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41 circuit
2) канал3) т. граф. простая цепь, контур•- active circuit
- acyclic circuit
- adding circuit
- add circuit
- addressing circuit
- advancing circuit
- alarm circuit
- amplifying circuit
- analogous circuit
- analog circuit
- AND-to-OR circuit
- antialiasing circuit
- anticoincidence circuit
- antihunting circuit
- antihunt circuit
- aperiodic circuit
- arithmetic circuit
- arithmetical circuit
- astable circuit
- averaging circuit
- balanced circuit
- basis circuit
- beam-lead integrated circuit
- benchmark circuit
- binary-valued digital circuit
- binary-valued circuit
- bipolar circuit
- bistable circuit
- blanking circuit
- bleeder circuit
- bridge circuit
- buffer circuit
- carry circuit
- character selection circuit
- checking circuit
- check circuit
- clamping circuit
- clocked circuit
- clock-recovery circuit
- closed circuit
- code disjoint circuit
- coincidence circuit
- combinational circuit
- combinatorial circuit
- communication circuit
- comparator circuit
- compare circuit
- comparison circuit
- complementary circuit
- complementary integrated circuit
- complementary transistor logic circuit
- complex function circuit
- computer circuit
- computer test circuit
- computing circuit
- control circuit
- core-diode circuit
- core-transistor circuit
- correcting circuit
- correction circuit
- counter circuit
- counting circuit
- coupling circuit
- current-limit circuit
- current-operated circuit
- current-summation circuit
- custom product integrated circuit
- custom integrated circuit
- custom-wired integrated circuit
- cutoff circuit
- cycle circuit
- cyclic circuit
- dead-on-arrival integrated circuit
- decode circuit
- decoding circuit
- deenergizing circuit
- deflection circuit
- delay circuit
- densely packed circuit
- differentiating circuit
- digital computing circuit
- diode circuit
- diode-coupled circuit
- diode-transistor logic circuit
- direct-coupled circuit
- direct-coupled transistor logic circuit
- direct-current circuit
- discrete component circuit
- discrete logic-level
- discrete wired circuit
- display circuit
- divide-by-two circuit
- dividing circuit
- double-sided printed circuit
- doubling circuit
- drive circuit
- dry circuit
- dual circuit
- duplex circuit
- Eccles-Jordan circuit
- edge-activated circuit
- emitter-coupled circuit
- emitter-coupled logic circuit
- emitter-emitter-coupled logic circuit
- equality circuit
- equivalent circuit
- etched circuit
- Euler circuit
- except circuit
- fanout-free circuit
- fast-switching circuit
- fault detection circuit
- fault-free circuit
- fault-secure circuit
- faulty circuit
- feedback circuit
- ferrite-diode circuit
- ferrite-transistor circuit
- ferroresonant computing circuit
- film integrated circuit
- flag-testing circuit
- flat-pack integrated circuit
- flexible printed circuit
- flexible circuit
- flip-chip integrated circuit
- flip-flop circuit
- frame-grounding circuit
- frequency-halving circuit
- function circuit
- gate circuit
- Goto-pair circuit
- half-duplex circuit
- halving circuit
- Hamilton circuit
- hand-designed circuit
- hardwired circuit
- high-speed circuit
- high-threshold logic circuit
- holding circuit
- hybrid circuit
- idler circuit
- imbedded circuit
- IMOS circuit
- impulse circuit
- inhibit circuit
- input circuit
- integrated circuit
- integrating circuit
- integro-differential circuit
- interchange circuit
- interface circuit
- interfacing circuit
- interlock circuit
- invert circuit
- ion-implanted MOS circuit
- irredundant circuit
- Josephson integrated circuit
- junction transistor circuit
- ladder circuit
- lag-lead circuit
- laminar circuit
- large arithmetic circuit
- large-scale integrated circuit
- large-scale integration circuit
- latch circuit
- lead-lag circuit
- leased circuit
- level circuit
- linear circuit
- linear integrated circuit
- linearity circuit
- liquid logic circuit
- load circuit
- locked pair circuit
- locking circuit
- logic circuit
- logical circuit
- low-threshold integrated circuit
- LSI circuit
- lumped circuit
- magnetic circuit
- magnetic-core circuit
- majority circuit
- match circuit
- material equivalence circuit
- matrix circuit
- maximum-remembering circuit
- measuring circuit
- medium-scale integration circuit
- memory circuit
- memory-decoder circuit
- message circuit
- metal-oxide-semiconductor circuit
- microamp circuit
- microelectronic integrated circuit
- microminiature circuit
- microwave circuit
- mil spec integrated circuit
- milliwatt circuit
- miniature circuit
- minimum-remembering circuit
- mixed-level circuit
- mixing circuit
- modularized circuit
- molecular integrated circuit
- monitoring circuit
- monolithic integrated circuit
- monostable circuit
- MOS circuit
- MOS integrated circuit
- MOS LSI circuit
- MSI circuit
- multichip integrated circuit
- multifunction integrated circuit
- multilayer circuit
- multilevel circuit
- multiple output circuit
- multiplying circuit
- multipoint circuit
- multistable circuit
- multistage circuit
- nanosecond circuit
- n-channel circuit
- network circuit
- noise-balancing circuit
- noncoincidence circuit
- noncutoff circuit
- non-self-checking circuit
- one-core-per-bit circuit
- one-generator equivalent circuit
- one-out-of-four selecting circuit
- one-shot circuit
- open circuit
- optical commutation circuit
- optical memory circuit
- optically coupled circuit
- optoelectronic circuit
- output circuit
- packaged circuit
- packed circuit
- p-channel circuit
- phantom circuit
- phase-comparison circuit
- phase-inverting circuit
- picosecond circuit
- pilot circuit
- plastic-embedded circuit
- point-to-point circuit
- power circuit
- power monitoring circuit
- power-fail circuit
- printed circuit
- priority circuit
- propagation circuit
- protection circuit
- pulse circuit
- pulse-actuated circuit
- pulse-broadening circuit
- pulse-regenerating circuit
- pulse-shaping circuit
- pulse-stretching circuit
- pulse-switching circuit
- pumped tunnel-diode transistor logic circuit
- pumping circuit
- quenching circuit
- race-free circuit
- radio-frequency circuit
- random-logic circuit
- ratioed circuit
- reading circuit
- received-data circuit
- receiving circuit
- reconfigurable integrated circuit
- redundant circuit
- reference circuit
- refreshing circuit
- relaxation circuit
- reset circuit
- retriggerable circuit
- rewriting circuit
- ring circuit
- rounding circuit
- sample-hold circuit
- saturated circuit
- scale-of-N circuit
- scale-of-two circuit
- scaling circuit
- schematic circuit
- Schmitt trigger circuit
- Schmitt circuit
- screen printed circuit
- selection circuit
- select circuit
- self-checking circuit
- self-testing circuit
- self-timed circuit
- semiconductor circuit
- send-request circuit
- sequential circuit
- shifting circuit
- shift circuit
- short circuit
- shunt-peaking circuit
- sign-controlled circuit
- silicon integrated circuit
- silicon-on-sapphire integrated circuit
- simplex circuit
- single-chip circuit
- single-ended circuit
- single-level circuit
- single-phase circuit
- single-shot circuit
- small-scale integration circuit
- solid-state circuit
- solid circuit
- SOS integrated circuit
- squaring circuit
- SSI circuit
- stabilizing circuit
- stamped circuit
- start-stop circuit
- steering circuit
- storage circuit
- storage-selection circuit
- strongly fault-secure circuit
- subtraction circuit
- summing circuit
- sweep circuit
- switching circuit
- symbolic circuit
- synchronizing circuit
- synthesis circuit
- thick-film circuit
- thin-film circuit
- threshold circuit
- time-anticoincidence circuit
- time-base circuit
- time-coincidence circuit
- time-delay circuit
- toll circuit
- totally self-checking circuit
- transistor circuit
- transistor-core circuit
- transistor-resistor circuit
- transistor-transistor-logic circuit
- translation circuit
- transmitted-data circuit
- transmitting circuit
- tree circuit
- trigger -action circuit
- trigger circuit
- trunk circuit
- tunnel diode circuit
- twin-tunnel-diode circuit
- twin circuit
- two-cores-per-bit circuit
- two-input circuit
- two-level circuit
- two-way circuit
- ultra-large-scale integration circuit
- unidirectional circuit
- unpackaged circuit
- unpacked circuit
- very-high-speed integrated circuit
- very-large-scale integration circuit
- virtual circuit
- VLSI circuit
- voice circuit
- voice-grade circuit
- voltage-control circuit
- voltage-doubling circuit
- voltage-multiplying circuit
- voltage-summation circuit
- voter circuit
- wave-shaping circuit
- whole-wafer circuit
- wired AND circuit
- wired OR circuit
- wire-wrapped circuit
- writing circuit
- zero circuitEnglish-Russian dictionary of computer science and programming > circuit
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42 armament
- armament drive гонка озброєнь- armament(s) limitation обмеження озброєнь- armament race гонка озброєнь- armaments truce "перемир'я в озброєннях"- atomic armament ядерні озброєння- balanced reduction of armament співмірне/ збалансоване скорочення озброєнь- bloated armaments надмірні/ роздуті озброєння- conventional armaments звичайні озброєння- nuclear armaments ядерні озброєння- offensive armaments наступальні види озброєнь- primary armaments основне озброєння- sophisticated armaments найсучасніше озброєння- agreed levels of armaments узгоджені рівні озброєнь- allowable level of armaments допустимий рівень озброєнь- burden of armaments тягар озброєнь- complete replacement of armaments повна заміна озброєнь- freeze on nuclear armaments заморожування ядерних озброєнь- frenzied rise in armaments шалене зростання озброєнь- multiplication of armaments зростання озброєнь- restraint in armaments обмеження озброєнь- supplement to armaments доозброєння- to achieve restraint in armaments добитися обмеження озброєнь- to bring armaments under control встановити контроль над озброєннями, контролювати озброєння- to build up armaments нарощувати озброєння- to reduce armaments скорочувати озброєння- to eliminate armaments знищувати озброєння- to reduce armaments скорочувати озброєння -
43 cable
1) провод, кабель2) трос•- aerial cable
- areal cable
- armored-unrelay submarine cable
- AV cable
- balanced station cable
- block cable
- branch-feeder cable
- breakout cable
- buried cable
- camera cable
- city cable
- coaxial distributing cable
- coaxial submarine cable
- coaxial-combined cable
- coil-loaded cable
- combinational cable
- communication cable
- compact-coaxial cable
- composite cable
- concentric cable
- connection cable
- continuously-loaded cable
- control cable
- coupling cable
- deep-water cable
- degaussing cable
- direct-buried cable
- distribution cable
- diving telephone cable
- drive cable
- dual-coaxial cable
- duplex cable
- electric communication cable
- entrance cable
- exchange cable
- extension cable
- fanout cable
- feeder cable
- fiber-optic cable
- first transatlantic cable
- fluoroplast-insulated cable
- handset cable
- hanged fiber-optic cable
- high-frequency cable
- hybrid cable
- intelligent cable
- interlay cable
- interoffice cable
- intraareal cable
- JEF-LAP cable
- jumper cable
- Kimber cable
- leader cable
- lead-sheathed cable
- LF cable
- light-guide cable
- line cable
- local cable
- long-distance communication cable
- low-frequency cable
- main cable
- marine cable
- messenger cable
- microphone cable
- microwave cable
- modem bypass cable
- multifiber cable
- multimode cable
- multipaired HF-cable
- N-conductor cable
- n-fiber cable
- nonmetallic fiber-optic cable
- n-quad cable
- null-modem cable
- optical-fiber cable
- optical-subscriber cable
- paired cable
- PE-cable
- pilot cable
- power cable
- pulse cable
- quadded cable
- radio-frequency cable
- ribbon cable
- screened cable
- sealed cable
- second transatlantic cable
- self-carrying fiber-optic cable
- semiflexible cable
- shielded connecting cable
- signal cable
- single-coaxial cable
- single-fiber cable
- single-quad HF-cable
- spiral four cable
- standard cable
- stub cable
- studio cable
- submarine telegraph cable
- submarine telephone cable
- subriverine cable
- subscriber's cable
- superconducting cable
- supply cable
- suspension cable
- symmetrical cable
- telegraph cable
- telephone cable
- telephone-signaling cable
- tested cable
- thermocouple cable
- thousand-fiber cable
- three-core cable
- tie cable
- transceiver cable
- transmission line cable
- triaxial cable
- trunk cable
- tunnel cable
- TV-aerial cable
- twin cable
- twinaxial cable
- two-hundred fiber cable
- unarmored relay submarine cable
- underwater rubber-sheathed cable
- video cableEnglish-Russian dictionary of telecommunications and their abbreviations > cable
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45 argument
['ɑːgjəmənt]сущ.1) довод, аргумент, доказательствоto offer an / present / put forward an argument — выдвинуть аргумент
to confute / rebut / refute an argument — опровергать аргумент
airtight / solid / sound / telling / trenchant / valid argument — веский аргумент, веское доказательство
compelling / convincing / persuasive argument — убедительный аргумент
irrefutable / unassailable argument — неопровержимое доказательство
cogent / balanced / logical / rational argument — чёткий, ясный аргумент
groundless / tenuous / weak argument — безосновательный довод, слабое доказательство
She presented a convincing argument against the proposal. — Она предоставила веское возражение против этого предложения.
I cannot accept his argument that war is inevitable. — Я не могу согласиться с его доводом, что война неизбежна.
Syn:2) спор, дискуссия, обсуждение, пренияheated / violent argument — яростный, жаркий спор
The party is involved in an argument over economy. — Партия участвует в дебатах по вопросам экономики.
I had a heated argument with him about politics. — У нас с ним был жаркий спор о политике.
- win an argument- lose an argumentSyn:3) спор, ссора, конфликтto break off / terminate / clinch / settle an argument — решить спор, урегулировать конфликт
The police have said he and his wife had a violent argument that night. — В полиции сообщили, что в тот вечер у него был скандал с женой.
Syn:controversy 1), row III, 1)4) краткое содержание, краткое изложение ( литературного произведения)A later editor added an argument to the poem. — Более поздний редактор добавил краткое изложение поэмы.
5) тема, основная идея ( текста)The central argument of his paper was presented clearly. — Ключевая идея его работы была чётко заявлена.
6) мат.; информ. параметр, аргумент ( функции), независимая переменная7) лингв.; амер. место, которое может занимать имя существительное в высказывании ( в порождающей грамматике) -
46 trade
1. n1) торговля; внешняя торговля- engage in the trade of smth.- carry on the trade of smth.2) отрасль торговли; отрасль производства; отрасль промышленности; промышленность5) профессия; ремесло•- announce trade sanctions against smb.2. v1) (in) торговать (чем-л.)2) продавать свои политические убеждения; торговать своим политическим влиянием•- trade up -
47 valve
1) = float needle2) клапан (рис. 15,16); вентиль; задвижка; заслонка; золотник; кран; распределительный кран; створка (дверцы); электронная лампа; гидро- или пневмораспределитель; затвор (гидротехнический); (редко) форсунка; II подавать через клапан; питать через клапан; снабжать; обеспечивать - time the valves - valve acceleration - valve-actuating gear - valve adjusting screw - valve arrangement - valve base patch - valve cock disk - valve control mechanism - valve diameter - valve dust cap - valve edge - valve enclosure - valve end - valve extractor - valve grinding - valve gutter - valve guttering - valve head slot - valve holder - valve hole - valve inside - valve inside plunger pin - valve knock - valve lag - valve lap - valve lead - valve lifter roller - valve lifter roller pin - valve lifting cam - valve location - valve manifold - valve mechanism - valve of tyre - valve operating mechanism - valve refacer - valve refacing - valve refacing machine - valve regulation - valve remover - valve reseating - valve retainer lock - valve return - valve rim - valve rocker arm - valve rocker lever - valve rocker pedestal - valve rocker roller - valve rocker roller pin - valve rocker shaft - valve scaling - valve scorching - valve seal - valve seat bore - valve seat extractor - valve seat grinder - valve seating - valve seating tool - valve sinkage - valve slot - valve spring compressor - valve spring damper - valve spring holder - valve spring key - valve spring lifter - valve spring remover - valve spring retainer - valve spring seat - valve spring seat key - valve spring seat pin - valve spring surge - valve spring tool - valve spring washer - valve stem end - valve stem groove - valve stem guide - valve stem seal - valve stripping - valve surge damper - valve system - valve tab - valve tappet clearance - valve tappet roller pin - valve tappet tube - valve tension spring - valve the gas - valve thimble - valve throat - valve timing - valve timing diagram - valve tip - valve train - valve travel - valve unit - valve unloader assembly - valve velocity - valve wrench - supplementary air valve - clapper swing-check valve - closed-centre valve - cross-feed valve - compensation valve - flapper-nozzle valve - flow regulator valve - large capacity brake valve - metering valve - multipurpose valve - pilot valve - programmable valve with 24 hour/7 day timer for closing and opening the compressed air ringmain - programmable valve with line-to-valve-connection and 1 BSP - quick-closing valve - quick-opening valve - single-stage valve - slide valve collar - sliding-sleeve valve - sliding throttle valve - spool valve - spring turn - spring-and-ball valve - stainless steel padlockable decompressing valve- T-valve- water check valve - water-cooled valve - zero-lap valve -
48 system
1) система; комплекс2) совокупность•- absolutely consistent system - absolutely direct indecomposable system - absolutely free system - absolutely irreducible system - absolutely isolated system - allowable coordinate system - almost linear system - ample linear system - artificial feel system - automatic block system - automatic deicing system - binary relational system - binary-coded decimal system - block tooling system - Cartesian coordinate system - completely controllable system - completely ergodic system - completely hyperbolic system - completely identifiable system - completely integrable system - completely irreducible system - completely regular system - completely stable system - completely stratified system - complex number system - conical coordinate system - derivational formal system - differential equation system - differential selsyn system - digital counting system - digital transmission system - elliptic coordinate system - elliptic cylindrical coordinate system - externally inconsistent system - finite state system - finitely axiomatizable system - finitely presented system - fully characteristic quotient system - fundamental system of solutions - hydraulic lift system - integrated switching system - isomorphically embedded system - kernel normal system - linearly dependent system - linearly independent system - live hydraulic system - locking protection system - meteor-burst communication system - modular programming system - parabolic cylindrical coordinate system - permanent four-wheel drive system - pure independent system - radio telephone system - reactor protection system - real number system - receiver-amplifier crioelectric system - remote-cylinder hydraulic system - semantically consistent system - simply consistent system - simply incomplete system - simply ordered system - spherical coordinate system - strongly multiplicative system - structurally stable system - sufficiently general coordinate system - system of frequency curves - system of rational numbers - time multiplex system - time-division multiplex system - uniformly complete system - univalent system of notation - universal system of notation - weakly closed system - weighted number system -
49 copper-oxide modulator
English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > copper-oxide modulator
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50 Empire, Portuguese overseas
(1415-1975)Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:• Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).• Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.• West Africa• Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.• Middle EastSocotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.• India• Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.• Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.• East Indies• Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.Historical dictionary of Portugal > Empire, Portuguese overseas
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