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1 pendulum instrument
survey instrument — дозиметрический прибор; поисковый прибор
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4 pendulum instrument
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5 pendulum gravity instrument
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6 pendulum rectifier
transformer rectifier unit — трансформатор — выпрямитель
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7 pendulum gravity instrument
Картография: маятниковый гравиметрический приборУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > pendulum gravity instrument
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8 pendulum gravity instrument
Англо русский политехнический словарь > pendulum gravity instrument
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9 pendulum gravity instrument
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11 Shortt, William Hamilton
SUBJECT AREA: Horology[br]b. 28 September 1881d. 4 February 1971[br]British railway engineer and amateur horologist who designed the first successful free-pendulum clock.[br]Shortt entered the Engineering Department of the London and South Western Railway as an engineering cadet in 1902, remaining with the company and its successors until he retired in 1946. He became interested in precision horology in 1908, when he designed an instrument for recording the speed of trains; this led to a long and fruitful collaboration with Frank HopeJones, the proprietor of the Synchronome Company. This association culminated in the installation of a free-pendulum clock, with an accuracy of the order of one second per year, at Edinburgh Observatory in 1921. The clock's performance was far better than that of existing clocks, such as the Riefler, and a slightly modified version was produced commercially by the Synchronome Company. These clocks provided the time standard at Greenwich and many other observatories and scientific institutions across the world until they were supplanted by the quartz clock.The period of a pendulum is constant if it swings freely with a constant amplitude in a vacuum. However, this ideal state cannot be achieved in a clock because the pendulum must be impulsed to maintain its amplitude and the swings have to be counted to indicate time. The free-pendulum clock is an attempt to approach this ideal as closely as possible. In 1898 R.J. Rudd used a slave clock, synchronized with a free pendulum, to time the impulses delivered to the free pendulum. This clock was not successful, but it provided the inspiration for Shortt's clock, which operates on the same principle. The Shortt clock used a standard Synchronome electric clock as the slave, and its pendulum was kept in step with the free pendulum by means of the "hit and miss" synchronizer that Shortt had patented in 1921. This allowed the pendulum to swing freely (in a vacuum), apart from the fraction of a second in which it received an impulse each half-minute.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMaster of the Clockmakers' Company 1950. British Horological Society Gold Medal 1931. Clockmakers' Company Tompion Medal 1954. Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Silver Medal.Bibliography1929, "Some experimental mechanisms, mechanical and otherwise, for the maintenance of vibration of a pendulum", Horological Journal 71:224–5.Further ReadingObituary, 1971, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 56:396–7.F.Hope-Jones, 1949, Electrical Timekeeping, 2nd edn, London (a detailed but not entirely impartial account of the development of the free-pendulum clock).See also: Marrison, Warren AlvinDVBiographical history of technology > Shortt, William Hamilton
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12 Galilei, Galileo
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 15 February 1564 Pisa, Italyd. 8 January 1642 Arcetri, near Florence, Italy[br]Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist who established the principle of the pendulum and was first to exploit the telescope.[br]Galileo began studying medicine at the University of Pisa but soon turned to his real interests, mathematics, mechanics and astronomy. He became Professor of Mathematics at Pisa at the age of 25 and three years later moved to Padua. In 1610 he transferred to Florence. While still a student he discovered the isochronous property of the pendulum, probably by timing with his pulse the swings of a hanging lamp during a religious ceremony in Pisa Cathedral. He later designed a pendulum-controlled clock, but it was not constructed until after his death, and then not successfully; the first successful pendulum clock was made by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1656. Around 1590 Galileo established the laws of motion of falling bodies, by timing rolling balls down inclined planes and not, as was once widely believed, by dropping different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. These and other observations received definitive treatment in his Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienzi attenenti alla, meccanica (Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences…) which was completed in 1634 and first printed in 1638. This work also included Galileo's proof that the path of a projectile was a parabola and, most importantly, the development of the concept of inertia.In astronomy Galileo adopted the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe while still in his twenties, but he lacked the evidence to promote it publicly. That evidence came with the invention of the telescope by the Dutch brothers Lippershey. Galileo heard of its invention in 1609 and had his own instrument constructed, with a convex object lens and concave eyepiece, a form which came to be known as the Galilean telescope. Galileo was the first to exploit the telescope successfully with a series of striking astronomical discoveries. He was also the first to publish the results of observations with the telescope, in his Sidereus nuncius (Starry Messenger) of 1610. All the discoveries told against the traditional view of the universe inherited from the ancient Greeks, and one in particular, that of the four satellites in orbit around Jupiter, supported the Copernican theory in that it showed that there could be another centre of motion in the universe besides the Earth: if Jupiter, why not the Sun? Galileo now felt confident enough to advocate the theory, but the advance of new ideas was opposed, not for the first or last time, by established opinion, personified in Galileo's time by the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome. Eventually he was forced to renounce the Copernican theory, at least in public, and turn to less contentious subjects such as the "two new sciences" of his last and most important work.[br]Bibliography1610, Sidereus nuncius (Starry Messenger); translation by A.Van Helden, 1989, Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger; Chicago: University of Chicago Press.1623, Il Saggiatore (The Assayer).1632, Dialogo sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican); translation, 1967, Berkeley: University of California Press.1638, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienzi attenenti allameccanica (Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences…); translation, 1991, Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books (reprint).Further ReadingG.de Santillana, 1955, The Crime of Galileo, Chicago: University of Chicago Press; also 1958, London: Heinemann.H.Stillman Drake, 1980, Galileo, Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks. M.Sharratt, 1994, Galileo: Decisive Innovator, Oxford: Blackwell.J.Reston, 1994, Galileo: A Life, New York: HarperCollins; also 1994, London: Cassell.A.Fantoli, 1994, Galileo: For Copemicanism and for the Church, trans. G.V.Coyne, South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.LRD -
13 Riefler, Sigmund
SUBJECT AREA: Horology[br]b. 9 August 1847 Maria Rain, Germanyd. 21 October 1912 Munich, Germany[br]German engineer who invented the precision clock that bears his name.[br]Riefler's father was a scientific-instrument maker and clockmaker who in 1841 had founded the firm of Clemens Riefler to make mathematical instruments. After graduating in engineering from the University of Munich Sigmund worked as a surveyor, but when his father died in 1876 he and his brothers ran the family firm. Sigmund was responsible for technical development and in this capacity he designed a new system of drawing-instruments which established the reputation of the firm. He also worked to improve the performance of the precision clock, and in 1889 he was granted a patent for a new form of escapement. This escapement succeeded in reducing the interference of the clock mechanism with the free swinging of the pendulum by impulsing the pendulum through its suspension strip. It proved to be the greatest advance in precision timekeeping since the introduction of the dead-beat escapement about two hundred years earlier. When the firm of Clemens Riefler began to produce clocks with this escapement in 1890, they replaced clocks with Graham's dead-beat escapement as the standard regulator for use in observatories and other applications where the highest precision was required. In 1901 a movement was fitted with electrical rewind and was encapsulated in an airtight case, at low pressure, so that the timekeeping was not affected by changes in barometric pressure. This became the standard practice for precision clocks. Although the accuracy of the Riefler clock was later surpassed by the Shortt free-pendulum clock and the quartz clock, it remained in production until 1965, by which time over six hundred instruments had been made.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFranklin Institute John Scott Medal 1894. Honorary doctorate, University of Munich 1897. Vereins zur Förderung des Gewerbefleisses in Preussen Gold Medal 1900.Bibliography1907, Präzisionspendeluhren und Zeitdienstanlagen fürSternwarten, Munich (for a complete bibliography see D.Riefler below).Further ReadingD.Riefler, 1981, Riefler-Präzisionspendeluhren, Munich (the definitive work on Riefler and his clock).A.L.Rawlings, 1948, The Science of Clocks and Watches, 2nd edn; repub. 1974 (a technical assessment of the Riefler escapement in its historical context).See also: Marrison, Warren AlvinDV -
14 sweep
1. transitive verb,1) fegen (bes. nordd.); kehren (bes. südd.)2) (move with force) fegenthe current swept the logs along — die Strömung riss die Hölzer mit
3) (traverse swiftly)sweep the hillside/plain — [Wind:] über die Hügel/Ebene fegen
2. intransitive verb,sweep the country — [Epidemie, Mode:] das Land überrollen; [Feuer:] durch das Land fegen
2) (go fast, in stately manner) [Vogel:] gleiten; [Person, Auto:] rauschen; [Wind usw.:] fegen3) (extend) sich erstrecken3. nounhis glance swept from left to right — sein Blick glitt von links nach rechts
1) (cleaning)give something a sweep — etwas fegen (bes. nordd.); etwas kehren (bes. südd.)
make a clean sweep — (fig.): (get rid of everything) gründlich aufräumen
2) see academic.ru/12505/chimney_sweep">chimney sweep3) (coll.) see sweepstake4) (motion of arm) ausholende Bewegung5) (stretch)a wide/an open sweep of country — ein weiter Landstrich
6) (curve of road, river) Bogen, derPhrasal Verbs:- sweep by- sweep in- sweep up* * *[swi:p] 1. past tense, past participle - swept; verb2) (to move as though with a brush: She swept the crumbs off the table with her hand; The wave swept him overboard; Don't get swept away by (= become over-enthusiastic about) the idea!; She swept aside my objections.) (beiseite) fegen, mitreißen3) (to move quickly over: The disease/craze is sweeping the country.) fegen4) (to move swiftly or in a proud manner: High winds sweep across the desert; She swept into my room without knocking on the door.) fegen2. noun1) (an act of sweeping, or process of being swept, with a brush etc: She gave the room a sweep.) das Kehren2) (a sweeping movement: He indicated the damage with a sweep of his hand.) schwungvolle Handbewegung3) (a person who cleans chimneys.) der Schornsteinfeger4) (a sweepstake.) das Toto•- sweeper- sweeping
- sweeping-brush
- at one/a sweep
- sweep someone off his feet
- sweep off his feet
- sweep out
- sweep the board
- sweep under the carpet
- sweep up* * *[swi:p]I. nto give the floor a \sweep den Boden kehren3. (movement) schwungvolle Bewegung, Schwingen nt kein pl; (with sabre, scythe) ausholender Hieb; (all-covering strike) Rundumschlag m a. figthe film showed the breadth of Arab culture and the \sweep of its history der Film zeigte die Vielfältigkeit der arabischen Kultur und die weitreichende Bedeutung ihrer Geschichtea \sweep of a house eine Hausdurchsuchung9.▶ to make a clean \sweep of sth (start afresh) gründlich mit etw dat aufräumen; (win everything) etw völlig für sich akk entscheidenthe new prime minister is expected to make a clean \sweep of the government man erwartet, dass der neue Premierminister die Regierung komplett auswechseltII. vt<swept, swept>1. (with a broom)▪ to \sweep sth etw kehren [o NORDD, SCHWEIZ fegen]to \sweep the chimney den Kamin [o ÖSTERR Rauchfang] kehrento \sweep the floor den Boden fegen, ÖSTERR kehren2. (take in powerful manner)smiling, he swept me into his arms lächelnd schloss er mich in seine Armeshe swept the pile of papers into her bag sie schaufelte den Stapel Papiere in ihre Tasche3. (remove)▪ to \sweep back ⇆ sth etw zurückwerfenshe swept back her long hair from her face energisch strich sie sich ihre langen Haare aus dem Gesicht4. (spread)a 1970s fashion revival is \sweeping Europe ein Modetrend wie in den 70ern rollt derzeit über Europa hinweg5. (travel and search)police have swept the woodland area die Polizei hat das Waldgebiet abgesucht7.▶ to \sweep the board allen Gewinn einstreichen▶ to \sweep sth under the carpet [or AM also rug] [or AUS also mat] etw unter den Teppich kehren famIII. vi<swept, swept>her gaze swept across the assembled room ihr Blick glitt über den vollbesetzten Raumthe beam of the lighthouse swept across the sea der Lichtstrahl des Leuchtturms strich über das Wasserto \sweep into power an die Spitze der Macht getragen werdenthe road \sweeps down to the coast die Straße führt zur Küste hinunterthe path swept along the river der Weg verlief entlang des Flussesthe fire swept through the house das Feuer breitete sich schnell im Haus aus3.* * *[swiːp] vb: pret, ptp swept1. n1)the chimney needs a sweep — der Schornstein muss gekehrt or gefegt werden
3) (of arm, pendulum) Schwung m; (of sword) Streich m; (of oars) Durchziehen nt no pl; (of light, radar) Strahl min one sweep (fig) —
to make a clean sweep (fig) — gründlich aufräumen, gründlich Ordnung schaffen
the Russians made a clean sweep of the athletic events — die Russen haben beim Leichtathletikkampf tüchtig abgeräumt (inf) or alle Preise eingesteckt
a wide sweep of country —
6)See:= sweepstake2. vt2) (= scan, move searchingly over) absuchen (for nach); (bullets) streichen über (+acc); minefield, sea durchkämmen; mines räumen3) (= move quickly over wind, skirt) fegen über (+acc); (waves) deck, sand etc überrollen, überschwemmen; (glance) gleiten über (+acc); (fig, wave of protest, violence, fashion) überrollen; (disease) um sich greifen in (+dat)4) (= remove with sweeping movement wave) spülen, schwemmen; (current) reißen; (wind) fegen; person reißento sweep sth off the table/onto the floor — etw vom Tisch/zu Boden fegen
the crowd swept him into the square —
he swept the obstacles from his path the army swept the enemy before them — er stieß die Hindernisse aus dem Weg die Armee jagte die feindlichen Truppen vor sich her
5) (= triumph) große Triumphe feiern in (+dat)to sweep the board (fig) — alle Preise/Medaillen gewinnen, abräumen (inf)
3. vi1) (with broom) kehren, fegen → broomSee:→ broom2) (= move person) rauschen; (vehicle, plane, quickly) schießen; (majestically) gleiten; (skier) fegen; (road, river) in weitem Bogen führenpanic/the disease swept through Europe — Panik/die Krankheit griff in Europa um sich or breitete sich in Europa aus
* * *sweep [swiːp]A v/t prät und pperf swept [swept]1. kehren, fegen:sweep away fig hinwegfegen2. (of von) frei machen, säubern (auch fig):3. jagen, treiben (besonders fig):sweep the enemy before one den Feind vor sich hertreiben;sweep all before one auf der ganzen Linie siegen;a wave of fear swept the country eine Welle der Angst ging durchs oder überschwemmte das Land;it swept the opposition into office es brachte die Opposition ans Ruderhe swept his audience along with him er riss seine Zuhörerschaft mit;a) jemanden hinreißen,b) jemandes Herz im Sturm erobern6. (aus dem Weg) räumen, beseitigen:sweep away fig einem Übelstand etc abhelfen, aufräumen mit;sweep aside fig etwas abtun, beiseiteschieben, hinwegwischen;9. a) ein Gebiet durchstreifen11. MUSB v/i2. fegen, stürmen, jagen (Wind, Regen etc; auch Armee, Krieg etc), fluten (Wasser, auch Truppen etc), durchs Land gehen (Epidemie etc):sweep along (by, down, over, past) entlang- oder einher-(hernieder-, darüber hin-, vorüber)fegen etc;sweep down on sich (herab)stürzen auf (akk);fear swept over him Furcht überkam ihn;sweep into power durch einen überwältigenden Wahlsieg an die Macht kommen3. (majestätisch) einherschreiten:she swept from the room sie rauschte aus dem Zimmer4. in weitem Bogen gleitensweep for mines Minen suchen oder räumenC s1. Kehren n, Fegen n:give the floor a sweep den Boden kehren oder fegen;at one sweep mit einem Schlag;a) gründlich aufräumen,b) SPORT etc gründlich abräumen2. Dahinfegen n, -stürmen n, Brausen n (des Windes etc)3. a) schwungvolle (Hand- etc) Bewegungb) Schwung m (einer Sense, Waffe etc)4. fig Reichweite f, Bereich m, Spielraum m, weiter (geistiger) Horizont5. figa) Schwung m, Gewalt fb) mächtige Bewegung, Strom m6. Schwung m, Bogen m (einer Straße etc)7. ausgedehnte Strecke, weite Fläche8. Auffahrt f (zu einem Haus)9. meist pl Kehricht m/n, Müll m10. Ziehstange f (eines Ziehbrunnens)11. SCHIFFa) langes Ruderb) Dreggtau n (zum Ankerfischen)c) Räumgerät n (zum Minensuchen)d) Gillung f (eines Segels)12. ELEK Kipp m, Hinlauf m (in Kathodenstrahlröhren)13. Radar etc:a) Abtastung fb) Abtaststrahl m14. besonders Br Schornsteinfeger(in)D adj ELEK Kipp…, (Zeit)Ablenk…* * *1. transitive verb,1) fegen (bes. nordd.); kehren (bes. südd.)sweep the board, sweep all before one — (fig.): (win all awards) auf der ganzen Linie siegen
2) (move with force) fegensweep the hillside/plain — [Wind:] über die Hügel/Ebene fegen
2. intransitive verb,sweep the country — [Epidemie, Mode:] das Land überrollen; [Feuer:] durch das Land fegen
2) (go fast, in stately manner) [Vogel:] gleiten; [Person, Auto:] rauschen; [Wind usw.:] fegen3) (extend) sich erstrecken3. noun1) (cleaning)give something a sweep — etwas fegen (bes. nordd.); etwas kehren (bes. südd.)
make a clean sweep — (fig.): (get rid of everything) gründlich aufräumen
2) see chimney sweep3) (coll.) see sweepstake4) (motion of arm) ausholende Bewegung5) (stretch)a wide/an open sweep of country — ein weiter Landstrich
6) (curve of road, river) Bogen, derPhrasal Verbs:- sweep by- sweep in- sweep up* * *v.(§ p.,p.p.: swept)= dahinsausen v.fegen v.kehren v. -
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command/limiting systemtractor rocket systemtrailing cone static pressure systemtraining systemtrajectory guidance systemtranslation rate command systemtranslational acceleration control systemtrim systemtrim tank systemtriple-load-path systemtutoring systemtwin-dome systemtwo degree of freedom systemtwo-body systemtwo-input systemtwo-input two-output systemtwo-pod systemtwo-shock systemtwo-step shock absorber systemunpowered flap systemunpowered high-lift systemutility services management systemvapor cycle cooling systemvariable feel systemvariable stability systemvariable structure systemvestibular sensory systemvibrating systemvibration isolation systemvibration-control systemvibration-damping systemvideo-disc-based visual systemvisor projection systemvisual systemvisual display systemvisual flying rules systemvisual sensory systemvisual simulation systemvisually coupled systemvoice-activated systemvortex systemvortex attenuating systemVTOL control systemwake-imaging systemwarning systemwater injection cooling systemwater-mist systemwater-mist spray systemweather systemwheel steering systemwide angle visual systemwind coordinate systemwind shear systemwind-axes systemwind-axes coordinate systemwind-fixed coordinate systemwing axis systemwing flap systemwing sweep systemwing-load-alleviation systemwing-mounted systemwing/propulsion systemwiring systemyaw vane system -
16 Hipp, Matthäus
[br]b. 25 October 1813 Blaubeuren, Germanyd. 3 May 1893 Zurich, Switzerland[br]German inventor and entrepreneur who produced the first reliable electric clock.[br]After serving an apprenticeship with a clock-maker in Blaubeuren, Hipp worked for various clockmakers before setting up his own workshop in Reutlingen in 1840. In 1842 he made his first electric clock with an ingenious toggle mechanism for switching the current, although he claimed that the idea had occurred to him eight years earlier. The switching mechanism was the Achilles' heel of early electric clocks. It was usually operated by the pendulum and it presented the designer with a dilemma: if the switch made a firm contact it adversely affected the timekeeping, but if the contact was lightened it sometimes failed to operate due to dirt or corrosion on the contacts. The Hipp toggle switch overcame this problem by operating only when the amplitude of the pendulum dropped below a certain value. As this occurred infrequently, the contact pressure could be increased to provide reliable switching without adversely affecting the timekeeping. It is an indication of the effectiveness of the Hipp toggle that it was used in clocks for over one hundred years and was adopted by many other makers in addition to Hipp and his successor Favag. It was generally preferred for its reliability rather than its precision, although a regulator made in 1881 for the observatory at Neuchâtel performed creditably. This regulator was enclosed in an airtight case at low pressure, eliminating errors due to changes in barometric pressure. This practice later became standard for observatory regulators such as those of Riefler and Shortt. The ability of the Hipp toggle to provide more power when the clock was subjected to an increased load made it particularly suitable for use in turret clocks, whose hands were exposed to the vagaries of the weather. Hipp also improved the operation of slave dials, which were advanced periodically by an electrical impulse from a master clock. If the electrical contacts "chattered" and produced several impulses instead of a single sharp impulse, the slave dials would not indicate the correct time. Hipp solved this problem by producing master clocks which delivered impulses that alternated in polarity, and slave dials which only advanced when the polarity was changed in this way. Polarized impulses delivered every minute became the standard practice for slave dials used on the European continent. Hipp also improved Wheatstone's chronoscope, an instrument that was used for measuring very short intervals of time (such as those involved in ballistics).[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsHonorary doctorate, University of Zurich 1875.Further ReadingNeue deutsche Biographie, 1972, Vol. 9, Berlin, pp. 199–200."Hipp's sich selbst conrolirende Uhr", Dinglers polytechnisches Journal (1843), 88:258– 64 (the first description of the Hipp toggle).F.Hope-Jones, 1949, Electrical Timekeeping, 2nd edn, London, pp. 62–6, 97–8 (a modern description in English of the Hipp toggle and the slave dial).C.A.Aked, 1983, "Electrical precision", Antiquarian Horology 14:172–81 (describes the observatory clock at Neuchâtel).DV -
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1) метр2) измерительный прибор, измеритель || измерять, мерить, замерять3) счётчик4) дозатор•to meter in — регулировать объём на входе;-
absorption frequency meter
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ac meter
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acoustic current meter
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active energy meter
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activity meter
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admittance meter
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airflow meter
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air meter
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all-purpose meter
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alpha meter
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alpha survey meter
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altitude meter
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ampere-hour meter
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analog meter
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angle meter
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apparent energy meter
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atrain meter
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attenuation meter
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audio level meter
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audio-frequency meter
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audio-noise meter
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automatic noise figure meter
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autoranging meter
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backscatter nuclear density meter
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backscatter nuclear moisture meter
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badge meter
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batch meter
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battery meter
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bellow gas meter
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beta survey meter
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B-H meter
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body tilt meter
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brightness meter
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Btu meter
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bypasswater meter
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bypass meter
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call-count meter
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calometric gas meter
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candle power meter
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capacitance capacity meter
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capacitance meter
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cavity frequency meter
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circuit noise meter
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clamp-on meter
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clip-on meter
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coaxial-line frequency meter
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coercive force meter
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contamination meter
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correlation meter
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coulomb meter
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counting-rate meter
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counting-type frequency meter
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course meter
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cup-type meter
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current meter
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curve-drawing meter
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cycloidal gas meter
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dc meter
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decibel meter
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demand meter
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density meter
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depth meter
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detonation meter
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dew-point meter
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dew-point moisture meter
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dielectric-type moisture meter
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differential pressure meter
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digital meter
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digital panel meter
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digital Z meter
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dip meter
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direct-reading meter
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distance meter
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distortion factor meter
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distortion meter
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dosage meter
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dose meter
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double-rate meter
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double-tariff meter
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downhole oil gravity-gas content-volume ratio meter
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draft meter
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drift meter
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dry gas meter
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dual meter
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dwell meter
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earth resistance meter
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edgewise meter
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elbow meter
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electric field meter
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electric hour meter
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electric power meter
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electrical meter
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electric meter
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electricity meter
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electrodynamic meter
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electrolytic meter
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electromagnetic current meter
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electromagnetic interference meter
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electromagnetic meter
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electromechanical frequency meter
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electronic moisture meter
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elevation meter
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energy meter
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envelope delay meter
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exposure meter
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exposure rate meter
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fallout meter
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ferrodynamic meter
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field-intensity meter
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field-strength meter
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flow meter
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flow rate meter
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fluid meter
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fluidity meter
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flux meter
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flux-gate meter
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foot-candle meter
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forward scatter visibility meter
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fountain-pen-type dose meter
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frequency deviation meter
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frequency meter
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frequency modulation meter
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frequency-indicating meter
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fuel-flow meter
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G.-M. meter
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gamma meter
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gamma survey meter
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gas meter
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gas volume meter
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generating electric field meter
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gravity meter
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grid-dip meter
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hardness meter
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haze meter
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head meter
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heat meter
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hook-on meter
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hot-wire air flow meter
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hot-wire meter
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house service meter
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humidity meter
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hydraulic flow meter
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hysteresis meter
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illumination meter
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impedance meter
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impeller current meter
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impulse meter
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inductance meter
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induction flow meter
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induction-type meter
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infrared moisture meter
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in-line meter
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instrument test meter
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insulation-resistance meter
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integrating electricity meter
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integrating light meter
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integrating meter
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ion meter
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iron-vane meter
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lambda meter
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laminar flow meter
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laser-Doppler current meter
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layer thickness meter
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leakage meter
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level meter
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light meter
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light-intensity meter
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lightning-current meter
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linear meter
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liquid displacement meter
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loss meter
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luminance meter
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lux meter
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Mach meter
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magnetic potential meter
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magnetic-field meter
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magnetic meter
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magnetic-vane meter
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mass-flow meter
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maximum-demand meter
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maxwell meter
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megohm meter
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methane meter
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microwave power meter
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milliohm meter
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moisture meter
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motor meter
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moving-coil meter
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moving-iron meter
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multiple purpose meter
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multiprobe ionization meter
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multirange meter
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multirate meter
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multistator watt-hour meter
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neutron soil moisture meter
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noise-level meter
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noise meter
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noise-temperature meter
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nuclear density meter
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nuclear level meter
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nuclear moisture meter
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null meter
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oil meter
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orifice meter
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output power meter
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panel meter
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parking meter
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peak program meter
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pendulum-type current meter
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penny-in-the-slot meter
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permanent-magnet meter
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pH meter
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phase-angle meter
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phase meter
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photoelectric exposure meter
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photoelectric meter
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photographic exposure meter
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pivoted flap flow meter
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pocket meter
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polyphase meter
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portable hydraulic flow meter
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portable meter
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power meter
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power-factor meter
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prepayment electricity meter
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prepayment meter
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pressure meter
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printing meter
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profile meter
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profiling current meter
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propeller meter
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propeller milk meter
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propeller-type meter
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proportional gas meter
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proportioning meter
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Pygmy meter
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quality-factor meter
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quotient meter
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radiation balance meter
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radiation meter
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radio-noise meter
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rate meter
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ratio meter
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reactance meter
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reactive volt-ampere meter
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reactive volt-ampere-hour meter
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reactive-energy meter
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reactive-power meter
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readout meter
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recording depth meter
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recording meter
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reed frequency meter
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residential meter
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resistance meter
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resistance-type moisture meter
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resistivity meter
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resonant frequency meter
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revolution meter
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rf level meter
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roentgen rate meter
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rotary gas meter
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rotor current meter
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running meter
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salinity meter
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salt meter
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selective ion meter
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self-recording current meter
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service meter
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setup scale meter
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shape meter
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sinad meter
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single-phase meter
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slip meter
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S-meter
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soap film meter
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solid-state meter
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sound-level meter
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standard meter
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standing-wave meter
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steam-consumption meter
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steam-flow meter
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sulfur meter
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summation meter
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suppressed-zero meter
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survey meter
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switchboard meter
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thermal electric meter
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thermal meter
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Thomson meter
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three-axis current meter
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three-phase meter
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tide meter
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torque meter
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torsion meter
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transmission nuclear density meter
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transmission nuclear moisture meter
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transmittance meter
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transparency meter
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trim meter
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tuning meter
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two-rate meter
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var-hour meter
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vector-averaging current meter
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velocity-type meter
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Ventury meter
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vibrating-reed frequency meter
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vibration meter
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visibility meter
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visual exposure meter
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voltage meter
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voltage standing-wave-ratio meter
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volt-ampere meter
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volt-ampere-hour meter
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volt-ohm meter
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volt-ohm-milliampere meter
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water meter
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watercut meter
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water-sealed gas meter
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watt-hour meter
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wattless component meter
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wave meter
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wet gas meter
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wind meter
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wing current meter
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Z meter
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zero-center meter
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zeta meter -
18 scale
5) шкала7) масштаб || определять масштаб, масштабировать; изменять масштаб; сводить к определённому масштабу8) мн. ч. весы9) чашка весов10) взвешивать11) электрон. степень интеграции12) вчт. система счисления13) пищ. чешуя; чешуйка; шелуха || удалять чешую; отделяться чешуйками•at scales — в масштабе;to scale down — 1. представлять что-л. в уменьшенном масштабе 2. редуцировать, уменьшать ( изображение) 3. (пропорционально) уменьшать размеры ( элементов ИС) 4. делить на константу;to scale off — 1. выкрашиваться, крошиться (о камне, горной породе) 2. отслаивать(ся); шелушиться 3. удалять окалину 4. отбивать накипь 5. снимать [измерять\] что-л. в масштабе;to draw to scale — чертить [вычерчивать\] в масштабе;to generate a time scale — строить [создавать\] шкалу времени;to maintain a time scale — поддерживать [хранить\] шкалу времени;to mark off a scale in logarithmic units — градуировать шкалу в логарифмических единицах;to place a scale on a dial — градуировать шкалу, наносить отметки шкалы на циферблат;to realize a time scale on a dial — воспроизводить шкалу времени на циферблате часов;to retain a scale — поддерживать [хранить\] шкалу (напр. времени);to scale up — 1. представлять что-л. в увеличенном масштабе 2. увеличивать ( изображение) 3. умножать на константу;scale with central zero — шкала с нулевой отметкой посередине, двусторонняя шкала;-
absolute-temperature scale
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aligning scale
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alkali-promoted steel mill scale
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annual time scale
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antiknock rating reference fuel scale
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antiparallax mirror scale
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API hydrometer scale
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API scale
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arbitrary scale
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arc scale
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atomic scale
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atomic time scale
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atomic weight scale
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automatic weighing scales
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automatic scales
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bagging scale
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batching scales
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beam scale
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Beaufort scale
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belt conveyor scales
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bench-type scales
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binary scale
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boiler scale
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brightness scale
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calibrated divided scale
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calibration scale
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car scales
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CCT-64 scale
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Celsius scale
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centered scale
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centigrade scale
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charging scales
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chromatic scale
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chroma scale
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circular scale
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clock time scale
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colorimetric scale
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color scale
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complete number scale
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constant-interval scale
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constant-pressure gas thermometry scale
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constant-volume gas thermometry scale
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constant-volume hydrogen scale
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continuous tone density scale
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convective scale
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conventional scale
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conveyor scales
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coordinate scale
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crane scales
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Curie-temperature scale
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curved scale
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CVGT scale
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decimal scale
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depth scale
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derived scale
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dial scale
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direct-measurement scale
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direct scale
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direct-reading scale
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displacement scale
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distance scale
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divided scale
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dot gain scale
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drawn-in scale
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electronic railcar scales
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Engler scale
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equidistant scale
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expanded scale
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exposure scale
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extended scale
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Fahrenheit scale
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finely subdivided scale
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fire scale
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fish scale
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flat-disk scale
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floodlight scale
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floor scales
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focusing scale
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Forel-Ula's color scale
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Forel scale
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forklift truck scales
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frosted scale
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fuel measurement scale
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full scale
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furnace scale
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Giaque's temperature scale
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gray scale
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hardness scale
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heavy scale
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helium temperature scale
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high-temperature scale
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hopper scales
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hue scale
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hump scales
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hydrogen scale
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hydrogen temperature scale
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ideal-gas scale
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illuminated scale
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image scale
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indicating scale
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indicator scale
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industrial scales
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instrument scale
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integration scale
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intensity scale
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International Practical Temperature scale
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international scale
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Kelvin temperature scale
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light-capacity scales
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line scale
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linear scale
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line-standard scale
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logarithmic scale
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loudness scale
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low-temperature scale
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magnetic scale
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magnetic temperature scale
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magnetic-acoustic temperature scale
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magnitude scale
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margin scale
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mean-time scale
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measuring device scale
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mechanical scales
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Mercalli scale
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meter scale
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mill-roll scale
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mired scale
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mirror scale
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MM scale
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Modified Mercalli scale
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Mohs scale
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motor-truck scales
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natural scale
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Nernst hydrogen scale
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nominal scale
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nonglare scale
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nonlinear scale
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normal hydrogen scale
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normalizing scale
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number scale
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numbered scale
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octane scale
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one-meter scale
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optical scale
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ordinal scale
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overhead track scales
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overlaid scale
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packing house scales
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paper scale
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paraffin scale
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paramagnetic-salt temperature scale
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paramagnetic temperature scale
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pendulum scales
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photometric scale
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physical scale
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pipe scale
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pitless scales
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platform scales
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platinum resistance thermometer scale
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practical salinity scale
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practical scale
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precision scale
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primary scale
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primary thermometry scale
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projection scale
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provisional scale
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pyrheliographic scale
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radiation scale of temperature
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radiometric scale
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Rankine scale
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ratio scale
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reading scale
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Reaumur scale
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receiver tuning scale
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recording scales
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reduced scale
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reduction scale
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Redwood scale
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reference scale
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regular scale
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relative scale
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reproducible scale
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reproduction scale
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resistance thermometer scale
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Richter scale
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rider bar scale
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rider scale
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Rinman scale
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Rockwell hardness scale
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roll scale
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rolled-in scale
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Rossi-Forel scale
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salt-pan scale
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Saybolt scale
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scale of magnification
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scale of physical quantity
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scale of turbulence
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seasonal time scale
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secondary scale
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segmental scale
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sensitivity scale
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set-point scale
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Shore hardness scale
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sieve scale
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snow scale
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soft dot scale
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solid hydrocarbon scale
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space-time scale
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splash scale
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spring scales
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standard scale
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state of sea scale
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static scales
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straight scale
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subgrid scale
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subsynoptic scale
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synoptic scale
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table-type scales
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temper scale
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temperature scale
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thermodynamic pressure scale
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thermodynamic temperature scale
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time scale
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tone scale
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tonnage scale
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total life scale
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track scales
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transparent aligning scale
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uniform scale
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unit-weight scales
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universal-time scale
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vernier scale
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Vickers hardness scale
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water scale
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white scale
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19 astatic
1) астазированный
2) астатический
3) непостоянный
4) неустойчивый
– astatic ammeter
– astatic effect
– astatic gravimeter
– astatic instrument
– astatic pendulum
– astatic voltmeter
– astatic wattmeter -
20 clock
1) часы
2) заводный
3) табельный
4) тактовой
5) тактовый
6) хронирующий
7) часовой
– annunciator clock
– around the clock
– clock brass
– clock diagram
– clock driver
– clock gains
– clock house
– clock interruption
– clock looses
– clock meter
– clock number
– clock paradox
– clock pulse
– clock rate
– clock track
– clock unit
– clock voltage
– clock winder
– digital clock
– hand of a clock
– idle clock
– instrument-panel clock
– master clock
– medical clock
– pendulum clock
– pertaining to clock
– pulse-driven clock
– quartz-crystal clock
– real-time clock
– receive clock
– ship's clock
– sidereal clock
– time-of-day clock
– timer clock
– travel clock
– wind clock
clock pulse generator — генератор тактовых импульсов, генератор синхронизирующих импульсов
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