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21 program
1) программаа) план действий; графикб) последовательность действий, выполняемых компьютером для достижения определённой целив) описание выполняемых компьютером действий на языке программирования или в машинном коде2) разрабатывать программу; планировать; составлять график3) вчт. программировать•- accounting program
- activity program
- activity-based program
- add-in program
- AI program
- antivirus program
- application program
- artificial intellect program
- assembler program
- assembly program
- author program
- authoring program
- authorized program
- autostart program
- background program
- batch circuit design program
- batch program
- benchmark program
- blue-ribbon program
- bootstrap program
- brain-damaged program
- brittle program
- broadcast program
- broadcasting program
- broken program
- brute-force program
- byte-code program
- cache program
- CAD program
- calendar program
- CGI program
- channel program
- character-based program
- check program
- checking program
- chip planning program
- closed program
- command control program
- command-driven program
- commercial program
- communications program
- compiler program
- compiling program
- compressor program
- computer program
- computer-aided design program
- consulting program
- control program
- conversational program
- copy program
- core program
- coresident programs
- crafty program
- cuspy program
- data acquisition program
- debugging program
- decision program
- default output program
- despooling program
- diagnostic program
- dialer program
- dictionary program
- distance-learning program
- dongle-protected program
- draw program
- drawing program
- drill-and-practice program
- dummy program
- edit program
- electronic circuit analysis program
- entertainment program
- event-driven program
- executable program
- execute-only program
- executive program
- fax program
- fetch program
- file handling program
- file management program
- flamage-generating program
- flexible program
- floating-point program
- foreground program
- form letter program
- froggy program
- function program
- generalized program
- goal-driven program
- graphics program
- grundy program
- hard disk backup program
- hardware program
- hard-wired program
- helper program
- heuristic program
- high frequency active auroral research program
- high-end program
- inference program
- information program
- input/output limited program
- input/output program
- install program
- interactive program
- interpretive program
- LAN backup program
- LAN memory management program
- language translator program
- LAN-ignorant program
- layout-versus-layout program
- learning program
- library program
- linear program
- looping program
- macro program
- mailing list program
- mail-merging program
- main program
- main-line program
- master program
- memory management program
- memory resident program
- menu-driven program
- merge-print program
- MIDI program
- monitor program
- music program
- native program
- network control program
- object program
- one-shot program
- overlay program
- packaged programs
- page composition program
- page layout program
- page makeup program
- paint program
- paintbrush program
- painting program
- peripheral limited program
- personal computer LAN program
- pilot program
- piped program
- plugged program
- postmortem program
- preemptible program
- preemptive program
- presentation graphics program
- primary control program
- problem program
- program for integrated shipboard electronics
- program-aid program
- project management program
- quiz program
- radio program
- RAM-resident program
- record-oriented database management program
- reenterable program
- relocatable program
- remote control program
- reusable program
- robot program
- robust program
- routing program
- security program
- self-replicating program
- sequence checking program
- service program
- setup program
- simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis
- simulator program
- snapshot program
- snapshot trace program
- sort program
- sort/merge program
- source program
- spelling-check program
- spreadsheet program
- stand-alone program
- star program
- supervisor program
- supervisory program
- support program
- sustaining program
- symbol manipulation program
- symbolic math program
- system program
- table-oriented database management program
- tailor-made program
- target program
- task interrupt control program
- television program
- terminal interface program
- test program
- thesaurus program
- time-sharing program
- tracing program
- transient program
- transistor analysis program
- trojan-horse program
- tutorial program
- UNIX-to-UNIX copy program
- unsupported program
- user program
- utility program
- vector-to-raster conversion program
- videotape program
- Windows program
- word processing programThe New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > program
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22 character
1) символ; знак2) вчт литера3) иероглиф4) стиль (напр. документа)5) фтт характер группы6) печатать; писать7) шифр9) характерная особенность; отличительный признак10) роль (напр. в телесериале)•- acknowledge charactercharacters per inch — число символов на дюйм ( характеристика плотности расположения символов в строке)
- active character
- admissible character
- all-zeros character
- alpha character
- alphabetic character
- alphanumeric character
- ASCII character
- assignment character
- auxiliary character
- backspace character
- bang character
- barred character
- basic character
- binary-coded character
- blank character
- block cancel character
- block check character
- built-up character
- cancel character
- checking character
- code character
- code extension character
- command character
- communication control character
- control character
- Cyrillic characters - digital character
- dot-pattern character
- editing character
- enquiry character
- erase character
- escape character
- extensible character
- face-change character
- fill character
- font-change character
- format character
- form-feed character
- fully formed character
- function character
- fundamental character
- garbage characters
- global character
- graphic character
- group character
- high-order character
- idle character
- illegal character
- information character
- layout character - lower-case character
- magnetic character
- math character
- mathematical character
- most significant character
- national character
- negative acknowledgement character
- new-line character
- nonadmissible character
- non-ASCII character
- nonblocking shift character
- nongraphic character
- nonprinting character
- null character
- numeric character
- oblique stroke character
- optical character
- pad character
- page-eject character
- paper-throw character
- pipe character
- polling character
- print control character
- reserved character
- scan-pattern character
- shift character
- shift-in character
- shift-out character
- sign character
- space character
- special character
- standard character
- stroke character
- stroke-pattern character
- sync character
- synchronous idle character
- underscore character
- unprintable character
- upper-case character -
23 character
1) символ; знак2) вчт. литера3) иероглиф4) стиль (напр. документа)5) фтт. характер группы6) печатать; писать7) шифр9) характерная особенность; отличительный признак10) роль (напр. в телесериале)•- acknowledge charactercharacters per inch — число символов на дюйм ( характеристика плотности расположения символов в строке)
- active character
- admissible character
- all-zeros character
- alpha character
- alphabetic character
- alphanumeric character
- ASCII character
- assignment character
- auxiliary character
- backspace character
- bang character
- barred character
- basic character
- binary-coded character
- blank character
- block cancel character
- block check character
- built-up character
- cancel character
- checking character
- code character
- code extension character
- command character
- communication control character
- control character
- Cyrillic characters
- delete character
- device control character
- digital character
- dot-pattern character
- editing character
- enquiry character
- erase character
- escape character
- extensible character
- face-change character
- fill character
- font-change character
- format character
- form-feed character
- fully formed character
- function character
- fundamental character
- garbage characters
- global character
- graphic character
- group character
- high-order character
- idle character
- illegal character
- information character
- layout character
- least significant character
- literal character
- lower-case character
- magnetic character
- math character
- mathematical character
- most significant character
- national character
- negative acknowledgement character
- new-line character
- nonadmissible character
- non-ASCII character
- nonblocking shift character
- nongraphic character
- nonprinting character
- null character
- numeric character
- oblique stroke character
- optical character
- pad character
- page-eject character
- paper-throw character
- pipe character
- polling character
- print control character
- reserved character
- scan-pattern character
- shift character
- shift-in character
- shift-out character
- sign character
- space character
- special character
- standard character
- stroke character
- stroke-pattern character
- sync character
- synchronous idle character
- underscore character
- unprintable character
- upper-case characterThe New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > character
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24 language
язык || языковой- action description language
- actual machine language
- agent programming language
- AI language
- Algol-like language
- algorithmical language
- algorithmic language
- application-oriented language
- applicative language
- artificial language
- assembler language
- assembly language
- assembly-output language
- assignment-free language
- behavioral language
- bidirectional language
- block-structured language
- Boolean-based language
- business definition language
- business-oriented language
- calculus-type language
- C-based language
- client-side language
- code language
- command language
- compiled language
- compiler language
- component definition language
- composite language
- computer language
- computer-dependent language
- computer-independent language
- computer-oriented language
- computer-programming language
- computer-sensitive language
- consensus language
- context-free language
- control language
- conversational language
- core language
- data definition language
- data description language
- data language
- data manipulation language
- data storage description language
- database language
- data-entry language
- data-flow language
- data-query language
- declarative language
- defining language
- descriptive language
- descriptor language
- design language
- device media control language
- direct execution language
- directly interpretable language
- Dyck language
- end-user language
- escape language
- evolutive language
- executive-control language
- executive language
- explicit language
- extensible language
- fabricated language
- finite state language
- flow language
- foreign language
- formalized language
- frame-based language
- freestanding language
- functional language
- generated language
- graphics language
- graph-oriented language
- hardware-description language
- hardware language
- higher-level language
- higher-order language
- host language
- human language
- human-oriented language
- human-readable language
- indexed language
- information retrieval language
- informational language
- information language
- inherently ambiguous language
- input language
- input/output language
- instruction language
- integrated language
- interactive language
- interim language
- intermediate language
- internal language
- interpreted language
- job control language
- job-oriented language
- knowledge representation language
- language pair
- letter-equivalent languages
- linear language
- linear-programming language
- list-processing language
- logic-type language
- low-level language
- machine language
- machine-dependent language
- machine-independent language
- machine-oriented language
- macroassembly language
- macro language
- macroinstruction language
- macroprogramming language
- man-to-computer language
- mathematical formular language
- memory management language
- mnemonic language
- modeling language
- native language
- natural language
- NC programming language
- nested language
- network-oriented language
- nonprocedural language
- numder language
- object language
- object modeling language
- object-oriented language
- one-dimensional language
- operator-oriented language
- original language
- page description language
- parallel language
- phrase structure language
- predicate language
- predicate logic-based language
- predicate logic language
- privacy language
- problem statement language
- problem-oriented language
- procedural language
- procedure-oriented language
- process control language
- production language
- program language
- programming language
- pseudo language
- pseudomachine language
- query language
- readable specification language
- reference language
- regular language
- relational language
- relational-type language
- representation language - requirements modeling language
- restricted language
- rule-based language
- ruly language
- schema language
- science-oriented language
- script language
- self-contained language
- semantic-formal language
- semiformal language
- sentential language
- serial language
- simulation language
- single-assignment language
- source language
- specialized language
- specification language
- stream-based language
- strict language
- structured programming language
- structured query language
- super language
- super-high-level language
- symbolic language
- symbolic programming language
- syntax language
- synthetic language
- system input language
- system language
- system-oriented language
- tabular language
- target language
- TC language
- time sharing language
- type-free language
- unified modeling language
- update language
- user language
- user-oriented language
- very-high-level languageEnglish-Russian dictionary of computer science and programming > language
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25 display
1) визуальное воспроизведение, визуальное представление; отображение ( информации); индикация || воспроизводить; отображать2) изображение || изображать3) воспроизводящее устройство; видеотерминал; устройство отображения ( информации), дисплей; индикатор, индикаторное устройство; транспарант; табло4) показ, демонстрация || выставлять, показывать5) витрина; рекламная стойка6) выделение особым шрифтом || выделять особым шрифтом7) полигр. акцидентная продукция•control and display — 1. управление и индикация 2. пульт управления и индикации;to manipulate displays in real-time — манипулировать изображением в реальном (масштабе) времени-
active display
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addressable display
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airborne display
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all-digital display
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alphanumeric display
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alphameric display
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animated display
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axis position display
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beam-addressed display
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bimodal display
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bit-mapped display
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bit-map display
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black-and-white display
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boxed display
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call display
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calligraphic display
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cathode-luminescent display
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cathode-ray tube display
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channel display
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character display
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cockpit display
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color display
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command and control display
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compensatory tracking display
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composite display
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computed display
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computer display
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control code display
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CRT display
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dark trance display
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data display
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deflection-modulated display
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density altitude display
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dial display
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digital data display
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digital display
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direct display
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direct driven display
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directed-beam display
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Doppler-range display
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dot/bar display
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dot-matrix display
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dynamic display
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electrochromic display
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electroluminescent display
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electronic display
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electronic typewriter display
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electrooptic display
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electrophoretic image display
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electrophoretic display
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eye display
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faceplate display
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fault display
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ferroelectric ceramic display
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ferroelectric display
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flat panel display
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flicker-free display
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flight information display
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flight progress display
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fluorescent display
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full page display
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gas discharge display
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gas panel display
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gas plasma display
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graphical display
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graphic display
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great display
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group display
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half-page display
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hard copy display
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head-up projection display
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head-up display
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helmet-mounted display
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helmet display
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high-density display
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holographic display
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horizontal scroll display
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image display
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incremental display
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index display
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in-line display
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in-picture display
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integrated display
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intelligent display
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intensity-modulated display
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interactive display
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keyboard display
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kinesthetic-tactual display
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lamp display
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landscape display
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laser-beam display
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laser display
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legible display
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light display
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light valve display
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light-emitting diode display
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linearly deformed display
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line-drawing display
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liquid-crystal display
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magnetic particles display
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makeup display
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matrix display
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matrix-addressed display
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mechanically refrigerated display
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memory-mapped display
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message display
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meter display
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mirror display
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mixed display
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monitor display
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monochrome display
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multicolor display
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multipage display
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navigation display
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n-bit display
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n-character display
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nonflickering display
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numeric display
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on-screen display
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oscilloscope display
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overlay display
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panel display
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panoramic display
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passive display
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pictorial display
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piezoelectric display
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pip-matching display
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plasma-discharge display
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plasma display
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plotting projection display
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portrait display
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process status display
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projected display
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projection display
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radar display
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radially deformed display
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random-point display
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random display
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range-altitude display
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range-azimuth display
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range-height display
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raster display
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raster scan display
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rectangular coordinate display
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reflective-mode display
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reflective display
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refrigerated display
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remote display
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remote viewing display
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scan-converted radar display
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scanned display
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scroll display
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sector display
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segment display
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self-contained refrigerated display
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self-cycling display
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self-shift plasma display
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side destination display
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signal display
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specular display
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state display
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stereo display
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storage display
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superimposed panoramic radar display
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tabular display
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television display
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textual display
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text display
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thin window display
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three-dimensional display
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three-dimension display
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time-height display
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touch-sensitive display
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touch display
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two-dimensional display
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two-dimension display
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undeformed display
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vacuum fluorescent display
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variable-area display
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variable-density display
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vector display
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velocity-azimuth display
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vertical scroll display
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video display
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visible display
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visual display
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wall-board display
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wall display
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wiggle-line display
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wiggle display
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windshield display
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26 enhanced security
"A security type that helps prevent unauthorized persons from discerning that a user is going to the Windows Live sign-in page. Otherwise, an unauthorized person might be able to intercept and manipulate the code on the sign-in page, which could result in user information being transmitted to an unauthorized website." -
27 frame
1) стойка: рама; рамка; корпус2) кадр3) вчт фреймв) независимо заполняемая область HTML-документа с возможностью прокрутки содержанияг) фрейм стека, блок данных о переменных в области действия идентификатора и о связях, проф. запись активации4) система координат; система отсчёта; репер5) формат ( факсимильной копии)8) рамка; граница10) помещать в рамку11) рамочный (напр. об антенне)12) вчт один такт (на нотоносце) ( в музыкальных редакторах)•- arbitrary frame
- B-frame
- bidirectional frame
- bleeder-line vacuum frame
- data frame
- delta frame
- display frame
- distributing frame
- distribution frame
- drop frames
- end-shift frame
- facsimile frame
- ferrite frame
- fixed-length frame
- fixed reservation frame
- freeze frame
- full frame
- global space frame - home frame
- I-frame
- index frame
- inertial frame
- intra frame
- key frame
- laminated frame
- lead frame
- link frame
- moving frame
- node information frame
- P-frame
- page frame
- power frame
- predicted frame
- problem frame
- rest frame
- sampling frame
- scanning frame
- slotted frame
- SMPTE time-code frame
- solution frame
- stack frame
- still frame
- telemetry frame
- time frame
- vacuum frame
- variable-length frame -
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1) стойка: рама; рамка; корпус2) кадр3) вчт. фреймв) независимо заполняемая область HTML-документа с возможностью прокрутки содержанияг) фрейм стека, блок данных о переменных в области действия идентификатора и о связях, проф. запись активации4) система координат; система отсчёта; репер5) формат ( факсимильной копии)8) рамка; граница10) помещать в рамку11) рамочный (напр. об антенне)12) вчт. один такт (на нотоносце) ( в музыкальных редакторах)•- B frame
- bidirectional frame
- bleeder-line vacuum frame
- data frame
- delta frame
- display frame
- distributing frame
- distribution frame
- drop frames
- end-shift frame
- facsimile frame
- ferrite frame
- fixed reservation frame
- fixed-length frame
- frame of reference
- freeze frame
- full frame
- global space frame - home frame
- I frame
- index frame
- inertial frame
- intra frame
- key frame
- laminated frame
- lead frame
- link frame
- moving frame
- node information frame
- P frame
- page frame
- power frame
- predicted frame
- problem frame
- rest frame
- sampling frame
- scanning frame
- slotted frame
- SMPTE time-code frame
- solution frame
- stack frame
- still frame
- telemetry frame
- time frame
- vacuum frame
- variable-length frameThe New English-Russian Dictionary of Radio-electronics > frame
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A n1 ( collection) (of keys, spanners, screwdrivers) jeu m ; (of golf clubs, stamps, coins, chairs) série f ; ( of cutlery) service m ; ( of encyclopedias) collection f ; fig (of data, rules, instructions, tests) série f ; a set of china un service de table ; a new/clean set of clothes des vêtements neufs/propres ; they're sold in sets of 10 ils sont vendus par lots de 10 ; a set of bills Comm, Fin un jeu de connaissements ; a set of fingerprints des empreintes fpl digitales ; a set of stairs un escalier ; a set of traffic lights des feux mpl (de signalisation) ;2 (kit, game) a backgammon/chess set un jeu de jacquet/d'échecs ; a magic set une mallette de magie ;3 ( pair) a set of sheets une paire de draps ; a set of footprints l'empreinte des deux pieds ; a set of false teeth un dentier ; my top/bottom set ( of false teeth) la partie supérieure/inférieure de mon dentier ; one set of grandparents lives in Canada deux de mes grands-parents habitent au Canada ; both sets of parents agreed with us ses parents comme les miens étaient d'accord avec nous ;6 ( group) ( social) monde m ; ( sporting) milieu m ; aristocratic/literary set monde aristocratique/littéraire ; the racing/yachting set le milieu des courses/du yachting ; the smart ou fashionable set les gens à la mode ; he's not part of our set il ne fait pas partie de notre groupe ;8 Math ensemble m ;9 GB Sch (class, group) groupe m ; to be in the top set for maths être dans le groupe des meilleurs en maths ;10 ( hair-do) mise f en plis ; to have a shampoo and set se faire faire un shampooing et une mise en plis ;11 Mus concert m ;12 ( position) ( of sails) réglage m ; you could tell by the set of his jaw that he was stubborn ça se voyait à sa tête qu'il était têtu ;14 ( of badger) terrier m ;15 Hort plante f à repiquer ;B adj1 ( fixed) ( épith) [pattern, procedure, rule, task] bien déterminé ; [time, price] fixe ; [menu] à prix fixe ; [formula] toute faite ; [idea] arrêté ; I had no set purpose in arranging the meeting je n'avais pas d'objectif précis quand j'ai organisé cette réunion ; set phrase, set expression expression f consacrée, locution f figée ; to be set in one's ideas ou opinions avoir des idées bien arrêtées ; to be set in one's ways avoir ses habitudes ; the weather is set fair le temps est au beau fixe ;2 ( stiff) [expression, smile] figé ;3 Sch, Univ ( prescribed) [book, text] au programme ; there are five set topics on the history syllabus il y a cinq sujets au programme d'histoire ;4 ( ready) ( jamais épith) prêt (for pour) ; to be (all) set to leave/start être prêt à partir/commencer ; they're set to win/lose tout laisse à croire qu'ils vont gagner/perdre ;5 ( determined) to be (dead) set against sth/doing être tout à fait contre qch/l'idée de faire ; he's really set against my resigning/marrying il est tout à fait contre ma démission/mon mariage ; to be set on sth/on doing tenir absolument à qch/à faire ;1 (place, position) placer [chair, ornament] (on sur) ; poster [guard, sentry] ; monter, sertir [gem] (in dans) ; to set sth against a wall mettre qch contre un mur [bike, ladder] ; to set sth before sb lit placer qch devant qn [food, plate] ; fig présenter qch à qn [proposals, findings] ; to set sth in the ground enfoncer qch dans le sol [stake] ; to set sth into sth encastrer qch dans qch ; to set sth straight lit ( align) remettre qch droit [painting] ; fig ( tidy) remettre de l'ordre dans qch [papers, room] ; to set sth upright redresser qch ; a house set among the trees une maison située au milieu des arbres ; to set matters ou the record straight fig mettre les choses au point ; a necklace set with rubies un collier incrusté de rubis ; his eyes are set very close together ses yeux sont très rapprochés ;2 ( prepare) mettre [table] ; tendre [trap] ; set three places mets trois couverts ; to set the stage ou scene for sth fig préparer le lieu de qch [encounter, match] ; the stage is set for the final tout est prêt pour la finale ; to set one's mark ou stamp on sth laisser sa marque sur qch ;3 (affix, establish) fixer [date, deadline, place, price, target] ; lancer [fashion, trend] ; donner [tone] ; établir [precedent, record] ; to set a good/bad example to sb montrer le bon/mauvais exemple à qn ; to set one's sights on viser [championship, job] ;4 ( adjust) mettre [qch] à l'heure [clock] ; mettre [alarm clock, burglar alarm] ; programmer [timer, video] ; to set the oven to 180° mettre le four sur 180° ; to set the controls to manual passer au mode manuel ; to set the video to record the film programmer le magnétoscope pour enregistrer le film ; to set the alarm for 7 am mettre le réveil pour 7 heures ; set your watch by mine règle ta montre sur la mienne ; I set the heating to come on at 6 am j'ai réglé le chauffage pour qu'il se mette en route à six heures ; to set the counter back to zero remettre le compteur à zéro ;5 ( start) to set sth going mettre qch en marche [machine, motor] ; to set sb laughing/thinking faire rire/réfléchir qn ; to set sb to work doing charger qn de faire ; the noise set the dogs barking le bruit a fait aboyer les chiens ;6 (impose, prescribe) [teacher] donner [homework, essay] ; poser [problem] ; créer [crossword puzzle] ; to set an exam préparer les sujets d'examen ; to set a book/subject for study mettre un texte/un sujet au programme ; to set sb the task of doing charger qn de faire ;7 Cin, Literat, Theat, TV situer ; to set a book in 1960/New York situer un roman en 1960/à New York ; the film/novel is set in Munich/in the 1950's le film/roman se passe à Munich/dans les années 50 ;9 Print composer [text, type] (in en) ;11 ( style) to set sb's hair faire une mise en plis à qn ; to have one' s hair set se faire faire une mise en plis ;12 ( cause to harden) faire prendre [jam, concrete] ;13 ( esteem) to set sb above/below sb placer qn au-dessus/en dessous de qn ;14 GB Sch grouper [qn] par niveau [pupils].1 [sun] se coucher ;3 Med [fracture, bone] se ressouder.to be well set-up ○ ( financially) avoir les moyens ○ ; ( physically) [woman] être bien balancé ○ ; to make a (dead) set at sb ○ GB se lancer à la tête de qn ○.■ set about:▶ set about [sth] se mettre à [work, duties] ; to set about doing commencer à faire ; to set about the job ou task ou business of doing commencer à faire ; I know what I want to do but I don't know how to set about it je sais ce que je veux faire mais je ne sais pas comment m'y prendre ;▶ set about [sb] ○ attaquer qn (with avec) ;▶ set [sth] about faire courir [rumour, story] ; to set it about that… faire courir le bruit que…■ set against:▶ set sth against sth ( compare) confronter qch à qch ; you have to set his evidence against what you already know vous devez examiner son témoignage à la lumière de ce que vous savez déjà ; the benefits seem small, set against the risks par rapport aux risques les bénéfices semblent maigres.■ set apart:▶ set [sb/sth] apart distinguer [person, book, film] (from de).■ set aside:▶ set [sth] aside, set aside [sth]1 ( put down) poser [qch] de côté [book, knitting] ;3 ( disregard) mettre [qch] de côté [differences, prejudices] ;■ set back:▶ set [sth] back1 ( position towards the rear) reculer [chair, table] ; the house is set back from the road la maison est située un peu en retrait de la route ;2 ( adjust) retarder [clock, watch] ;▶ set [sb] back ○ coûter les yeux de la tête à ○ ; that car must have set you back a bit cette voiture a dû te coûter les yeux de la tête ; it set me back 2,000 dollars ça m'a coûté 2 000 dollars.■ set by:▶ set [sth] by, set by [sth] mettre [qch] de côté.■ set down:▶ set [sb/sth] down déposer [passenger] ; poser [suitcases, vase] ;▶ set down [sth], set [sth] down1 ( establish) fixer [code of practice, conditions, criteria] ;2 ( record) enregistrer [event, fact] ; to set down one' s thoughts (on paper) consigner ses pensées par écrit ;3 ( land) poser [helicopter].■ set forth:▶ set forth [sth] exposer [findings, facts] ; présenter [argument].■ set in:▶ set in [infection, gangrene] se déclarer ; [complications] survenir ; [winter] arriver ; [depression, resentment] s'installer ; the rain has set in for the afternoon la pluie va durer toute l'après-midi ;■ set off:▶ set off partir (for pour) ; to set off on a journey/an expedition partir en voyage/expédition ; to set off to do partir faire ; he set off on a long description/story il s'est lancé dans une longue description/histoire ;▶ set [off] sth, set [sth] off1 ( trigger) déclencher [alarm] ; faire partir [firework] ; faire exploser [bomb] ; déclencher [riot, row, panic] ;2 ( enhance) mettre [qch] en valeur [colour, dress, tan] ;3 Fin to set sth off against profits/debts déduire qch des bénéfices/des dettes ;▶ set [sb] off faire pleurer [baby] ; she laughed and that set me off elle a ri et ça m'a fait rire à mon tour ; don't mention politics, you know it always sets him off ne parle pas de politique tu sais bien que quand il est parti on ne peut plus l'arrêter.■ set on:▶ set on [sb] attaquer qn ;▶ set [sth] on sb lâcher [qch] contre qn [dog] ; to set sb onto sb ou sb's track mettre qn sur la piste de qn.■ set out:▶ set out ( leave) se mettre en route (for pour ; to do pour faire) ; we set out from Paris/the house at 9 am nous avons quitté Paris/la maison à 9 heures ; to set out on a journey/an expedition partir en voyage/expédition ; to set out to do ( intend) [book, report, speech] avoir pour but de faire ; [person] chercher à faire ; ( start) commencer à faire ;▶ set [sth] out, set out [sth]1 ( spread out) disposer [goods] ; disposer [food] ; étaler [books, papers] ; disposer [chairs] ; préparer [board game] ; disposer [chessmen] ; organiser [information] ;2 (state, explain) présenter [conclusions, ideas, proposals] ; formuler [objections, terms].■ set to s'y mettre.■ set up:▶ set up ( establish oneself) [business person, trader] s'établir ; to set up on one's own s'établir à son compte ; to set up (shop) as a decorator/caterer s'établir en tant que décorateur/traiteur ; to set up in business monter une affaire ;▶ set [sth] up, set up [sth]1 ( erect) monter [stand, stall] ; assembler [equipment, easel] ; déplier [deckchair] ; ériger [roadblock] ; dresser [statue] ; to set up home ou house s'installer ; to set up camp installer un campement ;3 (found, establish) créer [business, company] ; implanter [factory] ; former [support group, charity] ; constituer [committee, commission] ; ouvrir [fund] ; lancer [initiative, scheme] ;6 Print composer [page] ;▶ set [sb] up1 ( establish in business) she set her son up (in business) as a gardener elle a aidé son fils à s'installer comme jardinier ;2 (improve one's health, fortune) remettre [qn] sur pied ; there's nothing like a good vacation to set you up rien de tel que de bonnes vacances pour vous remettre sur pied ; that deal has set her up for life grâce à ce contrat elle n'aura plus à se soucier de rien ;3 ○ GB ( trap) [police] tendre un piège à [criminal] ; [colleague, friend] monter un coup contre [person] ;4 Comput installer, configurer ;▶ set [oneself] up1 Comm she set herself up as a financial advisor elle s'est mise à son compte comme conseiller financier ; to set oneself up in business se mettre à son compte ;2 ( claim) I don't set myself up to be an expert je ne prétends pas être expert ; she sets herself up as an authority on French art elle prétend faire autorité en matière d'art français.■ set upon:▶ set upon [sb] attaquer qn. -
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hold [həʊld]tenir ⇒ 1A (a), 1A (f), 1B (a), 1B (b), 1D (b), 1D (d), 2 (d) avoir ⇒ 1A (c) retenir ⇒ 1A (e), 1C (b) contenir ⇒ 1A (f) exercer ⇒ 1A (g) réserver ⇒ 1A (e), 1A (h) conserver ⇒ 1A (i) stocker ⇒ 1A (i) maintenir ⇒ 1B (a) détenir ⇒ 1A (i), 1C (a) croire ⇒ 1D (a) continuer ⇒ 1D (e) se tenir ⇒ 2 (a) tenir bon ⇒ 2 (b) durer ⇒ 2 (c) attendre ⇒ 2 (f) prise ⇒ 3D (a)-(c) en attente ⇒ 4D(pt & pp held [held])A.(a) (clasp, grasp) tenir;∎ to hold sth in one's hand (book, clothing, guitar) avoir qch à la main; (key, money) tenir qch dans la main;∎ to hold sth with both hands tenir qch à deux mains;∎ will you hold my coat a second? peux-tu prendre ou tenir mon manteau un instant?;∎ to hold the door for sb tenir la porte à ou pour qn;∎ also figurative to hold sb's hand tenir la main à qn;∎ to hold hands se donner la main, se tenir (par) la main;∎ hold my hand while we cross the street donne-moi la main pour traverser la rue;∎ to hold sb in one's arms tenir qn dans ses bras;∎ to hold sb close or tight serrer qn contre soi;∎ hold it tight and don't let go tiens-le bien et ne le lâche pas;∎ to hold one's nose se boucher le nez;∎ to hold one's sides with laughter se tenir les côtes de rire(b) (keep, sustain)∎ to hold sb's attention/interest retenir l'attention de qn;∎ the film doesn't hold the attention for long le film ne retient pas l'attention très longtemps;∎ to hold an audience tenir un auditoire;∎ to hold one's serve (in tennis) défendre son service;∎ to hold one's own se défendre, bien se débrouiller;∎ the Prime Minister held her own during the debate le Premier ministre a tenu bon ou ferme pendant le débat;∎ she is well able to hold her own elle sait se défendre;∎ he can hold his own in chess il se défend bien aux échecs;∎ our products hold their own against the competition nos produits se tiennent bien par rapport à la concurrence;∎ to hold the floor garder la parole;∎ the senator held the floor for an hour le sénateur a gardé la parole pendant une heure∎ do you hold a clean driving licence? avez-vous déjà été sanctionné pour des infractions au code de la route?;∎ she holds the post of treasurer elle occupe le poste de trésorière;∎ to hold office (chairperson, deputy) être en fonction, remplir sa fonction; (minister) détenir ou avoir un portefeuille; (political party, president) être au pouvoir ou au gouvernement;∎ Religion to hold a living jouir d'un bénéfice;∎ Finance to hold stock or shares détenir ou avoir des actions;∎ to hold 5 percent of the shares in a company détenir 5 pour cent du capital d'une société;∎ also figurative to hold a record détenir un record;∎ she holds the world record for the javelin elle détient le record mondial du javelot∎ the guerrillas held the bridge for several hours les guérilleros ont tenu le pont plusieurs heures durant;∎ Military to hold the enemy contenir l'ennemi;∎ figurative to hold centre stage occuper le centre de la scène;(e) (reserve, set aside) retenir, réserver;∎ we'll hold the book for you until next week nous vous réserverons le livre ou nous vous mettrons le livre de côté jusqu'à la semaine prochaine;∎ will the restaurant hold the table for us? est-ce que le restaurant va nous garder la table?∎ this bottle holds 2 litres cette bouteille contient 2 litres;∎ will this suitcase hold all our clothes? est-ce que cette valise sera assez grande pour tous nos vêtements?;∎ the car is too small to hold us all la voiture est trop petite pour qu'on y tienne tous;∎ the hall holds a maximum of 250 people la salle peut accueillir ou recevoir 250 personnes au maximum, il y a de la place pour 250 personnes au maximum dans cette salle;∎ to hold one's drink bien supporter l'alcool;∎ the letter holds the key to the murder la lettre contient la clé du meurtre(g) (have, exercise) exercer;∎ the subject holds a huge fascination for some people le sujet exerce une énorme fascination sur certaines personnes;∎ sport held no interest for them pour eux, le sport ne présentait aucun intérêt(h) (have in store) réserver;∎ who knows what the future may hold? qui sait ce que nous réserve l'avenir?∎ we can't hold this data forever nous ne pouvons pas conserver ou stocker ces données éternellement;∎ how much data will this disk hold? quelle quantité de données cette disquette peut-elle stocker?;∎ the commands are held in the memory/in a temporary buffer les instructions sont gardées en mémoire/sont enregistrées dans une mémoire intermédiaire;∎ my lawyer holds a copy of my will mon avocat détient ou conserve un exemplaire de mon testament;∎ this photo holds fond memories for me cette photo me rappelle de bons souvenirs∎ the new car holds the road well la nouvelle voiture tient bien la routeB.(a) (maintain in position) tenir, maintenir;∎ she held her arms by her sides elle avait les bras le long du corps;∎ her hair was held in place with hairpins des épingles (à cheveux) retenaient ou maintenaient ses cheveux;∎ what's holding the picture in place? qu'est-ce qui tient ou maintient le tableau en place?;∎ hold the picture a bit higher tenez le tableau un peu plus haut∎ to hold oneself upright or erect se tenir droit;∎ also figurative to hold one's head high garder la tête hauteC.(a) (confine, detain) détenir;∎ the police are holding him for questioning la police l'a gardé à vue pour l'interroger;∎ they're holding him for murder ils l'ont arrêté pour meurtre;∎ she was held without trial for six weeks elle est restée en prison six semaines sans avoir été jugée(b) (keep back, retain) retenir;∎ Law to hold sth in trust for sb tenir qch par fidéicommis pour qn;∎ the post office will hold my mail for me while I'm away la poste gardera mon courrier pendant mon absence;∎ figurative once she starts talking politics there's no holding her! dès qu'elle commence à parler politique, rien ne peut l'arrêter!;∎ don't hold dinner for me ne m'attendez pas pour dîner;∎ they held the plane another thirty minutes ils ont retenu l'avion au sol pendant encore trente minutes;∎ hold all decisions on the project until I get back attendez mon retour pour prendre des décisions concernant le projet;∎ hold the front page! ne lancez pas la une tout de suite!;∎ hold the lift! ne laissez pas les portes de l'ascenseur se refermer, j'arrive!∎ we have held costs to a minimum nous avons limité nos frais au minimum;∎ inflation has been held at the same level for several months le taux d'inflation est maintenu au même niveau depuis plusieurs mois;∎ they held their opponents to a goalless draw ils ont réussi à imposer le match nulD.∎ formal I hold that teachers should be better paid je considère ou j'estime que les enseignants devraient être mieux payés;∎ the Constitution holds that all men are free la Constitution stipule que tous les hommes sont libres;∎ he holds strong beliefs on the subject of abortion il a de solides convictions en ce qui concerne l'avortement;∎ she holds strong views on the subject elle a une opinion bien arrêtée sur le sujet;∎ her statement is held to be true sa déclaration passe pour vraie(b) (consider, regard) tenir, considérer;∎ to hold sb responsible for sth tenir qn pour responsable de qch;∎ I'll hold you responsible if anything goes wrong je vous tiendrai pour responsable ou je vous considérerai responsable s'il y a le moindre incident;∎ the president is to be held accountable for his actions le président doit répondre de ses actes;∎ to hold sb in contempt mépriser ou avoir du mépris pour qn;∎ to hold sb in high esteem avoir beaucoup d'estime pour qn, tenir qn en haute estime∎ the appeal court held the evidence to be insufficient la cour d'appel a considéré que les preuves étaient insuffisantes∎ to hold an election/elections procéder à une élection/à des élections;∎ the book fair is held in Frankfurt la foire du livre se tient ou a lieu à Francfort;∎ the classes are held in the evening les cours ont lieu le soir;∎ interviews will be held in early May les entretiens auront lieu au début du mois de mai ou début mai;∎ to hold talks être en pourparlers;∎ the city is holding a service for Armistice Day la ville organise un office pour commémorer le 11 novembre;∎ mass is held at eleven o'clock la messe est célébrée à onze heures(e) (continue without deviation) continuer;∎ Nautical to hold course tenir la route;∎ we held our southerly course nous avons maintenu le cap au sud, nous avons continué notre route vers le sud;∎ Music to hold a note tenir une note∎ will you hold (the line)? voulez-vous patienter?;∎ hold the line! ne quittez pas!;∎ the line's busy just now - I'll hold le poste est occupé pour le moment - je patiente ou je reste en ligne;∎ hold all my calls ne me passez aucun appel(a) (cling → person) se tenir, s'accrocher;∎ she held tight to the railing elle s'est cramponnée ou accrochée à la rampe;∎ hold fast!, hold tight! accrochez-vous bien!;∎ figurative their resolve held fast or firm in the face of fierce opposition ils ont tenu bon face à une opposition acharnée(b) (remain in place → nail, fastening) tenir bon;∎ the rope won't hold for long la corde ne tiendra pas longtemps∎ prices held at the same level as last year les prix se sont maintenus au même niveau que l'année dernière;∎ the pound held firm against the dollar la livre s'est maintenue par rapport au dollar;∎ we might buy him a guitar if his interest in music holds nous lui achèterons peut-être une guitare s'il continue à s'intéresser à la musique∎ to hold good (invitation, offer) tenir; (promises) tenir, valoir; (argument, theory) rester valable;∎ the principle still holds good le principe tient ou vaut toujours;∎ that theory only holds if you consider... cette théorie n'est valable que si vous prenez en compte...;∎ the same holds for Spain il en est de même pour l'Espagne∎ hold still! ne bougez pas!□(f) (on telephone) attendre;∎ the line's British engaged or American busy, will you hold? la ligne est occupée, voulez-vous patienter?3 noun∎ to catch or to grab or to seize or to take hold of sth se saisir de ou saisir qch;∎ she caught hold of the rope elle a saisi la corde;∎ grab (a) hold of that towel tiens! prends cette serviette;∎ there was nothing for me to grab hold of il n'y avait rien à quoi m'accrocher ou me cramponner;∎ get a good or take a firm hold on or of the railing tenez-vous bien à la balustrade;∎ I still had hold of his hand je le tenais toujours par la main;∎ to get hold of sth (find) se procurer ou trouver qch;∎ it's difficult to get hold of this book ce livre est difficile à trouver;∎ we got hold of the book you wanted nous avons trouvé le livre que tu voulais;∎ where did you get hold of that idea? où est-ce que tu es allé chercher cette idée?;∎ to get hold of sb trouver qn;∎ I've been trying to get hold of you all week! je t'ai cherché toute la semaine!;∎ just wait till the newspapers get hold of the story attendez un peu que les journaux s'emparent de la nouvelle;∎ she kept hold of the rope elle n'a pas lâché la corde;∎ you'd better keep hold of the tickets tu ferais bien de garder les billets;∎ get a hold on yourself ressaisis-toi, ne te laisse pas aller;∎ Sport & figurative no holds barred tous les coups sont permis(b) (controlling force or influence) prise f, influence f;∎ the Church still exerts a strong hold on the country l'Église a toujours une forte mainmise sur le pays;∎ to have a hold over sb avoir de l'influence sur qn;∎ I have no hold over him je n'ai aucune prise ou influence sur lui;∎ the Mafia obviously has some kind of hold over him de toute évidence, la Mafia le tient d'une manière ou d'une autre(c) (in climbing) prise f(d) (delay, pause) pause f, arrêt m;∎ the company has put a hold on all new orders l'entreprise a suspendu ou gelé toutes les nouvelles commandes∎ the association put a hold on all the hotel rooms l'association a réservé toutes les chambres de l'hôtel(gen) & Telecommunications en attente;∎ to put sb on hold mettre qn en attente;∎ we've put the project on hold nous avons mis le projet en attente;∎ the operator kept me on hold for ten minutes le standardiste m'a mis en attente pendant dix minutes∎ to hold sth against sb en vouloir à qn de qch;∎ his collaboration with the enemy will be held against him sa collaboration avec l'ennemi lui sera préjudiciable;∎ he lied to her and she still holds it against him il lui a menti et elle lui en veut toujours;∎ I hope you won't hold it against me if I decide not to accept j'espère que tu ne m'en voudras pas si je décide de ne pas accepter(a) (control, restrain → animal, person) retenir, tenir; (→ crowd, enemy forces) contenir; (→ anger, laughter, tears) retenir, réprimer; (→ inflation) contenir;∎ the government has succeeded in holding back inflation le gouvernement a réussi à contenir l'inflation∎ she's holding something back from me elle me cache quelque chose∎ they held her back a year ils lui ont fait redoubler une classe, ils l'ont fait redoubler(d) (prevent progress of) empêcher de progresser;∎ his difficulties with maths are holding him back ses difficultés en maths l'empêchent de progresser;∎ lack of investment is holding industry back l'absence d'investissements freine l'industrie∎ he has held back from making a commitment il s'est abstenu de s'engager;∎ the president held back before sending in the army le président a hésité avant d'envoyer les troupes;∎ don't hold back, tell me everything vas-y, dis-moi tout(a) (keep in place → paper, carpet) maintenir en place; (→ person) forcer à rester par terre, maintenir au sol;∎ it took four men to hold him down il a fallu quatre hommes pour le maîtriser ou pour le maintenir au sol(b) (keep to limit) restreindre, limiter;∎ they're holding unemployment down to 4 percent ils maintiennent le taux de chômage à 4 pour cent;∎ to hold prices down empêcher les prix de monter, empêcher la montée des prix∎ he's never managed to hold down a job il n'a jamais pu garder un emploi bien longtemps;∎ although she's a student, she holds down a full-time job bien qu'elle étudie, elle occupe un poste à plein tempspérorer, disserter;∎ he held forth on the evils of drink il a fait un long discours sur les conséquences néfastes de l'alcool➲ hold off(a) (keep at distance) tenir à distance ou éloigné;∎ the troops held off the enemy les troupes ont tenu l'ennemi à distance;∎ they managed to hold off the attack ils ont réussi à repousser l'attaque;∎ I can't hold the reporters off any longer je ne peux plus faire attendre ou patienter les journalistes(b) (delay, put off) remettre à plus tard;∎ he held off going to see the doctor until May il a attendu le mois de mai pour aller voir le médecin;∎ I held off making a decision j'ai remis la décision à plus tard∎ at least the rain held off au moins il n'a pas plu∎ hold off from smoking for a few weeks abstenez-vous de fumer ou ne fumez pas pendant quelques semaines➲ hold on(a) (grasp, grip) tenir bien, s'accrocher;∎ to hold on to sth bien tenir qch, s'accrocher à qch, se cramponner à qch;∎ hold on! accrochez-vous!;∎ hold on to your hat! tenez votre chapeau (sur la tête)!(b) (keep possession of) garder;∎ hold on to this contract for me (keep it) garde-moi ce contrat;∎ all politicians try to hold on to power tous les hommes politiques essaient de rester au pouvoir;∎ hold on to your dreams/ideals accrochez-vous à vos rêves/idéaux(c) (continue, persevere) tenir, tenir le coup;∎ how long can you hold on? combien de temps pouvez-vous tenir (le coup)?;∎ I can't hold on much longer je ne peux pas tenir (le coup) beaucoup plus longtemps∎ hold on, how do I know I can trust you? attends un peu! qu'est-ce qui me prouve que je peux te faire confiance?;∎ Telecommunications hold on please! ne quittez pas!;∎ I had to hold on for several minutes j'ai dû patienter plusieurs minutes(maintain in place) tenir ou maintenir en place;∎ her hat is held on with pins son chapeau est maintenu (en place) par des épingles➲ hold out(a) (last → supplies, stocks) durer;∎ will the car hold out till we get home? la voiture tiendra-t-elle (le coup) jusqu'à ce qu'on rentre?(b) (refuse to yield) tenir bon, tenir le coup;∎ the garrison held out for weeks la garnison a tenu bon pendant des semaines;∎ the management held out against any suggested changes la direction a refusé tous les changements proposés(extend) tendre;∎ she held out the book to him elle lui a tendu le livre;∎ also figurative to hold out one's hand to sb tendre la main à qn;∎ I held out my hand j'ai tendu la main;∎ his mother held her arms out to him sa mère lui a ouvert ou tendu les bras(offer) offrir;∎ I can't hold out any promise of improvement je ne peux promettre aucune amélioration;∎ the doctors hold out little hope for him les médecins ont peu d'espoir pour lui;∎ science holds out some hope for cancer patients la science offre un espoir pour les malades du cancerexiger;∎ the workers held out for a shorter working week les ouvriers réclamaient une semaine de travail plus courte;∎ we're holding out for a higher offer nous attendons qu'on nous en offre un meilleur prix∎ you're holding out on me! tu me caches quelque chose!□(a) (position) tenir au-dessus de;∎ she held the glass over the sink elle tenait le verre au-dessus de l'évier;∎ figurative they hold the threat of redundancy over their workers ils maintiennent la menace de licenciement sur leurs ouvriers(b) (postpone) remettre, reporter;∎ we'll hold these items over until the next meeting on va remettre ces questions à la prochaine réunion;∎ payment was held over for six months le paiement a été différé pendant six mois∎ they're holding the show over for another month ils vont laisser le spectacle à l'affiche encore un mois➲ hold to(promise, tradition) s'en tenir à, rester fidèle à; (decision) maintenir, s'en tenir à;∎ you must hold to your principles vous devez rester fidèle à vos principes∎ we held him to his promise nous lui avons fait tenir parole;∎ if I win, I'll buy you lunch - I'll hold you to that! si je gagne, je t'invite à déjeuner - je te prends au mot!∎ the two pieces of wood are held together by nails les deux morceaux de bois sont cloués ensemble;∎ we need a leader who can hold the workers together il nous faut un chef qui puisse rallier les ouvriers➲ hold up(a) (lift, raise) lever, élever;∎ I held up my hand j'ai levé la main;∎ hold the picture up to the light tenez la photo à contre-jour;∎ to hold up one's head redresser la tête;∎ figurative she felt she would never be able to hold her head up again elle pensait qu'elle ne pourrait plus jamais marcher la tête haute∎ my trousers were held up with safety pins mon pantalon était maintenu par des épingles de sûreté∎ they were held up as an example of efficient local government on les présentaient comme un exemple de gouvernement local compétent;∎ to hold sb up to ridicule tourner qn en ridicule∎ the traffic held us up la circulation nous a mis en retard;∎ the accident held up traffic for an hour l'accident a bloqué la circulation pendant une heure;∎ our departure was held up by bad weather notre départ a été retardé par le mauvais temps;∎ I was held up j'ai été retenu;∎ the project was held up for lack of funds (before it started) le projet a été mis en attente faute de financement; (after it started) le projet a été interrompu faute de financement;∎ the goods were held up at customs les marchandises ont été immobilisées à la douane∎ to hold up a bank faire un hold-up dans une banque∎ the car held up well during the trip la voiture a bien tenu le coup pendant le voyage;∎ she's holding up well under the pressure elle supporte bien la pression;∎ my finances are holding up well je tiens le coup financièrement∎ I don't hold with her ideas on socialism je ne suis pas d'accord avec ou je ne partage pas ses idées concernant le socialisme;∎ his mother doesn't hold with private schools sa mère est contre ou désapprouve les écoles privées -
31 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN
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