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  • 81 pasar a

    v.
    1 to proceed to, to proceed next to, to go on to.
    Pasemos a revisar el otro capítulo Let's proceed to review the next chapter.
    2 to go into.
    Ricardo pasó a la habitación Richard went into the room.
    3 to happen to, to come to happen to.
    Algo le pasa al carro Something gappens to the car.
    4 to pass, to overtake, to move past.
    Yo paso a ese carro I pass that car
    5 to move on to, to continue on.
    Pasar al siguiente asunto Move on to the next issue...
    6 to pass on to, to hand over to, to pass to, to relay to.
    Yo le paso la cuchara a María I pass the spoon on to Mary.
    * * *
    (v.) = go on to, move on to, proceed to, shunt into, switch over, switch to, step onto, spill over into
    Ex. This chapter now goes on to introduce some of the more basic tools used in the organisation knowledge.
    Ex. We move on to consider the process by which indexing is accomplished.
    Ex. A summary at the beginning of a document serves to prepare the reader to proceed to the remainder of the text.
    Ex. In successive index entries the previous lead term is shunted into the Qualifier position, and the first term in the Display moves into the lead position.
    Ex. Not finding a particular item in the region, the search would be switched over to the national data base, and the record could be supplied.
    Ex. The cataloger can switch to entering records in the local catalog with the code 'p'.
    Ex. As he stepped onto the porch on his way to the garage, he stumbled over a chair, upsetting a vase of flowers and soaking his trousers.
    Ex. The artificiality of institutional concepts has spilled over into the structure of the publishing services on which the user depends for Community information.
    * * *
    (v.) = go on to, move on to, proceed to, shunt into, switch over, switch to, step onto, spill over into

    Ex: This chapter now goes on to introduce some of the more basic tools used in the organisation knowledge.

    Ex: We move on to consider the process by which indexing is accomplished.
    Ex: A summary at the beginning of a document serves to prepare the reader to proceed to the remainder of the text.
    Ex: In successive index entries the previous lead term is shunted into the Qualifier position, and the first term in the Display moves into the lead position.
    Ex: Not finding a particular item in the region, the search would be switched over to the national data base, and the record could be supplied.
    Ex: The cataloger can switch to entering records in the local catalog with the code 'p'.
    Ex: As he stepped onto the porch on his way to the garage, he stumbled over a chair, upsetting a vase of flowers and soaking his trousers.
    Ex: The artificiality of institutional concepts has spilled over into the structure of the publishing services on which the user depends for Community information.

    Spanish-English dictionary > pasar a

  • 82 separación

    f.
    1 separation, distance, span, stretch.
    2 separation, division, isolation, divorcement.
    3 separation, dissociation, break-up, breakup.
    4 separation, disunion, estrangement.
    5 partition.
    6 abrus, dissepiment.
    * * *
    1 separation
    2 (espacio) space, gap
    \
    separación matrimonial / separación conyugal legal separation
    * * *
    noun f.
    3) gap
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=división) division
    2) [entre cónyuges, amigos] separation

    separación legal, separación matrimonial — legal separation

    3) (=distancia) gap, space
    4) [de un cargo] removal, dismissal

    tras su separación del cargo — after his removal o dismissal from the post

    separación del servicio — (Mil) discharge

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( división) division

    mamparas de separación — dividing o partition screens

    b) ( espacio) space, gap
    2)
    a) ( ausencia)
    b) ( del matrimonio) separation
    3) (frml) ( de un cargo) dismissal
    * * *
    = departure, displacement, divide, split, disjunction, segregation, separation, shift away from, breakup [break-up], splitting, severance, dismemberment, detachment, balkanization.
    Ex. Accounting for his departures from Panizzi's rules, Jewett explained that some of them 'conform more to rules advocated by Mr. Panizzi than to those finally sanctioned by the Trustees of the Museum'.
    Ex. It is still the same inexorably literal logic which must ultimately glance into the chaos, and small differences create infinite displacements between records.
    Ex. Nevertheless, this basic divide remains a useful distinction between two major categories of indexing systems.
    Ex. The information note may consist of a brief history of a corporate body, highlighting changes in the body's name, mergers with other bodies, splits within or between bodies, etc.
    Ex. Digital technology has ushered us into a ceaseless spiral of change which represents, not so much an evolution, but a formidable disjunction with the analog world.
    Ex. The argument advanced for this segregation is that it facilitates a search for a title, especially when the author is not known.
    Ex. This wide separation of related subject areas is one of the major criticisms of the Dewey scheme.
    Ex. This article discusses the effects of changes in the economy on the distribution of work in libraries which indicate a shift away from its female origins.
    Ex. This concern will likely increase due to the breakup of the Soviet Union and dispersal of its nuclear arsenal and the growth of global nuclear smuggling rings.
    Ex. The most obvious threat is the splitting of the media sector into separate information and entertainment sectors.
    Ex. Examples can be found where exchange of publications remains as the only form of contact after severance of diplomatic and trade relations.
    Ex. This dismemberment of the whole educational process is akin to isolating the atom; in so doing, the true state of the atom is altered.
    Ex. This is the method used in the detachment of graphic art items form albums.
    Ex. This shifts in emphasis mirror the general balkanization of modern American society.
    ----
    * carácter de separación = delimiter, separating character.
    * con una separación de + Número + palabras = within + Número + words of each other.
    * forzar la separación de = coerce + Nombre + away from.
    * punto de separación = cut-off point, stepping-off point, cut off [cutoff].
    * separación cada vez mayor entre... y = widening of the gap beween.... and, widening gap between... and.
    * separación de los continentes = continental breakup.
    * separación de servicios = unbundling.
    * separación legal = separation from bed and board, a mensa et thoro.
    * separación mediante papel = paper splitting.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( división) division

    mamparas de separación — dividing o partition screens

    b) ( espacio) space, gap
    2)
    a) ( ausencia)
    b) ( del matrimonio) separation
    3) (frml) ( de un cargo) dismissal
    * * *
    = departure, displacement, divide, split, disjunction, segregation, separation, shift away from, breakup [break-up], splitting, severance, dismemberment, detachment, balkanization.

    Ex: Accounting for his departures from Panizzi's rules, Jewett explained that some of them 'conform more to rules advocated by Mr. Panizzi than to those finally sanctioned by the Trustees of the Museum'.

    Ex: It is still the same inexorably literal logic which must ultimately glance into the chaos, and small differences create infinite displacements between records.
    Ex: Nevertheless, this basic divide remains a useful distinction between two major categories of indexing systems.
    Ex: The information note may consist of a brief history of a corporate body, highlighting changes in the body's name, mergers with other bodies, splits within or between bodies, etc.
    Ex: Digital technology has ushered us into a ceaseless spiral of change which represents, not so much an evolution, but a formidable disjunction with the analog world.
    Ex: The argument advanced for this segregation is that it facilitates a search for a title, especially when the author is not known.
    Ex: This wide separation of related subject areas is one of the major criticisms of the Dewey scheme.
    Ex: This article discusses the effects of changes in the economy on the distribution of work in libraries which indicate a shift away from its female origins.
    Ex: This concern will likely increase due to the breakup of the Soviet Union and dispersal of its nuclear arsenal and the growth of global nuclear smuggling rings.
    Ex: The most obvious threat is the splitting of the media sector into separate information and entertainment sectors.
    Ex: Examples can be found where exchange of publications remains as the only form of contact after severance of diplomatic and trade relations.
    Ex: This dismemberment of the whole educational process is akin to isolating the atom; in so doing, the true state of the atom is altered.
    Ex: This is the method used in the detachment of graphic art items form albums.
    Ex: This shifts in emphasis mirror the general balkanization of modern American society.
    * carácter de separación = delimiter, separating character.
    * con una separación de + Número + palabras = within + Número + words of each other.
    * forzar la separación de = coerce + Nombre + away from.
    * punto de separación = cut-off point, stepping-off point, cut off [cutoff].
    * separación cada vez mayor entre... y = widening of the gap beween.... and, widening gap between... and.
    * separación de los continentes = continental breakup.
    * separación de servicios = unbundling.
    * separación legal = separation from bed and board, a mensa et thoro.
    * separación mediante papel = paper splitting.

    * * *
    A
    1 (división) division
    el río sirve de separación entre las dos fincas the river marks the division between the two estates
    mamparas de separación dividing o partition screens
    la separación de palabras por sílabas the division of words into syllables
    la separación de la Iglesia y del Estado the separation of the Church and the State
    2 (distancia, espacio) space, gap
    Compuesto:
    separation of powers
    B
    1
    (ausencia): se reunieron después de dos meses de separación they met up again after not seeing each other o after being apart for two months o after a two-month period of separation
    2 (del matrimonio) separation
    están tramitando la separación (matrimonial) they are negotiating the separation
    Compuestos:
    division o separation of property
    legal separation
    C (de un cargo) dismissal
    la junta directiva decidió su separación del cargo the board of directors decided to dismiss him from the post
    * * *

    separación sustantivo femenino
    1



    2 ( del matrimonio) separation
    separación sustantivo femenino
    1 separation
    2 (distancia, espacio) space
    una separación de dos centímetros, a gap of two centimeters
    ' separación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    llevar
    - segregación
    - doloroso
    English:
    apart
    - off
    - parting
    - separation
    - sequence
    - break
    - split
    - wrench
    * * *
    1. [de elementos] separation;
    es conveniente la separación entre el poder judicial y el ejecutivo it's best for the judiciary to be independent from the government
    Imprenta separación de colores colour separation;
    separación de poderes separation o division of powers
    2. [en el tiempo] separation;
    se reunieron tras una separación de tres meses they were reunited after a three month separation;
    se le hizo muy difícil la separación de su compañera durante tanto tiempo he found it very hard being apart from his partner for so long
    3. [matrimonial] separation
    Der separación de bienes separate estates [in matrimony];
    4. [distancia] space, distance;
    deja más separación entre los coches leave more space between the cars;
    hay demasiada separación entre las plantas the plants are too far apart
    5. [de cargo] dismissal;
    fue anunciada su separación del cargo de presidente his removal from presidential office was announced
    * * *
    f separation
    * * *
    1) : separation, division
    2) : gap, space
    * * *
    1. (en general) separation
    tras la separación, él se fue a vivir con sus padres after the separation, he went to live with his parents
    2. (espacio) gap

    Spanish-English dictionary > separación

  • 83 Sauerstoffaufblasverfahren

    n
    1. basic oxygen steelmaking process
    2. basic oxygen steel process

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > Sauerstoffaufblasverfahren

  • 84 процесс ЛД

    Metallurgy: L-D process (Линц - Донавиц- процесс), LD process, basic oxygen process, oxygen blow process, oxygen converter process

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > процесс ЛД

  • 85 Pattinson, Hugh Lee

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 25 December 1796 Alston, Cumberland, England
    d. 11 November 1858 Scot's House, Gateshead, England
    [br]
    English inventor of a silver-extraction process.
    [br]
    Born into a Quaker family, he was educated at private schools; his studies included electricity and chemistry, with a bias towards metallurgy. Around 1821 Pattinson became Clerk and Assistant to Anthony Clapham, a soap-boiler of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1825 he secured appointment as Assay Master to the lords of the manor of Alston. There he was able to pursue the subject of special interest to him, and in January 1829 he devised a method of separating silver from lead ore; however, he was prevented from developing it because of a lack of funds.
    Two years later he was appointed Manager of Wentworth Beaumont's lead-works. There he was able to continue his researches, which culminated in the patent of 1833 enshrining the invention by which he is best known: a new process for extracting silver from lead by skimming crystals of pure lead with a perforated ladle from the surface of the molten silver-bearing lead, contained in a succession of cast-iron pots. The molten metal was stirred as it cooled until one pot provided a metal containing 300 oz. of silver to the ton (8,370 g to the tonne). Until that time, it was unprofitable to extract silver from lead ores containing less than 8 oz. per ton (223 g per tonne), but the Pattinson process reduced that to 2–3 oz. (56–84 g per tonne), and it therefore won wide acceptance. Pattinson resigned his post and went into partnership to establish a chemical works near Gateshead. He was able to devise two further processes of importance, one an improved method of obtaining white lead and the other a new process for manufacturing magnesia alba, or basic carbonate of magnesium. Both processes were patented in 1841.
    Pattinson retired in 1858 and devoted himself to the study of astronomy, aided by a 7½ in. (19 cm) equatorial telescope that he had erected at his home at Scot's House.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Vice-President, British Association Chemical Section 1838. Fellow of the Geological Society, Royal Astronomical Society and Royal Society 1852.
    Bibliography
    Pattinson wrote eight scientific papers, mainly on mining, listed in Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, most of which appeared in the Philosophical
    Magazine.
    Further Reading
    J.Percy, Metallurgy (volume on lead): 121–44 (fully describes Pattinson's desilvering process).
    Lonsdale, 1873, Worthies of Cumberland, pp. 273–320 (contains details of his life). T.K.Derry and T.I.Williams, 1960, A Short History ofTechnology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Pattinson, Hugh Lee

  • 86 процесс Ку-БОП

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > процесс Ку-БОП

  • 87 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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  • 88 fondo

    m.
    1 bottom.
    doble fondo false bottom
    sin fondo bottomless
    su popularidad ha tocado fondo their popularity has reached an all-time low o rock bottom
    2 back.
    al fondo de at the end of; (calle, pasillo) at the back of (sala)
    3 depth.
    tener un metro de fondo to be one meter deep
    4 background.
    sobre fondo negro on a black background
    al fondo in the background
    5 heart, bottom.
    llegar al fondo de to get to the heart o bottom of
    el problema de fondo the underlying problem
    la cuestión de fondo the fundamental issue
    a fondo perdido non-returnable
    recaudar fondos to raise funds
    fondo de garantía de depósito deposit guarantee fund
    fondo de inversión investment fund
    fondo Monetario Internacional International Monetary Fund
    fondo de pensiones pension fund
    fondos reservados = contingency funds available to ministries, for which they do not have to account publicly
    7 catalog, collection.
    fondo editorial backlist
    8 reason, basis (fundamento).
    9 substance.
    de fondo long-distance
    de medio fondo middle-distance
    11 petticoat (combinación). (Colombian Spanish, Mexican Spanish)
    12 core, root, bottom.
    13 bed, lowest part.
    * * *
    3 (segundo término) background
    5 (aguante) stamina
    6 FINANZAS fund
    8 (motivo) reason; (raíz) root
    1 (dinero) funds, money sing
    \
    a fondo (adjetival) thorough 2 (adverbial) thoroughly
    a fondo perdido nonrecoverable, nonreturnable
    de... en fondo... abreast
    en el fondo figurado deep down, at heart
    reunir fondos to raise funds
    tocar fondo (barco) to touch bottom 2 figurado to reach rock bottom
    fondo de inversión investment fund
    fondo de pensiones pension fund
    Fondo Monetario Internacional International Monetary Fund
    fondo del mar sea bed
    fondo y forma form and substance
    fondos bloqueados frozen assets
    fondos disponibles available funds, liquid assets
    fondos públicos public funds
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) back, rear
    4) fund
    * * *
    SM
    1) [parte inferior] [de caja, botella, lago, mar] bottom; [de río] bed

    • los bajos fondos — the underworld

    • una maletín con doble fondo — a case with a false bottom, a false-bottomed case

    • irse al fondo — to sink to the bottom

    • en el fondo del mar — [gen] at the bottom of the sea; (=en el lecho marino) on the sea bed

    • sin fondo — bottomless

    la economía tocó fondo y el gobierno tuvo que devaluar la moneda — the economy reached o hit rock bottom and the government had to devalue the currency

    hemos tocado fondo y todo indica que la recuperación está muy próxima — the market has bottomed out and all the indications are that a recovery is just around the corner

    2) [parte posterior] [de pasillo, calle, nave] end; [de habitación, armario] back

    • al fondo, su oficina está al fondo a la izquierda — her office is at the end on the left

    3) (=profundidad) [de cajón, edificio, bañera] depth

    ¿cuánto tiene de fondo el armario? — how deep is the wardrobe?

    • tener mucho fondo — to be deep

    • tener poco fondo — [bañera] to be shallow; [cajón, armario] not to be deep enough

    4) (=lo fundamental)

    en el fondo de esta polémica late el miedo al cambio — at the heart o bottom of this controversy lies a fear of change

    • la cuestión de fondo — the basic o fundamental issue

    el problema de fondo — the basic o fundamental o underlying problem

    • la forma y el fondo — form and content

    • llegar al fondo de la cuestión — to get to the bottom of the matter

    artículo 2)
    5) (=segundo plano) background

    • música de fondo — background music

    • ruido de fondo — background noise

    fondo de escritorio, fondo de pantalla — (Inform) (desktop) wallpaper

    6)

    • a fondo —

    a) [como adj]

    • una investigación a fondo — [policial] a thorough investigation; [de estudio] an in-depth study

    • una limpieza a fondo — a thorough clean

    b) [como adv]

    no conoce a fondo la situación del país — he does not have a thorough o an in-depth knowledge of the country's situation

    • emplearse a fondo, tuvo que emplearse a fondo para disuadirlos — he had to use all his skill to dissuade them

    • pisar a fondo el acelerador — to put one's foot down ( on the accelerator)

    7)

    • en el fondo —

    a) (=en nuestro interior) deep down

    en el fondo, es buena persona — deep down he's a good person, he's a good person at heart

    • en el fondo de su corazón — in his heart of hearts, deep down

    b) (=en realidad) really

    lo que se debatirá en la reunión, en el fondo, es el futuro de la empresa — what is actually o really going to be debated in the meeting is the future of the company

    la verdad es que en el fondo, no tengo ganas — to be honest, I really don't feel like it

    en el fondo no quiere irse — when it comes down to it, he doesn't want to leave

    c) (=en lo fundamental) fundamentally, essentially

    en el fondo ambos sistemas son muy parecidos — fundamentally o essentially, both systems are very similar

    8) (Dep)

    • carrera de fondo — long-distance race

    • esquí de fondo — cross-country skiing

    • corredor de medio fondo — middle-distance runner

    • pruebas de medio fondo — middle-distance events

    9) (=dinero) (Com, Econ) fund; [en póker, entre amigos] pot, kitty

    contamos con un fondo de 150.000 euros para becas — we have at our disposal a budget of 150,000 euros for grants

    • a fondo perdido — [crédito, inversión] non-recoverable, non-refundable

    Fondo de Compensación Interterritorial — system of financial redistribution between the autonomous regions of Spain

    fondo ético — (Econ) ethical investment fund

    10) pl fondos (=dinero) funds

    • recaudar fondos — to raise funds

    • estar sin fondos — to be out of funds, be broke *

    cheque o talón sin fondos — bounced cheque, rubber check (EEUU)

    11) (=reserva) [de biblioteca, archivo, museo] collection
    12) (=carácter) nature, disposition

    de fondo jovial — of cheery o cheerful disposition, cheerful-natured

    13) (Dep) (=resistencia) stamina
    14) Chile, Méx, Ven [de comida, espectáculo]
    15) Méx

    • con o de fondo — serious

    16) Méx, Ven (=combinación) petticoat

    • medio fondo — slip

    17) And (=finca) country estate
    18) Chile (Culin) large pot ( to feed a large number of people)
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( parte más baja) bottom
    b) (parte de atrás - de pasillo, calle) end; (- de habitación) back

    estaban al or en el fondo de la sala — they were at the back of the room

    d) ( de edificio) depth
    e) (en cuadro, fotografía) background
    2)
    a) (Lit) ( contenido) content
    b) (Der)
    3) (Fin)
    a) ( de dinero) fund
    b) fondos masculino plural ( dinero) money, funds (pl)

    un cheque sin fondos — a dud o (AmE) rubber check (colloq)

    estoy mal de fondos — (fam) I'm short of cash (colloq)

    c)

    a fondo perdido — <inversión/préstamo> non-refundable, non-recoverable

    4) (Dep) ( en atletismo)

    de fondo — <corredor/carrera/prueba> long-distance

    5) (de biblioteca, museo) collection
    6) (Méx) (Indum) slip, underskirt

    a fondo — (loc adj) <estudio/investigación> in-depth; (loc adv) <prepararse/entrenar> thoroughly

    conoce el área/tema a fondo — she knows the area/subject really well

    de fondo — <ruido/música> background (before n); <error/discrepancia> fundamental

    en el fondo: en el fondo no es malo deep down he's not a bad person; en el fondo nos llevamos bien we get on all right, really; fondo blanco! (AmL fam) bottoms up! (colloq); tener buen fondo to be a good person at heart; tocar fondo to bottom out; su credibilidad ha tocado fondo — his credibility has hit o reached rock bottom

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( parte más baja) bottom
    b) (parte de atrás - de pasillo, calle) end; (- de habitación) back

    estaban al or en el fondo de la sala — they were at the back of the room

    d) ( de edificio) depth
    e) (en cuadro, fotografía) background
    2)
    a) (Lit) ( contenido) content
    b) (Der)
    3) (Fin)
    a) ( de dinero) fund
    b) fondos masculino plural ( dinero) money, funds (pl)

    un cheque sin fondos — a dud o (AmE) rubber check (colloq)

    estoy mal de fondos — (fam) I'm short of cash (colloq)

    c)

    a fondo perdido — <inversión/préstamo> non-refundable, non-recoverable

    4) (Dep) ( en atletismo)

    de fondo — <corredor/carrera/prueba> long-distance

    5) (de biblioteca, museo) collection
    6) (Méx) (Indum) slip, underskirt

    a fondo — (loc adj) <estudio/investigación> in-depth; (loc adv) <prepararse/entrenar> thoroughly

    conoce el área/tema a fondo — she knows the area/subject really well

    de fondo — <ruido/música> background (before n); <error/discrepancia> fundamental

    en el fondo: en el fondo no es malo deep down he's not a bad person; en el fondo nos llevamos bien we get on all right, really; fondo blanco! (AmL fam) bottoms up! (colloq); tener buen fondo to be a good person at heart; tocar fondo to bottom out; su credibilidad ha tocado fondo — his credibility has hit o reached rock bottom

    * * *
    fondo1
    1 = background, backing, quid, crux, fundus.

    Ex: In the background has often been the need, at a time of declining financial resources, to demonstrate the relevance of the library to all sectors of society and there can sometimes be detected an element of patronization.

    Ex: A picture is a two-dimensional visual representation accessible to the naked eye and generally on an opaque backing.
    Ex: The important moral crux at the heart of the novel 'The debt collector' is that the odds are stacked against the rehabilitation of violent criminals.
    Ex: The crux of the process is the development of multiple models.
    Ex: This is an extremely valuable clinical test that provides information about the circulatory system of the ocular fundus (the back of the eye) not attainable by routine examination.
    * a fondo = fully, thoroughly, full-scale.
    * al fondo (de) = at the bottom (of).
    * artículo de fondo = feature article.
    * corredor de fondo = long-distance runner.
    * en el fondo = at heart, deep down, in the back of + Posesivo + mind, in the back of + Posesivo + head, at the back of + Posesivo + head, bottom line, the, in the bottom.
    * en el fondo de = at the root of.
    * esquiador de fondo = cross-country skier.
    * esquí de fondo = cross-country skiing.
    * fondo del mar = sea bottom, seafloor [sea floor], ocean floor, seabed [sea bed].
    * fondo del océano = ocean bed, ocean floor.
    * fondo marino = deep-sea floor.
    * forma de doble fondo = double-faced mould.
    * forma de un solo fondo = single-faced mould.
    * forma de un solo fondo para papel verjurado = single-faced laid mould.
    * limpiar a fondo = spring-clean, clear out.
    * limpieza a fondo = spring cleaning.
    * llegar al fondo de la cuestión = see to the + bottom of things.
    * llegar al fondo de una Cuestión = get to + the bottom of, get to + the root of.
    * mar de fondo = groundswell.
    * material de fondo = backing.
    * movimiento de fondo = groundswell.
    * negro sobre fondo blanco = black on white.
    * pez de fondo = groundfish, bottom fish.
    * pozo sin fondo = bottomless pit.
    * ruido de fondo = background noise.
    * servir de telón de fondo = set + the backdrop.
    * sin fondo = bottomless.
    * telón de fondo = background, backdrop.
    * teniendo como telón de fondo = against + background of.
    * teniendo esto como telón de fondo = against this background.
    * tocar fondo = bottom out, hit + rock-bottom, reach + rock-bottom, touch + rock bottom, strike + bottom.

    fondo3
    3 = backlist, stock, collection, stocking.

    Ex: They not only provide detailed information about new books and those soon to be published, but also continue to list all of their books still in print (frequently called a ' backlist').

    Ex: Consider, for example, the work of the shoe shop manager and the way he arranges his stock of shoes.
    Ex: While there are a profusion of techniques in existence to gain access to the collections, there is no uniform system.
    Ex: Because of the lack of stocking space, there are many products that we can order for next day pick-up.
    * colección de fondos electrónicos = e-collection [electronic collection].
    * colección de fondos locales = local history collection, local collection.
    * con suficientes fondos = properly stocked.
    * consultar los fondos = search + holdings.
    * dotar de fondos a una biblioteca = stock + library.
    * exceso de fondos = overstock.
    * expurgo de fondos bibliográficos = collection weeding, stock weeding.
    * fondo antiguo = antiquarian materials.
    * fondo bibliográfico = bookstock [book stock].
    * fondo circulante = circulating collection.
    * fondo de acceso restringido = reserve collection.
    * fondo de consulta en sala = reserve reading collection, reserve collection, reserve shelves, special reserve, reserve book room.
    * fondo de lectura "formativo-recreativa" = browser collection.
    * fondo de préstamo por horas = short-loan collection.
    * fondo de recursos electrónicos de acceso restringido = electronic reserve.
    * fondo de registros bibliográficos = bibliographic pool, bibliographic record pool.
    * fondo de revistas = periodical holdings.
    * fondo documental = document collection.
    * fondo local = local material.
    * fondos bibliográficos = holdings, stock.
    * fondos de acceso libre = open stacks.
    * fondos de acceso restringido = closed access collection, closed stacks, closed access stacks.
    * fondos de la biblioteca = library's stock, library materials.
    * fondos de libre acceso = open access stacks.
    * fondos de material audiovisual = AV holdings.
    * fondos de publicaciones periódicas = serial holdings.
    * fondos de revistas = journal holdings.
    * fondos indioamericanos = American Indian materials.
    * fondos integrados = integrated stock.
    * fondos locales = local history material.
    * fondos patrimoniales = heritage collection.
    * ingresar en los fondos = accession.
    * mención de fondos = holdings statement.
    * provisto de buenos fondos = stockholding.
    * renovación de fondos = turnover, stock turnover, turnover of stock.
    * renovar fondos = turn over.
    * replanteamiento de los fondos = stock revision.
    * sección de fondos locales = local studies department, local studies library, local studies collection.
    * sección para el fondo de consulta en sala = reserve room.
    * selección de fondos = stock selection.

    * * *
    A
    el fondo del mar the bottom of the sea
    el fondo de la cacerola/bolsa the bottom of the saucepan/bag
    es muy profundo, no consigo tocar fondo it's very deep, I can't touch the bottom
    en el fondo de su corazón deep down (in his heart)
    tenemos que llegar al fondo de esta cuestión we must get to the bottom of this matter
    hay un fondo de verdad en esa historia there is an element of truth in that story
    hay en él un fondo de maldad there's a streak of maliciousness in him
    bajo1 (↑ bajo (1)), doble1 (↑ doble (1))
    2 (de un pasillo, una calle) end; (de una habitación) back
    al fondo, a la derecha at the end, on the right
    siga hasta el fondo del pasillo go to the end of the corridor
    yo vivo justo al fondo de la calle I live right at the end of the street
    encontró la carta al fondo del cajón he found the letter at the back of the drawer
    estaban sentados al or en el fondo de la sala they were sitting at the back of the room
    3
    (profundidad): esta piscina tiene poco fondo this pool is not very deep o is quite shallow
    necesito un cajón con más fondo I need a deeper drawer
    el edificio tiene poca fachada pero mucho fondo the building has a narrow frontage but it goes back a long way
    5 (en un cuadro, una fotografía) background
    estampado blanco sobre fondo gris white print on gray background
    Compuesto:
    ( Inf) wallpaper
    B
    1 ( Lit) (contenido) content
    el fondo y la forma de una novela the form and content of a novel
    2 ( Der):
    una cuestión de fondo a question of law
    C ( Fin)
    un fondo para las víctimas del siniestro a fund for the disaster victims
    tenemos un fondo común para estas cosas we have a joint fund o ( colloq) a kitty for these things
    2 fondos mpl (dinero) money, funds (pl)
    recaudar fondos to raise money
    reunió los fondos para la operación he raised the funds o money for the operation
    no dispone de fondos suficientes en la cuenta he does not have sufficient funds o money in his account
    un cheque sin fondos a dud o ( AmE) rubber check ( colloq)
    me dio un cheque sin fondos the check he gave me bounced, he gave me a dud check, the bank would not honor the check he gave me ( frml)
    el departamento no dispone de fondos para este fin the department does not have funds o money available for this purpose
    los fondos están bloqueados the funds have been frozen
    estoy mal de fondos ( fam); I'm short of cash ( colloq)
    3
    a fondo perdido ‹inversión/préstamo› non-refundable, non-recoverable
    lo que pagas de alquiler es dinero a fondo perdido the money you spend on rent is money wasted o ( colloq) money down the drain
    Compuestos:
    sinking fund
    venture capital fund
    venture capital fund
    goodwill
    ( Fin) fund of funds
    deposit guarantee fund
    strike fund
    investment fund
    Real Estate Investment Trust, REIT
    hedge fund
    research fund
    pension fund
    provident fund
    slush fund
    fighting fund
    tracker fund
    (UE) Cohesion Fund
    (UE) European Development Fund
    (UE) European Regional Development Fund
    (UE) European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
    International Monetary Fund, IMF
    (UE) European Social Fund
    mpl (UE) structural funds (pl)
    mpl public funds (pl)
    mpl secret funds (pl)
    D ( Dep)
    1
    (en atletismo): de fondo ‹corredor/carrera/prueba› long-distance
    medio1 (↑ medio (1))
    2 (en gimnasia) push-up, press-up ( BrE)
    E (de una biblioteca, un museo) collection
    Compuesto:
    list (of titles)
    G ( Méx) ( Indum) petticoat, underskirt
    H ( en locs):
    a fondo ( loc adj) ‹estudio/análisis/investigación› in-depth ( before n);
    ( loc adv) ‹prepararse/entrenar› thoroughly
    esto necesita una limpieza a fondo this needs a thorough clean
    una reforma a fondo de las instituciones a sweeping reform of the institutions
    estudiar a fondo un problema to study a problem in depth
    los próximos días deben ser aprovechados a fondo you/we must make full use of the next few days, you/we must use the next few days to the full
    de fondo ‹ruido/música› background ( before n);
    ‹error/discrepancia› fundamental maquillaje
    en fondo ( Mil) abreast
    de cuatro en fondo four abreast
    en el fondo: en el fondo no es malo deep down he's not a bad person
    discutimos mucho, pero en el fondo nos llevamos bien we quarrel a lot but basically we get on all right o but we get on all right, really
    ¡fondo blanco! ( AmL fam); bottoms up! ( colloq)
    tener buen fondoor no tener mal fondo to be a good person at heart, to have one's heart in the right place
    tocar fondo: en el mes de abril el precio tocó fondo in April the price bottomed out
    ya hemos tocado fondo y las cosas empiezan a ir mejor we seem to be past the worst now and things are beginning to go better
    su credibilidad ha tocado fondo his credibility has hit o reached rock bottom
    me voy a tener que volver porque ya estoy tocando fondo I'm going to have to go back because I'm down to my last few dollars ( o pesos etc)
    I ( Chi) (olla grande) cauldron, large pot
    * * *

     

    fondo sustantivo masculino
    1


    llegaré al fondo de esta cuestión I'll get to the bottom of this matter
    b) ( parte de atrás — de pasillo, calle) end;

    (— de habitación) back;




    e) (en cuadro, fotografía) background

    2 (Lit) ( contenido) content
    3 (Fin)

    ◊ hacer un fondo común to start a joint fund o (colloq) a kitty

    b)

    ◊ fondos sustantivo masculino plural ( dinero) money, funds (pl);

    recaudar fondos to raise money;
    un cheque sin fondos a dud o (AmE) rubber check (colloq)
    4 (Dep) ( en atletismo):
    ◊ de fondo ‹corredor/carrera/prueba› long-distance ( before n)

    5 (Méx) (Indum) slip, underskirt
    6 ( en locs)
    ◊ a fondo ( loc adj) ‹estudio/investigación› in-depth ( before n);


    ‹ limpieza› thorough;
    ( loc adv) ‹prepararse/entrenar› thoroughly;

    de fondo ‹ruido/música› background ( before n);
    en el fondo: en el fondo nos llevamos bien we get on all right, really;
    en el fondo no es malo deep down he's not a bad person
    fondo sustantivo masculino
    1 (parte más profunda) bottom
    un doble fondo, a false bottom
    2 (interior de una persona) en el fondo es muy tierno, deep down he's very gentle
    3 (extremo opuesto) (de una habitación) back
    (de un pasillo) end
    4 (segundo plano) background
    música de fondo, background music
    mujer sobre fondo rojo, woman on a red background
    5 (núcleo, meollo) essence, core
    el fondo del asunto, the core of the matter
    6 Prensa artículo de fondo, leading article
    7 Dep corredor de fondo, long-distance runner
    esquí de fondo, cross-country skiing
    8 Fin fund: nos dio un cheque sin fondos, he gave us a bad cheque
    familiar fondo común, kitty 9 bajos fondos, underworld
    10 (conjunto de documentos, libros etc.) batch: los fondos documentales están en el sótano, the batches of documents are in the basement
    ♦ Locuciones: tocar fondo, Náut to touch bottom
    figurado to reach rock bottom
    a fondo, thoroughly
    a fondo perdido, non-recoverable funds
    ' fondo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    esquí
    - F.M.I.
    - FMI
    - FSE
    - lecho
    - revolverse
    - sentar
    - telón
    - artículo
    - barril
    - bien
    - carrera
    - corredor
    - crear
    - cuestión
    - doble
    - maquillaje
    - mar
    English:
    back
    - backdrop
    - background
    - bed
    - blunder
    - board
    - bottom
    - bottom out
    - bottomless
    - clean out
    - clear out
    - cross-country
    - dappled
    - depth
    - end
    - extensive
    - floor
    - fund
    - going-over
    - groundswell
    - heart
    - IMF
    - inch
    - International Monetary Fund
    - kitty
    - long-distance
    - mutual fund
    - pool
    - scrub down
    - seabed
    - sink
    - spring-clean
    - stuff away
    - thoroughly
    - thrash out
    - underneath
    - unit trust
    - abreast
    - clean
    - closely
    - deep
    - deeply
    - disaster
    - float
    - full
    - further
    - good
    - heavy
    - in-depth
    - international
    * * *
    fondo nm
    1. [parte inferior] bottom;
    el fondo del mar the bottom of the sea;
    fondos [de embarcación] bottom;
    dar fondo [embarcación] to drop anchor;
    echar a fondo [embarcación] to sink;
    irse a fondo [embarcación] to sink, to founder;
    sin fondo bottomless;
    RP Fam
    ¡fondo blanco! bottoms up!;
    tocar fondo [embarcación] to hit the bottom (of the sea/river);
    [crisis] to bottom out;
    su popularidad ha tocado fondo their popularity has reached an all-time low o rock bottom;
    mi paciencia ha tocado fondo my patience has reached its limit
    2. [de habitación, escenario] back;
    al fondo de [calle, pasillo] at the end of;
    [sala] at the back of;
    el fondo de la pista the back of the court;
    los baños están al fondo del pasillo, a la derecha the toilets are at the end of the corridor, on the right
    3. [dimensión] depth;
    un río de poco fondo a shallow river;
    tener un metro de fondo to be one metre deep
    4. [de cuadro, foto, tela] background;
    quiero una tela de flores sobre fondo negro I'd like some material with a pattern of flowers on a black background;
    al fondo in the background
    5. [de alcachofa] heart
    6. [de asunto, problema] heart, bottom;
    el problema de fondo the underlying problem;
    la cuestión de fondo the fundamental issue;
    llegar al fondo de to get to the heart o bottom of;
    el gobierno quiere llegar al fondo de la cuestión the government wants to get to the bottom of the matter;
    en el fondo [en lo más íntimo] deep down;
    [en lo esencial] basically;
    en el fondo está enamorada de él deep down, she loves him;
    en el fondo, no es mala persona deep down, she's not a bad person;
    en el fondo tus problemas son los mismos basically, you have the same problems
    7. [de una persona]
    tener buen fondo to have a good heart;
    tener mal fondo to be a Br nasty o US real piece of work
    8. [de obra literaria] substance
    9. [de dinero] fund;
    a fondo perdido [préstamo] non-returnable;
    no estamos dispuestos a invertir a fondo perdido we're not prepared to pour money down the drain;
    fondos [capital] funds;
    nos hemos quedado sin fondos our funds have run out;
    un cheque sin fondos a bad cheque;
    estar mal de fondos [persona] to be badly off;
    [empresa] to be short of funds;
    recaudar fondos to raise funds
    Econ fondo de amortización sinking fund;
    fondos bloqueados frozen funds;
    fondo de cohesión cohesion fund;
    Fin fondo de comercio goodwill;
    fondo de compensación interterritorial interterritorial compensation fund;
    fondo común kitty;
    poner un fondo (común) to set up a kitty;
    Fin fondo de crédito permanente evergreen fund;
    fondo de emergencia contingency fund;
    UE fondos estructurales structural funds; Fin fondo ético ethical fund; UE Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo European Development Fund; UE Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional European Regional Development Fund; Fin fondo de garantía de depósitos deposit guarantee fund; Fin fondo de inversión investment fund; Fin fondo de inversión ético ethical investment fund;
    fondo de inversión inmobiliaria real estate investment fund;
    fondo de inversión mobiliaria Br trust fund, US mutual fund;
    Fondo Monetario Internacional International Monetary Fund;
    Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza World Wildlife Fund;
    Econ fondo de pensiones pension fund;
    fondos públicos public funds;
    Fin fondo de renta fija non-equity fund, bond fund; Fin fondo de renta variable equity fund;
    fondos reservados = contingency funds available to ministries, for which they do not have to account publicly;
    Fin fondo rotativo revolving fund; UE Fondo Social Europeo European Social Fund;
    fondo vitalicio life annuity
    10. [fundamento] reason, basis;
    sus acciones tienen siempre un fondo humanitario everything she does is for humanitarian reasons
    11.
    hacer algo a fondo [en profundidad] to do sth thoroughly;
    hicimos una lectura a fondo we read it through carefully;
    hacer una limpieza a fondo to have a thorough clean;
    el juez ha ordenado una investigación a fondo the judge has ordered a full enquiry o an in-depth investigation;
    emplearse a fondo to do one's utmost
    12. [de biblioteca, archivo] catalogue, collection
    fondo editorial backlist
    13. Dep [resistencia física] stamina
    14. Dep [larga distancia] long-distance running;
    medio fondo middle-distance running;
    carrera de fondo long-distance race;
    esquí de fondo cross-country skiing;
    de medio fondo middle-distance
    fondo en carretera [ciclismo] road racing
    15. Dep [ejercicio] push-up, Br press-up
    16. Carib, Méx [prenda] petticoat
    17. Cuba [caldero] cauldron
    18. RP [patio] back patio
    * * *
    m
    1 bottom;
    doble fondo false bottom;
    fondo marino seabed;
    tocar fondo fig reach bottom;
    los bajos fondos the underworld sg
    2 ( profundidad) depth;
    hacer una limpieza a fondo de algo give sth a thorough clean, clean sth thoroughly;
    emplearse a fondo fig give one’s all;
    ir al fondo de algo look at sth in depth;
    en el fondo deep down
    3 de sala, cuarto etc back; de pasillo end
    4 PINT, FOT background;
    música de fondo background music
    5 de un museo etc collection
    6 COM fund;
    fondos pl money sg, funds;
    a fondo perdido non-refundable;
    7 DEP
    :
    de medio fondo middle distance atr
    :
    tiene buen fondo he’s got a good heart
    * * *
    fondo nm
    1) : bottom
    2) : rear, back, end
    3) : depth
    4) : background
    5) : sea bed
    6) : fund
    fondo de inversiones: investment fund
    7) Mex : slip, petticoat
    8) fondos nmpl
    : funds, resources
    cheque sin fondos: bounced check
    9)
    a fondo : thoroughly, in depth
    en fondo : abreast
    * * *
    1. (en general) bottom
    2. (de calle, pasillo) end
    4. (segundo término) background

    Spanish-English dictionary > fondo

  • 89 metodo

    m method
    * * *
    metodo s.m.
    1 method, system; (tecnica) technique: metodo induttivo, deduttivo, inductive, deductive method; metodo analitico, sintetico, analytic, synthetic method; metodo scientifico, sperimentale, scientific, experimental method; mancanza di metodo, lack of method; lavorare senza metodo, to work without method (o unmethodically); non aver metodo, to lack method (o to be unmethodical); metodo d'indagine, method of survey; metodo di lavoro, working method; metodo di lavorazione, process (o processing technique) // (econ.): metodo di ammortamento, depreciation method; metodo di pagamento, method of payment; metodi di produzione, methods of production; metodo di vendita, sales method; metodo di negoziazione, transaction system // (amm.): metodo della partita doppia, double-entry system; metodo di contabilità dei costi, cost accounting system; metodo di ammortamento a quote costanti, straight-line method of depreciation // ( banca) metodo scalare, daily-balance interest calculation // (assicurazioni) metodo di valutazione dei danni, measure of damage // (inform.): metodo di accesso, access level (o method); metodo di accesso di base, basic access method; metodo di accesso di base in teletrasmissione, basic telecommunication access method; metodo del percorso critico, critical path method; metodo del percorso sequenziale di base, basic sequential access method; metodo di registrazione su nastro, tape mode
    2 (manuale) tutor, method, primer: metodo di pianoforte, piano tutor (o method)
    3 (modo di agire) behaviour; (maniera) method, way: metodi sbrigativi, brisk ways; metodi drastici, drastic methods
    4 (calcio) the tactic of playing with two fullbacks, three halfbacks and five forwards.
    * * *
    ['mɛtodo]
    sostantivo maschile
    1) method, system

    -i di insegnamento, di coltivazione — teaching, farming methods

    2) (maniera, modo) way

    -i sbrigativi, drastici — brisk, drastic measures

    4) (manuale) (per strumenti musicali) tutor; (di lingue straniere) course book BE, textbook AE
    * * *
    metodo
    /'mεtodo/
    sostantivo m.
     1 method, system; -i di insegnamento, di coltivazione teaching, farming methods
     2 (maniera, modo) way; -i sbrigativi, drastici brisk, drastic measures; con -i illegali by illegal means
     3 (sistematicità) lavorare con metodo to work systematically o with method; avere metodo to be methodical; non avere metodo to lack system
     4 (manuale) (per strumenti musicali) tutor; (di lingue straniere) course book BE, textbook AE.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > metodo

  • 90 данные

    data, evidence, information, (напр. в таблице) reading
    * * *
    да́нные мн.
    data; information; (заключение, выводы) findings
    блоки́ровать да́нные — block data
    вводи́ть да́нные — insert [enter, feed, introduce] data in(to)
    вводи́ть да́нные в ЭВМ с (напр. носителя) — enter data into a computer from (e. g., a medium)
    вводи́ть да́нные в ЭВМ с перфока́рт или перфоле́нты — read punch(ed) cards or tape into a computer
    выбира́ть да́нные — retrieve [access] data
    выводи́ть да́нные из ЭВМ на (напр. носитель) — output data from a computer to (e. g., a medium)
    выдава́ть да́нные — generate data
    вызыва́ть да́нные из па́мяти — call up data from memory
    загружа́ть да́нные — load data
    заноси́ть да́нные — enter data (e. g., in a logbook)
    запомина́ть да́нные — store data
    извлека́ть да́нные — withdraw data
    набира́ть да́нные на клавиату́ре — key data onto a keyboard
    нака́пливать да́нные — accumulate data
    наноси́ть да́нные на метеорологи́ческую ка́рту — apply information to a weather chart, enter information on a weather chart
    да́нные нано́сятся на ка́рту — a card is punched with data, data are punched into a card
    нахожде́ние да́нных определя́ется а́дресом — data are located by an address
    обме́ниваться да́нными (с кем-л.) — exchange [share] data (with smb.)
    обновля́ть да́нные — update data
    обобща́ть да́нные из не́скольких исто́чников — pool data
    обраба́тывать да́нные — process [reduce] data
    отобража́ть да́нные — display data
    отраба́тывать да́нные
    1. (в сервосистемах; после решения задачи) reproduce data
    оты́скивать [находи́ть] да́нные по табли́це — look up a data item [a quantity] in a table
    перемеща́ть да́нные — move data
    переноси́ть да́нные с (ле́нты) на (ка́рты) — convert data from (a tape) to (cards) [to a card format]
    представля́ть да́нные (о чём-л.) — present [represent] data (on smth.)
    разблоки́ровать да́нные — unblock data
    разгружа́ть да́нные — unload data
    создава́ть да́нные — create data
    упоря́дочивать да́нные — rank data
    ана́логовые да́нные — analog(ue) data
    ба́зисные да́нные — basic data
    бу́квенно-цифровы́е да́нные — alpha(nu)meric data
    бу́квенные да́нные — alphabetic data
    да́нные в двои́чной фо́рме — binary data
    входны́е да́нные — input (data)
    вы́борочные да́нные — sampled data
    выдава́емые да́нные — read-out, output (data)
    выходны́е да́нные — output (data)
    графи́ческие да́нные — graphic data
    двои́чные да́нные — binary data
    дискре́тные да́нные — digital data
    имити́рованные да́нные — simulated data
    да́нные испыта́ний — test findings
    исхо́дные да́нные — initial data
    ито́говые да́нные — summarized data; total
    образо́вывать ито́говые да́нные — develop a total
    коди́рованные да́нные — coded data
    лаборато́рные да́нные — laboratory findings
    лё́тно-техни́ческие да́нные — flight performance
    наблюдё́нные да́нные — observed data
    нача́льные да́нные — initial data
    необрабо́танные да́нные — raw data
    непреры́вные да́нные — analog(ue) data
    обрабо́танные да́нные — processed information
    да́нные ограни́ченного испо́льзования ( секретные данные) — confidential data
    о́пытные да́нные — ( найденные практическим путём) empirical data; ( экспериментальные) experimental data
    основны́е да́нные — basic data; basic specifications
    па́спортные да́нные — rating(s), rated values, nameplate data
    да́нные полево́го обсле́дования — field data
    да́нные полево́й съё́мки — field survey data
    попра́вочные да́нные — correction data
    да́нные по себесто́имости — cost data
    предвари́тельные да́нные — preliminary [tentative] data
    да́нные приё́мо-сда́точных испыта́ний — acceptance-test data
    да́нные прогно́за — predicted data
    прое́ктные да́нные — design data
    протоко́льные да́нные — performance-test data
    рабо́чие да́нные — working data
    радиотелеметри́ческие да́нные — radio-link telemetry data
    радиотехни́ческие да́нные — radio data
    расчё́тные да́нные — ( проектные) design data; ( в противоположность экспериментальным) calculated data
    систематизи́рованные да́нные — regular [systematical] data
    спра́вочные да́нные — reference data
    статисти́ческие да́нные — statistical data
    сумма́рные да́нные — summarized data
    табли́чные да́нные — tabular [tabulated] data
    телеметри́ческие да́нные — telemetered data
    техни́ческие да́нные — technical data, technical characteristics, technical specifications
    упоря́доченные да́нные — ranked [ordered] data
    цифровы́е да́нные — ( числовые) numerical data; ( в цифровой форме) digital data
    эксперимента́льные да́нные — experimental data
    эксплуатацио́нные да́нные — service [operating] data

    Русско-английский политехнический словарь > данные

  • 91 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, 714-1140
       The 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, 1140-1385
       Two 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 in
       Portugal (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, 1385-1580
       The 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, 1580-1640
       Despite 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, 1640-1822
       Foreign 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 the
       Church (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, 1822-1910
       During 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, 1910-26
       Portugal'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), 1926-74
       During 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, 1974-76
       Following 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 until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After 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.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 92 стандартный

    1) General subject: conventional, cut and dried, cut-and-dried, imperial, imperial (об английских мерах), off the shelf, off-the-shelf (о запасных частях), out-of-the-box (an out-of-the-box process might not be the best one for your organization. The more complex your current sales process, the more likely you'll need to customize the default process defined by your vendor), prefabricated, ready-made (о мнении, мысли), stereo, stereotype, straight from central casting, established (согласно стандартной форме - according to the established form), generic, cookie-cutter
    2) Computers: standardized
    3) Sports: pat
    4) Engineering: ordinary
    5) Mathematics: stereotyped
    6) Railway term: conventional type
    7) Economy: customary
    8) Architecture: repeatable
    11) Information technology: basic (об элементе), basis, common, default, indentation, predefined, preset, uniform
    13) Business: normative
    14) Drilling: Std (standard)
    15) Sakhalin energy glossary: standard (STD)
    16) Microelectronics: standard-scale
    17) Network technologies: preassigned
    18) Polymers: reference, regular
    19) Programming: production
    21) General subject: typical (схема и т.д.)
    22) Makarov: canned, legal, stereotyped (о сигнале, команде), type
    23) oil&gas: makeup
    24) Phraseological unit: common-and-garden

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > стандартный

  • 93 Erzeugnis

    Erzeugnis n GEN, IND product
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    n <Geschäft, Ind> product
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    Erzeugnis
    produce, product[ion], manufacture, article, merchandise, turnout, make, work;
    • Erzeugnisse wares;
    • vom Einkommen des Durchschnittsverbrauchers abhängige Erzeugnisse responsive products;
    • arbeitsintensive Erzeugnisse labo(u)r-intensive products;
    • ausländische Erzeugnisse foreign-made products, articles of foreign manufacture;
    • zum Verkauf bereitstehende Erzeugnisse products available for sale;
    • deutsches Erzeugnis manufactured (made) in Germany;
    • unser eigenes Erzeugnis domestic product;
    • einheimisches Erzeugnis inland (domestic, home) produce, native product;
    • einziges Erzeugnis sole product;
    • englische Erzeugnisse goods of British production;
    • fehlerhafte Erzeugnisse bad items, irregulars;
    • fertiges Erzeugnis finished product;
    • freie Erzeugnisse natural products;
    • fremdländische Erzeugnisse goods of foreign origin;
    • geistiges Erzeugnis brain child;
    • genmanipulierte Erzeugnisse genetically modified products;
    • gewerbliches Erzeugnis factory (industrial, manufactured) product;
    • halb fertiges Erzeugnis semi-manufactured product;
    • halb fertige Erzeugnisse (Bilanz) work in process (Br.) (progress, US);
    • halb fertige und fertige Erzeugnisse (Bilanz) work in process and finished goods;
    • maschinell hergestellte Erzeugnisse machine-made products;
    • hoch qualifizierte Erzeugnisse high-quality (-class) goods, high-quality products, big-ticket items;
    • hochwertige Erzeugnis high-value goods;
    • industrielles Erzeugnis industrial product, manufacture, manufactured article;
    • inländische Erzeugnisse home products (manufacture), domestics, native products, domestic articles;
    • keramische Erzeugnisse pottery;
    • kriegswichtige Erzeugnisse war goods;
    • ladeneigenes Erzeugnis store-brand item (US);
    • landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse agricultural commodities (produce), [farm] produce;
    • literarische Erzeugnisse literary production;
    • markenpflichtige Erzeugnisse coupon goods;
    • minderwertige Erzeugnisse poor quality goods, inferior products;
    • nachgeahmtes Erzeugnis counterfeit (imitative) product;
    • patentiertes Erzeugnis patented article (product, item);
    • preisgebundene Erzeugnisse price-bound merchandise;
    • preisgestützte Erzeugnisse price-maintained goods;
    • preisstabile Erzeugnisse price-maintained products (articles);
    • nicht sortierte Erzeugnisse non-graded products;
    • steuerpflichtiges Erzeugnis taxable product;
    • teures Erzeugnis high-priced line;
    • tiefgekühlte Erzeugnisse frozen goods;
    • veredelte Erzeugnisse improved goods, finished products;
    • ganzjährig zu verkaufendes Erzeugnis all-season product (US);
    • schwer verkäufliches Erzeugnis hard-to-move product;
    • vermietete Erzeugnisse products on lease;
    • mit falschen Warenzeichen versehene Erzeugnisse misbranded products (US);
    • versicherte Erzeugnisse insured goods;
    • weggeworfene Erzeugnisse throwaway products;
    • zollempfindliche Erzeugnisse sensitive products;
    • Erzeugnisse aller Art goods, wares and merchandise;
    • Erzeugnisse eines bestreikten Betriebes hot cargo;
    • Erzeugnisse in der Fabrikation (Bilanz) work in progress (US) (process, Br.);
    • Erzeugnisse der besten Güteklasse firsts;
    • Erzeugnisse französischer Herkunft goods of French origin;
    • Erzeugnisse eines Landes products of a country;
    • Erzeugnisse des ökologischen Landbaus organic produce;
    • Erzeugnisse mit gleich bleibenden Preisen price-maintained goods (articles);
    • landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse, die keiner Produktionssteuerung bedürfen non-basic commodities;
    • Erzeugnisse des Rindfleischsektors products in the beef chain;
    • Erzeugnisse der Spitzentechnologie high-skill manufactures;
    • Erzeugnis pflanzlichen Ursprungs vegetable product;
    • Erzeugnis tierischen Ursprungs product of animal origin;
    • Erzeugnisse mit hoher Zuverlässigkeit high-reliable products;
    • Erzeugnisse absetzen to market products;
    • Erzeugnis fördern to merchandise;
    • Erzeugnisse aller Preisklassen führen to carry a full-price range;
    • Erzeugniskontrolle durch den Auftraggeber im Herstellungsbetrieb source inspection;
    • Erzeugniskostenrechnung product cost accounting;
    • Erzeugnispalette production population;
    • Erzeugniswerbung product advertising.

    Business german-english dictionary > Erzeugnis

  • 94 LD-Verfahren

    LD-Verfahren n HÜTT/WALZ LD process, Linz-Donawitz-process, basic oxygen process

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch Engineering > LD-Verfahren

  • 95 Sauerstoffblasverfahren

    Sauerstoffblasverfahren n HÜTT basic oxygen process, oxygen-blown steelmaking process, oxygen steelmaking process

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch Engineering > Sauerstoffblasverfahren

  • 96 метод

    approach, device, manner, mean, method, mode, practice, procedure, system, technique, technology, theory, way
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    ме́тод м.
    method; procedure; technique
    агрегатнопото́чный ме́тод — conveyor-type production [production-line] method
    аксиомати́ческий ме́тод — axiomatic [postulational] method
    ме́тод амплиту́дного ана́лиза — kick-sorting method
    анаглифи́ческий ме́тод картогр. — anaglyphic(al) method
    ме́тод аналити́ческой вста́вки топ. — cantilever extension, cantilever (strip) triangulation
    ме́тод быстре́йшего спу́ска стат. — steepest descent method
    вариацио́нный ме́тод — variational method
    ме́тод Верне́йля радио — Verneuil method
    весово́й ме́тод — gravimetric method
    ме́тод ветве́й и грани́ц киб. — branch and bound method
    ме́тод взба́лтывания — shake method
    визуа́льный ме́тод — visual method
    ме́тод возду́шной прое́кции — aero-projection method
    ме́тод враще́ния — method of revolution
    ме́тод вреза́ния — plunge-cut method
    ме́тод вре́мени пролё́та — time-of-flight method
    вре́мя-и́мпульсный ме́тод ( преобразования аналоговой информации в дискретную) — pulse-counting method (of analog-to-digital conversion)
    ме́тод встре́чного фрезерова́ния — conventional [cut-up] milling method
    ме́тод вы́бега эл. — retardation method
    ме́тод вымета́ния мат. — sweep(ing)-out method
    ме́тод гармони́ческого бала́нса киб., автмт. — describing function method
    ме́тод гармони́ческой линеариза́ции — describing function method
    голографи́ческий ме́тод — holographic method
    гравиметри́ческий ме́тод — gravimetric(al) method
    графи́ческий ме́тод — graphical method
    ме́тод графи́ческого трансформи́рования топ. — grid method
    графоаналити́ческий ме́тод — semigraphical method
    ме́тод гра́фов мат. — graph method
    группово́й ме́тод ( в высокочастотной телефонии) — grouped-frequency basis
    систе́ма рабо́тает групповы́м ме́тодом — the system operates on the grouped-frequency basis
    ме́тод двух ре́ек геод., топ. — two-staff [two-base] method
    ме́тод двух узло́в ( в анализе электрических цепей) — nodal-pair method
    ме́тод дирекцио́нных угло́в геод. — method of gisements
    ме́тод запа́са про́чности ( в расчетах конструкции) — load factor method
    ме́тод засе́чек афс. — resection method
    ме́тод зерка́льных изображе́ний эл. — method of electrical images
    ме́тод зо́нной пла́вки ( в производстве монокристаллов полупроводниковых материалов) — floating-zone method, floating-zone technique
    ме́тод избы́точных концентра́ций ( для опробования гипотетического механизма реакции) — isolation method (of the testing the rate equations)
    ме́тод измере́ния, абсолю́тный — absolute [fundamental] method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния, конта́ктный — contact method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния, ко́свенный — indirect method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния, относи́тельный — relative method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния по то́чкам — point-by-point method
    ме́тод измере́ния, прямо́й — direct method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния угло́в по аэросни́мкам — photogoniometric method
    ме́тод изображе́ний эл. — method of images, image method
    ме́тод изото́пных индика́торов — tracer method
    иммерсио́нный ме́тод — immersion method
    и́мпульсный ме́тод свар. — pulse method
    ме́тод и́мпульсов — momentum-transfer method
    ме́тод инве́рсии — inversion method
    и́ндексно-после́довательный ме́тод до́ступа, основно́й вчт. — basic indexed sequential access method, BISAM
    и́ндексно-после́довательный ме́тод до́ступа с очередя́ми вчт. — queued indexed sequential access method, BISAM
    интерференцио́нный ме́тод — interferometric method
    ме́тод испыта́ний — testing procedure, testing method
    ме́тод испыта́ний, кисло́тный — acid test
    ме́тод испыта́ний, пане́льный — panel-spalling test
    ме́тод испыта́тельной строки́ тлв. — test-line method
    ме́тод иссле́дований напряже́ний, опти́ческий — optical stress analysis
    ме́тод истече́ния — efflux method
    ме́тод итера́ции — iteration method, iteration technique
    ме́тод итера́ции приво́дит к сходи́мости проце́сса — the iteration (process) converges to a solution
    ме́тод итера́ции приво́дит к (бы́строй или ме́дленной) сходи́мости проце́сса — the iteration (process) converges quickly or slowly
    ме́тод картосоставле́ния — map-compilation [plotting] method
    ме́тод кача́ющегося криста́лла ( в рентгеноструктурном анализе) — rotating-crystal method
    ка́чественный ме́тод — qualitative method
    кессо́нный ме́тод — caisson method
    коли́чественный ме́тод — quantitative method
    колориметри́ческий ме́тод — colorimetric method
    ме́тод кольца́ и ша́ра — ball-and-ring method
    комплексометри́ческий ме́тод ( для определения жёсткости воды) — complexometric method
    кондуктометри́ческий ме́тод — conductance-measuring method
    ме́тод коне́чных ра́зностей — finite difference method
    ме́тод консерви́рования — curing method
    ме́тод контро́ля, дифференци́рованный — differential control method
    ме́тод контро́ля ка́чества — quality control method
    ме́тод ко́нтурных то́ков — mesh-current [loop] method
    ме́тод ко́нуса — cone method
    ме́тод корнево́го годо́графа киб., автмт. — root-locus method
    корреляцио́нный ме́тод — correlation method
    ко́свенный ме́тод — indirect method
    ме́тод кра́сок ( в дефектоскопии) — dye-penetrant method
    лаборато́рный ме́тод — laboratory method
    ме́тод ла́ковых покры́тий ( в сопротивлении материалов) — brittle-varnish method
    ме́тод лине́йной интерполя́ции — method of proportional parts
    ме́тод Ляпуно́ва аргд. — Lyapunov's method
    ме́тод магни́тного порошка́ ( в дефектоскопии) — magnetic particle [magnetic powder] method
    магни́тно-люминесце́нтный ме́тод ( в дефектоскопии) — fluorescent magnetic particle method
    ме́тод ма́лого пара́метра киб., автмт. — perturbation theory, perturbation method
    ме́тод ма́лых возмуще́ний аргд. — perturbation method
    ме́тод мгнове́нной равносигна́льной зо́ны рлк. — simultaneous lobing [monopulse] method
    ме́тод механи́ческой обрабо́тки — machining method
    ме́тод ме́ченых а́томов — tracer method
    ме́тод микрометри́рования — micrometer method
    ме́тод мно́жителей Лагра́нжа — Lagrangian multiplier method, Lagrange's method of undetermined multipliers
    ме́тод моме́нтных площаде́й мех. — area moment method
    ме́тод Мо́нте-Ка́рло мат. — Monte Carlo method
    ме́тод навига́ции, дальноме́рный ( пересечение двух окружностей) — rho-rho [r-r] navigation
    ме́тод навига́ции, угломе́рный ( пересечение двух линий пеленга) — theta-theta [q-q] navigation
    ме́тод наиме́ньших квадра́тов — method of least squares, least-squares technique
    ме́тод наискоре́йшего спу́ска мат. — method of steepest descent
    ме́тод нака́чки ( лазера) — pumping [excitation] method
    ме́тод накопле́ния яд. физ. — “backing-space” method
    ме́тод наложе́ния — method of superposition
    ме́тод напыле́ния — evaporation technique
    ме́тод нару́жных заря́дов горн. — adobe blasting method
    ме́тод незави́симых стереопа́р топ. — method of independent image pairs
    ненулево́й ме́тод — deflection method
    ме́тод неопределё́нных мно́жителей Лагра́нжа — Lagrangian multiplier method, Lagrange's method of undetermined multipliers
    ме́тод неподви́жных то́чек — method of fixed points
    неразруша́ющий ме́тод — non-destructive method, non-destructive testing
    нерекурси́вный ме́тод — non-recursive method
    нето́чный ме́тод — inexact method
    нефелометри́ческий ме́тод — nephelometric method
    ме́тод нивели́рования по частя́м — method of fraction levelling
    нулево́й ме́тод — null [zero(-deflection) ] method
    ме́тод нулевы́х бие́ний — zero-beat method
    ме́тод нулевы́х то́чек — neutral-points method
    ме́тод обеспе́чения надё́жности — reliability method
    ме́тод обрабо́тки — processing [working, tooling] method
    ме́тод обра́тной простра́нственной засе́чки топ. — method of pyramid
    обра́тно-ступе́нчатый ме́тод свар. — step-back method
    ме́тод объединё́нного а́тома — associate atom method
    объекти́вный ме́тод — objective method
    объё́мный ме́тод — volumetric method
    ме́тод одного́ отсчё́та ( преобразование непрерывной информации в дискретную) — the total value method (of analog-to-digital conversion)
    окисли́тельно-восстанови́тельный ме́тод — redox method
    опера́торный ме́тод — operational method
    ме́тод определе́ния ме́ста, дальноме́рно-пеленгацио́нный ( пересечение прямой и окружности) — rho-theta [r-q] fixing
    ме́тод определе́ния ме́ста, дальноме́рный ( пересечение двух окружностей) — rho-rho [r-r] fixing
    ме́тод определе́ния ме́ста, пеленгацио́нный ( пересечение двух линий пеленга) — theta-theta [q-q] fixing
    ме́тод определе́ния отбе́ливаемости и цве́тности ма́сел — bleach-and-colour method
    ме́тод определе́ния положе́ния ли́нии, двукра́тный геод. — double-line method
    ме́тод опти́ческой корреля́ции — optical correlation technique
    ме́тод осажде́ния — sedimentation method
    ме́тод осо́бых возмуще́ний аргд. — singular perturbation method
    ме́тод осредне́ния — averaging [smoothing] method
    ме́тод отбо́ра проб — sampling method, sampling technique
    ме́тод отклоне́ния — deflection method
    ме́тод отопле́ния метал. — fuel practice
    ме́тод отраже́ния — reflection method
    ме́тод отражё́нных и́мпульсов — pulse-echo method
    ме́тод отыска́ния произво́дной, непосре́дственный — delta method
    ме́тод па́дающего те́ла — falling body method
    ме́тод парамагни́тного резона́нса — paramagnetic-resonance method
    ме́тод пе́рвого приближе́ния — first approximation method
    ме́тод перева́ла мат. — saddle-point method
    ме́тод перено́са коли́чества движе́ния аргд. — momentum-transfer method
    ме́тод перераспределе́ния моме́нтов ( в расчёте конструкций) — moment distribution method
    ме́тод пересека́ющихся луче́й — crossed beam method
    ме́тод перехо́дного состоя́ния ( в аналитической химии) — transition state method
    ме́тод перпендикуля́ров — offset method
    ме́тод перспекти́вных се́ток топ. — grid method
    ме́тод пескова́ния с.-х. — sanding method
    пикнометри́ческий ме́тод — bottle method
    ме́тод площаде́й физ. — area method
    ме́тод повторе́ний геод. — method of reiteration, repetition method
    ме́тод подбо́ра — trial-and-error [cut-and-try] method
    ме́тод подо́бия — similitude method
    ме́тод подориенти́рования топ. — setting on points of control
    ме́тод по́лной деформа́ции — total-strain method
    ме́тод полови́нных отклоне́ний — half-deflection method
    ме́тод положе́ния геод. — method of bearings, method of gisements
    полуколи́чественный ме́тод — semiquantitative method
    ме́тод поля́рных координа́т — polar method
    ме́тод попу́тного фрезерова́ния — climb [cut-down] milling method
    порошко́вый ме́тод ( в рентгеноструктурном анализе) — powder [Debye-Scherer-Hull] method
    ме́тод посе́ва — seeding technique
    ме́тод после́довательного счё́та ( преобразования аналоговой информации в дискретную) — incremental method (of analog-to-digital conversion)
    ме́тод после́довательных исключе́ний — successive exclusion method
    ме́тод после́довательных подстано́вок — method of successive substitution, substitution process
    ме́тод после́довательных попра́вок — successive correction method
    ме́тод после́довательных приближе́ний — successive approximation method
    ме́тод после́довательных элимина́ций — method of exhaustion
    ме́тод послесплавно́й диффу́зии полупр. — post-alloy-diffusion technique
    потенциометри́ческий компенсацио́нный ме́тод — potentiometric method
    пото́чно-конве́йерный ме́тод — flow-line conveyor method
    пото́чный ме́тод — straight-line flow method
    ме́тод прерыва́ний ( для измерения скорости света) — chopped-beam method
    приближё́нный ме́тод — approximate method
    ме́тод проб и оши́бок — trial-and-error [cut-and-try] method
    ме́тод программи́рующих програ́мм — programming program method
    ме́тод продолже́ния топ. — setting on points on control
    ме́тод проекти́рования, моде́льно-маке́тный — model-and-mock-up method of design
    ме́тод простра́нственного коди́рования ( преобразования аналоговой информации в дискретную) — coded pattern method (OF analog-to-digital conversion)
    ме́тод простра́нственной самофикса́ции — self-fixation space method
    прямо́й ме́тод — direct method
    ме́тод псевдослуча́йных чи́сел — pseudorandom number method
    ме́тод равносигна́льной зо́ны рлк. — lobing, beam [lobe] switching
    ме́тод равносигна́льной зо́ны, мгнове́нный рлк. — simultaneous lobing, monopulse
    ме́тод ра́вных высо́т геод. — equal-altitude method
    ме́тод ра́вных деформа́ций ( в проектировании бетонных конструкций) — equal-strain method
    ме́тод ра́вных отклоне́ний — equal-deflection method
    радиацио́нный ме́тод — radiation method
    ме́тод радиоавтогра́фии — radioautograph technique
    ме́тод радиоакти́вных индика́торов — tracer method
    радиометри́ческий ме́тод — radiometric method
    ме́тод разбавле́ния — dilution method
    ме́тод разделе́ния тлв. — separation method
    ме́тод разделе́ния переме́нных — method of separation of variables
    ме́тод разли́вки метал. — teeming [pouring, casting] practice
    ме́тод разме́рностей — dimensional method
    ра́зностный ме́тод — difference method
    ме́тод разруша́ющей нагру́зки — load-factor method
    разруша́ющий ме́тод — destructive check
    ме́тод рассе́яния Рэле́я — Rayleigh scattering method
    ме́тод ра́стра тлв. — grid method
    ме́тод ра́стрового скани́рования — raster-scan method
    ме́тод расчё́та по допусти́мым нагру́зкам — working stress design [WSD] method
    ме́тод расчё́та по разруша́ющим нагру́зкам стр. — ultimate-strength design [USD] method
    ме́тод расчё́та при по́мощи про́бной нагру́зки стр. — trial-load method
    ме́тод расчё́та, упру́гий стр. — elastic method
    резона́нсный ме́тод — resonance method
    ме́тод реитера́ций геод. — method of reiteration, repetition method
    рентгенострукту́рный ме́тод — X-ray diffraction method
    ме́тод реше́ния зада́чи о четвё́ртой то́чке геод. — three-point method
    ме́тод решета́ мат. — sieve method
    ру́порно-ли́нзовый ме́тод радио — horn-and-lens method
    ме́тод самоторможе́ния — retardation method
    ме́тод сви́лей — schlieren technique, schlieren method
    ме́тод сдви́нутого сигна́ла — offset-signal method
    ме́тод секу́щих — secant method
    ме́тод се́рого кли́на физ. — gray-wedge method
    ме́тод се́ток мат., вчт. — net(-point) method
    ме́тод сече́ний ( в расчёте напряжений в фермах) — method of sections
    символи́ческий ме́тод — method of complex numbers
    ме́тод симметри́чных составля́ющих — method of symmetrical components, symmetrical component method
    ме́тод синхро́нного накопле́ния — synchronous storage method
    ме́тод скани́рования полосо́й — single-line-scan television method
    ме́тод скани́рования пятно́м — spot-scan photomultiplier method
    ме́тод смеще́ния отде́льных узло́в стр. — method of separate joint displacement
    ме́тод совпаде́ний — coincidence method
    ме́тод сосредото́ченных пара́метров — lumped-parameter method
    ме́тод спада́ния заря́да — fall-of-charge method
    спектроскопи́ческий ме́тод — spectroscopic method
    ме́тод спира́льного скани́рования — spiral-scan method
    ме́тод сплавле́ния — fusion method
    ме́тод сплошны́х сред ( в моделировании) — continuous field analog technique
    ме́тод сре́дних квадра́тов — midsquare method
    статисти́ческий ме́тод — statistical technique
    статисти́ческий ме́тод оце́нки — statistical estimation
    ме́тод статисти́ческих испыта́ний — Monte Carlo method
    стробоголографи́ческий ме́тод — strobo-holographic method
    стробоскопи́ческий ме́тод — stroboscopic method
    стру́йный ме́тод метал. — jet test
    ступе́нчатый ме́тод ( сварки или сверления) — step-by-step method
    субъекти́вный ме́тод — subjective method
    ме́тод сухо́го озоле́ния — dry combustion method
    ме́тод сухо́го порошка́ ( в дефектоскопии) — dry method
    счё́тно-и́мпульсный ме́тод — pulse-counting method
    табли́чный ме́тод — diagram method
    телевизио́нный ме́тод электро́нной аэросъё́мки — television method
    телевизио́нный ме́тод электро́нной фотограмме́трии — television method
    тенево́й ме́тод — (direct-)shadow method
    термоанемометри́ческий ме́тод — hot-wire method
    топологи́ческий ме́тод — topological method
    ме́тод то́чечного вплавле́ния полупр. — dot alloying method
    то́чный ме́тод — exact [precision] method
    ме́тод травле́ния, гидри́дный — sodium hydride descaling
    ме́тод трапецеида́льных характери́стик — Floyd's trapezoidal approximation method, approximation procedure
    ме́тод трёх баз геод. — three-base method
    ме́тод триангуля́ции — triangulation method
    ме́тод трилатера́ции геод. — trilateration method
    ме́тод углово́й деформа́ции — slope-deflection method
    ме́тод углово́й модуля́ции — angular modulation method
    ме́тод удаля́емого трафаре́та полупр. — rejection mask method
    ме́тод удаля́емой ма́ски рад. — rejection mask method
    ме́тод узло́в ( в расчёте напряжении в фермах) — method of joints
    ме́тод узловы́х потенциа́лов — node-voltage method
    ме́тод ура́внивания по направле́ниям геод. — method of directions, direction method
    ме́тод ура́внивания по угла́м геод. — method of angles, angle method
    ме́тод уравнове́шивания — balancing method
    ме́тод усредне́ния — averaging [smoothing] method
    ме́тод фа́зового контра́ста ( в микроскопии) — phase contrast
    наблюда́ть ме́тодом фа́зового контра́ста — examine [study] by phase contrast
    ме́тод фа́зовой пло́скости — phase plane method
    ме́тод факториза́ции — factorization method
    флотацио́нный ме́тод — floatation method
    ме́тод формирова́ния сигна́лов цве́тности тлв. — colour-processing method
    ме́тод центрифуги́рования — centrifuge method
    цепно́й ме́тод астр. — chain method
    чи́сленный ме́тод — numerical method
    ме́тод Чохра́льского ( в выращивании полупроводниковых кристаллов) — Czochralski method, vertical pulling technique
    ме́тод Шо́ра — Shore hardness
    щупово́й ме́тод — stylus method
    ме́тод электрофоре́за — electrophoretic method
    эмпири́ческий ме́тод — trial-and-error [cut-and-try] method
    энергети́ческий ме́тод
    1. косм. energy method
    2. стр. strain energy method
    ме́тод энергети́ческого бала́нса — power balance method
    эргати́ческий ме́тод ( при общении человека с ЭВМ) — interactive [conversational] technique

    Русско-английский политехнический словарь > метод

  • 97 основной

    1) basal

    2) base
    3) basic
    4) basis
    5) dominant
    6) <chem.> elemental
    7) fundamental
    8) ground
    9) main
    10) major
    11) <engin.> master
    12) matrix
    13) pivotal
    14) primal
    15) primary
    16) principal
    17) underlying
    – вид колебаний основной
    – капитал основной
    – код основной
    – кронштейн основной
    – материал основной
    – носитель основной
    – обмен основной
    – основной активатор
    – основной аэродром
    – основной блок
    – основной бойлер
    – основной вектор
    – основной вид
    – основной горизонт
    – основной допуск
    – основной закон
    – основной кирпич
    – основной конденсат
    – основной круг
    – основной масштаб
    – основной меридиан
    – основной металл
    – основной модуль
    – основной негатив
    – основной огнеупор
    – основной окисел
    – основной парашют
    – основной пароперегреватель
    – основной период
    – основной поддон
    – основной поток
    – основной тон
    – основной файл
    – основной флюс
    – основной цвет
    – основной цех
    – основной шлак

    завод основной химии — heavy-chemicals plant


    конвертер с основной футеровкой — basic converter


    основной балансный контур — basis network


    основной мартеновский процесс — basis open-hearth process


    основной штрих буквы — thick stroke


    основной энергетический уровень — ground level


    прядение основной пряжи — warp spinning


    частота основной гармоники — <phys.> fundamental frequency

    Русско-английский технический словарь > основной

  • 98 лежать в основе

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    The basis for the antibacterial effects of dyes is their ability to...

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    Behind the Mullard invention is the notion that...

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    Central to the theory is...

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    These equations form the basis (or foundation) of the theory of...

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    It is this form that provides the basis (or is fundamental) for a wide variety of TV antennas.

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    Boolean algebra underlies the theory of relations.

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    Microcomputers are at the heart of "transaction" telephones for checking customers' credit.

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    The general rule that the forces between two particles result from an exchange of other particles is basic to much of our present understanding of elementary-particle interactions.

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    The Periodic Table provides the framework for the whole study of inorganic chemistry.

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    Thermochemistry is basic to the study of chemical bonding.

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    An understanding of dye laser operation is a building block for understanding the principles of other tunable laser systems.

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    The chapter describes the fundamental physics that gives rise to the behaviour of the single junction and the transistor as circuit elements.

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    The nature of energy lies at the heart of the mystery of our existence.

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    This reaction is the basis for the cyanamide process for...

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > лежать в основе

  • 99 animación

    f.
    1 animation, excitement, life, liveliness.
    2 high spirits, elation.
    3 enlivenment, cheering up.
    4 animation, animation process.
    * * *
    1 (actividad) activity, movement, bustle
    2 (viveza) liveliness
    3 CINEMATOGRAFÍA animation
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) life, activity
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=alegría) life

    a la fiesta le faltaba un poco de animación — the party lacked a bit of life, the party was a bit dead *

    hemos logrado darle un poco de animación al bar — we have managed to liven up the bar, we have managed to put some life into the bar

    2) (=bullicio) activity
    3) (=impulso)

    animación (socio)cultural, en verano aumenta la animación cultural — there are more cultural things going on in the summer

    4) (Cine) animation
    * * *
    1) (bullicio, actividad) activity
    2) ( de una velada) entertainment
    3) (Cin) animation
    * * *
    Ex. The Web offers many downloadable CGI scripts for basic functions, including counters, timers, guest books, image maps, and server-push animations.
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    * animación a la lectura = reading animation, reading promotion.
    * animación informática = computer animation.
    * animación por ordenador = computer animation.
    * * *
    1) (bullicio, actividad) activity
    2) ( de una velada) entertainment
    3) (Cin) animation
    * * *

    Ex: The Web offers many downloadable CGI scripts for basic functions, including counters, timers, guest books, image maps, and server-push animations.

    * animación a la lectura = reading animation, reading promotion.
    * animación informática = computer animation.
    * animación por ordenador = computer animation.

    * * *
    A (bullicio, actividad) activity
    había gran animación en las calles the streets were full of life o activity, the streets were bustling with life o activity
    se debatió con gran animación it was the subject of a lively debate
    B (de una velada) entertainment
    C ( Cin) animation
    * * *

    animación sustantivo femenino
    1 (bullicio, actividad) activity;

    2 ( de una velada) entertainment
    3 (Cin) animation
    animación sustantivo femenino
    1 (diversión) entertainment
    2 (concurrencia, bullicio) activity
    3 Cine (simulación de movimiento en dibujos) animation
    ' animación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ambiente
    - marcha
    English:
    sprightliness
    - action
    - animation
    * * *
    1. [alegría] liveliness;
    los desfiles callejeros dan mucha animación a las fiestas the street parades make the celebrations very lively o really liven up the celebrations
    2. [bullicio] hustle and bustle, activity
    3. Cine animation
    Am animación por computadora computer animation; Esp animación por ordenador computer animation
    4. [promoción]
    un curso de animación a la lectura a course to encourage people to read more
    animación (socio)cultural = organization of social and cultural activities for young people or pensioners;
    animación turística = organization of games, outings and social activities for guests
    * * *
    f
    1 liveliness;
    hay mucha animación it’s very lively
    2 en películas animation
    * * *
    animación nf, pl - ciones
    1) : animation
    2) viveza: liveliness

    Spanish-English dictionary > animación

  • 100 máximo

    adj.
    maximum, greatest, maximal, top.
    m.
    1 maximum, high point, peak.
    2 Máximo.
    3 maximum, acme of a process or disease.
    * * *
    1 (velocidad) maximum; (puntuación, condecoración) highest
    1 maximum
    ————————
    1 maximum
    * * *
    1. noun m. - como máximo 2. (f. - máxima)
    adj.
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ [altura, temperatura, velocidad, carga] maximum

    máximo jefe o líder — esp LAm President, leader

    2.

    • al máximo — to the maximum

    debemos aprovechar al máximo nuestros recursos — we must exploit our resources to the maximum, we must make the best of the resources we have

    • como máximo — (=como mucho) at the most, at the outside; (=como muy tarde) at the latest

    te costará 5.000 como máximo — it'll cost you 5,000 at the most

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    I
    - ma adjetivo <temperatura/velocidad> top (before n), maximum (before n); <carga/altura> maximum (before n); < punto> highest; < esfuerzo> greatest, maximum (before n)

    era su máxima ilusión/ambición — it was her great dream/greatest ambition

    lo máximo que puede ocurrir es... — the worst that can happen is...

    II
    masculino maximum

    100 palabras como máximo — 100 words, maximum

    rendir al máximo — < persona> to give a hundred percent; < máquina> to work to its full capacity

    * * *
    = maximum, utmost, peak, maximal, ultimate, upper bound.
    Ex. When used by skilled abstractors this mixture of styles can achieve the maximum transmission of information, within a minimum length.
    Ex. Indeed, he must take the utmost care never to jump to conclusions.
    Ex. Peak use of the libraries occurs during lunch hours.
    Ex. Summaries typically convey maximal information in minimal space.
    Ex. The whole project is undeniably full of sentimental, cinephiliac rapture, but it provided the ultimate opportunity for filmmakers to talk feverishly about the basic nature of their medium.
    Ex. It also provides a simple yet powerful mechanism for establishing the upper bound of the maximal substructural commonality of a series of compounds.
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    * alcanzar el máximo = reach + a head.
    * al máximo = to the full, to the utmost, to the hilt, to the extreme, at full stretch.
    * a lo máximo = at best, at most, at the most.
    * aprovechamiento al máximo = optimisation [optimization, -USA].
    * aprovechar al máximo = maximise [maximize, -USA], optimise [optimize, -USA], realise + to its full potential, exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), get + the best out of, take + the best advantage, get + the most out of, realise + the potential, make + the best possible use of.
    * aprovechar al máximo las oportunidades = maximise + opportunities.
    * aprovecharse al máximo de = make + the best of.
    * aspirar a lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * búsqueda por máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour searching.
    * cargado al máximo = fully-loaded.
    * coste máximo = maximum cost.
    * de máxima categoría = top-class.
    * de máxima seguridad = safety critical [safety-critical].
    * disfrutar al máximo = enjoy + every minute of, love + every minute of it.
    * enojado al máximo = mad as hell.
    * esforzarse al máximo = do + Posesivo + utmost, stretch + Reflexivo, stretch + Nombre + to the limit, give + Posesivo + utmost, lean over + backwards, work + hard, give + Posesivo + best.
    * estar al máximo = overstretch.
    * explotar al máximo = realise + to its full potential, realise + the potential.
    * funcionando al máximo = overstretched.
    * funcionar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * hasta el máximo de las posibilidades de Algo = to + Posesivo + full potential.
    * hasta un máximo de + Número = up to + Número.
    * lleno al máximo = packed to capacity, packed to the rafters.
    * lo máximo = the be all and end all, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * máximo anotador = highest scorer, top scorer, leading scorer.
    * máximo goleador = leading scorer, top scorer, highest scorer.
    * máximo interés = maximum interest.
    * nivel máximo del agua = high-water mark.
    * obtener el máximo beneficio = reap + full potential.
    * ofrecer lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * premio máximo = jackpot.
    * producir el rendimiento máximo = come into + Posesivo + own.
    * prueba de la máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour test.
    * sacar el máximo partido = exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), take + the best advantage.
    * sacar el máximo partido a = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo partido a Algo = reach + the full potential of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de = make + the best of, harness + the power of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de Algo = make + the most of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de Algo = make + the most of.
    * ser el máximo = be the limit.
    * temperatura máxima = maximum temperature.
    * utilizar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * utilizar al máximo por medio del ordenador = explode.
    * velocidad máxima = speed limit.
    * velocidad máxima permitida = speed limit.
    * vivir la vida al máximo = live + life to the full.
    * * *
    I
    - ma adjetivo <temperatura/velocidad> top (before n), maximum (before n); <carga/altura> maximum (before n); < punto> highest; < esfuerzo> greatest, maximum (before n)

    era su máxima ilusión/ambición — it was her great dream/greatest ambition

    lo máximo que puede ocurrir es... — the worst that can happen is...

    II
    masculino maximum

    100 palabras como máximo — 100 words, maximum

    rendir al máximo — < persona> to give a hundred percent; < máquina> to work to its full capacity

    * * *
    = maximum, utmost, peak, maximal, ultimate, upper bound.

    Ex: When used by skilled abstractors this mixture of styles can achieve the maximum transmission of information, within a minimum length.

    Ex: Indeed, he must take the utmost care never to jump to conclusions.
    Ex: Peak use of the libraries occurs during lunch hours.
    Ex: Summaries typically convey maximal information in minimal space.
    Ex: The whole project is undeniably full of sentimental, cinephiliac rapture, but it provided the ultimate opportunity for filmmakers to talk feverishly about the basic nature of their medium.
    Ex: It also provides a simple yet powerful mechanism for establishing the upper bound of the maximal substructural commonality of a series of compounds.
    * alcanzar el máximo = reach + a head.
    * al máximo = to the full, to the utmost, to the hilt, to the extreme, at full stretch.
    * a lo máximo = at best, at most, at the most.
    * aprovechamiento al máximo = optimisation [optimization, -USA].
    * aprovechar al máximo = maximise [maximize, -USA], optimise [optimize, -USA], realise + to its full potential, exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), get + the best out of, take + the best advantage, get + the most out of, realise + the potential, make + the best possible use of.
    * aprovechar al máximo las oportunidades = maximise + opportunities.
    * aprovecharse al máximo de = make + the best of.
    * aspirar a lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * búsqueda por máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour searching.
    * cargado al máximo = fully-loaded.
    * coste máximo = maximum cost.
    * de máxima categoría = top-class.
    * de máxima seguridad = safety critical [safety-critical].
    * disfrutar al máximo = enjoy + every minute of, love + every minute of it.
    * enojado al máximo = mad as hell.
    * esforzarse al máximo = do + Posesivo + utmost, stretch + Reflexivo, stretch + Nombre + to the limit, give + Posesivo + utmost, lean over + backwards, work + hard, give + Posesivo + best.
    * estar al máximo = overstretch.
    * explotar al máximo = realise + to its full potential, realise + the potential.
    * funcionando al máximo = overstretched.
    * funcionar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * hasta el máximo de las posibilidades de Algo = to + Posesivo + full potential.
    * hasta un máximo de + Número = up to + Número.
    * lleno al máximo = packed to capacity, packed to the rafters.
    * lo máximo = the be all and end all, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * máximo anotador = highest scorer, top scorer, leading scorer.
    * máximo goleador = leading scorer, top scorer, highest scorer.
    * máximo interés = maximum interest.
    * nivel máximo del agua = high-water mark.
    * obtener el máximo beneficio = reap + full potential.
    * ofrecer lo máximo = shoot (for) + the moon.
    * premio máximo = jackpot.
    * producir el rendimiento máximo = come into + Posesivo + own.
    * prueba de la máxima proximidad = nearest neighbour test.
    * sacar el máximo partido = exploit + full potential, take + full advantage (of), take + the best advantage.
    * sacar el máximo partido a = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo partido a Algo = reach + the full potential of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de = make + the best of, harness + the power of.
    * sacar el máximo partido de Algo = make + the most of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de = get + the most out of.
    * sacar el máximo provecho de Algo = make + the most of.
    * ser el máximo = be the limit.
    * temperatura máxima = maximum temperature.
    * utilizar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * utilizar al máximo por medio del ordenador = explode.
    * velocidad máxima = speed limit.
    * velocidad máxima permitida = speed limit.
    * vivir la vida al máximo = live + life to the full.

    * * *
    máximo1 -ma
    ‹temperatura/velocidad› top ( before n), maximum ( before n); ‹carga/precio› maximum
    le fue conferido el máximo galardón she was awarded the highest honor
    su máxima ilusión/ambición es llegar a ser senadora her great dream/greatest ambition is to become a senator
    lo máximo que puede ocurrir es que llegue con retraso the worst that can happen is that she'll arrive late
    Compuestos:
    masculine ( period); penalty
    masculine highest common factor
    maximum
    el máximo de tiempo que le concedieron para pagar fue un año he was given a maximum of one year in which to pay
    el trabajo puede tener un máximo de 20 folios the piece can be up to 20 pages long
    como máximo te costará mil pesetas it'll cost you a thousand pesetas at the most o at the outside
    como máximo llegaremos a las once we'll get there at eleven at the latest
    aprovechó las vacaciones al máximo he enjoyed his vacation to the full, he made the most of his vacation
    las máquinas están rindiendo al máximo the machines are working flat out
    se esforzó al máximo she did her utmost
    * * *

     

    máximo 1
    ◊ -ma adjetivo ‹temperatura/velocidad› top ( before n), maximum ( before n);


    ‹carga/altura› maximum ( before n);
    ‹ punto› highest;
    ‹esfuerzo/ambición› greatest ( before n);

    máximo 2 sustantivo masculino
    maximum;
    como máximo at the most;
    aprovechar algo al máximo to make the most of sth;
    se esforzó al máximo she did her utmost;
    rendir al máximo [ persona] to give a hundred percent;

    [ máquina] to work to its full capacity
    máximo,-a
    I adjetivo maximum, highest
    carga máxima autorizada, maximum load allowed
    el máximo esplendor del imperio, the most brilliant period of the empire
    II m (tope) maximum: nos esforzamos al máximo, we did our utmost
    un máximo de cinco personas, a maximum of five people
    como máximo, (como mucho) at the most
    (a más tardar) at the latest
    ' máximo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    límite
    - máxima
    - suma
    - sumo
    - tasar
    - techo
    - tope
    English:
    absolute
    - aim
    - level
    - max
    - maximum
    - most
    - N
    - nth degree
    - out
    - peak
    - top
    - ultimate
    - limit
    - live
    - load
    - mileage
    - outside
    - stretch
    - take
    - utmost
    * * *
    máximo, -a
    ♦ superlativo
    ver grande
    ♦ adj
    [capacidad, cantidad, temperatura] maximum; [honor, galardón] highest;
    la máxima puntuación [posible] the maximum score;
    [entre varias] the highest score;
    el máximo goleador the top scorer;
    soy el máximo responsable del proyecto I am the most senior person on the project;
    los máximos responsables políticos del partido the party's senior politicians
    Mat máximo común denominador highest common denominator; Mat máximo común divisor highest common factor
    ♦ nm
    maximum;
    trabajan un máximo de 35 horas they work a maximum of 35 hours;
    al máximo to the utmost;
    llegar al máximo to reach the limit;
    pon la calefacción al máximo put the heating on maximum o as high as it will go;
    están trabajando al máximo they're working flat out;
    la libra alcanzó un máximo histórico frente al dólar the pound reached an all-time high against the dollar
    ♦ como máximo loc adv
    [a más tardar] at the latest; [como mucho] at the most;
    llegaremos como máximo a las seis we'll be there by six at the latest;
    podemos gastar como máximo cinco millones we can spend up to a maximum of five million
    * * *
    adj maximum
    * * *
    máximo, -ma adj
    : maximum, greatest, highest
    1) : maximum
    2)
    al máximo : to the utmost
    3)
    como máximo : at the most, at the latest
    * * *
    máximo1 adj maximum
    ¿cuál es la velocidad máxima? what's the maximum speed?
    máximo2 n maximum

    Spanish-English dictionary > máximo

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