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система регулирования параметров солнечной энергетической установки
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Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > solar power control system
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система регулирования параметров солнечной энергетической установкиАнгло-русский словарь технических терминов > solar power control system
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power ['paʊə(r)]puissance ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c), 1 (d) force ⇒ 1 (a) pouvoir ⇒ 1 (b), 1 (e), 1 (f) capacité ⇒ 1 (e) faculté ⇒ 1 (f) courant ⇒ 1 (g) faire fonctionner ⇒ 21 noun(a) (strength, force → gen) puissance f, force f; Physics (→ of engine, lens, microscope) puissance f; (→ of magnet) force f;∎ I underestimated the power of the explosion j'ai sous-estimé la puissance ou la force de l'explosion;∎ they could see the power of his muscles ils voyaient travailler ses muscles puissants;∎ we want greater economic and industrial power nous voulons renforcer la puissance économique et industrielle;∎ at full power à plein régime;∎ the vehicle moves under its own power le véhicule se déplace par ses propres moyens ou de façon autonome;∎ sea/air power puissance f maritime/aérienne;∎ familiar the holiday did me a power of good les vacances m'ont fait un bien fou;∎ the power of the Church/of student unions le pouvoir de l'Église/des syndicats étudiants;∎ to have sb in one's power avoir qn en son pouvoir;∎ to be in sb's power être à la merci de qn;∎ to fall into sb's power tomber au pouvoir de qn;∎ to be in power être au pouvoir;∎ to come (in)to/to take power arriver au/prendre le pouvoir;∎ to lose power perdre le pouvoir;∎ to have the power to decide/judge avoir le pouvoir de décider/juger, avoir autorité pour décider/juger;∎ absolute/executive/legislative power pouvoir absolu/exécutif/législatif;∎ the committee doesn't really have much power le comité n'a pas grand pouvoir;∎ to act with full powers agir de pleine autorité;∎ the police have been given greater powers la police a reçu des pouvoirs plus importants;∎ it's beyond or outside my power(s) cela dépasse ma compétence ou ne relève pas de mon autorité;∎ it's beyond my power to do anything je n'ai pas compétence en la matière, je ne suis pas habilité à intervenir(c) (influential group or person) puissance f;∎ the President is the real power in the land c'est le président qui détient le véritable pouvoir dans le pays;∎ to be a power in the land avoir une grande influence ou être très puissant dans un pays;∎ the powers of darkness les forces fpl ou puissances fpl des ténèbres;∎ the (real) power behind the throne (individual) l'éminence f grise, celui (celle) m,f qui tire les ficelles; (group) ceux mpl qui tirent les ficelles, les véritables acteurs mpl;∎ no power on earth will persuade me to go rien au monde ne me persuadera d'y aller∎ the great Western powers les grandes puissances occidentales;∎ industrial/nuclear/world power (country) puissance industrielle/nucléaire/mondiale(e) (ability, capacity) capacité f, pouvoir m;∎ he has great powers as an orator or great oratorical powers il a de grands talents oratoires;∎ to be at the height or peak of one's powers être à l'apogée de sa puissance;∎ it's within her power to do it c'est en son pouvoir, elle est capable de le faire;∎ I'll do everything in my power to help you je ferai tout mon possible ou tout ce qui est en mon pouvoir pour vous aider;∎ magical/aphrodisiacal powers pouvoirs mpl magiques/aphrodisiaques;∎ to have great powers of persuasion/suggestion avoir un grand pouvoir ou une grande force de persuasion/suggestion;∎ the body's powers of resistance la capacité de résistance du corps;∎ she has great intellectual powers elle a de grandes capacités intellectuelles;∎ her powers are failing ses facultés déclinent;∎ the power of sight la vue;∎ the power of hearing l'ouïe f;∎ the power of reason la raison;∎ he lost the power of speech il a perdu l'usage de la parole∎ to turn on/cut off the power mettre/couper le courant∎ nuclear/solar power énergie f nucléaire/solaire(j) Mathematics puissance f;∎ 5 to the power (of) 6 5 puissance 6;∎ raised to the 5th power élevé à la puissance 5(give power to) faire fonctionner ou marcher; (propel) propulser;∎ powered by solar energy fonctionnant à l'énergie solaire;∎ the boat is powered by gas turbines le bateau est propulsé par des turbines à gazavancer à toute vitesse, foncer;∎ he powered into his opponent il fonça sur son adversaire;∎ the leading cars powered down the home straight les voitures de tête foncèrent dans la dernière ligne;∎ his business is powering on son affaire monte en puissance►► Law power of attorney procuration f;∎ to give sb power of attorney donner procuration à qn;power base assise f politique;Marketing power brand marque f forte;power breakfast = petit déjeuner d'affaires entre personnes importantes;power broker décideur(euse) m,f politique;power cut coupure f de courant;Aviation power dive (descente f en) piqué m;British power dressing = façon de s'habiller qu'adoptent certaines femmes cadres dans le but de projeter une image d'autorité;power drill perceuse f électrique;power failure panne f de courant;power game lutte f d'influence, course f au pouvoir;power line ligne f à haute tension;power lunch déjeuner m d'affaires entre personnes importantes;American power outage rupture f de l'alimentation;Electricity power pack bloc m d'alimentation électrique;power plant (factory) centrale f électrique; (generator) groupe m électrogène; (engine) groupe m moteur;power play (in ice hockey) coup m de force;power point prise f de courant;power politics (UNCOUNT) politique f du coup de force;Mathematics power set ensemble m des sous-ensembles;Politics power sharing partage m du pouvoir;power shower douche f à jet puissant;power station centrale f (électrique);Cars power steering direction f assistée;power strike grève f des employés de l'électricité;power structure (system) hiérarchie f, répartition f des pouvoirs; (people with power) = ensemble des personnes qui détiennent le pouvoir;power struggle lutte f pour le pouvoir;power supply Electricity alimentation f (électrique); Computing transformateur m;power tool outil m électrique;Computing power unit dispositif m d'alimentation;power user gros (grosse) utilisateur(trice) m,f; Computing = personne qui sait utiliser au mieux les ressources de son ordinateur;power walking marche f sportive;power worker employé(e) m,f de l'électricité;power yoga power yoga m (forme de yoga où l'on travaille en puissance)éteindre, mettre hors tension(computer, machine) s'éteindre, se mettre hors tension➲ power upmettre sous tension, allumer(computer, machine) se mettre sous tension, s'allumer -
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1) система; сеть; комплекс2) установка, устройство3) план; расположение4) система; порядок; классификация•- system of catalogs - system of catalogues - system of forces - system of ground points - system of road signs - system of scaffolds - acoustic signalling system - active residential solar heating system - aeration system - air-brake system - air-comfort system - air-conditioning system - air-curtain system - air-foam system - airline system - airline vacuum system - air-pressure water system - all-outside air-conditioning system - arch system - arch-and-pier system - audible alarm system - Automated Data Management System in Building - ADMSB - automatic fire alarm system - balanced system of ventilation - bar system - basic system - beam system - blower system - British absolute system of units - building system - building central air conditioning system - building solar optical system - bypass pipe system - cable system - cantilever tieback system - cathodic protection system of pipelines - central fan electric heating system - central hot water supply system - check-board system - circulating water system - closed system - closed heat supply system - closed pipeline system - collecting system - colour spraying systems - combined extract-and-input system - combined sewerage system - community complete system in containers or skids - composite cable roof system - compressed-air system - computer-aided system - consolidated power system - control system of survey - cooling system - cooling pipe system - coordinate system - curing system - decimal system - designation system - discrete system - discrete-continual system - distributing system - district heating system - double-pipe system - double-pipeline system - double-pipe riser system - downward system of ventilation - drainage system - drencher system - drop system - dry pipe sprinkler system - dry return system - duct system - earthling system - ejector system - elastic system - electric heating system - embedded panel system - emergency power supply system - energy recovery system - engineer's system of units - filling system of navigation lock - filtration system - fire-alarm sounding system - fire-fighting system - fire-sprinkling system - fire warning system - fixing systems - flange system - flooding system - floor system - floor system of bridge - floor heating system - flow-through system - flue gas cleaning system - fluid power system - forced circulation system - four-axis system - framed system - gas heating system - glaze systems - gravity system - gravity water supply system - grid system - hazard system - heating system - heat pump system - heat supply system - high pressure air-conditioning system - high velocity air-conditioning system - hinged system - hoisting system - hot air system - hot blast system - hot water supply system - inflation system - instantaneously variable system - integral deck system - integrated dispatching system - invariable system - ion-exchange system - irrigation system - land system - large public water system - lateral system - left-handed system - lighting system - local air-conditioning system - lock-filling system - long-line system - low pressure air-conditioning system - low velocity air-conditioning system - low voltage system - main system - management system - measuring system - mechanical systems of a house - medium-size public water system - membrane system - metric system - modular coordinating space system - monitoring system - multistage gas supply system - network system - observing system - once-through system - one-layer cable system - one-pipe heating system - one-pipe loop system - open system - open heat supply system - open return system - overhead system of heating - overhead heating system - panel air system - panel cooling system - pipeline system - piping system - plane system - plumbing system - pollution control system - population settlement group system - post-tensioned system - potabilization system - power system - power-reservoir system - pressurized water treatment system - pre-tensioned system - primary system - public transport system - public water system - public waterworks system - quality control system - quarternary system - railroad system - recirculated heating system - recirculation duct air conditioning system - recool system - rectangular system of street layout - reliability coefficients system - remote control system - reusing water supply system - rigid cable roof system - ring heating system - roll-cap system - round duct system - safety valve of a hydraulic system - saprobity system - separate sewerage system - septic system - sewerage system - single duct air-conditioning system - single-stage system - single-track automatic block system - slab-stringer system - smoke-detector system - solar aquatic system - solar cooling system - solar heating system - solar thermal power system - space system - split system - sprinkler system - statically determinate system - statically indeterminate system - steel plate system - structural system - supply air system - suspension system - thermal reheat system - three-dimensional system - three-way system of reinforcement - thrust system - total energy system - two-dimensional system - two-duct air-conditioning system - two-layer cable roof system - two-pipe water heating system - underfloor heating system - underground cable system - unified modular coordination system - universal sewerage system - upfeed water heating system - up-lighting system - utility system - utility detection system - vacuum system - vandalproof system - variable air volume system - ventilation system - warning system - waste treatment system - waste water system - water system - water measuring systems - water purification system - water quality system - water quality indicator system - water supply system - water supply by zones system - water treatment systems - wind bracing system - zone system* * *1. система; сеть (напр. трубопроводов); устройство2. способ, метод- system of forcessystem in equilibrium — равновесная система, система в состоянии равновесия
- system of masses
- system of scaffolds
- ABC system
- AC system
- acoustical ceiling system
- active solar energy system
- aesthetic value system
- air classification system
- air cycle refrigerating system
- airfield soil classification system
- air pollution control system
- air-to-air system
- air-to-water system
- air transport system
- alarm system
- all-air system
- all outside air system
- all-water coil system
- all water fan coil system
- approach lighting system
- arterial system
- Atterberg soil classification system
- audio alarm system
- automated casting system
- automatic fire alarm system
- automatic fire protection system
- automatic flushing system
- balanced system
- balanced system of streets
- balanced ventilation system
- bar system
- beam structural system
- bell alarm system
- Benoto piling system
- bivalent heat pump system
- bleed-in system
- blow and exhaust system
- blow through air-conditioning system
- blow through fan system
- bootstrap system
- box system
- bridge deck structured system
- British soil classification system
- building system
- building automation system
- building-drainage system
- building gravity drainage system
- building management system
- built-in dust suppression system
- burglar alarm system
- cable system
- central air heating system
- central fan system
- centralized hot-water supply system
- central plant air conditioning system
- changeover system
- circulating system
- circulation water supply system
- circulation water system
- closed system
- closed heat-supply system
- closed-loop heat pump system
- closed-type steam heating system
- coding system
- cogeneration system
- cold supply system
- collapsing-ring bridge rail system
- combined drainage system
- combined sewage system
- complanar system of structural members
- complanar force system
- complete-mix activated sludge system
- composite frame system
- compression system
- concrete suspended flooring system
- constant volume system
- continuous conveying system
- continuous suspension system
- control system
- cooling system
- coordinate system
- cost-efficient floor system
- crossbar approach lighting system
- cross blow ventilation system
- curtain walling system
- custom forming system
- decentralized air conditioning system
- decentralized sewerage system
- deluge sprinkler system
- desiccant cooling system
- designation system
- design-built system
- diffusion-absorption system
- digital indicating system
- direct system
- direct air heating system
- direct cooling system
- direct expansion system
- direct hot water system
- direct hot-water supply system
- direct return system
- direct through air-conditioning system
- distribution system
- domestic hot water system
- domestic sewerage system
- "Dot" recording system
- double-pipe system
- double stack system
- down-feed system
- drainage system
- draw-in system
- draw-through fan system
- draw-through system
- drencher system
- drop system
- dry-pipe sprinkler system
- dual conduit system
- duct system
- ductless split air conditioning system
- dust collecting system
- dust extract system
- early warning system
- economical floor system
- ejector refrigerating system
- elastic mechanical system
- elastic system
- electric heating system
- electric reheat system
- energy management system
- environmental system
- exhaust system
- extract system
- FAA soil classification system
- fan coil system
- Federal aviation administration soil classification system
- fire alarm system
- fire-extinguishing system
- fire protection system
- flat plate-pipe column floor system
- floor structural system
- floor system
- flow-through system
- F-number system
- force system
- forming-and-reinforcing system
- Forton system
- four pipe system
- gantry crane system
- gas heating system
- gravity system
- gravity-flow heating system
- gravity sewerage system
- gravity steam heating system
- gravity water-supply system
- grid coordinate system
- gridiron distribution system
- grounding system
- groundwater control system
- group water supply system
- gyratory system
- heat distribution system
- heating system
- heat-of-light system
- heat pump system
- heat recovery system
- heat supply system
- heat-traced system
- high-intensity lighting system
- high temperature hot-water heating system
- high velocity system
- hold-over system
- holonomic system
- hot-air system
- hot water system
- hot-water circulation system
- hush piling system
- hybrid system
- hydraulic control system
- hydrophilic system
- hydrophobic system
- indirect expansion system
- indirect hot-water supply system
- indirect refrigeration system
- individual sewage-disposal system
- induction air conditioning system
- induction system
- industrialized building systems
- inflation system
- instrument landing system
- integral deck system
- integrated distribution floor system
- inverter driven VRV system
- Jackson system
- land system
- large panel system
- lighting system
- line system
- liquid overfeed system
- local sewerage system
- low-pressure system
- low pressure hot water system
- low velocity system
- main system
- maintenance management system
- mass transit system
- materials-handling system
- mechanical system
- mechanical refrigerating system
- mechanical supply system
- medium pressure hot water system
- medium temperature hot water system
- microbore heating system
- modular system
- modular air conditioning system
- modular compression sealing system
- modular decking system
- modular precast building system
- multiple-degree system
- multiple web system
- multiple well system
- multistage gas-supply system
- multizone system
- municipal piping system
- nail-free formwork system
- non-changeover system
- octopus duct system
- oil fired heating system
- once-through water-supply system
- one-degree system
- one-duct air-conditioning system
- one-pipe system
- one-pipe loop system
- one-way system
- open system
- open expansion tank system
- open-loop control system
- open return system
- open steam heating system
- operation system
- overhead heating system
- overhead runway system
- packaged cogeneration system
- panel air-conditioning system
- panel air system
- panel-lock system
- partially-separate system
- piping system
- plane system of forces
- plane grid system
- plenum system
- plumbing system
- pneumatic conveying system
- post-tensioning system
- preaction sprinkler system
- prefabricated pipe conduit system
- pressurization system
- pressurized heating system
- pressurized hot water system
- primary-secondary system
- principal system
- public system
- public waterwork system
- push-through fan system
- push-through system
- quality system
- rail mounted track laying system
- raised floor system
- rapid transport system
- recool system
- recycling system
- recycling water system
- redundant bridge system
- refrigerating system
- regenerative air cycle system
- regional settlement system
- reheat system
- return system
- return air system
- reverse return system
- reverse return upfeed system
- rising heating system
- road system
- roofing system
- run-around system
- safety system
- scraper system
- sealed heating system
- security system
- self-climbing form system
- separate sewerage system
- separate system
- series loop system
- sewage system
- shunt system
- single-degree-of-freedom system
- single-degree system
- single duct air conditioning system
- single-pipe heating system
- single-pipe heat-supply system
- single-stack plumbing system
- single-storey heating system
- single web system
- single-zone air-conditioning system
- slab-stringer system
- small bore heating system
- smoke control system
- smoke extract ventilation system
- soil system
- soil absorption system
- solar heating system
- solid fuel heating system
- split system
- sprinkler system
- state plane coordinate system
- statically determinate system
- statically indeterminate system
- stationary system of loads
- steam heating system
- steel plate system
- storm sewer system
- structural system
- structural monitoring system
- sub-atmospheric heating system
- subbuilding drainage system
- subsurface drainage system
- subsurface sewage disposal system
- supply air system
- supporting formwork system
- suspension structural system
- swing joint system
- taxiway system
- telpher system
- terminal reheat system
- thermal storage heating system
- thermosiphon system
- three-pipe system
- three-pipe air-conditioning system
- three-pipe heat supply system
- total energy system
- track laying system
- trench shoring system
- trussed system
- truss-supported deck system
- tube cleaning system
- two-degree-of-freedom system
- two-degree system
- two-pipe system
- two value system of proportional balancing
- two value system
- two-way system
- underfloor conduit system
- unvented system
- up-feed heating system
- utility detection system
- vacuum heating system
- vacuum return system
- vacuum waste disposal system
- variable air volume system
- variable refrigerant volume system
- variable volume system
- variable water volume system
- VAV system
- vented system
- ventilation system
- VRV system
- VWV system
- warning system
- water-air heating system
- water booster system
- water-supply system
- water-to-air system
- water-to-water system
- wellpoint system
- wet return system
- wind framing system
- wire cable control system
- wiring system
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система; установка; устройство; ркт. комплекс"see to land" system — система посадки с визуальным приземлением
A.S.I. system — система указателя воздушной скорости
ablating heat-protection system — аблирующая [абляционная] система тепловой защиты
ablating heat-shield system — аблирующая [абляционная] система тепловой защиты
active attitude control system — ксм. активная система ориентации
aft-end rocket ignition system — система воспламенения заряда с задней части РДТТ [со стороны сопла]
aircraft response sensing system — система измерений параметров, характеризующих поведение ЛА
air-inlet bypass door system — дв. система перепуска воздуха на входе
antiaircraft guided missile system — ракетная система ПВО; зенитный ракетный комплекс
antiaircraft guided weapons system — ракетная система ПВО; зенитный ракетный комплекс
attenuated intercept satellite rendez-vous system — система безударного соединения спутников на орбите
attitude and azimuth reference system — система измерения или индикации углов тангажа, крена и азимута
automatic departure prevention system — система автоматического предотвращения сваливания или вращения после сваливания
automatic drift kick-off system — система автоматического устранения угла упреждения сноса (перед приземлением)
automatic hovering control system — верт. система автостабилизации на висении
automatic indicating feathering system — автоматическая система флюгирования с индикацией отказа (двигателя)
automatic mixture-ratio control system — система автоматического регулирования состава (топливной) смеси
automatic pitch control system — автомат тангажа; автоматическая система продольного управления [управления по каналу тангажа]
B.L.C. high-lift system — система управления пограничным слоем для повышения подъёмной силы (крыла)
backpack life support system — ксм. ранцевая система жизнеобеспечения
beam-rider (control, guidance) system — ркт. система наведения по лучу
biowaste electric propulsion system — электрический двигатель, работающий на биологических отходах
buddy (refueling, tank) system — (подвесная) автономная система дозаправки топливом в полете
closed(-circuit, -cycle) system — замкнутая система, система с замкнутым контуром или циклом; система с обратной связью
Cooper-Harper pilot rating system — система баллов оценки ЛА лётчиком по Куперу — Харперу
deployable aerodynamic deceleration system — развёртываемая (в атмосфере) аэродинамическая тормозная система
depressurize the fuel system — стравливать избыточное давление (воздуха, газа) в топливной системе
driver gas heating system — аэрд. система подогрева толкающего газа
dry sump (lubrication) system — дв. система смазки с сухим картером [отстойником]
electrically powered hydraulic system — электронасосная гидросистема (в отличие от гидросистемы с насосами, приводимыми от двигателя)
exponential control flare system — система выравнивания с экспоненциальным управлением (перед приземлением)
flywheel attitude control system — ксм. инерционная система ориентации
gas-ejection attitude control system — ксм. газоструйная система ориентация
gas-jet attitude control system — ксм. газоструйная система ориентация
ground proximity extraction system — система извлечения грузов из самолёта, пролетающего на уровне земли
hot-air balloon water recovery system — система спасения путем посадки на воду с помощью баллонов, наполняемых горячими газами
hypersonic air data entry system — система для оценки аэродинамики тела, входящего в атмосферу планеты с гиперзвуковой скоростью
igh-temperature fatigue test system — установка для испытаний на выносливость при высоких температурах
interceptor (directing, vectoring) system — система наведения перехватчиков
ion electrical propulsion system — ксм. ионная двигательная установка
isotope-heated catalytic oxidizer system — система каталитического окислителя с нагревом от изотопного источника
jet vane actuation system — ркт. система привода газового руля
laminar flow pumping system — система насосов [компрессоров] для ламинаризации обтекания
launching range safety system — система безопасности ракетного полигона; система обеспечения безопасности космодрома
leading edge slat system — система выдвижных [отклоняемых] предкрылков
low-altitude parachute extraction system — система беспосадочного десантирования грузов с малых высот с использованием вытяжных парашютов
magnetic attitude control system — ксм. магнитная система ориентации
magnetically slaved compass system — курсовая система с магнитной коррекцией, гироиндукционная курсовая система
mass-expulsion attitude control system — система ориентации за счёт истечения массы (газа, жидкости)
mass-motion attitude control system — ксм. система ориентации за счёт перемещения масс
mass-shifting attitude control system — ксм. система ориентации за счёт перемещения масс
monopropellant rocket propulsion system — двигательная установка с ЖРД на унитарном [однокомпонентном] топливе
nucleonic propellant gauging and utilization system — система измерения и регулирования подачи топлива с использованием радиоактивных изотопов
open(-circuit, -cycle) system — открытая [незамкнутая] система, система с незамкнутым контуром или циклом; система без обратной связи
plenum chamber burning system — дв. система сжигания топлива во втором контуре
positioning system for the landing gear — система регулирования высоты шасси (при стоянке самолёта на земле)
radar altimeter low-altitude control system — система управления на малых высотах с использованием радиовысотомера
radar system for unmanned cooperative rendezvous in space — радиолокационная система для обеспечения встречи (на орбите) беспилотных кооперируемых КЛА
range and orbit determination system — система определения дальностей [расстояний] и орбит
real-time telemetry processing system — система обработки радиотелеметрических данных в реальном масштабе времени
recuperative cycle regenerable carbon dioxide removal system — система удаления углекислого газа с регенерацией поглотителя, работающая по рекуперативному циклу
rendezvous beacon and command system — маячно-командная система обеспечения встречи («а орбите)
satellite automatic terminal rendezvous and coupling system — автоматическая система сближения и стыковки спутников на орбите
Schuler tuned inertial navigation system — система инерциальной навигации на принципе маятника Шулера
sodium superoxide carbon dioxide removal system — система удаления углекислого газа с помощью надперекиси натрия
space shuttle separation system — система разделения ступеней челночного воздушно-космического аппарата
stellar-monitored astroinertial navigation guidance system — астроинерциальная система навигации и управления с астрокоррекцией
terminal control landing system — система управления посадкой по траектории, связанной с выбранной точкой приземления
terminal descent control system — ксм. система управления на конечном этапе спуска [снижения]
terminal guidance system for a satellite rendezvous — система управления на конечном участке траектории встречи спутников
test cell flow system — ркт. система питания (двигателя) топливом в огневом боксе
vectored thrust (propulsion) system — силовая установка с подъёмно-маршевым двигателем [двигателями]
water to oxygen system — ксм. система добывания кислорода из воды
wind tunnel data acquisition system — система регистрации (и обработки) данных при испытаниях в аэродинамической трубе
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9 system
1) система || системный3) вчт операционная система; программа-супервизор5) вчт большая программа6) метод; способ; алгоритм•system halted — "система остановлена" ( экранное сообщение об остановке компьютера при наличии серьёзной ошибки)
- CPsystem- H-system- h-system- hydrogen-air/lead battery hybrid system- Ksystem- Lsystem- L*a*b* system- master/slave computer system- p-system- y-system- Δ-system -
10 system
n1) система; комплекс2) установка; пристрій•- acceleration warning system - accessory power system - active beacon collision avoidance system - aerodynamic roll system - airborne collision avoidance system - airborne early warning system - airborne lightweight optical tracking system - airborne prospecting system - airborne television system - airborne warning and control system - aircraft electrical system - aircraft integrated data system - aircraft intercommunication system - aircraft system - airdrop system - air-ground data link system - airlocking system - air transport system - airway system - alarm signal system - alarm system - alarm warning system - altitude alerting system - anti-icing system - antiskid system - approach lighting system - area forecast system - associated aircraft system - automated data interchange system - automatic direction finder system - automatic flight control system - autonomous life support system - autopilot system - aviation safety reporting system - avionics system - backpack life support system - balloon-tracking system - canard foil system - co-axial rotor system - collision avoidance system - communication system - computerized system - conical coordinate system - control system - countermeasures system - digital avionic systems - dimmer system - docking guidance system - dual-channel system - dual flight control system - early warning system - economical space transportation system - electric flight control signalling system - electronic attack system - electronic support system - elevator control system - enhanced ground proximity warning system - enroute navigation systems - Entry Sensor System - exhaust system - exit sensor system - explosives detection system - extraterrestrial transportation system - facility performance category I instrument landing system - facility performance category II instrument landing system - facility performance category III instrument landing system - fail safe system - fail tolerant system - FBW system - flight control system - flight management system - FLIR system - fly-by-wire system - forward-looking infra-red system - fuel system - general purpose system - global positioning system - ground proximity warning system - guidance system - high lift control system - inertial navigation system - infrared search and tracking system - instrument landing system - integrated electronic warfare system - inorbit-on-demand space transportation system - jet engine starter system - landing navigation system - landing system - LEO-to-GEO transportation system - long-range position finding system - lubricating system - lubrication system - microwave landing system - multifunctional system - narrow gauge lighting system - navigation system - offensive fire-control system - oil system - orbital coordinate system - orbital transportation system - orbiting multibody system - oxygen system - pilot-controller system - planar coordinate system - point-defence weapon systems - position indicating system - power-operated control system - power-supply system - power system - precision approach category I lighting system - precision approach category II lighting system - precombustion chamber fuel system - pressure air system - pressure fueling system - pressure system - primary system - propeller deicing system - propulsion system - Q-feci system - Q-feel system - queueing system - radar airborne weather system - radar guidance system - radar identification system - radiation alarm system - radio command system - radio guidance system - radio navigation system - rapid response space transportation system TKJI - reporting system - safety management system - satellite communications system - satellite navigation system - satellite system - scanning beam system - SELCAL system - selective calling system - simple approach lighting system - solar system - space-based observing system - space-based transportation system - space environmental quality control system - space laser power system - space nuclear power system - space observing system - space transportation system - SPADE system - take-off monitoring system - thermal protection system - trainable system - training system - two-frequency glide path system - two-frequency localizer system - visual approach slope indicator system - visual docking guidance system - wing antiicing system - wing flap control system - wing slat system - wing spoiler system - world area forecast system -
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12 control
управление; регулирование; контроль; орган [рычаг] управления; руль; pl. система управления или регулирования; управлять; регулироватьback seat flight control — управление ЛА из задней кабины [с места заднего лётчика]; pl. дублирующие органы управления в задней кабине
be out of control — терять управление [управляемость]; выходить из-под управления [контроля]
continuously variable thrust control — плавное [бесступенчатое] регулирование тяги
control c.g. control — регулирование центровки (ЛА)
control of missile attitude — стабилизация ракеты; управление пространственным положением ракеты
control of the air — превосходство или господство в воздухе; превосходство в области авиации [в авиационной технике]; контроль воздушного пространства
control of the yoke — разг. управление штурвалом
control of thrust orientation — управление ориентированием [направлением вектора] тяги
flight deck lighting controls — органы управления [ручки регулировки] освещением кабины экипажа
fling the controls over — перебрасывать органы управления (в противоположную сторону),
flow control with altitude compensation — регулятор расхода [подачи] с высотным корректором
fuel dump valve control — кран [рычаг крана] аварийного слива топлива
gas jet attitude control — управление пространственным положением с помощью системы газоструйных рулей
go out of control — терять управление, выходить из-под управления [контроля]
ground rollout rudder steering control — управление пробегом [на пробеге] с помощью руля направления
interconnected fuel and propeller controls — объединённая система регулирования подачи топлива и шага винта
jet tab thrust vector control — управление вектором тяги с помощью газовых рулей; дефлекторное управление вектором тяги
jet(-deflection, -direction) control — реактивное [струйное] управление; управление изменением направления тяги; струйный руль
manual mixture shut-off control — рычаг отсечки подачи горючей смеси, рычаг останова [выключения] двигателя
maximum boundary layer control — управление пограничным слоем при наибольшей эффективности [производительности, интенсивности работы] системы
recover the control — восстанавливать управление [управляемость]
respond to the controls — реагировать [отвечать] на отклонение рулей [органов управления]
space shuttle orbiter control — управление орбитальной ступенью челночного воздушно-космического аппарата
throttle and collective pitch control — верт. рычаг «шаг — газ»
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13 power
1) сила
2) вальный
3) мощность
4) степенной
5) электропитающий
6) электросила
7) электросиловой
8) энергетика
9) энергетический
10) <engin.> питать
11) степень
12) показатель степени
13) энергия
14) власть
15) мощь
16) способность
17) степенный
18) <math.> мощность множества
– A-F power
– absorb power
– active power
– antenna power
– available power
– average power
– axiom of power
– base of the power
– base power
– brake power
– calorific power
– cementing power
– continuous power
– coupling power
– cut power
– design power
– desulphurizing power
– dissipated power
– dissipation power
– draugth power
– driving power
– echo-signal power
– electric power
– emergency power
– exchange power
– exponent of power
– filament power
– fourth power
– fractional power
– heater power
– horse power
– idling power
– indicated power
– input power
– instantaneous power
– landing power
– leakage power
– loss power
– maximum power
– moderating power
– noise power
– nominal power
– nuclear power
– odal power
– ouput power
– output power
– oxidation power
– peak power
– power amplification
– power amplifier
– power bay section
– power cable
– power capacitor
– power circuit
– power cleaver
– power conditions
– power conduit
– power consumption
– power contactor
– power cord
– power cultivator
– power cylinder
– power delivered
– power density
– power divider
– power drain
– power efficiency
– power electronics
– power engineer
– power engineering
– power facilities
– power factor
– power failure
– power feed
– power flux
– power function
– power gas
– power grader
– power grid
– power hack-saw
– power hammer
– power handling
– power house
– power imputs
– power input
– power is transmitted
– power isolator
– power klystron
– power level
– power levelling
– power line
– power load
– power loss
– power mean
– power meter
– power miser
– power of a point
– power of an engine
– power oil
– power pack
– power penetration
– power plant
– power press
– power pulser
– power pump
– power reactor
– power rectifier
– power reserve
– power residue
– power ringing
– power scraper
– power series
– power setting
– power shaft
– power shortage
– power slewing
– power source
– power spectrum
– power splitter
– power station
– power supply
– power switch
– power take-off
– power takeoff
– power thyristor
– power tool
– power transfer
– power transformer
– power transistor
– power transmission
– power trunk
– power unit
– power valve
– power water
– power wiring
– pump power
– purchasing power
– put out power
– radiating power
– raising to a power
– rated power
– reactive power
– reduced power
– required power
– resolving power
– saving of power
– shaft power
– short-circuit power
– signal power
– solar power
– sound power
– source power
– starting power
– supply power
– take-off power
– thermonuclear power
– to the second power
– total power
– tractive power
– trasnfer power
– turn on power
– turn up power
– under own power
– unit power
– useful power
absolute thermoelectric power — коэффициент термоэлектродвижущей силы
atomic power station — атомная станция, АЭС
auxiliary power requirements — расход энергии на собственные нужды
coal-burning power plant — электростанция на твердом топливе
distribution power transformer — трансформатор силовой линейный
electric power plant — силовая электроустановка, <engin.> электростанция
engine-propeller power plant — винтомоторная силовая установка
hydroelectric power plant — <energ.> гидростанция, гидроэлектростанция, гэс
industrial power association — <engin.> объединение производственное энергетическое
intelligent power management — интеллектуальное управление электропитанием
power flux density — <phys.> плотность потока мощности
power generating unit — <engin.> энергоблок
power per liter of displacement — <engin.> литровая мощность
power plant topping — <engin.> надстройка
power ringing generator — телефонный машинный индуктор, индуктор машинный
power supply unit — < radio> агрегат питания
propeller power coefficient — <phys.> коэффициент мощности винта
radio-frequency power amplifier — генератор с внешним возбуждением
unit power rating — <engin.> мощность удельная
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14 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
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4) космонавт. отсек•module of package dimensions — модуль размеров тары-
access module
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albedocollecting solar module
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all-space module
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amorphous silicon power module
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analog divider module
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analog timing module
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antilock module
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applications software module
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applications module
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astronaut free-flying propulsion module
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basic building-block module
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basic module
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bifacial solar module
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biological module
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biomedical module
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buoyancy riser module
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CAE module
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CAM module
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card module
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carriage module
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ceiling module
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cell control module
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close-pack module
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computation module
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concentrating photovoltaic module
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control module
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controller module
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co-orbiting module
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coplanar module
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cordwood module
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core module
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crew module
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definition module
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descent module
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digital module
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docking module
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docking payload module
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dummy module
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EDP module
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electronic module
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engine module
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enlarged module
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final drive exchange module
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finite state-automata module
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flat-plate solar module
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flexible assembly module
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free-flying module
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fuel module
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full interchangeable modules
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functional module
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function module
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gas-compressor module
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habitable module
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hardware interface module
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hardware module
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hardware/software module
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horizontal baseline module
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hybrid module
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hydraulic module
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implementation module
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inference control module
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input/output control module
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instrumentation module
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instrument module
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instrument-assembly module
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instrumentation-propulsion module
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interface module
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irrigation module
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laboratory space module
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landing module
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laterally docked module
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linear module
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living quarter module
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loading module
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load module
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logistics module
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longitudinal docked module
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machining module
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man-tended module
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measurement module
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meteorological module
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microcircuit module
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microminiature module
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motorized pump module
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multistring photovoltaic module
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nuclear-power module
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number assignment module
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object module
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oceanographic module
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OMS module
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orbit transfer vehicle module
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orbital maneuvering system module
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OTV module
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payload module
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pellet module
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personality module
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personal module
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photovoltaic module
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pilot cell module
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plug-in module
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point-focusing photovoltaic module
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potted module
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power module
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power shift transmission module
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prefabricated module
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pressurized module
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probe module
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process execution module
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programmable module
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propulsion module
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radially docked module
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RCS module
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reaction control system module
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redocked modules
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reenterable module
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regulator module
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replaceable module
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replacement modules
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retro propulsion module
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robot grip module
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robot module
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robotic slip module
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scientific equipment module
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scientific research module
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self-contained module
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sensor module
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service module
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shingle-type photovoltaic module
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signal processing module
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single-ended module
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software module
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solar array module
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solar battery module
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solar module
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solar-power module
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source module
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space station module
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stacked module
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standard module
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subordinate module
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tanker module
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terrain monitoring module
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three-dimensional module
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transfer module
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transmit-receive module
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unmanned module
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up-and-down module
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16 panel
панель; распределительная доска [щит]; приборная доска; консоль ( крыла) ; клин ( полотнища парашютного купола) ; сигнальное полотнище; комиссия, рабочая группаa.c. power panel — щиток управления электросистемой переменного тока
d.c. power panel — щиток управления электросистемой постоянного тока
emergency flotation gear panel — верт. панель аварийных средств обеспечения плавучести
essential services circuit breaker panel — эл. щиток автоматов защиты важнейших потребителей
first officer's instrument panel — приборная доска [панель] второго лётчика [пилота]
hat section stiffened panel — панель, подкрепленная корытообразным профилем
navigation function selector panel — щиток переключения видов [режимов] работы навигационных средств
navigation mode selector panel — щиток переключения видов [режимов] работы навигационных средств
rack cartridge ground test panel — щиток наземной проверки пиропатронов. подвески
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17 CSP
1) Общая лексика: Оператор связи2) Компьютерная техника: Control Sequence Prefix, Cross System Product3) Авиация: command slave processor4) Медицина: caesarean scar pregnancy5) Американизм: Civil Service Preparation, Computer Security Plan6) Спорт: Comfortable Starting Pitch7) Военный термин: Call Service Position, Chaplain Service personnel, Code And Signal Publication, Commercial Space Package, Contingency Support Package, Council on Scientific Policy, Crisis Staffing Procedures, combat supplies platoon, combat survivability program, combined staff planners, committed to scheduled programs, common signal processor, communications security policy, communications security publication, community service program, community shelter plan, concurrent spare parts, contractor standard parts, contractor standardization plan, control switching point8) Техника: Coalition for Safe Power, central signal processor, channeled-substrate-planar structure, coder sequential pulses, coherent signal processor, common scatter point, communications satellite program, conditional success probability, containment spray pump, control signal processor, core spray pump, cryptographics service provider9) Сельское хозяйство: Concentrated Super-Phosphate, concentrated superphosphate10) Математика: план непрерывного выборочного контроля (continuous sampling plan)11) Британский английский: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy13) Фармакология: compounded sterile preparation14) Страхование: Certified Safety Professional15) Грубое выражение: Certainly Stupid Punks16) Оптика: channeled substrate planar17) Телекоммуникации: (commerce service provider) ЭК-провайдер, (commerce service provider) провайдер электронной коммерции, (commerce service provider) провайдер, предоставляющий услуги по коммерческому хостингу18) Сокращение: Commercial Support Program (Australia), Common SAR Processor, Communications Support Processor, Contract Strategy Paper (USA), Corporate Succession Planning, Counterproliferation Support Program (US DoD), coder sequential pulse19) Текстиль: Chest Stripe Polo20) Университет: College Student Personnel, College Success Program21) Физиология: Cervical spine, Clan Skin Package22) Электроника: Chip Scale Packaging, Chip scale package23) Вычислительная техника: Certified Systems Professional, Chip-Scale Packaging, Compucom Speed Protocol, communicating sequential processes, cryptographic service provider, Chip Scale Package (IC)24) Литература: Club Success Plan (Toastmasters)25) Нефть: непрерывное сейсмическое профилирование (continuous seismic profiling), план подрядчика по стандартизации26) Нейрохирургия: полость Верге (http://moscow-translator.ru/medical-translation)27) Космонавтика: Canadian Space Programme28) Геофизика: ОПВ, ОТВ, общая точка взрыва, общая точка рассеяния, общий пункт взрыва29) Холодильная техника: principle of corresponding states30) Экология: continuous seismic profiling31) Энергетика: концентрация солнечной энергии, технология концентрации солнечной энергии, CSP technology, concentrating solar power technology, solar CSP32) СМИ: Character Sheet Page33) Деловая лексика: Cable Service Provider, Commerce Service Provider, Customer Spare Parts, оператор мобильной связи34) Образование: Community Support Program35) Сетевые технологии: Certified Support Partner, Client Server Protocol, Cluster Server Package, Cryptographies Service Provider, сертифицированный партнёр по технической поддержке, сертифицированный специалист по системам36) Солнечная энергия: (Concentrating Solar Power) концентрирующая солнечная энергия37) Полимеры: chlorosulfonated polyethylene38) Контроль качества: continuous sampling plan39) Расширение файла: Commercial Service Provider, Commercial Subroutine Package, PC Emcee Screen Image, CompuCom Speed Protocol (CompuCom), Cross System Product (IBM)40) Нефть и газ: КС «Портовая», компрессорная станция «Портовая», Compressor Station Portovaya, Common Source Point41) Электричество: Концентрированная солнечная энергия (сокр. от concentrated solar power)42) Майкрософт: поставщик служб шифрования43) Должность: Certified Speaking Professional, Community Service Personnel44) Чат: Chronically Serious People45) NYSE. American Strategic Income Portfolio III46) Программное обеспечение: Commerce Solution Provider -
18 CSp
1) Общая лексика: Оператор связи2) Компьютерная техника: Control Sequence Prefix, Cross System Product3) Авиация: command slave processor4) Медицина: caesarean scar pregnancy5) Американизм: Civil Service Preparation, Computer Security Plan6) Спорт: Comfortable Starting Pitch7) Военный термин: Call Service Position, Chaplain Service personnel, Code And Signal Publication, Commercial Space Package, Contingency Support Package, Council on Scientific Policy, Crisis Staffing Procedures, combat supplies platoon, combat survivability program, combined staff planners, committed to scheduled programs, common signal processor, communications security policy, communications security publication, community service program, community shelter plan, concurrent spare parts, contractor standard parts, contractor standardization plan, control switching point8) Техника: Coalition for Safe Power, central signal processor, channeled-substrate-planar structure, coder sequential pulses, coherent signal processor, common scatter point, communications satellite program, conditional success probability, containment spray pump, control signal processor, core spray pump, cryptographics service provider9) Сельское хозяйство: Concentrated Super-Phosphate, concentrated superphosphate10) Математика: план непрерывного выборочного контроля (continuous sampling plan)11) Британский английский: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy13) Фармакология: compounded sterile preparation14) Страхование: Certified Safety Professional15) Грубое выражение: Certainly Stupid Punks16) Оптика: channeled substrate planar17) Телекоммуникации: (commerce service provider) ЭК-провайдер, (commerce service provider) провайдер электронной коммерции, (commerce service provider) провайдер, предоставляющий услуги по коммерческому хостингу18) Сокращение: Commercial Support Program (Australia), Common SAR Processor, Communications Support Processor, Contract Strategy Paper (USA), Corporate Succession Planning, Counterproliferation Support Program (US DoD), coder sequential pulse19) Текстиль: Chest Stripe Polo20) Университет: College Student Personnel, College Success Program21) Физиология: Cervical spine, Clan Skin Package22) Электроника: Chip Scale Packaging, Chip scale package23) Вычислительная техника: Certified Systems Professional, Chip-Scale Packaging, Compucom Speed Protocol, communicating sequential processes, cryptographic service provider, Chip Scale Package (IC)24) Литература: Club Success Plan (Toastmasters)25) Нефть: непрерывное сейсмическое профилирование (continuous seismic profiling), план подрядчика по стандартизации26) Нейрохирургия: полость Верге (http://moscow-translator.ru/medical-translation)27) Космонавтика: Canadian Space Programme28) Геофизика: ОПВ, ОТВ, общая точка взрыва, общая точка рассеяния, общий пункт взрыва29) Холодильная техника: principle of corresponding states30) Экология: continuous seismic profiling31) Энергетика: концентрация солнечной энергии, технология концентрации солнечной энергии, CSP technology, concentrating solar power technology, solar CSP32) СМИ: Character Sheet Page33) Деловая лексика: Cable Service Provider, Commerce Service Provider, Customer Spare Parts, оператор мобильной связи34) Образование: Community Support Program35) Сетевые технологии: Certified Support Partner, Client Server Protocol, Cluster Server Package, Cryptographies Service Provider, сертифицированный партнёр по технической поддержке, сертифицированный специалист по системам36) Солнечная энергия: (Concentrating Solar Power) концентрирующая солнечная энергия37) Полимеры: chlorosulfonated polyethylene38) Контроль качества: continuous sampling plan39) Расширение файла: Commercial Service Provider, Commercial Subroutine Package, PC Emcee Screen Image, CompuCom Speed Protocol (CompuCom), Cross System Product (IBM)40) Нефть и газ: КС «Портовая», компрессорная станция «Портовая», Compressor Station Portovaya, Common Source Point41) Электричество: Концентрированная солнечная энергия (сокр. от concentrated solar power)42) Майкрософт: поставщик служб шифрования43) Должность: Certified Speaking Professional, Community Service Personnel44) Чат: Chronically Serious People45) NYSE. American Strategic Income Portfolio III46) Программное обеспечение: Commerce Solution Provider -
19 CsP
1) Общая лексика: Оператор связи2) Компьютерная техника: Control Sequence Prefix, Cross System Product3) Авиация: command slave processor4) Медицина: caesarean scar pregnancy5) Американизм: Civil Service Preparation, Computer Security Plan6) Спорт: Comfortable Starting Pitch7) Военный термин: Call Service Position, Chaplain Service personnel, Code And Signal Publication, Commercial Space Package, Contingency Support Package, Council on Scientific Policy, Crisis Staffing Procedures, combat supplies platoon, combat survivability program, combined staff planners, committed to scheduled programs, common signal processor, communications security policy, communications security publication, community service program, community shelter plan, concurrent spare parts, contractor standard parts, contractor standardization plan, control switching point8) Техника: Coalition for Safe Power, central signal processor, channeled-substrate-planar structure, coder sequential pulses, coherent signal processor, common scatter point, communications satellite program, conditional success probability, containment spray pump, control signal processor, core spray pump, cryptographics service provider9) Сельское хозяйство: Concentrated Super-Phosphate, concentrated superphosphate10) Математика: план непрерывного выборочного контроля (continuous sampling plan)11) Британский английский: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy13) Фармакология: compounded sterile preparation14) Страхование: Certified Safety Professional15) Грубое выражение: Certainly Stupid Punks16) Оптика: channeled substrate planar17) Телекоммуникации: (commerce service provider) ЭК-провайдер, (commerce service provider) провайдер электронной коммерции, (commerce service provider) провайдер, предоставляющий услуги по коммерческому хостингу18) Сокращение: Commercial Support Program (Australia), Common SAR Processor, Communications Support Processor, Contract Strategy Paper (USA), Corporate Succession Planning, Counterproliferation Support Program (US DoD), coder sequential pulse19) Текстиль: Chest Stripe Polo20) Университет: College Student Personnel, College Success Program21) Физиология: Cervical spine, Clan Skin Package22) Электроника: Chip Scale Packaging, Chip scale package23) Вычислительная техника: Certified Systems Professional, Chip-Scale Packaging, Compucom Speed Protocol, communicating sequential processes, cryptographic service provider, Chip Scale Package (IC)24) Литература: Club Success Plan (Toastmasters)25) Нефть: непрерывное сейсмическое профилирование (continuous seismic profiling), план подрядчика по стандартизации26) Нейрохирургия: полость Верге (http://moscow-translator.ru/medical-translation)27) Космонавтика: Canadian Space Programme28) Геофизика: ОПВ, ОТВ, общая точка взрыва, общая точка рассеяния, общий пункт взрыва29) Холодильная техника: principle of corresponding states30) Экология: continuous seismic profiling31) Энергетика: концентрация солнечной энергии, технология концентрации солнечной энергии, CSP technology, concentrating solar power technology, solar CSP32) СМИ: Character Sheet Page33) Деловая лексика: Cable Service Provider, Commerce Service Provider, Customer Spare Parts, оператор мобильной связи34) Образование: Community Support Program35) Сетевые технологии: Certified Support Partner, Client Server Protocol, Cluster Server Package, Cryptographies Service Provider, сертифицированный партнёр по технической поддержке, сертифицированный специалист по системам36) Солнечная энергия: (Concentrating Solar Power) концентрирующая солнечная энергия37) Полимеры: chlorosulfonated polyethylene38) Контроль качества: continuous sampling plan39) Расширение файла: Commercial Service Provider, Commercial Subroutine Package, PC Emcee Screen Image, CompuCom Speed Protocol (CompuCom), Cross System Product (IBM)40) Нефть и газ: КС «Портовая», компрессорная станция «Портовая», Compressor Station Portovaya, Common Source Point41) Электричество: Концентрированная солнечная энергия (сокр. от concentrated solar power)42) Майкрософт: поставщик служб шифрования43) Должность: Certified Speaking Professional, Community Service Personnel44) Чат: Chronically Serious People45) NYSE. American Strategic Income Portfolio III46) Программное обеспечение: Commerce Solution Provider -
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1) техника2) технология3) разработка; проектирование; конструирование•-
acoustic engineering
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aerodrome engineering
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aeronautical engineering
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architectural engineering
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atomic power engineering
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bridge engineering
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building engineering
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cinematographic engineering
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circuit engineering
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civil engineering
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clothing engineering
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combustion engineering
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communication engineering
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computation engineering
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computer engineering
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computer-aided engineering
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construction engineering
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control engineering
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cryogenic engineering
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design engineering
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development engineering
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drainage engineering
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earthquake engineering
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electrical engineering
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electronic engineering
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environmental engineering
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fire engineering
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food engineering
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foundation engineering
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fuel engineering
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genetic engineering
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geologic engineering
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harbor engineering
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heat engineering
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heat-power engineering
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high-voltage engineering
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highway engineering
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human engineering
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hydraulic engineering
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hydropower engineering
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illumination engineering
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industrial engineering
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irrigation engineering
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knowledge engineering
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lighting engineering
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locomotive engineering
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manufacturing engineering
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microwave engineering
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mining engineering
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municipal engineering
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nuclear engineering
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nuclear-power engineering
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optical engineering
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package engineering
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petroleum engineering
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photographic engineering
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power engineering
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process engineering
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production engineering
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quality engineering
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radar engineering
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radio engineering
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railroad engineering
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reactor engineering
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refractory engineering
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refrigerating engineering
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reliability engineering
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research engineering
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reservoir engineering
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reverse engineering
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river engineering
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safety engineering
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sanitary engineering
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sea floor engineering
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semiconductor engineering
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software engineering
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solar engineering
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solar power engineering
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structural engineering
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sun power engineering
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systems engineering
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system engineering
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tunnel engineering
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vacuum engineering
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warp knitting engineering
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water engineering
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water-power engineering
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water-supply engineering
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welding engineering
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wind-power engineering
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Space-based solar power — Left: Part of the solar energy is lost on its way through the atmosphere by the effects of reflection and absorption. Right: Space based solar power systems convert sunlight to microwaves outside the atmosphere, avoiding these losses, and the… … Wikipedia
Space solar power — Space based solar power (SBSP or SSP) is the conversion of solar energy into power, usable either in space or on earth, from a location in space, usually geosynchronous orbit (GSO). Photovoltaics (PV) would generally be utilized for energy… … Wikipedia
Natural Bridges National Monument Solar Power System — Natural Bridges Solar Power collectors Natural Bridges National Monument Solar Power System is a demonstration plant using solar cells as the energy source.[1][2 … Wikipedia
Reaction control system — A reaction control system, abbreviated RCS, is a subsystem of a spacecraft. Its purpose is attitude control and steering. An RCS system is capable of providing small amounts of thrust in any desired direction or combination of directions. An RCS… … Wikipedia
Central Receiver Solar Power Plants — Also known as power towers, these use fields of two axis tracking mirrors known as heliostats. Each heliostat is individually positioned by a computer control system to reflect the sun s rays to a tower mounted thermal receiver. The effect of… … Energy terms
Solar energy — is the light and radiant heat from the Sun that powers Earth s climate and weather and sustains life. Since ancient times it has been harnessed for human use through a range of technologies. Solar radiation along with secondary solar resources… … Wikipedia
Solar thermal energy — Solar thermal system for water heating in Santorini, Greece … Wikipedia
Solar air conditioning — refers to any air conditioning (cooling) system that uses solar power. This can be done through passive solar, photovoltaic conversion (sun to electricity), or solar thermal energy conversion. The U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of… … Wikipedia