block+pattern+effect

1) эффект, влияние || влиять

2) действие, воздействие || действовать, воздействовать

3) результат, следствие; явление

4) эффект, впечатление

5) производить, изготовлять

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- additive effect

- anionic effect

- astatic effect

- asymmetrical effect

- averaged effect

- back effect

- barrier-layer effect

- batch effect

- binaural effect

- blanket effect

- block effect

- Borrmann effect

- calender effect

- cancellation effect

- chance effect

- Coekelbergs effect

- collective effect

- column effect

- combined effect

- common effect

- converse effect

- cubic effect

- cyclical effect

- dead effect

- dead-end effect

- direct effect

- diversity effect

- dominance effect

- Dorn effect

- dual effect

- effect of averaging

- effect of factor

- effect of grouping

- effect of pooling

- effect of replications

- electrooptic effect

- equivalent effect

- exchange effect

- external effect

- first order effect

- flywheel effect

- focusing effect

- front effect

- germinating effect

- Gersho-Rosencwaig effect

- ghost effect

- grain effect

- Hanle effect

- hole burning effect

- hot-electron effect

- ill effect

- immediate effect

- indirect effect

- induction effect

- inner photoemissive effect

- interaction effect

- intermittency effect

- internal photoelectric effect

- interplot effect

- inverse effect

- irrelevant effect

- isotope effect

- Judd-Ofelt effect

- latitude effect

- level effect

- luminous effect

- Luxemburg effect

- Mach effect

- magnetoacoustic effect

- magnetocaloric effect

- magnetoionic effect

- magnetostriction effect

- main effect

- Malter effect

- mechanocaloric effect

- Miller effect

- mutual effect

- n-th order effect

- obstacle effect

- orientation effect

- outer effect

- outer photoemissive effect

- pattern effect

- periodic effect

- piezooptic effect

- Pockels effect

- primary effect

- product effect

- pyroelectric effect

- quadratic effect

- random effect

- Ranque effect

- ratchet effect

- real effect

- regression effect

- reinforcing effect

- relativistic effect

- replication effect

- reverse greenhouse effect

- row effect

- Sagnac effect

- salt effect

- saturation effect

- scale effect

- secondary effect

- shadow effect

- shadow forming effect

- shallow water effect

- shore effect

- significant effect

- speckle effect

- stereophonic effect

- stereosocopic effect

- stratification effect

- structure-forming effect

- Suhl effect

- sympathy effect

- thermomagnetic effect

- thermomechanical effect

- time effect

- tip effect

- topographical effect

- total effect

- treatment effect

- true effect

- useful effect

- vanity effect

- within-sample effect

- zoom out effect

- zoom-in effect

1) прибор; устройство; установка

2) компонент; элемент

3) план ( действий); схема; процедура

4) фигура речи

5) девиз; лозунг

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- λ-device

1) сооружение; конструкция

2) конструкция; устройство; схема

3) структура; строение

4) система

5) структурировать

6) форма; вид

7) эл. опора

8) базовая деталь

9) трикотажное переплетение

- cutting ability

- cutting action

- cutting air

- cutting attachment

- cutting-away

- cutting behavior

- cutting bit

- cutting blade

- cutting blowpipe

- cutting burner

- cutting capacity

- cutting center

- cutting chamber

- cutting chisel

- cutting edge of scraper bowl

- cutting edge of shield

- autogenous cutting

- automatic oxygen cutting

- bench cutting

- bevel cutting

- bevel gear cutting

- bevel gear cutting by reciprocating tools

- block cutting

- branch cutting-in

- brush cutting

— bending moment diagram

— binary diagram

— block diagram

— circuit diagram

— collective diagram

— connection diagram

— constitutional diagram

— contour diagram

— elementary diagram

— equilibrium diagram

— flow diagram

— indicator diagram

— installation diagram

— load diagram

— performance diagram

— petrofabric diagram

— phase diagram

— piping diagram

— power flow diagram

— pressure-volume diagram

— process flow diagram

— record diagram

— wiring diagram

— cause-and-effect diagram

— fatigue-life diagram

— fault tree diagram

— inspection diagram

— maintenance diagram

— reliability block diagram

— reliability structure diagram

— stress-cycle diagram

— switching diagram

— transition diagram

- diagram of well spacing pattern

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• пояснительный чертеж

• схематическое изображение

   1) The Book of Nature Is Written in the Language of Mathematics

   Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)

   2) Arranging Speech so as to Reply Appropriately

   It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)

   3) No Other Animal Has the Language Capacity of the Human

   It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)

   4) Human Beings Do Not Live Only in the World of Objects

   Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)

   5) Language Powerfully Conditions All Our Thinking

   It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)

   6) A List of Language Games

   [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]

   Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it

   Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another

   LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)

   7) Language Constrains Certain Modes of Interpretation

   We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)

   8) We Dissect Nature in Accordance with Our Native Languages

   We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.

   The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)

   9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language

   The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)

    10) The Analysis of Certain Types of Utterances

   It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)

    11) The Dictionary of a Language Is a System of Concepts

   In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)

    12) Talk about the Evolution of the Language Capacity is Beside the Point

   In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)

    13) The Development of Language

   [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)

    14) Sentential and Conceptual Levels in Language

   he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.

   The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)

    15) Linguistic Realities Have Not Yet Been Captured by Theoretical Models

   The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.

   But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)

    16) The Final Steps to Human Language

   The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)

    17) The Inadequacy of Formal Linguistic Models for Ordinary Language Usage

    t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)

    18) When a Language Is an Abstract Machine

   A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)

    19) Metaphor and Metonymy Underpin the Formation of Linguistic Signs

   Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)

    20) Language and the Analysis of Nature

   It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)

    21) Correspondence Rules for Mapping Old Theory into Subsets of New Theory

   First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....

   Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)

    22) The Inclusion of Non- linguistic Factors in a Theory of Grammar

   If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)

    23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction

   Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)

    24) The Genetic Blueprints of Language

   By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)

    25) Languages Are Machines

   Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

in accordance with 1. в соответствии с

in addition to that вместе с тем

in advance 1. заранее; заблаговременно

Supplier shall notify the Contractor sufficiently in advance of any fabricating operations Обо всех производственных операциях Поставщик заблаговременно извещает Подрядчика 2. авансом (т.е. "вперед", в отличие от in arrears- см.)

in all ways 1. во всех отношениях 2. с любой точки зрения

in ample time заблаговременно ( с оттенком задолго до, с большим запасом [ по времени])

in analysis based on limit load при расчете по предельным нагрузкам

in anticipation 1. исподволь 2. заблаговременно

in arrears по факту (т.е. по истечении какого-то времени, «потом», в отличие от in advance - см)

in attendance Those in attendance included Присутствовали:...

in basic terms вообще говоря; в общем и целом; как правило

in block letters печатными буквами

in the blueprint stage в стадии проектирования (перен. в стадии планирования, "на бумаге"; в отличие от in the hardware stage - см.)

in bulk quantities в товарных количествах

in case a (

the)

in case of eye contact при попадании в глаза (опасного / вредного вещества /материала)

in case of ingestion при попадании внутрь (опасного / вредного вещества /материала)

in case of inhalation при вдыхании (опасного / вредного вещества / материала)

in case of respiratory standstill при остановке дыхания

in case of skin contact при попадании на кожу (опасного /вредного вещества /материала)

in case of swallowing при проглатывании (опасного /вредного вещества /материала)

in the clear: be sure all personnel are in the clear убедиться в том, что весь персонал находится в безопасности (т.е. вне опасности, на безопасном расстоянии и т.д.)

in codex form в форме книги

in compliance with по (напр., нормам, ТУ и т.д.);

in conclusion, В заключение...

in a condensed form в сжатой форме

in conflict with: In conflict with this is... ( в начале предлож.) В то же время...; Вместе с тем...

in conformance to по (напр., нормам, ТУ и т.д.)

in conjunction with 1. параллельно с

in connection with 1. в свете... 2. в контексте чего-л. 3. in connection with Fig. 13... Если обратиться к рис. 13...

in consideration of 1. принимая во внимание 2. учитывая

in a conspicuous location на видном месте

in a conspicuous place на видном месте

in a conspicuous position на видном месте

in consultation with по согласованию с; по договоренности с

in contemplation of в преддверии чего-л.;

in the context of 1. в связи с; в свете; в плане 2. применительно к 3. если иметь в виду; с учетом 4. на примере 5. с точки зрения 6. в случае 7. в отношении 8. в области 9. в рамках

in continuation of в развитие чего-л.

in contradiction with противоречащий чему-л.

in contrast (npomueum.) 1. же

in contrast to в отличие от; в то время как; что же касается

in control не выходящий за установленные предельные значения (напр., о размерах, механических свойствах, технологических параметрах и т.д.)

in a controlled manner организованно

in a criss-cross pattern по перекрестной схеме ( затяжка болтов - для обеспечения равномерной затяжки)

in a customary manner обычным способом; по обычной схеме; тривиально

in a design situation при проектировании

in diction словами; на обычном языке; открытым текстом (т.е. не кодом)

in a direction parallel to по ходу (напр., трубопровода)

in document format отдельным изданием

in domestic experience в отечественной практике

in due time в установленные сроки; своевременно

in effect по существу

in either direction в любом направлении

in excess больше ( чем нужно);

in excess of 1. не укладывающийся в 2. сверх чего-л.

in an expedient manner оперативно

in fact более того,...

in force действующий (напр., законодательство, договор и т.д.)

in the field на монтаже ( а не па заводе или на производстве)

in the first place вообще

in foreseeable future в обозримом будущем

in formative stage в стадии становления

in free format в произвольном виде

in full detail исчерпывающе; исчерпывающим образом; исчерпывающе подробно; с исчерпывающей полнотой

in full standing полноправный

in full view в пределах прямой видимости (зд. «прямо» означает не впереди, перед, а незаслоненный, незагороженный)

in furtherance of в продолжение чего-л.;

in furtherance to в развитие чего-л.;

in furtherance to your letter dated01.15.2004 в развитие Вашего письма от 15.01.2004 г.

in ( the) future 1. со временем; впоследствии 2. в перспективе

in general: A does not in general correspond to В А не всегда соответствует В

in general terms вообще говоря

in the generic sense собирательно

in good order в полной исправности; в исправном рабочем состоянии;

in good standing полноправный

in a gradual manner плавно;

in greater detail намного / гораздо полнее

in hand (см. тж. on hand) наличный; имеющийся

in the hardware stage в стадии конструктивной сборки (в отличие от in the blueprint stage - см.)

in hidden form (матем.) в неявном виде; в неявной форме

in the initial stages на первых порах

in isolation автономно

in the judgment of по мнению

in line with 1. в увязке с

in the long run в перспективе

in a... manner: in a gradual and uniform manner плавно и равномерно

in a masterful way мастерски

in the mean в обычном смысле

in the melting-pot: be in the melting-pot находиться в стадии решения / принятия решения

in a modification в другом исполнении

in multiples of в количестве

in the near term в краткосрочной перспективе

in need of нуждающийся в чем-л.;

in no case ни при каких обстоятельствах

in a non-discriminative manner непредвзято

in no time в сжатые сроки

in no way никоим образом не

in operation задействованный;

in an orderly manner организованно; в организованном порядке

in outline в общих чертах

in one's own element в своей сфере

in one's own milieu в своей сфере

in particular в первую очередь; прежде всего

in passing заметим в скобках; заметим попутно; между прочим

in person лично

1) be in place 1. иметь наготове; представлять (документы, согласования и т.д.) 2. (описат.) используемый (реально, фактически)

2) have in place располагать (чем-л.)

3) put in place 1. внедрять; вводить в действие; внедрять в практику 2. реализовывать 3. выполнять ( фактически); осуществлять 4. задействовать; (перен..) запускать (напр., процесс перехода на новый материал)

1) case in point характерный пример; образчик; эпизод

2) tool in point подходящее / нужное / соответствующее средство

in the present circumstances 1. в данном случае 2. в этих условиях

in ( the) press готовится к печати

in progress быть ( пока) незавершенным

in pursuance of: 1. следуя (напр., нашему плану) 2. in pursuance of your letter dated01.15.2004 в связи с Вашим письмом от 15.01.2004 г.; в контексте Вашего письма от 15.01.2004 г. 3. in pursuance of your orders во исполнение Ваших указаний

in pursuance to в ответ на;

in question рассматриваемый

in receipt of: We are in receipt of your letter dated Мы получили Ваше письмо от...

in recent years в последние годы

in recognition of 1. отдавая должное 2. принимая во внимание 3. с учетом

in reference: in reference to your inquiry dated На Ваш запрос от...

in this regard (синон. in this context) в этой связи

in response of в соответствии с;

in response to в соответствии с;

in retaliation в отместку за что-л.

in retrospect задним числом

in routine use in: be in routine use in обычно используется в

in running order годный к пуску (напр., блок электростанции)

in a sense в известном смысле

in a short time в недалеком будущем

in situ на своем месте

in so doing ( в начале предлож.) При этом...

in so far as коль скоро

in some instances... and in others в одних случаях..., а в других случаях

in some locations..., in other (

in spurts скачкообразный (напр., о росте трещины)

in step with по мере (увеличения, уменьшения, роста, снижения, и т.д.];

in substitution to взамен чего-л. (напр., выдавать доработанный чертеж: проекта вместо другого, предыдущего)

in summary в общем (и целом)

in terms of (ЛДП) 1. в плане чего-л.; в части чего-л. 2. если говорить о 3. (матем.) относительно

in this instance А если это так, то; А раз это так, то

in a timely manner оперативно

in a tough spot: be in a tough spot находиться / оказаться в затруднительном положении

in a uniform manner равномерно

in unique cases в исключительных случаях

in unison параллельно; совместно; в связке

in use 1. принятый (в знач. находящийся в употреблении)

in a variety of[ different areas] в самых различных [ областях]

in the vicinity of в зоне чего-л.;

in view of 1. в связи с; коль скоро; в свете чего-л.; на основании чего-л. in view of the foregoing в связи с вышеизложенным; в свете вышеизложенного; на основании вышеизложенного 2. in view of the fact that в связи с тем, что

in which case и тогда...

in witness whereof в удостоверение чего...

in words прописью ( о цифрах)

in a workmanlike manner квалифицированно; мастерски; "классно"

in writing в письменном виде

in a wrong place 1. в неположенном месте 2. (разг.) не там

- shock absorber arm

- shock absorber piston

- shock absorber relief valve

- shock absorber

- shock-absorbing

- shock accelerometer

- shock action

- shock attenuator

- shock bending test

- shock damper

- shock deflection test

- shock eliminator

- shock envelope

- shock ignition

- shock-induced boundary-layer separation

- shock insulator

- shock-isolated

- shock load

- shock loading test

- shock mount

- shock-mounted platform

- shock mounting

- shock oscillation

- shock-proof radiator

- shock-proof steering gear

- shock reducer

- shock refrigeration

- shock test

- shock testing machine

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building

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The name of Le Corbusier is synonymous with the International style of modern architecture and city planning, one utilizing functionalist designs carried out in twentieth-century materials with modern methods of construction. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, born in the watch-making town of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura mountain region, was the son of a watch engraver and dial painter. In the years before 1918 he travelled widely, studying building in many countries. He learned about the use of reinforced concrete in the studio of Auguste Perret and about industrial construction under Peter Behrens. In 1917 he went to live in Paris and spent the rest of his life in France; in 1920 he adopted the name of Le Corbusier, one derived from that of his ancestors (Le Corbesier), and ten years later became a French citizen.

Le Corbusier's long working life spanned a career divided into three distinct parts. Between 1905 and 1916 he designed a number of simple and increasingly modern houses; the years 1921 to 1940 were ones of research and debate; and the twenty years from 1945 saw the blossoming of his genius. After 1917 Le Corbusier gained a reputation in Paris as an architect of advanced originality. He was particularly interested in low-cost housing and in improving accommodation for the poor. In 1923 he published Vers une architecture, in which he planned estates of mass-produced houses where all extraneous and unnecessary features were stripped away and the houses had flat roofs and plain walls: his concept of "a machine for living in". These white boxes were lifted up on stilts, his pilotis, and double-height living space was provided internally, enclosed by large areas of factory glazing. In 1922 Le Corbusier exhibited a city plan, La Ville contemporaine, in which tall blocks made from steel and concrete were set amongst large areas of parkland, replacing the older concept of city slums with the light and air of modern living. In 1925 he published Urbanisme, further developing his socialist ideals. These constituted a major reform of the industrial-city pattern, but the ideas were not taken up at that time. The Depression years of the 1930s severely curtailed architectural activity in France. Le Corbusier designed houses for the wealthy there, but most of his work prior to 1945 was overseas: his Centrosoyus Administration Building in Moscow (1929–36) and the Ministry of Education Building in Rio de Janeiro (1943) are examples. Immediately after the end of the Second World War Le Corbusier won international fame for his Unité d'habitation theme, the first example of which was built in the boulevard Michelet in Marseille in 1947–52. His answer to the problem of accommodating large numbers of people in a small space at low cost was to construct an immense all-purpose block of pre-cast concrete slabs carried on a row of massive central supports. The Marseille Unité contains 350 apartments in eight double storeys, with a storey for shops half-way up and communal facilities on the roof. In 1950 he published Le Modular, which described a system of measurement based upon the human male figure. From this was derived a relationship of human and mathematical proportions; this concept, together with the extensive use of various forms of concrete, was fundamental to Le Corbusier's later work. In the world-famous and highly personal Pilgrimage Church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1950–5), Le Corbusier's work was in Expressionist form, a plastic design in massive rough-cast concrete, its interior brilliantly designed and lit. His other equally famous, though less popular, ecclesiastical commission showed a contrasting theme, of "brutalist" concrete construction with uncompromisingly stark, rectangular forms. This is the Dominican Convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette at Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle near Lyon, begun in 1956. The interior, in particular, is carefully worked out, and the lighting, from both natural and artificial sources, is indirect, angled in many directions to illuminate vistas and planes. All surfaces are carefully sloped, the angles meticulously calculated to give optimum visual effect. The crypt, below the raised choir, is painted in bright colours and lit from ceiling oculi.

One of Le Corbusier's late works, the Convent is a tour de force.

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