показанияcompensate the compassустранять девиацию компасаcompensate the errorсписывать девиациюcompile the accident reportсоставлять отчет об авиационном происшествииcomplete the circuitзакольцовыватьcomplete the flightзавершать полетcomplete the flight planсоставлять план полетаcomplete the turnзавершать разворотcompute the visual rangeвычислять дальность видимостиconditions beyond the experienceусловия, по сложности превосходящие квалификацию пилотаconditions on the routeусловия по заданному маршрутуconsidering the obstaclesучет препятствийconstruct the procedureразрабатывать схемуcontainerize the cargoупаковывать груз в контейнереcontinue operating on the fuel reserveпродолжать полет на аэронавигационном запасе топливаcontinue the flightпродолжать полетcontinue the takeoffпродолжать взлетcontribute towards the safetyспособствовать повышению безопасностиcontrol the aircraftуправлять воздушным судномcontrol the pitchуправлять шагомconvert the frequencyпреобразовывать частотуconvey the informationпередавать информациюcorrect the troubleустранять отказcorrespond with the operating minimaсоответствовать эксплуатационному минимумуcounteract the rotor torqueуравновешивать крутящий момент несущего винтаcoverage of the chartкартографируемый районcover the routeпробегать по полному маршрутуcrosscheck the readingsсверять показанияcross the airwayпересекать авиатрассуdata on the performanceкоординаты характеристикиdecelerate in the flightгасить скорость в полетеdecelerate the aircraft toснижать скорость воздушного судна доdecrease the deviationуменьшать величину отклонения от курсаdecrease the pitchуменьшать шагdecrease the speedуменьшать скоростьde-energize the busобесточивать шинуdefine the failureопределять причины отказаdeflate the tireослаблять давление в пневматикеdeflect the control surfaceотклонять поверхность управления(напр. элерон) delay the turnзатягивать разворотdelimit the runwayобозначать границы ВППdelimit the taxiwayобозначать границы рулежной дорожкиdelineate the runwayочерчивать границы ВППdelineate the taxiwayобозначать размеры рулежной дорожкиdeliver the baggageдоставлять багажdeliver the clearanceпередавать разрешениеdenote the obstacleобозначать препятствиеdenoting the obstacleобозначение препятствияdepart from the rulesотступать от установленных правилdeparture from the standardsотклонение от установленных стандартовdepress the pedalнажимать на педальdetach the loadотцеплять грузdetach the wingотстыковывать крылоdeterminate the causeустанавливать причинуdetermine amount of the errorопределять величину девиацииdetermine the delayустанавливать время задержкиdetermine the extent of damageопределять степень поврежденияdetermine the frictionопределять величину сцепленияdetermine the sign of deviationопределять знак девиацииdetract from the safetyснижать безопасностьdevelopment of the stallпроцесс сваливанияdeviate from the flight planотклоняться от плана полетаdeviate from the glide slopeотклоняться от глиссадыdeviate from the headingотклоняться от заданного курсаdeviation from the courseотклонение от заданного курсаdeviation from the level flightотклонение от линии горизонтального полетаdischarge the cargoснимать груз в контейнереdisclose the faresопубликовывать тарифыdiscontinue the takeoffпрекращать взлетdisengage the autopilotвыключать автопилотdisplace the center-of-gravityизменять центровкуdisregard the indicatorпренебрегать показаниями прибораdisseminate the forecastраспространять прогнозdrain the tankсливать из бакаdraw the conclusionподготавливать заключениеdrift off the courseсносить с курсаdrift off the headingуходить с заданного курсаdrop the noseсваливаться на носduck below the glide pathрезко снижаться относительно глиссадыease the aircraft onвыравнивать воздушное судноeffect adversely the strengthнарушать прочность(напр. фюзеляжа) elevation of the stripпревышение летной полосыeliminate the cause ofустранять причинуeliminate the hazardустранять опасную ситуациюeliminate the ice formationустранять обледенениеeliminate the source of dangerустранять источник опасности(для воздушного движения) enable the aircraft toдавать воздушному судну правоendanger the aircraftсоздавать опасность для воздушного суднаendange the safetyугрожать безопасностиendorse the licenseделать отметку в свидетельствеenergize the busподавать электропитание на шинуenforce rules of the airобеспечивать соблюдение правил полетовengage the autopilotвключать автопилотensure the adequate provisionsобеспечивать соответствующие меры предосторожностиenter the aircraftзаносить воздушное судно в реестрenter the aircraft standзаруливать на место стоянки воздушного суднаenter the airwayвыходить на авиатрассуenter the final approach trackвыходить на посадочную прямуюenter the spinвходить в штопорenter the tariff into forceутверждать тарифную ставкуenter the traffic circuitвходить в круг движенияenter the turnвходить в разворотentry into the aerodrome zoneвход в зону аэродромаentry into the flareвходить в этап выравниванияerection of the gyroвосстановление гироскопаestablish the characteristicsустанавливать характеристикиestablish the flight conditionsустанавливать режим полетаestablish the procedureустанавливать порядокexceeding the stalling angleвыход на закритический угол атакиexceed the stopпреодолевать упорexecute the manoeuvreвыполнять маневрexecute the turnвыполнять разворотexpedite the clearanceускорять оформлениеexpress the altitudeчетко указывать высотуextend the agreementпродлевать срок действия соглашенияextend the landing gearвыпускать шассиextend the legsвыпускать шассиextreme aft the center-of-gravityпредельная задняя центровкаextreme forward the center-of-gravityпредельная передняя центровкаeye height over the thresholdуровень положения глаз над порогом ВППfail into the spinсрываться в штопорfail to follow the procedureне выполнять установленную схемуfail to observe the limitationsне соблюдать установленные ограниченияfail to provide the manualsне обеспечивать соответствующими инструкциямиfall into the spinсрываться в штопорfeather the propellerставить воздушный винт во флюгерное положениеfile the flight planрегистрировать план полетаfirst freedom of the airпервая степень свободы воздухаflight inbound the stationполет в направлении на станциюflight outbound the stationполет в направлении от станцииflight over the high seasполет над открытым моремflight under the rulesполет по установленным правиламfly above the weatherлетать над верхней кромкой облаковfly at the altitudeлетать на заданной высотеfly into the sunлетать против солнцаfly into the windлетать против ветраfly on the autopilotлетать на автопилотеfly on the courseлетать по курсуfly on the headingлетать по курсуfly the aircraft1. управлять самолетом2. пилотировать воздушное судно fly the beamлететь по лучуfly the circleлетать по кругуfly the glide-slope beamлетать по глиссадному лучуfly the great circleлетать по ортодромииfly the headingвыполнять полет по курсуfly the rhumb lineлетать по локсодромииfly under the autopilotпилотировать при помощи автопилотаfly under the supervision ofлетать под контролемfocus the lightфокусировать фаруfollow the beamвыдерживать направление по лучуfollow the glide slopeвыдерживать глиссадуfollow up the aircraftсопровождать воздушное судноforfeit the reservationлишать брониfreedom of the airстепень свободы воздухаfuel the tankзаправлять бак топливомfulfil the conditionsвыполнять условияgain the air supremacyзавоевывать господство в воздухеgain the altitudeнабирать заданную высотуgain the glide pathвходить в глиссадуgain the powerдостигать заданной мощностьgain the speedразвивать заданную скоростьgather the speedнаращивать скоростьget into the aerodromeприземляться на аэродромеget on the courseвыходить на заданный курсget the heightнабирать заданную высотуgive the wayуступать трассуgo out of the spinвыходить из штопораgovern the applicationрегулировать применениеgovern the flightуправлять ходом полетаgovern the operationруководить эксплуатациейgrade of the pilot licenceкласс пилотского свидетельстваguard the frequencyпрослушивать частотуhandle the baggageобслуживать багажhandle the flight controlsоперировать органами управления полетомhave the runway in sightчетко видеть ВППhead the aircraft into windнаправлять воздушное судно против ветраhold on the headingвыдерживать на заданном курсеhold over the aidsвыполнять полет в зоне ожиданияhold over the beaconвыполнять полет в режиме ожидания над аэродромомhold the aircraft on the headingвыдерживать воздушное судно на заданном курсеhold the brakeудерживать тормозаhold the heading on the compassвыдерживать курс по компасуhold the positionожидать на местеhold the speed accuratelyточно выдерживать скоростьhover at the height ofзависать на высотеhovering in the ground effectвисение в зоне влияния землиidentify the aerodrome from the airопознавать аэродром с воздухаidentify the aircraftопознавать воздушное судноidentify the center lineобозначать осевую линиюimpair the operationнарушать работуimpair the safetyснижать безопасностьimpose the limitationsналагать ограниченияin computing the fuelпри расчете количества топливаin conformity with the specificationsв соответствии с техническими условиямиincrease a camber of the profileувеличивать кривизну профиляincrease the pitchувеличивать шагincrease the speedувеличивать скоростьindicate the location from the airопределять местоположение с воздухаinherent in the aircraftсвойственный воздушному суднуinitiate the turnвходить в разворотinstall in the aircraftустанавливать на борту воздушного суднаinstall on the aircraftмонтировать на воздушном суднеintercept the beamвыходить на ось лучаintercept the glide slopeзахватывать луч глиссадыInternational Relations Department of the Ministry of Civil AviationУправление внешних сношений Министерства гражданской авиацииinterpretation of the signalрасшифровка сигналаin the case of delayв случае задержкиin the event of a mishapв случае происшествияin the event of malfunctionв случая отказаintroduction of the correctionsввод поправокissue the certificateвыдавать сертификатjeopardize the flightподвергать полет опасностиjudge the safetyоценивать степень опасностиkeep clear of the aircraftдержаться на безопасном расстоянии от воздушного суднаkeep out of the wayне занимать трассуkeep tab on the fleetвести учет паркаkeep the aircraft onвыдерживать воздушное судноkeep the altitudeвыдерживать заданную высотуkeep the ball centeredдержать шарик в центреkeep the paceвыдерживать дистанциюkeep to the minimaустанавливать минимумkick off the driftпарировать сносkill the landing speedгасить посадочную скоростьlanding off the aerodromeпосадка вне аэродромаland into the windвыполнять посадку против ветраland the aircraftприземлять воздушное судноlatch the pitch stopустанавливать на упор шага(лопасти воздушного винта) latch the propeller flight stopставить воздушный винт на полетный упорlateral the center-of-gravityпоперечная центровкаlay the routeпрокладывать маршрутlead in the aircraftзаруливать воздушное судноlead out the aircraftвыруливать воздушное судноleave the airspaceпокидать данное воздушное пространствоleave the altitudeуходить с заданной высотыleave the planeвыходить из самолетаleave the runwayосвобождать ВППlevel the aircraft outвыравнивать воздушное судноlie beyond the rangeнаходиться вне заданного пределаline up the aircraftвыруливать воздушное судно на исполнительный стартload the gearзагружать редукторload the generatorнагружать генераторload the structureнагружать конструкциюlock the landing gearставить шасси на замкиlock the landing gear downставить шасси на замок выпущенного положенияlock the landing gear upставить шасси на замок убранного положенияlock the legsустанавливать шасси на замки выпущенного положенияlongitudinal the center-of-gravityпродольная центровкаlose the altitudeтерять высотуlose the speedтерять заданную скоростьloss the controlтерять управлениеlower the landing gearвыпускать шассиlower the legsвыпускать шассиlower the nose wheelопускать носовое колесоmaintain the aircraft at readiness toдержать воздушное судно готовымmaintain the altitudeвыдерживать заданную высотуmaintain the courseвыдерживать заданный курсmaintain the flight levelвыдерживать заданный эшелон полетаmaintain the flight procedureвыдерживать установленный порядок полетовmaintain the flight watchвыдерживать заданный график полетаmaintain the flying speedвыдерживать требуемую скорость полетаmaintain the headingвыдерживать заданный курсmaintain the parameterвыдерживать заданный параметрmake a complaint against the companyподавать жалобу на компаниюmake the aircraft airborneотрывать воздушное судно от землиmake the course changeизменять курсmake the reservationзабронировать местоmanipulate the flight controlsоперировать органами управления полетомmark the obstacleмаркировать препятствиеmean scale of the chartсредний масштаб картыmeet the airworthiness standardsудовлетворять нормам летной годностиmeet the conditionsвыполнять требованияmeet the specificationsсоблюдать технические условияmisjudge the distanceнеправильно оценивать расстояниеmodify the flight planуточнять план полетаmonitor the flightследить за полетомmonitor the frequencyконтролировать заданную частотуmoor the aircraftшвартовать воздушное судноmount on the frameмонтировать на шпангоутеmove off from the restстрагивать с местаmove the blades to higherутяжелять воздушный винтmove the pedal forwardдавать педаль впередname-code of the routeкодирование названия маршрутаneglect the indicatorне учитывать показания прибораnote the instrument readingsотмечать показания приборовnote the timeзасекать времяobserve the conditionsсоблюдать условияobserve the instrumentsследить за показаниями приборовobserve the readingsнаблюдать за показаниямиobtain the correct pathвыходить на заданную траекториюobtain the flying speedнабирать заданную скорость полетаobtain the forecastполучать прогнозoffer the capacityпредлагать объем загрузкиoff-load the pumpразгружать насосon the base legвыполнил третий разворотon the beamв зоне действия лучаon the cross-wind legвыполнил первый разворотon the down-wind legвыполнил второй разворотon the eastbound legна участке маршрута в восточном направленииon the final legвыполнил четвертый разворотon the left base legподхожу к четвертому с левым разворотомon the speedна скоростиon the upwind legвхожу в кругopen the bucketsоткрывать створкиopen the circuitразмыкать цепьopen the door inward outwardоткрывать люк внутрь наружуoperate from the aerodromeвыполнять полеты с аэродромаoperate under the conditionsэксплуатировать в заданных условияхovercome the obstacleпреодолевать препятствиеovercome the spring forceпреодолевать усилие пружиныoverflying the runwayпролет над ВППoverpower the autopilotпересиливать автопилотoverrun the runwayвыкатываться за пределы ВППovershoot capture of the glide slopeпоздний захват глиссадного лучаover the territoryнад территориейover the topнад верхней границей облаковover the wingнад крыломpark in the baggageсдавать в багажparticipation in the investigationучастие в расследованииpassing over the runwayпролет над ВППpass the signalпропускать сигналpast the turbineза турбинойperform the service bulletinвыполнять доработку по бюллетенюpick up the signalфиксировать сигналpick up the speedразвивать заданную скоростьpilot on the controlsпилот, управляющий воздушным судномpitch the nose downwardопускать носplace the aircraftустанавливать воздушное судноplace the flaps inустанавливать закрылкиplane of symmetry of the aeroplaneплоскость симметрии самолетаplot the aircraftзасекать воздушное судноpotential hazard to the safeпотенциальная угроза безопасностиpower the busвключать шинуpresent the minimum hazardпредставлять минимальную опасностьpreserve the clearanceсохранять запас высотыpressurize the bearingуплотнять опору подачей давленияproduce the signalвыдавать сигналprofitability over the routeэффективность маршрутаprolongation of the ratingпродление срока действия квалификационной отметкиproperly identify the aircraftточно опознавать воздушное судноprotect the circuitзащищать цепьprove the systemиспытывать системуpull out of the spinвыводить из штопораpull the aircraft out ofбрать штурвал на себяpull the control column backбрать штурвал на себяpull the control stick backбрать ручку управления на себяpull up the helicopterрезко увеличивать подъемную силу вертолетаpuncture the tireпрокалывать покрышкуpush the aircraft backбуксировать воздушное судно хвостом впередpush the aircraft downснижать высоту полета воздушного суднаpush the control columnотдавать штурвал от себяpush the control stickотдавать ручку управления от себяput into the spinвводить в штопорput on the courseвыходить на заданный курсput the aircraft into productionзапускать воздушное судно в производствоput the aircraft on the courseвыводить воздушное судно на заданный курсput the aircraft overпереводить воздушное судно в горизонтальный полетraise the landing gearубирать шассиreach the altitudeзанимать заданную высотуreach the flight levelзанимать заданный эшелон полетаreach the glide pathвходить в зону глиссадыreach the speedдостигать заданных оборотовreach the stalling angleвыходить на критический уголread the drift angleотсчитывать угол сносаread the instrumentsсчитывать показания приборовreceive the signalпринимать сигналrecord the readingsрегистрировать показанияrecover from the spinвыходить из штопораrecover from the turnвыходить из разворотаrecovery from the manoeuvreвыход из маневраrecovery from the stallвывод из режима сваливанияrecovery from the turnвыход из разворотаrectify the compassустранять девиацию компасаreduce the hazardуменьшать опасностьreestablish the trackвосстанавливать заданную линию путиregain the glide pathвозвращаться на глиссадуregain the speedвосстанавливать скоростьregain the trackвозвращаться на заданный курсregister the aircraftрегистрировать воздушное судноrelease the aircraftпрекращать контроль воздушного суднаrelease the landing gearснимать шасси с замков убранного положенияrelease the landing gear lockснимать шасси с замкаrelease the loadсбрасывать грузrelease the uplockоткрывать замок убранного положенияrelocate the plane's trimвосстанавливать балансировку самолетаremedy the defectустранять дефектremedy the troubleустранять отказremove the aircraftудалять воздушное судноremove the crackвыбирать трещинуremove the tangleраспутыватьrender the certificateпередавать сертификатrenew the licenseвозобновлять действие свидетельства или лицензииrenew the ratingвозобновлять действие квалификационной отметкиreplan the flightизмерять маршрут полетаreport reaching the altitudeдокладывать о занятии заданной высотыreport reaching the flight levelдокладывать о занятии заданного эшелона полетаreport the headingсообщать курсreset the gyroscopeвосстанавливать гироскопrestart the engine in flightзапускать двигатель в полетеrestore the systemвосстанавливать работу системыrestrict the operationsнакладывать ограничения на полетыresume the flightвозобновлять полетresume the journeyвозобновлять полетretain the leverфиксировать рукояткуretract the landing gearубирать шассиreturn the aircraft to serviceдопускать воздушное судно к дальнейшей эксплуатацииreverse the propellerпереводить винт на отрицательную тягуroll in the aircraftвводить воздушное судно в кренroll into the turnвходить в разворотroll left on the headingвыходить на курс с левым разворотомroll on the aircraftвыполнять этап пробега воздушного суднаroll on the courseвыводить на заданный курсroll out of the turnвыходить из разворотаroll out on the headingвыходить на заданный курсroll out the aircraftвыводить воздушное судно из кренаroll right on the headingвыходить на курс с правым разворотомrotate the aircraftотрывать переднюю опору шасси воздушного суднаrotate the bogieзапрокидывать тележкуrules of the airправила полетовrun fluid through the systemпрогонять системуrun off the runwayвыкатываться за пределы ВППrun out the landing gearвыпускать шассиschedule the performancesзадавать характеристикиseat the brushпритирать щеткуsecond freedom of the airвторая степень свободы воздухаsecure the mishap siteобеспечивать охрану места происшествияselect the courseвыбирать курсselect the flight routeвыбирать маршрут полетаselect the frequencyвыбирать частотуselect the headingзадавать курсselect the modeвыбирать режимselect the track angleзадавать путевой уголseparate the aircraftэшелонировать воздушное судноserve out the service lifeвырабатывать срок службыset at the desired angleустанавливать на требуемый уголset the courseустанавливать курсset the flaps atустанавливать закрылкиset the headingустанавливать курсset the propeller pitchустанавливать шаг воздушного винтаset the throttle leverустанавливать сектор газаset up the speedзадавать определенную скоростьshift the center-of-gravityсмещать центровкуshop out the skinвырубать обшивкуsimulate the instruments responsesимитировать показания приборовslacken the cableослаблять натяжение тросаslave the gyroscopeсогласовывать гироскопsmooth on the headingплавно выводить на заданный курсsmooth out the crackудалять трещинуsmooth out the dentвыправлять вмятинуsmooth the signalсглаживать сигналspace the aircraftопределять зону полета воздушного суднаspin the gyro rotorраскручивать ротор гироскопаstate instituting the investigationгосударство, назначающее расследование(авиационного происшествия) state submitting the reportгосударство, представляющее отчет(об авиационном происшествии) steady airflow about the wingустановившееся обтекание крыла воздушным потокомsteer the aircraftуправлять воздушным судномstop the crack propagationпредотвращать развитие трещиныstop the leakageустранять течьsubmit the flight planпредставлять план полетаsubstitute the aircraftзаменять воздушное судноsupervision approved by the Stateнадзор, установленный государствомsupply the signalподавать сигналswing the compassсписывать девиацию компасаswing the door openоткрывать створкуswitch to the autopilotпереходить на управление с помощью автопилотаswitch to the proper tankвключать подачу топлива из бака с помощью электрического кранаtakeoff into the windвзлетать против ветраtake off power to the shaftотбирать мощность на валtake over the controlбрать управление на себяtake the bearingбрать заданный пеленгtake the energy fromотбирать энергиюtake the readingsсчитывать показанияtake the taxiwayзанимать рулежную дорожкуtake up the backlashустранять люфтtake up the positionвыходить на заданную высотуtap air from the compressorотбирать воздух от компрессораterminate the agreementпрекращать действие соглашенияterminate the controlпрекращать диспетчерское обслуживаниеterminate the flightзавершать полетtest in the wind tunnelпродувать в аэродинамической трубеtest the systemиспытывать системуthe aircraft under commandуправляемое воздушное судноthe route to be flownнамеченный маршрут полетаthe route to be followedустановленный маршрут полетаthe runway is clearВПП свободнаthe runway is not clearВПП занятаthe search is terminatedпоиск прекращенthrough on the same flightтранзитом тем же рейсомthroughout the service lifeна протяжении всего срока службыtighten the turnуменьшать радиус разворотаtime in the airналет часовtime the valvesрегулировать газораспределениеtitl of the gyroзавал гироскопаto define the airspaceопределять границы воздушного пространстваtransfer the controlпередавать диспетчерское управление другому пунктуtransit to the climb speedпереходить к скорости набора высотыtrim the aircraftбалансировать воздушное судноturn into the windразворачивать против ветраturn off the systemвыключать системуturn on the systemвключать системуturn the proper tank onвключать подачу топлива из бока с помощью механического кранаunarm the systemотключать состояние готовности системыuncage the gyroscopeразарретировать гироскопunfeather the propellerвыводить воздушный винт из флюгерного положенияunlatch the landing gearснимать шасси с замковunlatch the pitch stopснимать с упора шага(лопасти воздушного винта) unstall the aircraftвыводить воздушное судно из сваливания на крылоunstick the aircraftотрывать воздушное судно от землиuplift the freightпринимать груз на бортviolate the lawнарушать установленный порядокwander off the courseсбиваться с курсаwarn the aircraftпредупреждать воздушное судноwind the generatorнаматывать обмотку генератораwith decrease in the altitudeсо снижением высотыwithdraw from the agreementвыходить из соглашенияwith increase in the altitudeс набором высотыwithin the frame ofв пределахwithin the rangeв заданном диапазонеwithstand the loadвыдерживать нагрузкуwork on the aircraftвыполнять работу на воздушном суднеwrite down the readingsфиксировать показания
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