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21 stillbirth rate
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22 entropy rate
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23 heat transfer rate
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24 circuit
1) цепь; контур; схема2) окружность; круговая траектория3) эл. схема4) вчт. канал двусторонней связи5) циркуляция•- adaptive threshold circuit
- add circuit
- adding circuit
- alarm circuit
- amplifying circuit
- analog integrated circuit
- antihunt circuit
- antihunting circuit
- aperiodic circuit
- automatic control circuit
- automatic search circuit
- auxiliary circuit
- averaging circuit
- balanced circuit
- basic circuit
- bias circuit
- blanking circuit
- blocking circuit
- break circuit
- bridge circuit
- broken circuit
- buffer circuit
- calibration circuit
- capacitive storage circuit
- carry circuit
- ceramic-wafer printed circuit
- checking circuit
- circuit of initiation
- clamping circuit
- clipping circuit
- closed circuit of recirculating balls
- closed circuit
- closed fluid circuit
- code storage circuit
- coincidence circuit
- collecting circuit
- collector circuit
- common-junction circuit
- compare circuit
- comparison circuit
- compatible circuit
- compensating circuit
- computation circuit
- computer circuit
- computer test circuit
- computing circuit
- connecting circuit
- constant volume hydraulic circuit
- contact circuit
- control circuit
- correcting circuit
- cutoff circuit
- decode circuit
- decoding circuit
- delay circuit
- detection circuit
- differential hydraulic circuit
- differentiating circuit
- digital integrated circuit
- diode circuit
- dividing circuit
- doubling circuit
- drive circuit
- driving circuit
- duplicating circuit
- eddy-current circuit
- electric circuit
- electrical feed circuit
- electronic circuit
- emergency cutoff circuit
- emergency supply circuit
- energizing circuit
- equivalent circuit
- error circuit
- error correction circuit
- error indicating circuit
- etched circuit
- exciting circuit
- failure warning circuit
- feed circuit
- feed hold circuit
- feed motor circuit
- feedback circuit
- ferroresonant computing circuit
- fictions balance circuit
- film integrated circuit
- floor circuit
- fluid logic circuit
- fluid-power circuit
- flywheel circuit
- forward circuit
- frequency-changing circuit
- frequency-setting circuit
- function circuit
- functional circuit
- gang circuit
- gating circuit
- high-gain linear circuit
- holding circuit
- hybrid integrated circuit
- hydraulic broach circuit
- hydraulic circuit
- hydraulic tracer control circuit
- impulse circuit
- indicating circuit
- information circuit
- inhibit circuit
- inhibitor circuit
- input circuit
- integrated circuit
- integrating circuit
- interlock circuit
- interlocking circuit
- keyboard checking circuit
- large-scale integration circuit
- laser-diode circuit
- latch circuit
- latching circuit
- leading circuit
- lighting circuit
- linear electric circuit
- live circuit
- load circuit
- load measuring circuit
- locking circuit
- lock-out circuit
- logical circuit
- looped circuit
- magnetic circuit
- main circuit
- make circuit
- measuring circuit
- memory circuit
- metering-in circuit
- metering-out circuit
- microprocessor integrated circuit
- monitoring circuit
- monolithic integrated circuit
- monostable circuit
- motor control circuit
- multiple circuit
- multiple output circuit
- multiplier circuit
- multistable circuit
- NC circuit
- noise-balancing circuit
- nonlinear electric circuit
- null circuit
- null-type bridge circuit
- oil hydraulic circuit
- open circuit after charge
- open circuit after discharge
- open circuit
- operating circuit
- optical tracer backup circuit
- oscillating circuit
- oscillatory circuit
- output circuit
- output-break circuit
- output-make circuit
- packaged circuit
- parallel switching circuit
- parallel-resonant circuit
- pilot circuit
- plane electric circuit
- plated circuit
- pneumatic circuit
- pneumatic-hydraulic circuit
- polyphase circuit
- potted circuit
- power circuit
- press-control circuit
- primary circuit
- printed circuit
- protective circuit
- pulse delay circuit
- pulse memory circuit
- pulse shaping circuit
- pulse switching circuit
- pulse-actuated circuit
- pulse-generating circuit
- rate change control circuit
- rate feedback circuit
- reading circuit
- reciprocating circuit
- reflex circuit
- relaxation circuit
- reset circuit
- resonant circuit
- return circuit
- rewriting circuit
- ring circuit
- safety circuit
- sampling circuit
- scanning circuit
- schematic circuit
- secondary circuit
- selecting circuit
- semiconductor integrated circuit
- sensing circuit
- sensor-integrated circuit
- sequence circuit
- sequential circuit
- series circuit
- series-resonant circuit
- shift circuit
- shifting circuit
- short circuit
- shut-down circuit
- shut-off circuit
- signal circuit
- signaling circuit
- simulation circuit
- single-phase circuit
- small scale integration circuit
- smoothing circuit
- speed-regulating circuit
- stabilizing circuit
- star-connected circuit
- start-up circuit
- storage circuit
- summing circuit
- sweep circuit
- switching circuit
- tension-sensing circuit
- test circuit
- timing circuit
- tool selector circuit
- touch-sensing circuit
- trigger circuit
- trigger-action circuit
- trip circuit
- tuned circuit
- unidirectional circuit
- very large scale integration circuit
- virtual circuit
- warning circuit
- working circuitEnglish-Russian dictionary of mechanical engineering and automation > circuit
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25 filter
1) фильтр || фильтровать2) светофильтр•-
absorbent-type filter
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absorbent filter
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absorbing filter
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absorption filter
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ac line filter
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ac supply filter
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acoustic filter
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acousto-optical filter
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activated carbon filter
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active filter
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active power filter
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adaptive filter
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adaptive notch filter
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additive color filter
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additive filter
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adjustable density filter
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aerolescer pneumatic filter
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aerosol filter
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agile filter
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air filter
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air-conditioning filter
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air-intake filter
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all-dielectric interference filter
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all-pass filter
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all-pole filter
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all-zero filter
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ambient-light filter
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analog filter
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analog postsampling filter
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analog presampling filter
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anion-exchange filter
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antialiasing filter
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antialias filter
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aperture filter
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ash-free filter
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attenuator filter
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audio band-pass filter
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auto filter
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automatic drain filter
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bacterial filter
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bacteriological filter
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bag filter
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balanced filter
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band split filter
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band vacuum filter
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band-elimination filter
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band-exclusion filter
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band-limited filter
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band-pass filter
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band-rejection filter
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band-selective filter
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band-stop filter
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bandwidth filter
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bath filter
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beacon filter
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beat-interference filter
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belt filter
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bilithic filter
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binary filter
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biological filter
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blanket filter
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blue filter
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branching filter
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bridge filter
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broadband filter
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Butters filter
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Butterworth filter
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bypass filter
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bypass hydraulic filter
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candle filter
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canonical recursive filter
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capacitive filter
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capacitor filter
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cartridge filter
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cation-exchange filter
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Cauer filter
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cavity band-pass filter
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cavity filter
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cavity-coupled filter
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centrifugal air filter
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centrifugal filter
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centrifugal oil filter
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ceramic filter
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channel bank filter
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channel filter
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channel separating filter
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channel television filter
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Chebyshev filter
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chirp filter
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choke filter
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chroma filter
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chrominance notch filter
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click filter
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clogged filter
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cloth filter
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clutter suppression filter
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clutter filter
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C-message filter
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coalescing filter
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coarse filter
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coarse fuel filter
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coarse-grained filter
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coarse-mesh filter
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coaxial direct coupled resonator filter
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coaxial filter
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color filter
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color-balancing filter
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color-compensating filter
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color-correcting filter
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color-encoding filter
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color-separation filter
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color-stripe filter
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color-subcarrier notch filter
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color-trimming filter
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comb filter
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combined fuel filter
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compensating filter
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compensation filter
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contact filter
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continuously variable filter
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convolution filter
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correcting filter
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correction filter
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cross coupling filter
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crystal filter
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cyan filter
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dark-room filter
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dechirping filter
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decimation filter
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decision-feedback filter
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decoupling filter
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deemphasis filter
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deer-skin filter
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dehydrator filter
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delay-line filter
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depth filter
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detarring filter
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dewatering filter
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dielectric filter
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dielectric resonator filter
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diesel and fuel-oil filter
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digital elliptic filter
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digital filter
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digital matched filter
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digitally controlled filter
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discrete filter
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discrete-time linear filter
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discrimination filter
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disk filter
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disk vacuum filter
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dispersion filter
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dispersive filter
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disposable element filter
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disposable hydraulic filter
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distributed-constant filter
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distributed-element filter
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Doppler filter
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downward-flow filter
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drainage filter
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drum filter
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drum vacuum filter
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dry electrical filter
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dry filter
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drying filter
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dual hydraulic filter
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dual-split filter
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duplex filter
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dust filter
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easy-off filter
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edge-type disk filter
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effects filter
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electric filter
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electromechanical filter
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electronically tunable filter
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elimination filter
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elliptic filter
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enhancement filter
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enlarging filter
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envelope filter
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equalized filter
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equiripple filter
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externally mounted filter
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extraripple filter
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fabric filter
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fan filter
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feedback filter
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feedthrough filter
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ferrite-tunable filter
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fiberglass filter
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fibrous filter
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film filter
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final filter
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fine fuel filter
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finite-duration impulse-response filter
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finite impulse-response filter
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fixed target rejection filter
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fixed-frequency filter
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fixed filter
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float drain filter
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fog filter
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frequency filter
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frequency-selective filter
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front-end filter
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fuel filter
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fuel primary filter
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full-flow filter
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full-flow powdered ion-exchange filter
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Gaussian filter
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gauze filter
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gelatin filter
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generating filter
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glass filter
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glovebox filter
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graded filter
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gravel filter
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gravel packed filter
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gravel-sand filter
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gravitation filter
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gravity filter
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gray filter
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grease filter
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guard filter
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gyrator filter
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harmonic filter
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H-cation filter
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heat filter
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heavy oil filter
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HEPA filter
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high-cut filter
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high-frequency filter
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high-pass filter
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high-pressure filter
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high-rate filter
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high-temperature filter
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holographic filter
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hose air-jet filter
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hose pressure filter
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hose suction filter
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hot filter
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hum-eliminating filter
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hum filter
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hydraulic filter
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I filter
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IIR filter
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image-deblurring filter
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image-reflection filter
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impingement filter
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inductive filter
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infinite-duration impulse-response filter
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infinite impulse-response filter
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infrared filter
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in-line filter
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input filter
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insert filter
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intake filter
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in-tank filter
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integral oil filter
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integrate-and-dump filter
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integrating filter
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interdigital filter
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interference filter
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intermediate-frequency filter
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interpolation filter
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inverse filter
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inverted filter
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ion-exchange filter
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isolation filter
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jet filter
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Kalman filter
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keying filter
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ladder-type filter
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ladder filter
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lag filter
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lattice filter
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leapfrog filter
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light filter
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line filter
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linear filter
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loop filter
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low-cut filter
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low-frequency filter
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low-pass filter
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low-pass sampling filter
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low-pass zonal filter
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low-pressure filter
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low-rate filter
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L-type hydraulic filter
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lubrication filter
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lumped-constant filter
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lumped-element filter
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magnetic filter
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mandrel wrap filter
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mantle filter
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mash filter
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mass filter
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matched filter
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matching filter
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maximal ripple filter
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maximally-flat filter
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mechanical-wave filter
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mechanical filter
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membrane filter
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meshwire filter
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mesh filter
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metal disk fuel filter
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micronic filter
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microstrip filter
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microwave filter
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millipore filter
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mineral filter
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minimum-delay filter
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minimum-phase filter
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mirror filter
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mismatched filter
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mist filter
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mode filter
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modular hydraulic filter
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modulation filter
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monopole mass filter
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mosaic filter
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multibag filter
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multiband filter
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multicavity microwave filter
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multiple resonator filter
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multisection filter
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multistage filter
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narrow-band filter
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neutral-density filter
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neutral filter
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neutralizing filter
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never stop filter
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night filter
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noise filter
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nonclogging filter
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nonlinear filter
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nonminimum phase filter
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nonrecursive filter
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North matching filter
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notch filter
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nutsch filter
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octave filter
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oil bath filter
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oil filter
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oil-bath air filter
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one-pole filter
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on-line installable filter
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optical filter
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output filter
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outside-in filter
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pack filter
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paper filter
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partial flow filter
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partial flow hydraulic filter
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pass-band filter
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passive filter
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percolating filter
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percolation filter
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phase filter
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pilot filter
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pipeless filter
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pi-section filter
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plate-type filter
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plate filter
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plugged filter
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polarization filter
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polarizing filter
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polaroid filter
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pole-zero filter
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porous metal filter
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postdigitizing filter
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postemphasis filter
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postequalization filter
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postsampling filter
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powder filter
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power-line filter
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precoat filter
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prediction filter
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predictive-error filter
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predigitizing filter
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preliminary filter
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presampling filter
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pressure filter
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pressure line filter
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primary filter
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prime filter
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programmable filter
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proportional filter
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psophometric filter
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pulse-compression filter
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pulse-jet filter
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purified-helium dust filter
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Q filter
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quad filter
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quadrature mirror filter
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quadrupole mass filter
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quartz filter
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quick removal filter
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rapid filter
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reconstruction filter
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rectifier filter
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recursive filter
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rejection filter
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repulp filter
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resonant filter
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return filter
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return oil filter
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reverse filter
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RF filter
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ripple filter
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roll-off filter
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rotary filter
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safety filter
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sampled-data filter
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sand filter
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SAW filter
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scatter filter
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screen filter
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screw-in filter
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scrubber filter
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scrubbing filter
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second order damped filter
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secondary air filter
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secondary filter
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security filter
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selective filter
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self-aligning filter
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self-blowing drum filter
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self-cleaning filter
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self-tuning filter
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separation filter
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sewage filter
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shaping filter
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sharp-cutoff filter
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shunt filter
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sideband filter
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signal-separation filter
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silica gel filter
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sintered filter
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sintered glass filter
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sintered metal filter
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smoke filter
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smoothing filter
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sniffing filter
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softening filter
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solid-state filter
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spatial filter
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spatiotemporal filter
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sponge filter
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standard-rate filter
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star filter
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state-variable filter
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stop-band
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streamline filter
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striped-color filter
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striped filter
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strip-line filter
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submersible filter
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subtractive color filter
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subtractive filter
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suction filter
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suppression filter
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surface-acoustic-wave filter
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swept filter
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switched-capacitor filter
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synchronous filter
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synthetic fiber dust filter
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tapped-delay line filter
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telltale filter
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textile filter
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Thomson filter
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through filter
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throw-away filter
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time-varying filter
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toe filter
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total filter
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tracking filter
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transmission filter
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transparency filter
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transversal filter
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trickling filter
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tricolor filters
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trimming filter
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T-type hydraulic filter
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tubular cloth filter
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tunable filter
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tuned filter
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two-stage hydraulic filter
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ultraviolet filter
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unmatched filter
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vacuum filter
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variable band-pass filter
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variable density filter
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variable filter
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velocity filter
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ventilation filter
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vestigial sideband filter
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video filter
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viscous filter
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voice filter
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wadding filter
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wash hydraulic filter
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water filter
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wave filter
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waveguide direct coupled resonator filter
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waveguide filter
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wedge interference filter
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weighting filter
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weight filter
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wet electrical filter
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wet filter
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whitening filter
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wide-band filter
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Wiener filter
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wire mesh filter
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wire screen filter
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YIG filter
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zero-memory filter
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сигнал; команда; знак; импульс; сигнализировать; связываться (с кем-л.) посредством сигнала; сигнальныйa.c. signal — сигнал переменного тока
clear to engage signal — сигнал «разрешаю запустить несущий винт»
gear down and locked signal — сигнал «шасси выпущено и встало на замок»
glide slope error signal — сигнал глиссадной ошибки, сигнал отклонения от (заданной) глиссады
ground transmitted glide slope signal — сигнал наземного глиссадного передатчика [радиомаяка]
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27 velocity
скорость, см. тж. rate, speed; вектор скоростиaverage jet exhaust velocity — среднее значение скорости [осредненная скорость] истечения реактивной струи
characteristic velocity required for rendezvous — потребная характеристическая скорость для обеспечения встречи (на орбите)
hyperbolic excess passage velocity — гиперболическая избыточная скорость прохождения [пролета] (планеты)
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28 valve
1) клапан; вентиль; гидро- или пневмораспределитель3) pl арматура, трубопроводная арматура•- 4-way valve
- acceleration valve
- adjustable orifice valve
- adjustable valve
- adjusting valve
- admission valve
- air bleed valve
- air pressure regulating valve
- air valve
- air-control valve
- air-escape valve
- air-inlet valve
- air-pressure-control valve
- alarm valve
- amplifying valve
- angle valve
- annular slide valve
- back-flow check valve
- back-flow prevention valve
- back-pressure valve
- balanced piston valve
- balanced valve
- ball valve
- ball-and-lever valve
- bang-bang valve
- bell-shaped valve
- bleeder valve
- blow valve
- blow-down valve
- blowing valve
- blowoff valve
- blowout valve
- blowthrough valve
- bucket valve
- bullet valve
- butterfly valve
- bypass valve
- calibrated flow control valve
- cartridge valve
- center-to-face valves
- changeover valve
- check valve
- choke valve
- circulation valve
- clack valve
- clapper valve
- closed-center valve
- closing valve
- combination valve
- common slide valve
- common valve
- compensation valve
- cone valve
- conical valve
- control valve
- counterbalance valve
- cup valve
- cushion valve
- cutoff valve
- damper valve
- decoupler valve
- delivery valve
- diaphragm valve
- differential pressure control valve
- direct acting valve
- direct action valve
- directional control valve with five ports
- directional control valve
- directional flow control valve
- directional valve with five ports
- directional valve
- discharge valve
- disk valve
- distribution valve
- distributive valve
- distributor valve
- double-seat valve
- double-seated valve
- double-solenoid hydraulic valve
- double-solenoid pneumatic valve
- draining valve
- dressing compensation valve
- dump valve
- duplicator valve
- easing valve
- ejection valve
- electric valve
- electronic valve
- emergency valve
- equalizing valve
- exhaust valve
- face-to-face valves
- fast-acting valve
- feed valve
- feed-check valve
- five-port valve
- flanged valves
- flap valve
- float cutoff valve
- float valve
- flow control valve
- flow relation valve
- flow restriction valve
- flow-dividing valve
- flow-regulating valve
- flow-summarizing valve
- fluid control valve
- foot-controlled valve
- forcing valve
- four-port control valve
- four-port valve
- four-way control valve
- four-way valve
- gate valve
- globe valve
- group valve
- hand-lever valve
- hydraulic back-flow check valve
- hydraulic check valve
- hydraulic directional valve
- hydraulic speed control valve
- hydraulic valve
- hydraulic volume control valve
- hydrostatic valve
- indirect acting valve
- injection valve
- inlet valve
- integral valve
- interstage air bleed valve
- isolation valve
- knee valve
- leaf valve
- lift valve
- lubricating bypass valve
- lubricating unloading valve
- lubricating valve
- magnet valve
- magnetic valve
- main valve
- make-up valve
- manual valve
- master air valve
- master valve
- metal valves
- metering valve
- mixing valve
- multiple ring valve
- needle valve
- nonreturn valve
- nonrising stem gate valve
- one-port control valve
- one-port valve
- one-way control valve
- one-way valve
- open-center valve
- operating valve
- orifice valve
- oscillating valve
- overfeed compensation valve
- overload relief valve
- over-pressurization relief valve
- paddle valve
- parallel seat gate valve
- parallel slide gate valve
- pet valve
- photoelectric valve
- pilot controlled check valve
- pilot-acting valve
- pilot-actuated valve
- pilot-controlled valve
- pilot-operated check valve
- pilot-operated valve
- pinch valve
- pipeline valves
- piston valve
- plate valve
- plug valve
- pneumatic check valve
- pneumatic directional control valve
- pneumatic speed control valve
- pneumatic valve
- pneumatic volume control valve
- poppet check valve
- poppet valve
- pressure control valve
- pressure release valve
- pressure relief valve
- pressure valve
- pressure-limiting valve
- pressure-reducing valve
- pressure-regulating valve
- proportional pressure control valve
- proportional valve
- proportioning valve
- pushbutton valve
- quantity control valve
- quarter-turn valve
- quick-closing valve
- quick-exhaust valve
- rate-of-flow control valve
- reducing valve
- regulating valve
- regulator valve
- relay valve
- release valve
- relief sequence valve
- relief valve
- return valve
- reverse valve
- reversing valve
- rising stem gate valve
- rotary valve
- safety relief valve
- safety valve
- screw valve
- screw-down valve
- screwed valves
- seat valve
- selector valve
- self-closing valve
- sequence valve
- servo solenoid valve
- servo-operated valve
- shutoff valve
- single-seat valve
- single-seated valve
- single-stage valve
- sleeve valve
- slide valve
- slide-type valve
- sliding piston-type selector valve
- sliding spool valve
- sluice valve
- soft-start valve
- solenoid acting valve
- solenoid valve
- solenoid-operated hydraulic valve
- speed control valve
- spool valve
- spool-and-ball valve
- spool-type throttling valve
- spool-type valve
- spring offset valve
- spring-centered valve
- spring-loaded valve
- step valve
- stop valve
- straight-through valve
- straightway valve
- suction valve
- tandem-type valve
- tappet valve
- three-port control valve
- three-port valve
- three-way control valve
- three-way valve
- throttle valve
- throttling direction control valve
- throttling valve
- through valve
- time valve
- time-delay valve
- tracer milling valve
- tracer valve
- traction-control valve
- two-port control valve
- two-port valve
- two-way control valve
- two-way valve
- unloading valve
- variable guide valves
- variable stage guide valves
- variable valve
- vent valve
- venting valve
- volume control valve
- volume controlling valve
- wedge gate valve
- wedge-action valve
- weighted valve
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1) управление; регулирование; регулировка || управлять; регулировать; задавать2) контроль; проверка || контролировать; проверять3) орган управления; орган регулировки, регулятор; орган настройки4) устройство управления; блок управления6) рукоятка или рычаг управления7) профилактические мероприятия, надзор•"operation is under control" — всё предусмотрено для нормальной работы;to gain control — вчт. получать управление:to go out of control — становиться неуправляемым;to operate ( to handle) the flight controls — оперировать органами управления полётом;to pass control — вчт. передавать управление;to return control — вчт. возвращать управление;to take over control — брать управление на себя;to transfer control — вчт. передавать управление-
cascaded control-
cathode control-
CO/O2 combustion control-
communications control-
computer control-
contactor-type control-
continuous-path control-
course gage control-
current-mode control-
dispatcher control-
focusing control-
holding control-
horizontal-frequency control-
hue range control-
long-distance control-
managerial control-
microprogramming control-
numerical program control-
on-off action control-
position-based control-
slide control-
step-by-step control-
time-pattern control
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