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  • 1 McNaught, William

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    b. 27 May 1813 Sneddon, Paisley, Scotland
    d. 8 January 1881 Manchester, England
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    Scottish patentee of a very successful form of compounding beam engine with a high-pressure cylinder between the fulcrum of the beam and the connecting rod.
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    Although born in Paisley, McNaught was educated in Glasgow where his parents had moved in 1820. He followed in his father's footsteps and became an engineer through an apprenticeship with Robert Napier at the Vulcan Works, Washington Street, Glasgow. He also attended science classes at the Andersonian University in the evenings and showed such competence that at the age of 19 he was offered the position of being in charge of the Fort-Gloster Mills on the Hoogly river in India. He remained there for four years until 1836, when he returned to Scotland because the climate was affecting his health.
    His father had added the revolving cylinder to the steam engine indicator, and this greatly simplified and extended its use. In 1838 William joined him in the business of manufacturing these indicators at Robertson Street, Glasgow. While advising textile manufacturers on the use of the indicator, he realized the need for more powerful, smoother-running and economical steam engines. He provided the answer by placing a high-pressure cylinder midway between the fulcrum of the beam and the connecting rod on an ordinary beam engine. The original cylinder was retained to act as the low-pressure cylinder of what became a compound engine. This layout not only reduced the pressures on the bearing surfaces and gave a smoother-running engine, which was one of McNaught's aims, but he probably did not anticipate just how much more economical his engines would be; they often gave a saving of fuel up to 40 per cent. This was because the steam pipe connecting the two cylinders acted as a receiver, something lacking in the Woolf compound, which enabled the steam to be expanded properly in both cylinders. McNaught took out his patent in 1845, and in 1849 he had to move to Manchester because his orders in Lancashire were so numerous and the scope was much greater there than in Glasgow. He took out further patents for equalizing the stress on the working parts, but none was as important as his original one, which was claimed to have been one of the greatest improvements since the steam engine left the hands of James Watt. He was one of the original promoters of the Boiler Insurance and Steam Power Company and was elected Chairman in 1865, a position he retained until a short time before his death.
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    Bibliography
    1845, British patent no. 11,001 (compounding beam engine).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, Engineer 51.
    Obituary, Engineering 31.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (the fullest account of McNaught's proposals for compounding).
    RLH

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  • 2 Elder, John

    [br]
    b. 9 March 1824 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 September 1869 London, England
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    Scottish engineer who introduced the compound steam engine to ships and established an important shipbuilding company in Glasgow.
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    John was the third son of David Elder. The father came from a family of millwrights and moved to Glasgow where he worked for the well-known shipbuilding firm of Napier's and was involved with improving marine engines. John was educated at Glasgow High School and then for a while at the Department of Civil Engineering at Glasgow University, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics and drawing. He spent five years as an apprentice under Robert Napier followed by two short periods of activity as a pattern-maker first and then a draughtsman in England. He returned to Scotland in 1849 to become Chief Draughtsman to Napier, but in 1852 he left to become a partner with the Glasgow general engineering company of Randolph Elliott \& Co. Shortly after his induction (at the age of 28), the engineering firm was renamed Randolph Elder \& Co.; in 1868, when the partnership expired, it became known as John Elder \& Co. From the outset Elder, with his partner, Charles Randolph, approached mechanical (especially heat) engineering in a rigorous manner. Their knowledge and understanding of entropy ensured that engine design was not a hit-and-miss affair, but one governed by recognition of the importance of the new kinetic theory of heat and with it a proper understanding of thermodynamic principles, and by systematic development. In this Elder was joined by W.J.M. Rankine, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, who helped him develop the compound marine engine. Elder and Randolph built up a series of patents, which guaranteed their company's commercial success and enabled them for a while to be the sole suppliers of compound steam reciprocating machinery. Their first such engine at sea was fitted in 1854 on the SS Brandon for the Limerick Steamship Company; the ship showed an improved performance by using a third less coal, which he was able to reduce still further on later designs.
    Elder developed steam jacketing and recognized that, with higher pressures, triple-expansion types would be even more economical. In 1862 he patented a design of quadruple-expansion engine with reheat between cylinders and advocated the importance of balancing reciprocating parts. The effect of his improvements was to greatly reduce fuel consumption so that long sea voyages became an economic reality.
    His yard soon reached dimensions then unequalled on the Clyde where he employed over 4,000 workers; Elder also was always interested in the social welfare of his labour force. In 1860 the engine shops were moved to the Govan Old Shipyard, and again in 1864 to the Fairfield Shipyard, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west on the south bank of the Clyde. At Fairfield, shipbuilding was commenced, and with the patents for compounding secure, much business was placed for many years by shipowners serving long-distance trades such as South America; the Pacific Steam Navigation Company took up his ideas for their ships. In later years the yard became known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, but it remains today as one of Britain's most efficient shipyards and is known now as Kvaerner Govan Ltd.
    In 1869, at the age of only 45, John Elder was unanimously elected President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; however, before taking office and giving his eagerly awaited presidential address, he died in London from liver disease. A large multitude attended his funeral and all the engineering shops were silent as his body, which had been brought back from London to Glasgow, was carried to its resting place. In 1857 Elder had married Isabella Ure, and on his death he left her a considerable fortune, which she used generously for Govan, for Glasgow and especially the University. In 1883 she endowed the world's first Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow, an act which was reciprocated in 1901 when the University awarded her an LLD on the occasion of its 450th anniversary.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1869.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1869, Engineer 28.
    1889, The Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder \& Co. W.J.Macquorn Rankine, 1871, "Sketch of the life of John Elder" Transactions of the
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Maclehose, 1886, Memoirs and Portraits of a Hundred Glasgow Men.
    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 1909, London: Offices of Engineering.
    P.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (covers Elder's contribution to the development of steam engines).
    RLH / FMW

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  • 3 κρατηρία

    κρα-τηρ-ία, ἡ, foreg.,
    A bowl for compounding drugs, etc., Dsc.4.150, Zos.Alch.p.234 B.

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  • 4 συγκριτικός

    A of or for compounding, opp.

    διακριτικός, τμῆμα Pl.Plt. 282c

    , cf. Arist. Top. 107b30;

    λευκὸν μὲν τὸ διακριτικὸν μέλαν δὲ τὸ σ. Thphr.Sens.86

    : ἡ -κή (sc. τέχνη) Pl. l.c. b,c.
    II comparative,

    ὑπόθεσις Plu.2.616d

    ; τὰ σ. (sc. ὀνόματα) comparative degree of adjectives, D.T.635.9, Plu.2.677d, A.D.Synt.58.28. Adv.

    - κῶς D.L.9.75

    .
    III = μετασυγκριτικός, φάρμακα, opp. χαλαστικά, Gal.2.343: τὰ σ., title of work by Thessalus, Id.10.7.

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  • 5 nominal interest rate

    Fin
    the interest rate as specified, without adjustment for compounding or inflation

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  • 6 APR

    abbr. Fin
    Annual or Annualized Percentage Rate of interest: the interest rate that would exist if it were calculated as simple rather than compound interest.
    EXAMPLE
    Different investments typically offer different compounding periods, usually quarterly or monthly. The APR allows them to be compared over a common period of time: one year. This enables an investor or borrower to compare like with like, providing an excellent basis for comparing mortgage or other loan rates.
         APR is calculated by applying the formula:
    APR = [1 + i/m]m – 1.0
    In the formula, i is the interest rate quoted, expressed as decimal, and m is the number of compounding periods per year.
         The APR is usually slightly higher than the quoted rate, and should be expressed as a decimal, that is, 6% becomes 0.06. When expressed as the cost of credit, other costs should be included in addition to interest, such as loan closing costs and financial fees.

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  • 7 Churchward, George Jackson

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    b. 31 January 1857 Stoke Gabriel, Devon, England
    d. 19 December 1933 Swindon, Wiltshire, England
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    English mechanical engineer who developed for the Great Western Railway a range of steam locomotives of the most advanced design of its time.
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    Churchward was articled to the Locomotive Superintendent of the South Devon Railway in 1873, and when the South Devon was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1876 he moved to the latter's Swindon works. There he rose by successive promotions to become Works Manager in 1896, and in 1897 Chief Assistant to William Dean, who was Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Superintendent, in which capacity Churchward was allowed extensive freedom of action. Churchward eventually succeeded Dean in 1902: his title changed to Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1916.
    In locomotive design, Churchward adopted the flat-topped firebox invented by A.J.Belpaire of the Belgian State Railways and added a tapered barrel to improve circulation of water between the barrel and the firebox legs. He designed valves with a longer stroke and a greater lap than usual, to achieve full opening to exhaust. Passenger-train weights had been increasing rapidly, and Churchward produced his first 4–6– 0 express locomotive in 1902. However, he was still developing the details—he had a flair for selecting good engineering practices—and to aid his development work Churchward installed at Swindon in 1904 a stationary testing plant for locomotives. This was the first of its kind in Britain and was based on the work of Professor W.F.M.Goss, who had installed the first such plant at Purdue University, USA, in 1891. For comparison with his own locomotives Churchward obtained from France three 4–4–2 compound locomotives of the type developed by A. de Glehn and G. du Bousquet. He decided against compounding, but he did perpetuate many of the details of the French locomotives, notably the divided drive between the first and second pairs of driving wheels, when he introduced his four-cylinder 4–6–0 (the Star class) in 1907. He built a lone 4–6–2, the Great Bear, in 1908: the wheel arrangement enabled it to have a wide firebox, but the type was not perpetuated because Welsh coal suited narrow grates and 4–6–0 locomotives were adequate for the traffic. After Churchward retired in 1921 his successor, C.B.Collett, was to enlarge the Star class into the Castle class and then the King class, both 4–6–0s, which lasted almost as long as steam locomotives survived in service. In Church ward's time, however, the Great Western Railway was the first in Britain to adopt six-coupled locomotives on a large scale for passenger trains in place of four-coupled locomotives. The 4–6–0 classes, however, were but the most celebrated of a whole range of standard locomotives of advanced design for all types of traffic and shared between them many standardized components, particularly boilers, cylinders and valve gear.
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    Further Reading
    H.C.B.Rogers, 1975, G.J.Churchward. A Locomotive Biography, London: George Allen \& Unwin (a full-length account of Churchward and his locomotives, and their influence on subsequent locomotive development).
    C.Hamilton Ellis, 1958, Twenty Locomotive Men, Shepperton: Ian Allan, Ch. 20 (a good brief account).
    Sir William Stanier, 1955, "George Jackson Churchward", Transactions of the Newcomen
    Society 30 (a unique insight into Churchward and his work, from the informed viewpoint of his former subordinate who had risen to become Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland \& Scottish Railway).
    PJGR

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  • 8 Computers

       The brain has been compared to a digital computer because the neuron, like a switch or valve, either does or does not complete a circuit. But at that point the similarity ends. The switch in the digital computer is constant in its effect, and its effect is large in proportion to the total output of the machine. The effect produced by the neuron varies with its recovery from [the] refractory phase and with its metabolic state. The number of neurons involved in any action runs into millions so that the influence of any one is negligible.... Any cell in the system can be dispensed with.... The brain is an analogical machine, not digital. Analysis of the integrative activities will probably have to be in statistical terms. (Lashley, quoted in Beach, Hebb, Morgan & Nissen, 1960, p. 539)
       It is essential to realize that a computer is not a mere "number cruncher," or supercalculating arithmetic machine, although this is how computers are commonly regarded by people having no familiarity with artificial intelligence. Computers do not crunch numbers; they manipulate symbols.... Digital computers originally developed with mathematical problems in mind, are in fact general purpose symbol manipulating machines....
       The terms "computer" and "computation" are themselves unfortunate, in view of their misleading arithmetical connotations. The definition of artificial intelligence previously cited-"the study of intelligence as computation"-does not imply that intelligence is really counting. Intelligence may be defined as the ability creatively to manipulate symbols, or process information, given the requirements of the task in hand. (Boden, 1981, pp. 15, 16-17)
       The task is to get computers to explain things to themselves, to ask questions about their experiences so as to cause those explanations to be forthcoming, and to be creative in coming up with explanations that have not been previously available. (Schank, 1986, p. 19)
       In What Computers Can't Do, written in 1969 (2nd edition, 1972), the main objection to AI was the impossibility of using rules to select only those facts about the real world that were relevant in a given situation. The "Introduction" to the paperback edition of the book, published by Harper & Row in 1979, pointed out further that no one had the slightest idea how to represent the common sense understanding possessed even by a four-year-old. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 102)
       A popular myth says that the invention of the computer diminishes our sense of ourselves, because it shows that rational thought is not special to human beings, but can be carried on by a mere machine. It is a short stop from there to the conclusion that intelligence is mechanical, which many people find to be an affront to all that is most precious and singular about their humanness.
       In fact, the computer, early in its career, was not an instrument of the philistines, but a humanizing influence. It helped to revive an idea that had fallen into disrepute: the idea that the mind is real, that it has an inner structure and a complex organization, and can be understood in scientific terms. For some three decades, until the 1940s, American psychology had lain in the grip of the ice age of behaviorism, which was antimental through and through. During these years, extreme behaviorists banished the study of thought from their agenda. Mind and consciousness, thinking, imagining, planning, solving problems, were dismissed as worthless for anything except speculation. Only the external aspects of behavior, the surface manifestations, were grist for the scientist's mill, because only they could be observed and measured....
       It is one of the surprising gifts of the computer in the history of ideas that it played a part in giving back to psychology what it had lost, which was nothing less than the mind itself. In particular, there was a revival of interest in how the mind represents the world internally to itself, by means of knowledge structures such as ideas, symbols, images, and inner narratives, all of which had been consigned to the realm of mysticism. (Campbell, 1989, p. 10)
       [Our artifacts] only have meaning because we give it to them; their intentionality, like that of smoke signals and writing, is essentially borrowed, hence derivative. To put it bluntly: computers themselves don't mean anything by their tokens (any more than books do)-they only mean what we say they do. Genuine understanding, on the other hand, is intentional "in its own right" and not derivatively from something else. (Haugeland, 1981a, pp. 32-33)
       he debate over the possibility of computer thought will never be won or lost; it will simply cease to be of interest, like the previous debate over man as a clockwork mechanism. (Bolter, 1984, p. 190)
       t takes us a long time to emotionally digest a new idea. The computer is too big a step, and too recently made, for us to quickly recover our balance and gauge its potential. It's an enormous accelerator, perhaps the greatest one since the plow, twelve thousand years ago. As an intelligence amplifier, it speeds up everything-including itself-and it continually improves because its heart is information or, more plainly, ideas. We can no more calculate its consequences than Babbage could have foreseen antibiotics, the Pill, or space stations.
       Further, the effects of those ideas are rapidly compounding, because a computer design is itself just a set of ideas. As we get better at manipulating ideas by building ever better computers, we get better at building even better computers-it's an ever-escalating upward spiral. The early nineteenth century, when the computer's story began, is already so far back that it may as well be the Stone Age. (Rawlins, 1997, p. 19)
       According to weak AI, the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion than before. But according to strong AI the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. And according to strong AI, because the programmed computer has cognitive states, the programs are not mere tools that enable us to test psychological explanations; rather, the programs are themselves the explanations. (Searle, 1981b, p. 353)
       What makes people smarter than machines? They certainly are not quicker or more precise. Yet people are far better at perceiving objects in natural scenes and noting their relations, at understanding language and retrieving contextually appropriate information from memory, at making plans and carrying out contextually appropriate actions, and at a wide range of other natural cognitive tasks. People are also far better at learning to do these things more accurately and fluently through processing experience.
       What is the basis for these differences? One answer, perhaps the classic one we might expect from artificial intelligence, is "software." If we only had the right computer program, the argument goes, we might be able to capture the fluidity and adaptability of human information processing. Certainly this answer is partially correct. There have been great breakthroughs in our understanding of cognition as a result of the development of expressive high-level computer languages and powerful algorithms. However, we do not think that software is the whole story.
       In our view, people are smarter than today's computers because the brain employs a basic computational architecture that is more suited to deal with a central aspect of the natural information processing tasks that people are so good at.... hese tasks generally require the simultaneous consideration of many pieces of information or constraints. Each constraint may be imperfectly specified and ambiguous, yet each can play a potentially decisive role in determining the outcome of processing. (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, 1986, pp. 3-4)

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  • 9 rate of return

    Fin
    an accounting ratio of the income from an investment to the amount of the investment, used to measure financial performance.
    EXAMPLE
    There is a basic formula that will serve most needs, at least initially:
    [(Current value of amount invested – Original value of amount invested) / Original value of amount invested] × 100% = rate of return
    If $1,000 in capital is invested in stock, and one year later the investment yields $1,100, the rate of return of the investment is calculated like this:
    [(1100 – 1000) / 1000] × 100% = 100 / 1000 × 100% = 10% rate of return
    Now, assume $1,000 is invested again. One year later, the investment grows to $2,000 in value, but after another year the value of the investment falls to $1,200. The rate of return after the first year is:
    [(2000 – 1000) / 1000] × 100% = 100%
    The rate of return after the second year is:
    [(1200 – 2000) / 2000] × 100% = – 40%
         The average annual return for the two years (also known as average annual arithmetic return) can be calculated using this formula:
    (Rate of return for Year 1 + Rate of return for Year 2) /2 = average annual return
         Accordingly:
    (100% + – 40%) /2 = 30%
    The average annual rate of return is a percentage, but one that is accurate over only a short period, so this method should be used accordingly.
         The geometric or compound rate of return is a better yardstick for measuring investments over the long term, and takes into account the effects of compounding. This formula is more complex and technical.
         The real rate of return is the annual return realized on an investment, adjusted for changes in the price due to inflation. If 10% is earned on an investment but inflation is 2%, then the real rate of return is actually 8%.

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  • 10 composición

    f.
    1 composition, work, piece, opus.
    2 composition, article, essay, paper.
    3 make-up, constitution, conformation, formation.
    4 setting-up.
    * * *
    1 (gen) composition
    2 (acuerdo) agreement
    3 (arreglo) arrangement
    4 (en impresión) setting, composition
    \
    hacer composición de lugar (decidirse) to make a plan of action 2 (formarse una idea) to get a picture of a situation
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Mús, Quím, Arte) composition
    2) (Educ) essay
    3)

    composición de lugar — stocktaking, inventory

    4) (Tip) typesetting
    5) [de desacuerdo] settlement; [de personas] reconciliation

    composición procesal — (Jur) out-of-court settlement

    6) (=arreglo) arrangement
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de grupo, equipo) composition, makeup
    b) ( de sustancia) composition
    2) (Art, Fot, Mús) composition; (Educ) ( redacción) composition

    hacerse una composición de lugar: para que te hagas una composición de composición, la cocina es alargada just to give you an idea, the kitchen is long and narrow; se hizo una composición de composición y decidió irse — he took stock of the situation and decided to leave

    •
    * * *
    = composition, essay, make, setting, writing, make-up [makeup], constitution.
    Ex. In particular, a title that consists solely of the name(s) of type(s) of composition requires the following elements in addition to the statement of the medium of performance: serial number, opus number or thematic index number, key.
    Ex. In a journal most formal items including articles, essays, discussions and reviews can be expected to be accompanied by an abstract.
    Ex. Typically a patent abstract is informative, and includes in the case of an article, its method of making or manufacture.
    Ex. A companionship was a team of piecework compositors, led by one of their number, who co-operated in the setting of a book and submitted a single bill for the work, the proceeds of which were then divided amongst themselves.
    Ex. This is a project for collaboration in formal report writing based on current social theories of writing.
    Ex. Account also had to be taken of the disparate make-up and wide age-spread of a reader community which consists of Commission officials and trainees plus diverse visitors from outside.
    Ex. The chemical constitution of these materials is described and their deterioration characteristics explained.
    ----
    * composición de canciones = songwriting [song-writing].
    * composición de imágenes = image setting.
    * composición demográfica = demographic composition.
    * composición musical = musical composition.
    * composición musical manida = war horse.
    * composición original = creative writing.
    * composición por confrontación de ideas = brain-writing.
    * composición tipográfica = typesetting [type-setting].
    * composición tipográfica automatizada = computerised typesetting.
    * composición tipográfica por ordenador = computer typesetting.
    * sala de composición = composing room.
    * taller de trabajo sobre composición = writing workshop.
    * técnicas de composición escrita = writing skills.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (de grupo, equipo) composition, makeup
    b) ( de sustancia) composition
    2) (Art, Fot, Mús) composition; (Educ) ( redacción) composition

    hacerse una composición de lugar: para que te hagas una composición de composición, la cocina es alargada just to give you an idea, the kitchen is long and narrow; se hizo una composición de composición y decidió irse — he took stock of the situation and decided to leave

    •
    * * *
    = composition, essay, make, setting, writing, make-up [makeup], constitution.

    Ex: In particular, a title that consists solely of the name(s) of type(s) of composition requires the following elements in addition to the statement of the medium of performance: serial number, opus number or thematic index number, key.

    Ex: In a journal most formal items including articles, essays, discussions and reviews can be expected to be accompanied by an abstract.
    Ex: Typically a patent abstract is informative, and includes in the case of an article, its method of making or manufacture.
    Ex: A companionship was a team of piecework compositors, led by one of their number, who co-operated in the setting of a book and submitted a single bill for the work, the proceeds of which were then divided amongst themselves.
    Ex: This is a project for collaboration in formal report writing based on current social theories of writing.
    Ex: Account also had to be taken of the disparate make-up and wide age-spread of a reader community which consists of Commission officials and trainees plus diverse visitors from outside.
    Ex: The chemical constitution of these materials is described and their deterioration characteristics explained.
    * composición de canciones = songwriting [song-writing].
    * composición de imágenes = image setting.
    * composición demográfica = demographic composition.
    * composición musical = musical composition.
    * composición musical manida = war horse.
    * composición original = creative writing.
    * composición por confrontación de ideas = brain-writing.
    * composición tipográfica = typesetting [type-setting].
    * composición tipográfica automatizada = computerised typesetting.
    * composición tipográfica por ordenador = computer typesetting.
    * sala de composición = composing room.
    * taller de trabajo sobre composición = writing workshop.
    * técnicas de composición escrita = writing skills.

    * * *
    A
    1 (de un grupo, equipo) composition, makeup
    la actual composición de la junta the present composition o makeup of the board
    2 (de una sustancia) composition
    B
    1 (obra) composition, work
    2 ( Mús) (disciplina) composition
    3 (ejercicio) composition
    4 ( Art, Fot) composition
    hacerse una composición de lugar: para que te hagas una composición de composición, la cocina es la cuarta parte de ésta just to give you an idea o to help you picture it, the kitchen is a quarter of the size of this one
    se hizo una composición de composición y decidió irse he took stock of o sized up the situation and decided to leave
    Compuesto:
    typesetting
    * * *

     

    composición sustantivo femenino
    composition
    composición sustantivo femenino composition
    ' composición' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    concierto
    - ser
    - movimiento
    - tarantela
    - baile
    - consistir
    - coro
    - de
    - dúo
    - falla
    - redactar
    - tema
    - terreno
    English:
    composition
    - layout
    - make-up
    - sketch
    - typesetting
    - essay
    - sum
    * * *
    1. [de sustancia, producto] composition
    composición química chemical composition
    2. [de equipo, comité] composition, make-up
    3. [obra literaria] work;
    [obra musical] composition, work composición musical composition;
    composición poética poetic composition, poem
    4. [técnica musical] composition
    5. [redacción] essay, composition ( sobre on)
    6. [en fotografía, pintura] composition;
    hacerse una composición de lugar to size up the situation;
    no me hago una composición de lugar, ¿cómo es la casa? I can't quite visualize it, what's the house like?
    7. Ling compounding, combination
    8. [en imprenta] typesetting
    * * *
    f composition
    * * *
    1) obra: composition, work
    2) : makeup, arrangement
    * * *
    composición n composition

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  • 11 κρᾶσις

    κρᾶσις εως, ἡ ([dialect] Ion. [full] κρῆσις Hp.Vict.1.32): ([etym.] κεράννυμι):—
    A mixing, blending of things which form a compound, as wine and water, opp. mechanical mixture (defined as an εἶδος μίξεως in which the constituents are liquids, Arist.Top. 122b26, cf. Stoic.2.153; περὶ κράσεως, title of work by Alex.Aphr.): first in A.,

    τὴν δευτέραν γε κ. ἥρωσιν νέμω Fr.55

    , cf. Staphyl.9, Ath.10.426b (pl.); κράσεις ἠπίων ἀκεσμάτων modes of compounding.., A. Pr. 482;

    ἡ τῶν ἐναντίων κ. Pl. Lg. 889c

    ;

    τὴν τῶν νεύρων φύσιν ἐξ ὀστοῦ καὶ σαρκὸς κράσεως.. συνεκεράσατο Id.Ti. 74d

    ;

    ἐκ κράσεως πρὸς ἄλληλα Id.Tht. 152d

    ;

    τὴν ἁρμονίαν κ. καὶ σύνθεσιν ἐναντίων εἶναι Arist. de An. 407b31

    ;

    χρωμάτων ἀκριβὴς κ. Luc.Zeux.5

    , cf. Arist.Col. 792a4.
    2 temperature of the air, κρᾶσιν ὑγρὰν οὐκ ἔχων [αἰθήρ] E.Fr.779.2; τὰς ὥρας κ. ἔχειν τοιαύτην ὥστε .. Pl.Phd. 111b, cf. Poll.6.178; ἡ κ. τῶν ὡρέων temperate climate, Hp. Aër.12; ὅσα περὶ κράσεις climates, Arist.Pr.lib.xivtit.
    3 temperament, of the body or mind, κ. σώματος ib. 871a24, cf. 953a30; διανοίας ib. 909a17; κ. μελαγχολική ib. 954b8: pl.,

    αἱ τῶν σωμάτων κράσιες Ti.Locr.103a

    , cf. Plot.3.1.6: so in Medic., Hp.Nat.Hom.4, etc.; περὶ κράσεων, title of work by Galen.
    4 metaph., combination, union,

    κ. καὶ ἁρμονία τούτων ἡ ψυχή Pl.Phd. 86b

    , cf. 59a;

    μουσικῆς καὶ γυμναστικῆς κ. Id.R. 441e

    , etc.
    5 Gramm., crasis, i.e. the combination of the vowels of two syllables into one long vowel or diphthong, e.g. τοὔνομα for τὸ ὄνομα, ἁνήρ for ὁ ἀνήρ, τἆρα for τοι ἄρα, A.D.Adv.128.2, EM822.56, etc.; also, synaeresis of vowels, e.g. εὖ for ἐΰ, ib.392.54; but opp. ἔκθλιψις and συναίρεσις, An.Ox.1.371.

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  • 12 Mallet, Jules Théodore Anatole

    [br]
    b. 1837 Geneva, Switzerland
    d. November 1919 Nice, France
    [br]
    Swiss engineer, inventor of the compound steam locomotive and the Mallet articulated locomotive.
    [br]
    Mallet's family moved to Normandy while he was still a child. After working as a civil engineer, in 1867 he turned to machinery, particularly to compound steam engines. He designed the first true compound steam locomotives, which were built for the Bayonne- Biarritz Railway in 1876. They were 0–4–2 tank locomotives with one high-pressure and one low-pressure cylinder. A starting valve controlled by the driver admitted high-pressure steam to the low-pressure cylinder while the high-pressure cylinder exhausted to the atmosphere. At that time it was thought impracticable in a narrow-gauge locomotive to have more than three coupled axles in rigid frames. Mallet patented his system of articulation in 1884 and the first locomotives were built to that design in 1888: they were 0–4–4–0 tanks with two sets of frames. The two rear pairs of wheels carried the rear set of frames and were driven by two high-pressure cylinders; the two front pairs, which were driven by the high-pressure cylinders, carried a separate set of frames that was allowed sideplay, with a centre of rotation between the low-pressure cylinders. In contrast to the patent locomotive of Robert Fairlie, no flexible connections were required to carry steam at boiler pressure. The first Mallet articulated locomotives were small, built to 60 cm (23.6 in.) gauge: the first standard-gauge Mallets were built in 1890, for the St Gotthard Railway, and it was only after the type was adopted by American railways in 1904 that large Mallet locomotives were built, with sizes increasing rapidly to culminate in some of the largest steam locomotives ever produced. In the late 1880s Mallet also designed monorail locomotives, which were built for the system developed by C.F.M.-T. Lartigue.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1884, French patent no. 162,876 (articulated locomotive).
    Further Reading
    J.T.van Riemsdijk, 1970, "The compound locomotive, Part I", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 43 (describes Mallet's work on compounding).
    L.Wiener, 1930, Articulated Locomotives, London: Constable (describes his articulated locomotives).
    For the Mallet family, see Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Mallet, Jules Théodore Anatole

  • 13 Vauclain, Samuel Matthews

    [br]
    b. 18 May 1856 Philadelphia, USA
    d. 4 February 1940 Rosemont, Pennsylvania, USA
    [br]
    American locomotive builder, inventor of the Vauclain compound system.
    [br]
    Vauclain entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1872 as an apprentice in Altoona workshops and moved to the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1883. He remained with the latter for fifty-seven years, becoming President in 1919 and Chairman of the Board in 1929.
    The first locomotive to his pattern of compound was built in 1889. There were four cylinders: on each side of the locomotive a high-pressure cylinder and a low-pressure cylinder were positioned one above the other, their pistons driving a common cross-head. They shared, also, a common piston valve. Large two-cylinder compound locomotives had been found to suffer from uneven distribution of power between the two sides of the locomotive: Vauclain's system overcame this problem while retaining the accessibility of a locomotive with two outside cylinders. It was used extensively in the USA and other parts of the world, but not in Britain. Among many other developments, in 1897 Vauclain was responsible for the construction of the first locomotives of the 2–8–2 wheel arrangement.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1930, Steaming Up (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1941, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 20:180.
    J.T.van Reimsdijk, 1970, The compound locomotive. Part 1:1876 to 1901', Transactions of the Newcomen Society 43:9 (describes Vauclain's system of compounding).
    PJGR

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  • 14 Kommunalabgaben

    Kommunalabgaben
    local (Br.) (municipal) taxes, town (parish, local, municipal) rates (Br.), local authority rates;
    • allgemeine Kommunalabgaben general rates (Br.);
    • Kommunalabgaben und Steuern rates and taxes (Br.);
    • Kommunalabgaben erheben to levy a rate (Br.);
    • als Grundstücksbesitzer für Kommunalabgaben haftbar (erfassbar) sein to become liable for rates as occupier (Br.);
    • Kommunalabgabenablösung compounding of rates (Br.);
    • Kommunalabgabenanforderung rate demand (Br.).

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  • 15 compositio

    compŏsĭtĭo ( conp-), ōnis, f. [compono].
    I. A.
    Prop.:

    unguentorum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146:

    membrorum,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 47.—Fig.:

    varia sonorum,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 18, 41:

    rerum,

    id. Off. 1, 40, 142:

    magistratuum,

    id. Leg. 3, 5, 12:

    medicamentorum,

    Sen. Ep. 8, 2:

    remediorum,

    id. Ben. 4, 28, 4.—Hence,
    2.
    Esp., concr., in medic. lang., a compound, mixture, Cels. 5, 26 fin.; 6, 6, 16; Plin. 23, 8, 77, § 149; Veg. 1, 17, 16. Thus the title of a writing of Scribonius: Compositiones medicae.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    A connection, coherence, system:

    disciplinae,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74.—
    2.
    A drawing up in writing, composition:

    juris pontificalis,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 55.—
    b.
    Kat exochên, a proper connection in style and position of words, arrangement, disposition:

    compositio apta,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 200:

    tota servit gravitati vocum aut suavitati,

    id. Or. 54, 182; cf. id. Brut. 88, 303; Auct. Her. 4, 12, 18:

    lege Ciceronem: conpositio ejus una est, pedem servat lenta,

    Sen. Ep. 100, 7; 114, 15; in Quint. very freq.; cf. the 4th chap. of the 9th book: De compositione.—
    II.
    A laying together for preservation, a laying up of fruits, Col. 12, 26, 6; 12, 51, 1; in plur.:

    rerum auctumnalium,

    id. 12, 44, 1.—
    B.
    Trop., a peaceful union, an accommodation of a difference, an agreement, compact:

    pacis, concordiae, compositionis auctor esse non destiti,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 24; id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33; Caes. ap Cic. Att. 9, 13, A, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26; 1, 32; 3, 15 fin.; Dig. 28, 16, 6.—
    III.
    A bringing together or matching of combatants:

    gladiatorum,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1.

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  • 16 conpositio

    compŏsĭtĭo ( conp-), ōnis, f. [compono].
    I. A.
    Prop.:

    unguentorum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 58, 146:

    membrorum,

    id. ib. 1, 18, 47.—Fig.:

    varia sonorum,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 18, 41:

    rerum,

    id. Off. 1, 40, 142:

    magistratuum,

    id. Leg. 3, 5, 12:

    medicamentorum,

    Sen. Ep. 8, 2:

    remediorum,

    id. Ben. 4, 28, 4.—Hence,
    2.
    Esp., concr., in medic. lang., a compound, mixture, Cels. 5, 26 fin.; 6, 6, 16; Plin. 23, 8, 77, § 149; Veg. 1, 17, 16. Thus the title of a writing of Scribonius: Compositiones medicae.—
    B.
    Trop.
    1.
    A connection, coherence, system:

    disciplinae,

    Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 74.—
    2.
    A drawing up in writing, composition:

    juris pontificalis,

    Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 55.—
    b.
    Kat exochên, a proper connection in style and position of words, arrangement, disposition:

    compositio apta,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 52, 200:

    tota servit gravitati vocum aut suavitati,

    id. Or. 54, 182; cf. id. Brut. 88, 303; Auct. Her. 4, 12, 18:

    lege Ciceronem: conpositio ejus una est, pedem servat lenta,

    Sen. Ep. 100, 7; 114, 15; in Quint. very freq.; cf. the 4th chap. of the 9th book: De compositione.—
    II.
    A laying together for preservation, a laying up of fruits, Col. 12, 26, 6; 12, 51, 1; in plur.:

    rerum auctumnalium,

    id. 12, 44, 1.—
    B.
    Trop., a peaceful union, an accommodation of a difference, an agreement, compact:

    pacis, concordiae, compositionis auctor esse non destiti,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 24; id. Rosc. Am. 12, 33; Caes. ap Cic. Att. 9, 13, A, 1; Caes. B. C. 1, 26; 1, 32; 3, 15 fin.; Dig. 28, 16, 6.—
    III.
    A bringing together or matching of combatants:

    gladiatorum,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1.

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  • 17 σύνθεσις

    -εως + ἡ N 3 13-1-1-0-1=16 Ex 30,32.37; 31,11; 35,19.28
    compounding, composition (of spices and incense) Ex 30,32; set, collection, whole Is 3,20; τὰς συνθέσεις
    ingredients (for a compound) Ex 35,28
    Cf. LE BOULLUEC 1989, 351; WEVERS 1990 491.501.586; →LSJ Suppl

    Lust (λαγνεία) > σύνθεσις

  • 18 σύνθεσις

    A putting together, composition, combination, Pl.Phd. 93a, R. 611b;

    τῶν λίθων Arist.EN 1174a23

    , cf. IG42(1).103.56 (Epid., iv B.C.), 7.3073.92 (Lebad., ii B.C.);

    τῶν σπονδύλων Sor.1.102

    ; storage, τῶν μήλων (quinces in a ῥίσκος) Phylarch.10 J.; but ἐλαιῶν ς. a preserve of olives, Gp.9.28.2.
    b in concrete sense, junction,

    ὀστῶν Arist.PA 658b19

    ; συνθέσεις ([etym.] λέγω τὰς γωνίας) Id.Pr. 910b14.
    2 in various technical senses:
    a in Grammar, composition, γραμμάτων τε συνθέσεις, i.e. syllables and words, A.Pr. 460, cf. Arist.Metaph. 1092a26; σ. ἔκ τε ῥημάτων γιγνομένη καὶ ὀνομάτων, i.e. sentences, Pl.Sph. 263d, cf. Cra. 431c, Arist. Po. 1458a28, Gal.15.487; περὶ συνθέσεως ὀνομάτων, title of work by D.H.; also, the juxtaposition of letters in a word, Arist.Rh.Al. 1434b34; of an author's composition, Isoc.10.11; so ἡ τῶν μέτρων ς. metrical composition, Arist.Po. 1449b35; ἡ τῶν ἐπῶν ς. D.S.5.74; ἡ τοῦ παίωνος ξ. the way the paeon is made up, Plu.2.1143d; the constitution of things, Hp.Virg.1.
    b Math., synthesis of a problem (opp. ἀνάλυσις), Archim.Sph.Cyl.2.7, explained in Papp.634; ἡ κατὰ σ. ἀγωγή synthetic procedure, Id.412.2.
    c Math., σ. λόγου transformation of a ratio known as componendo, Euc.5 Def.14; κατὰ -σιν, = componendo, Archim.Aequil.2.9.
    d Math., addition, Ph.1.11, Plu.2.1018c, Dioph.1 Intr.; καθ' ἁντινοῦν -σιν however many times added, i.e. whatever number of times taken (multiplied), Archim.Spir.1:—also as Pythag. name for 2, Anatol. ap. Theol.Ar.8.
    e in Logic, union of noun and verb or of two objects of thought in a statement, Arist. Int. 16a12, de An. 430a27; also ὁ παρὰ τὴν σ. [λόγος] the fallacy of composition, opp. διαίρεσις, Id.SE 177a33.
    f in Physics, composition of substances, parts of organisms, from their elementary constituents, Id.PA 646a12, Top. 151a23; opp μίξις (combination), Id.GC 328a6.
    g in Medicine, compounding of essences and drugs,

    τῶν μύρων Thphr. Od.14

    , al., cf. D.S.4.45, Aglaïas 8.
    b in concrete sense, a social or political combination, Arist. Pol. 1276b7; a military formation, Ael.Tact.18.5.
    III agreement, treaty, Pi.P.4.168, Fr. 205; πὸς τὰς συνθέσις in accordance with the agreements, IG5(2).343.41,60 (Orchom. Arc., iv B.C.); ἐκ συνθέσεως by arrangement, D.S.13.112, etc.;

    συνθέσεις περὶ γάμων Plu. Sull.35

    .
    2 σ. λόγων making up accounts, Stud.Pal.4.70.391 (i A.D.); so ς. alone,

    εἰς σύνθεσιν τῷ βασιλεῖ PTeb.714.6

     (ii B.C.).
    IV set, service (most freq. in Lat. synthesis):
    1 collection of clothes, wardrobe, Dig.34.2.38.1; also, dress, gown, costume, suit, σ. τελείας λευκὰς δεκατρεῖς, γυναικείας ς. PHamb.10.13,21 (ii A.D.), cf. POxy. 1153.23 (i A.D.), 496.4 (ii A.D.), PSI10.1117.11,13 (ii A.D.), Mart.2.46.4, 5.79.2; synthesinam indutus, Suet.Ner.51.
    2 service of plate,

    σ. πινακίων BGU 781 i 5

     (i A.D.), cf. Mart.4.46.15, Stat.Silv.4.9.44.

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  • 19 annual percentage yield

    Fin
    the effective or true annual rate of return on an investment, taking into account the effect of compounding. For example, an annual percentage rate of 6% compounded monthly translates into an annual percentage yield of 6.17%.

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