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устойчивость против старения
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[А.С.Гольдберг. Англо-русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.]Тематики
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1) Техника: устойчивость против старения2) Электроника: стабильность при старении3) Парфюмерия: устойчивость при хранении -
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<tech.gen> (e.g. of materials, lubricants, paint coats) ■ Alterungsbeständigkeit f ; Alterungsstabilität f ; Alterungsverhalten n -
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1) стабильность; устойчивость3) мор. остойчивость4) стойкость; прочность•to impair stability — ухудшать устойчивость;to increase stability — повышать устойчивость-
absolute stability
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acid stability
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aerodynamic stability
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aggregative stability
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aging stability
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alkali stability
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angle-of-attack stability
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arc stability
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asymptotic stability
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athwartship stability
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atmospheric stability
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borehole stability
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bubble stability
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buckling stability
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calibration stability
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channel stability
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chatter stability
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chemical stability
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closed-loop stability
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color stability
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conditional stability
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control stability
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corrosion stability
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course-keeping stability
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course stability
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cracking stability
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critical stability
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damaged stability
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damage stability
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dimensional stability
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directional stability
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discharge stability
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drier stability
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dynamical stability
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dynamic stability
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ecosystem stability
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electrical stability
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electrochemical stability
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environmental stability
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flooded stability
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flow stability
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freeze-thaw stability
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frequency stability
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glass stability
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grain-size stability
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gravitational stability
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heat stability
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hovering stability
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hydrolytic stability
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hydrostatic stability
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inherent stability
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ink stability
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ink-can stability
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intact stability
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irradiation stability
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lateral stability
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light stability
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load stability
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longitudinal stability
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long-term stability
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machine excitation stability
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marginal stability
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mechanical stability
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metacentric stability
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meteorological stability
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moisture stability
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natural stability
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negative stability
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noise stability
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nuclear stability
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null stability
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oil stability
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open-loop stability
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oscillatory stability
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overall stability
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oxidation stability
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package stability
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phase stability
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pitch stability
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pour stability
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power system resulting stability
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power system stability
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power system steady-state stability
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power system transient stability
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press stability
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radiation-damage stability
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rheological stability
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rigid rotor stability
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roller stability of ink
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rolling stability
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rotating-machine stability
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seismic stability
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servo stability
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shale stability
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shelf stability
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short-term stability
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small disturbance stability of power system
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soil stability
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solvent stability
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stability of course
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stability of dye
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stability of motion
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stability of power systems
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static stability
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storage stability
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surface stability
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synchronous generator stability
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temperature stability
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thermal stability
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torsional stability
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transient stability
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transverse stability
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unstable stability
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1. устойчивость2. стойкостьstability of elastic system — устойчивость упругой системы
ablative stability — абляционная стойкость
aging stability — стабильность старения
chemical stability — химическая стабильность [устойчивость, стойкость]
color stability — цветоустойчивость, устойчивость к обесцвечиванию
corrosion stability — коррозионная стойкость
dimensional stability — размерная устойчивость [стабильность]
elastic stability — упругая стабильность, упругость
heat stability — 1) теплостойкость 2) стойкость против теплового старения
high-temperature stability — высокотемпературная стойкость, стойкость к воздействию высоких температур
irradiation stability — стойкость к облучению
light stability — светостойкость
long-time stability — длительная [долговременная] устойчивость
magnetic stability — магнитная устойчивость
microstructural stability — микроструктурная стабильность
oxidation stability — стойкость к окислению, окислительная устойчивость
oxidative stability — окислительная устойчивость, стойкость к окислению
radiation stability — стойкость к облучению
storage stability — стабильность при хранении
structural stability — структурная стабильность, прочностная устойчивость
temperature stability — 1) температурная стабильность 2) теплостойкость
thermal stability — термостабильность, теплостойкость
vacuum thermal stability — термостабильность в вакууме
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1) Техника: ускоренное искусственное старение, ускоренное старение2) Фармация: ускоренное хранение (создание условий для хранения лекарств максимально приближенным к реальным, проводится в рамках stability test.) -
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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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1. испытание, тест2. проверка, оценка4. проба5. испытывать, проверять (see also testing)6. пробоватьabrasion test — 1) испытание на истирание [абразивный износ] 2) испытание царапанием
abrasive hardness test — 1) склерометрическое испытание на твёрдость 2) склерометрическое определение твёрдости
abruption test — испытание на разрыв
absorption test — испытание на поглощение, определение влагостойкости
accelerated test — 1) ускоренное [сокращённое] испытание 2) экспресс-анализ
acceleration test — испытание на воздействие ускорений
acid-proof test — испытание на кислотостойкость
adhesion test — испытание на адгезию [прочность сцепления], испытание прочности склейки
adhesive test — испытание прочности склейки, испытание на адгезию [прочность сцепления]
adiabatic-compression sensitivity test — испытание на чувствительность ( ракетного топлива) к адиабатическому сжатию
aging test — испытание на старение
air test — 1) испытание в воздушной среде 2) испытание на герметичность 3) испытание сжатым воздухом
alkali-proof test — испытание на щёлочестойкость
alternate-stress test — испытание ( на усталость) знакопеременной нагрузкой
alternating-bending test — испытание на знакопеременный изгиб
antiseptic test — испытание на антисептичность
artificial aging test — испытание на искусственное [ускоренное] старение
atmospheric stress corrosion test — испытание на коррозию под напряжением в атмосферных условиях
attrition test — испытание на износ
ball hardness test — испытание твёрдости вдавливанием шарика, определение твёрдости по Бринелю
indentation pressure test — определение твёрдости по Бринелю, испытание твёрдости вдавливанием шарика
bearing test — испытание на смятие [опорную прочность]
bending test — испытание на изгиб
bend-over test — испытание на изгиб
biaxial tension test — испытание на двухосное растяжение
bird impact test — испытание на пробой тушками птиц
blow test — 1) испытание на удар 2) испытание на ударную прочность
bond test — испытание на сцепление
bonding peel test — испытание на отслаивание склейки
breaking test — 1) испытание на разрушение, испытание на разрыв 2) испытание на излом
breakdown test — 1) испытание на разрушение, испытание на разрыв 2) испытание на излом
Brinell-hardness test — определение твёрдости по Бринелю
brittleness test — испытание на ломкость [хрупкость]
buckling test — испытание на продольный изгиб
bulk dilution test — испытание па всестороннее сжатие
bump test — 1) ударное испытание 2) испытание на ударную прочность
burning test — испытание на горение [горючесть]
burn-off test — испытание выжиганием ( для определения состава связующего)
bursting test — испытание с разрушением образца
cavitation test — испытание на кавитацию
Charpy impact test — испытание на удар по Шарпи, определение ударной вязкости по Шарпи
Charpy V-notch test — определение ударной вязкости образца с V-образным надрезом по Шарпи
charring ablator test — испытание обугливающегося [коксующегося] абляционного материала
chemical test — 1) химическое испытание 2) химический анализ
cleavage test — испытание на расщепление
climatic test — климатическое испытание, испытание на воздействие климатических условий
cold temperature test — испытание на морозостойкость, испытание при низких температурах
combustibility test — испытание на воспламенение [горючесть]
compatibility test — испытание на совместимость
complete destructive test — полное разрушающее испытание
composite test — испытание композиционного материала
compression test — испытание на сжатие
constant load test — испытание при постоянной нагрузке
corrosion test — испытание коррозионностойкости, коррозионное испытание
corrosion fatigue test — испытание на коррозионную усталость
corrosive wear test — испытание на окислительный износ
cracking test — коррозионное испытание на растрескивание
crack-propagation test — испытание на распространение трещин
crash test — испытание на разрушение
creep test — 1) испытание на ползучесть 2) испытание на текучесть
creep-rupture test — испытание на длительную прочность
cripling test — 1) испытание на продольный изгиб 2) испытание на перегиб
critical collapse test — испытание на устойчивость
cross-bending test — испытание на поперечный изгиб
crushing test — 1) испытание на раздавливание 2) испытание на раздробление
cryogenic temperature test — испытание при криогенных [низких] температурах
cupping test — испытание на вытяжку
curing test — испытание на вулканизацию
cycle test — циклическое испытание
cyclic test — циклическое испытание
cycle humidity test — циклическое испытание во влажной среде
cyclic-oxidation test — испытание на циклическое окисление
damping test — 1) испытание демпфирующих свойств 2) испытание на циклическую вязкость
deep-drawing test — испытание на глубокую вытяжку
deflection test — испытание на изгиб [прогиб]
deformation test — испытание на деформацию
delamination test — испытание на отслаивание
destruction test — испытание с разрушением ( образца)
destructive test — испытание с разрушением ( образца)
diamond-pyramide hardness test — определение твёрдости вдавливанием алмазной пирамиды ( по Виккерсу)
dielectric test — испытание диэлектрика [диэлектрических свойств]
direct compression test — испытание на двустороннее сжатие
drifting test — испытание на пробиваемость
drop-weight test — 1) испытание на удар падающим грузом 2) ударное испытание 3) определение ударной вязкости 4) копровое испытание
drop-weight tear test — ударное испытание на разрыв
dry strand test — испытание сухой пряди
ductile test — 1) испытание на вязкость 2) определение ударной вязкости
durability test — испытание на выносливость [долговечность]
dye-penetrant test — испытание методом красок, контроль проникающими красками
dynamic corrosion test — динамическое испытание на коррозию
elasticity test — испытание на упругость [эластичность]
electrolytic corrosion test — 1) испытание на электрохимическую коррозию 2) испытание электролита на коррозию
elevated-temperature test — испытание при повышенных температурах
elongation test — испытание на удлинение [растяжение]
endurance test — 1) испытание на выносливость [усталость] 2) испытание на прочность [стойкость] (например, лака или краски)
endurance tension test — испытание на выносливость при растяжении
endurance torsion test — испытание на выносливость при кручении
environmental test — испытание на воздействие окружающей среды
erosion test — испытание на эрозию
etching test — 1) испытание травлением 2) проба ( металла) травлением
explosive loading test — испытание взрывом, взрывное испытание
external hydrostatic test — испытание на внешнее гидростатическое давление
external pressure test — испытание на внешнее давление
falling ball test — испытание на упругость методом падающего шарика
falling sphere test — испытание на упругость методом падающего шарика
fatigue test — испытание на усталость [выносливость]
final test — испытание до разрушения
fire test — 1) испытание на огнестойкость 2) определение температуры воспламенения 3) огневое испытание ( двигателя)
fire-resistance test — испытание на огнестойкость
flammability test — испытание на воспламеняемость
flash test — определение температуры вспышки, испытание на воспламенение
flat-bending test — испытание на плоский изгиб
flattening test — испытание на сплющивание
flexural impact test — ударное испытание на изгиб
flexure test — испытание на изгиб
fluorescent test — флуоресцентный [люминесцентный] контроль
forging test — испытание на ковкость
fracture test — испытание на излом [разрушение]
freezing test — испытание на замораживание [морозостойкость]
friability test — испытание на хрупкость [ломкость]
friction test — испытание на трение
fuel-resistance test — испытание на топливостойкость
fungus test — испытание на грибостойкость
gamma-ray test — просвечивание гамма-лучами, гаммаграфический контроль
gas impermeability test — испытание на газонепроницаемость
gasoline-resistance test — испытание на бензиностойкость
gas permeability test — испытание на газопроницаемость
hammering test — испытание на ковкость
hanging test — испытание на разрыв подвешиванием грузов к образцу
hardenability test — проба на прокаливаемость
hardness test — испытание на твёрдость, определение твёрдости
heat test — испытание нагревом [на нагрев]
heat-resistance test — испытание на теплостойкость
heat-stability test — испытание на термическую устойчивость
high-pressure test — испытание при высоких давлениях
high-temperature test — 1) испытание на жаростойкость 2) испытание при высоких температурах
high-voltage test — испытание на выносливость высокого напряжения (например, изоляции)
horizontal shear test — испытание на сдвиг [срез] вдоль слоёв
hot test — 1) испытание в горячем состоянии, горячая проба 2) испытание на нагрев
humidity test — испытание во влажной среде
hydraulic pressure test — гидравлическое испытание
hydraulic tension ring test — гидравлическое испытание колец на растяжение
hydrostatic test — гидростатическое испытание
hysteresis test — испытание на гистерезис
immersion test — 1) испытание погружением образца 2) иммерсионный контроль
impact test — 1) испьггание на ударные нагрузки 2) испытание на удар 3) ударное испытание 4) определение ударной вязкости
indentation test — испытание на твёрдость вдавливанием (например, шарика или пирамиды)
insulation test — 1) испытание на изоляцию 2) испытание изоляции
interlaminar shear test — испытание на межслойный сдвиг
interlaminar tensile test — испытание на межслойное растяжение
internal hydrostatic pressure test — испытание на внутреннее гидростатическое давление
Knoop hardness test — испытание на микротвёрдость по Кнупу, определение микротвёрдости по Кнупу
life test — испытание на долговечность
light aging test — испытание на световое старение
light resistance test — испытание на светостойкость
loading test — статическое испытание, испытание нагружением
long-duration test — длительное испытание
long-time creep test — испытание на длительную прочность
low-temperature test — испытание при низких [криогенных] температурах, испытание на морозостойкость
magnetic test — магнитный контроль [дефектоскопия]
magnetic fluid test — магнитный контроль методом суспензии
magnetic particle test — контроль магнитными частицами
magnetic permeability test — испытание на магнитную проницаемость
magnetic perturbation test — контроль методом магнитного возмущения
magnetic powder test — магнитный контроль методом порошков, дефектоскопия магнитным порошком
mechanical test — испытание механических свойств, механические испытания
metallographic test — металлографическое исследование
meteorite-strike test — испытание на пробой [удар] метеоритами
micrograph test — металлографическое исследование
microhardness test — испытание на микротвёрдость, определение микротвёрдости
moisture absorption test — испытание на влагопоглощение
moisture permeability test — испытание на водопроницаемость
moisture-proofness test — испытание на влагостойкость [влагонепроницаемость]
moisture-resistance test — испытание на влагонепроницаемость [влагостойкость]
Mooney viscosity test — определение вязкости по Муни
Naval Ordnance Laboratory ring test — испытание кольцевых образцов по методу лаборатории вооружения ВМС США, испытание колец NOL
NOL ring test — испытание колец NOL, испытание кольцевых образцов по методу лаборатории вооружения ВМС США
NOL multiaxial fatigue test — многоосное испытание колец NOL на усталость
nondestructive test — 1) испытание без разрушения ( образца) 2) неразрушающий контроль
notched-bar impact test — испытание на удар надрезанного образца, определение ударной вязкости надрезанного образца
notched bend test — испытание на изгиб надрезанного образца
notched tensile test — испытание на разрыв надрезанного образца
notch shock test — испытание на ударную вязкость надрезанного образца
odor test — 1) испытание на запах 2) проба на запах
oil-resistance test — испытание на маслостойкость
outdoor exposure test — испытание [выдержка] на открытом воздухе
oven test — испытание на тепловое старение в печи
oxidation test — испытание на окисление
oxygen bomb test — испытание на искусственное старение в кислородной бомбе
ozone aging test — испытание на старение в озоне
peeling test — 1) испытание на отслаивание 2) испытание на отрыв
pendulum impact test — испытание на удар маятниковым копром
penetrant fluid test — контроль проникающей жидкостью
penetrant nondestructive test — контроль проникающим веществом без разрушения ( образца)
performance test — 1) испытание в эксплуатационных условиях 2) определение характеристик ( материала)
plasma torch test — испытание плазменной горелкой
plasticity test — 1) испытание на пластичность 2) определение пластичности
pliability test — 1) определение пластичности 2) испытание на пластичность
plastic range test — определение пределов пластичности
ply separation test — испытание на расслоение [отслоение]
porosity test — проба на пористость ( травлением)
pulling test — испытание на растяжение [разрыв]
pulsed eddy-current test — 1) проверка импульсными вихревыми токами 2) электроиндуктивная дефектоскопия
pure-bending test — испытание на чистый изгиб
qual test — испытание на соответствие техническим условиям
qualification test — испытание на соответствие техническим условиям
quenching test — проба на прокаливаемость
quick test — ускоренное испытание, экспресс-анализ
radiant-heating test — испытание на лучистый нагрев
radiation test — радиационное испытание
radiographic test — 1) радиографический контроль 2) рентгенографический контроль 3) гаммаграфический контроль
rebound test — испытание на эластичность по отскоку
reliability test — испытание на надёжность
repeated compression test — испытание на усталость при многократных сжатиях
repeated impact test — испытание на динамическую выносливость
repeated stress test — испытание на усталость [выносливость] при повторных нагрузках
repeated tension test — испытание на многократное растяжение
resin test — 1) испытание смолы 2) испытание связующего
reverse bending test — испытание на знакопеременный изгиб
ring test — кольцевое испытание, испытание кольцевого образца
Rockwell hardness test — определение твёрдости по Роквеллу
room-temperature burst test — разрывное испытание при комнатной температуре
room-temperature cycle test — циклическое испытание при комнатной температуре
rotational drop test — испытание на маятниковом копре
rupture test — испытание на разрушение [разрыв, прочность]
safe-life test — испытание на безопасный срок хранения ( ракетного топлива)
scleroscope hardness test — определение твёрдости по склероскопу, склероскопическое испытание на твёрдость
scratch hardness test — испытание на твёрдость царапанием, определение твёрдости по Моосу
separation test — испытание на расслоение
service test — испытание в эксплуатационных условиях, эксплуатационное испытание
shearing test — испытание на сдвиг [срез, скалывание]
shock test — испытание на удар, ударное испытание
shock-bending test — испытание на изгиб ударом
Shore indentional test — определение твёрдости по Шору
Shore scleroscope test — определение твёрдости по Шору
short-time test — кратковременное испытание, экспресс-испытание, экспресс-анализ
sieve test — ситовый анализ
sieving test — ситовый анализ
simulated environment test — испытание в условиях, имитирующих окружающую среду
simulated space test — испытание в условиях, имитирующих космические
sintering test — испытание на спекаемость
size test — гранулометрический анализ
sizing test — гранулометрический анализ
sonic test — испытание ультразвуковым методом
space test — испытание в космических условиях
specific-gravity test — определение удельного веса
standard test — 1) стандартное [типовое] испытание 2) стандартная проба
static test — статическое испытание
static-fatigue test — статическое испытание на усталость
static notched bend test — статическое испытание на изгиб надрезанного образца
static vibration test — статическое испытание на вибрацию
stiffness test — испытание на жёсткость
strain-cycling test — испытание методом циклического деформирования
strength test — 1) испытание па прочность 2) определение временного сопротивления
stress-corrosion test — испытание на коррозию под напряжением
stress-durability test — испытание на длительную прочность [статическую усталость]
stress relaxation test — испытание на релаксацию напряжений
stretching test — испытание на растяжение [сопротивление разрыву], испытание на удлинение при разрыве
strip peel test — испытание на отслаивание ленты
structural test — испытание на прочность
tearing test — 1) испытание на разрыв [раздир] 2) испытание на износ
temperature test — температурное испытание, испытание на нагрев
tenacity test — 1) испытание на разрыв 2) испытание на растяжение 3) испытание на вязкость [прилипание]
tensile test — 1) испытание на разрыв 2) испытание на растяжение
tensile fatigue test — испытание на усталость при растяжении
tensile impact test — 1) ударное испытание на разрыв 2) ударное испытание на растяжение
tensile shock test — 1) ударное испытание на растяжение 2) ударное испытание на разрыв
tensile strength test — определение временного сопротивления на растяжение, испытание на разрыв
tension test — 1) испытание на растяжение 2) определение диаграммы растяжения
tension fatigue test — испытание на усталость при растяжении
thermal test — тепловое [термическое] испытание
thermal fatigue test — испытание на термическую усталость, термоциклическое испытание
thermal shock test — испытание на тепловой удар
thermomechanical test — термомеханическое испытание
torque test — испытание на кручение [скручивание]
torsional test — испытание на скручивание [кручение]
torsion shear test — испытание на срез при скручивании
toughness test — испытание на ( ударную) вязкость
tracer test — испытание методом меченых атомов
transverse-bending test — испытание на поперечный изгиб
twisting test — испытание на кручение [скручивание]
uniaxial shear test — испытание на чистый сдвиг
uniaxial tensile test — испытание на одноосное растяжение
uninflammability test — испытание на невоспламеняемость
unnotched tensile test — испытание на разрыв ненадрезанного образца
upsetting test — испытание на раздачу ( труб)
vacuum test — испытание в вакууме
vibration test — испытание на вибрацию [вибропрочность]
vibroacoustic test — виброакустическое испытание
Vickers diamond-pyramide hardness test — определение твёрдости вдавливанием алмазной пирамиды по Виккерсу
Vickers hardness test — испытание на твёрдость по Виккерсу, определение твёрдости по Виккерсу
viscosity test — испытание на вязкость, определение вязкости, реологическое испытание
V-notch test — испытание образца с V-образным надрезом
V-notch impact test — испытание на удар образца с V-образным надрезом
waterproof test — испытание на водостойкость
wearing test — 1) испытание на износ 2) испытание на истирание
weathering test — 1) испытание на старение в атмосферных условиях 2) испытание на погодостойкость
weatherproof test — 1) испытание на погодостойкость 2) испытание на атмосферную коррозию
weight-loss test — испытание на коррозию по убыли веса образца
weldability test — испытание на свариваемость
welding test — испытание на свариваемость
X-ray test — 1) рентгеновское [рентгеноскопическое] испытание 2) рентгеновский [рентгенографический] анализ
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1. испытание, проверка; опыт; проба; исследование, анализ || испытывать, проверять; исследовать; производить анализ2. опробование ( скважины) || опробоватьrule of thumb test — грубый [приближенный] метод оценки
— ball indentation test— Charpy impact test— DAP test— dry test— hydraulic pressure test— Izod impact test— shearing test— torsional test— wearing test
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1. испытание, испытания; проверка; контроль2. исследование; анализ3. критерийdrill stem formation test — исследование пласта пластоиспытателем, спускаемым на бурильных трубах
— use test
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исследование; испытание; опыт; проверка
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опыт; испытание, проверка; проверять
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1) испытание, испытания; проба; проверка; контроль2) исследование; анализ4) опробование ( скважины) || опробовать6) критерий•test for color stability — испытания ( бензина) на стабильность цвета;
test for defect — проверка на наличие дефектов;
test for soundness — испытания ( цемента) на равномерность изменения объёма;
test for suitability — испытания на пригодность (); испытания на соответствие заданным требованиям;
to test a core for shows of oil — исследовать керн на признаки нефти;
to test a well — измерять дебит скважины;
to apply boring test — применять бурение при поисковых работах;
test to destruction — испытания до разрушения ( образца), разрушающие испытания;
test to failure — испытания до отказа;
to put to test — подвергать испытаниям;
test with recovery — испытания с восстановлением;
- abrasion testtest without destruction — испытания без разрушения ( образца), неразрушающие испытания;
- accelerated test
- accelerated aging test of gasoline
- acceleration inertia load test
- acceptance test
- acid heat test
- activity test
- adhesion test
- air pressure test
- alkali test
- angularity test
- aniline test
- appraisal test
- assessment test
- ASTM test
- audit test
- availability acceptance test
- azimuth test
- back-pressure test
- back-pressure formation test
- bailing test
- bearing test
- bedrock test
- blowdown test
- bottle test
- breakdown test
- burn-in reliability test
- carbon test
- carbon color test
- casing-packer formation test
- centrifuge test
- certification test
- charcoal test
- charcoal weight test
- checkout test
- cloud test of petroleum oil
- coke test
- coking test
- cold test
- combined environment reliability test
- complete destructive test
- complete functional test
- cone penetrometer test
- confirmation test
- confirmatory test
- consumption test
- contact test
- contamination test
- control test
- controlled test
- copper dish gum evaporation test
- copper dish residue test
- copper strip test
- corrosion test
- corrosive wear test
- cracking test
- crankcase oil dilution test
- crankcase oil foaming test
- crosstalk test
- current production rate test
- damaging test
- deep test
- deep pool test
- definitive test
- demulsibility test
- demulsification test
- development test
- diammonium phosphate test
- diesel-fuel distillation test
- diesel-fuel gravity test
- dilution test of fuel
- dip test
- direct oxidation test
- distillation test
- doctor test
- double casing-packer formation test
- double wall-packer formation test
- drawdown test
- drift test
- drilling mud density test
- drilling mud fluidity test
- drill-off test
- drill-stem formation test
- dry test
- eddy-current test
- emulsification test
- endurance test
- engineering design test
- engineering evaluation test
- equipment operation test
- evaporation test of gasoline
- evaporation gum test
- exploratory test
- extension test
- fail-safe test
- failure test
- failure-producing test
- failure-rate test
- failure-terminated test
- failure-truncated test
- failure-under-load test
- falling weight test
- fatigue test
- field test
- field compression test
- field maintenance test
- filter test
- filtration test
- final malfunction test
- fire test
- firing time test
- flammability test
- float test
- floc test
- flood pot test
- flow test
- flowing bottom hole pressure test
- fluid test
- foam test
- forced failure test
- formation test
- formation productivity test
- friability test
- fuel dilution test
- full-scale test
- full-scale fatigue test
- gas test
- gas flow test
- gas impermeability test
- gasoline precipitation test
- gasoline sulfur test
- gasoline tetraethil lead test
- gasoline volatility test
- gel strength test
- glass dish evaporation test
- glass dish gum test
- Green test
- guarantee test
- gum test
- gumming test
- hammer test
- hand test
- heavy-duty test
- hot test
- hot filtration test
- hydraulic-pressure test
- hydro test
- hydrogen-in-petroleum test
- hydrostatic test
- immersion test
- in-place test
- in-use life test
- inflammability test
- initial well potential test
- injectivity test
- injectivity-index test
- interference test
- intermodulation test
- kauri-butanol solvency test
- knock test
- laboratory test on crude
- laboratory test on oil
- lacquer test
- lamp burning test
- lamp sulfur test
- lead acetate test
- leak test
- leakage test
- leakage test of weld seams
- length-of-life test
- life test
- life-certification test
- line test
- logging-cable formation test
- longevity test
- lubricating oil emulsion test
- lubricating oil metal test
- magnetic polarity test
- maintainability test
- maintenance test
- marine explosure test
- mercurization test
- mercury freezing test
- mixing water test
- motor method test
- multirate flow test
- neutralization test
- nitrating test
- nonfoaming test
- nonreplacement test
- oil cold test
- oil corrosion test
- oil emulsion test
- oil well potential test
- Oliensis spot test
- on-site test
- open-flow test
- open-hole formation test
- operability test
- operating life test
- operational test
- operational readiness test
- operational readiness and reliability test
- operational readiness inspection test
- operational suitability test
- oven test
- overflow test
- overspeed test
- overstress reliability test
- oxidation test
- oxygen absorption test
- pass-fail test
- penetration test
- performance test
- periodic potential test
- periodic well potential test
- permeability test
- pipeline immersion test
- plam test
- porcelain dish test
- postcompletional flow test
- potential test
- predemonstration test
- preliminary qualification test
- preoverhaul test
- prepilot mining test
- prequalification test
- pressure test
- pressure building test
- pressure drawdown test
- pressure transient test
- producing test
- production test
- production reliability test
- productivity test
- product-proof test
- proof test
- pulling test
- pulse test
- qualification test
- quality verification test
- reaction test
- reflection test
- refraction test
- reliability test
- reliability assurance test
- reliability audit test
- reliability demonstration test
- reliability field test
- reliability growth test
- reliability production test
- reliability verification test
- repair test
- repeated bending stress test
- repeated compression test
- repeated direct stress test
- repeated dynamic stress test
- repeated impact tension test
- repeated stress test
- repeated tensile stress test
- repeated tension test
- repeated torsion test
- replacement test
- reservoir limit test
- reversion test of kerosene
- rheometric test
- ring test
- road knock test
- rock specimen test
- running test
- sampling reliability test
- seawater corrosion test
- sediment-and-water test
- sedimentometric test
- seismic test
- selective flow test of well
- sequential reliability test
- service test
- serviceability test
- service-life evaluation test
- setting-time test
- settlement test
- severe-duty test
- shallover pay test
- short-time well test
- shut-in pressure test
- sieving test
- silica test
- silicotungstic acid test
- sludge test
- sludging test
- smell test
- smoke test
- soap hardness test
- soundness-and-fineness test
- spot test
- spot quality test
- stability test
- standard test
- standard acid test
- standard distillation test
- steady-state test of well
- steam soak test
- step-rate test
- straddle test
- straddle packer drill stem test
- straight-hole test
- strata test
- submersion test
- suitability test
- sulfated residue test
- sulfur test
- sulfuric acid heat test
- system operation test
- tap test
- tensile test
- tensile-and-compression test
- tensile-fatigue test
- tensile-impact test
- tensile-shock test
- tension test
- thickening-time test
- through-casing formation test
- time-terminated reliability test
- torque test
- torsion test
- torsion impact test
- toughness test
- trial test
- tribotechnical test
- Tutwiler test
- twisting test
- type test
- undestructive test
- upsetting test
- up-the-hole test
- use test
- vane test
- varnish test
- verification life test
- viscosity test
- volatilization test
- wall building test
- wall-packer formation test
- warranty test
- water test
- water-and-oil content test
- waterflood core test
- water-loss test
- wear test
- weld test
- weldability test
- welding test
- well test
- well potential test
- winterization test
- wireline formation test
- withdrawal test* * * -
17 characteristic
1) свойство, признак2) характеристика; мн. ч. технические данные; параметры3) кривая•-
absolute spectral-response characteristic
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acceleration characteristic of fuel
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acceleration characteristic
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acceptable water characteristic
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adsorption-desorption characteristic of catalyst
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aerodynamic characteristics
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aerolastic characteristics
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aging characteristics
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air flow characteristic
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aircraft performance characteristics
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amplitude-versus-frequency response characteristic
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amplitude-frequency response characteristic
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amplitude-versus-frequency characteristic
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amplitude-frequency characteristic
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amplitude-phase characteristic
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anode characteristic
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attenuation characteristic
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availability characteristic
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background response characteristic
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baking characteristic
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B-H characteristic
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bonding characteristics
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brake response characteristic
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braking characteristic
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bread-making characteristic
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breakdown characteristic
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brittle-fracture characteristic
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camera spectral-sensitivity camera-taking characteristics
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camera spectral camera-taking characteristics
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camera spectral-sensitivity characteristics
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camera spectral characteristics
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casting characteristics
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cathode characteristic
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charge characteristic
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chromatic characteristic
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cleaning characteristics
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coking characteristics
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color characteristic
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color photographic characteristics
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comparison characteristics
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constant-current characteristic
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continuous cooling transformation characteristics
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control characteristic
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cooking characteristics
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corrosive characteristics
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crack propagation characteristic
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cracking characteristic of catalyst
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creep characteristic
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current-illumination characteristic
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current-voltage characteristic
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cutoff characteristic
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cutoff current characteristic
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damping characteristic
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dc characteristic
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decay characteristic
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design characteristics
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detonation characteristic
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diode characteristic
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directional characteristic
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discharge characteristic
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discharge voltage-current characteristic
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distillation characteristic
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double-humped characteristic
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drooping characteristic
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dynamic characteristic
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edibility characteristics
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efficiency-concentration characteristic
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E-I characteristic
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elastic characteristics
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electrode characteristic
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elevation characteristics
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emission characteristic
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engine full-load characteristics
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envelope delay characteristic
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etching characteristic
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exposure characteristics
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fail-safe characteristics
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falling characteristic
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fatigue characteristic
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feedback characteristic
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filtration characteristic of catalyst
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flashover characteristic
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flight characteristics
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flow characteristics
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fluidizing characteristics
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forward characteristic
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frequency-response characteristic
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frequency characteristic
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friction gearing pull characteristic
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frictional characteristic of lubricants
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fuel gravity characteristics
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full-load characteristic
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fusibility characteristic
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gain characteristic
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gain-frequency characteristic
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gain-phase characteristic
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gain-transfer characteristic
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gamma characteristic
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gray-tone characteristic
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grid characteristic
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grid-drive characteristic
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group-delay characteristic
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handling characteristic
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hardening characteristics
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heat transfer characteristic
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high-temperature stress-rupture characteristic
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holographic characteristics
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hysteresis characteristic
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impedance-frequency characteristic
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impedance characteristic
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input characteristic
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knock characteristic of gasoline
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lag characteristic
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landing characteristics
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light-transfer characteristic
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linear characteristic
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load characteristic
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longevity propagation characteristic
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luminous characteristic
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luminous-resistance characteristic
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machine characteristics
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magnetic characteristic
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magnetization characteristic
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mb characteristics
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metering characteristic
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milling characteristic
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moisture discharge characteristic
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noise characteristic
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no-load characteristic
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nozzle spray characteristic
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numerical characteristic
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open-circuit characteristic
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operating characteristics
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optimal characteristic
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output characteristic
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overload characteristics
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oxidation characteristic
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packing characteristic of polymer
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performance characteristics
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persistance characteristic
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phase-response characteristic
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phase characteristic
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photographic characteristics
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photovoltaic characteristic
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plate characteristic
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population characteristic
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pore structure characteristic of catalyst
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positive void characteristic
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power characteristic of fuel
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prearcing time/current characteristic
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pressure drop characteristics
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processing characteristics
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propulsion performance characteristics
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pulse-response characteristic
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pulse characteristic
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qualitative characteristic
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quantitative characteristic
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quantization characteristic
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recovery characteristic
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rectifying characteristic
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reliability characteristic
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resin leakage characteristics
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resistance variation characteristic
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resistance-temperature characteristic
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resolving-power characteristics
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resonance characteristic
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response characteristic
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reverse characteristic
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running characteristics
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sample characteristic
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saturation characteristic
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sensitometric characteristics
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series characteristic
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shatter characteristic
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short-circuit characteristic
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shunt characteristic
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sloping characteristic
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solidifying characteristics of oil
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spectral characteristic
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spectral-sensitivity characteristic
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speed-torque characteristic
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spin-recovery characteristics
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square-wave response characteristic
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stability characteristics
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stalling characteristics
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stall characteristics
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start/stop characteristic
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starting characteristic
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static characteristic
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steady-state characteristic
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strain-hardening characteristic
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strength characteristics
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surge characteristic
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swelling characteristic
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switching characteristic
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takeoff and landing characteristics
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temperature characteristic
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test-bench characteristics
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thermal and physical characteristics
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throttling characteristic
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time characteristic
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time-to-failure characteristic
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timing characteristic
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toughness characteristic
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towing characteristic
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track-defining characteristics
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transfer characteristic
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transient characteristic
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transmission characteristic
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tribological characteristics
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tribometrical characteristics
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tribotechnical characteristics
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trim characteristics
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trouble-free characteristic
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turn characteristics
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unitgraph characteristics
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unwinding characteristic
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user-definable characteristics
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viscosity-temperature characteristic
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voltage-current characteristic
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voltage-time characteristic
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wavelength characteristic
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wear characteristics
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well producing characteristics
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work-hardening characteristic
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18 test
испытание || испытывать- abrasion test
- abruption test
- accelerated corrosion test
- accelerated failure test
- accelerated test
- acceleration test
- acceptance test
- aerodynamic test
- aging test
- air-tightness test
- altitude test
- annual test
- approval test
- audit test
- barrier collision test
- barrier impact test
- bench test
- brake test
- breakdown test
- breaking test
- chassis test
- check test
- checkout test
- climatic test
- coasting test
- cold start test
- cold test
- comparison test
- competitive test
- component test
- comprehensive test
- constant volume sampling test
- consumption test
- corrosion test
- crash test
- destruction test
- development test
- developmental test
- draft test
- drag test
- drawbar test
- drive-by noise test
- driving test
- durability test
- economy test
- elasticity test
- emission test
- endurance test
- evaluation test
- expedited test
- extensive durability test
- eyeball test
- fade stability test
- fade test
- failure test
- fatigue test
- field test
- fleet test
- flexibility test
- frontal impact test
- fuel test
- fuel-consumption test
- heavy-duty test
- high-speed test
- hill-climbing test
- indoor test
- knock test
- lab test
- laboratory test
- life test
- long-term test
- long-time test
- maneuvering test
- mechanical test
- mobility test
- noise test
- off-road test
- off-the-road test
- on-the-road test
- operational test
- rain test
- rearward impact test
- reception test
- reliability test
- repeated stress test
- research-and-development test
- retardation test
- rig test
- road test
- roll-over test
- running test
- service test
- shock test
- shop test
- side impact test
- skid test
- strength test
- structural test
- tire rupture test
- towing dynamometer test
- towing test
- trial test
- use test
- visibility test
- visual test
- water recovery test
- wearing test
- wind-tunnel test* * ** * *• 1) /tech/ тест; 2) /action/ испытание• 1) /vt/ тестировать; 2) /vt/ протестировать -
19 condition
1) условие2) состояние3) ситуация4) pl режим•the condition can be cured by... — ситуация может быть исправлена посредством...
- ageing conditions- aging conditions
- alarm condition
- alert condition
- binary-valued condition
- boundary condition
- busy condition
- class condition
- clock conditions
- compound condition
- context condition
- continuity condition
- continuous-low condition
- cyclically magnetized condition
- deadlock condition
- debugging conditions
- degeneracy condition
- device status condition
- disabled condition
- don't care condition
- dynamic conditions
- entry conditions
- error condition
- exception condition
- exigent condition
- existence condition
- feasibility condition
- full-load conditions
- impending condition
- initial conditions
- limiting condition
- load conditions
- logical condition
- marginal conditions
- matched condition
- match condition
- maximum permissible operation conditions
- mild condition
- mismatch condition
- modifier condition
- normal conditions
- OFF condition
- ON condition
- one condition
- operation condition
- overflow test condition
- overload conditions
- pending condition
- prefault condition
- prefix condition
- pulse conditions
- ready condition
- reflexive condition
- restart condition
- service conditions
- stability condition
- stable condition
- starting condition
- static conditions
- steady-state conditions
- sufficient condition
- symmetrical cyclically magnetized condition
- tail conditions
- tape-out condition
- tenancy condition
- test conditions
- training conditions
- truncation condition
- typical operation conditions
- underflow test condition
- utmost permissible operation conditions
- verification condition
- wait condition
- working condition
- worst-case conditions
- zero condition
- zero-initial conditionEnglish-Russian dictionary of computer science and programming > condition
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20 critical
критический; дефицитный; разборчивый; требовательный; важный; ответственный- critical activity - critical aging - critical behaivior - critical cargo - critical clearance - critical compression ratio - critical conditions - critical damage - critical deflection angle - critical dimensional features - critical failure - critical flow - critical hydraulic gradient - critical load - critical material - critical part - critical payload - critical point of pitting - critical point of scoring - critical pressure ratio - critical rate of rise - critical shear strain - critical shearing slip - critical slenderness ratio - critical speed of shaft - critical stability - critical test
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