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strength and stability

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1 strength and stability

прочность и устойчивость

inherent stability — собственная устойчивость

intrinsical stability — присущая устойчивость

launching stability — остойчивость при спуске

stability in storage — стойкость при хранении

statical stability — статическая устойчивость

English-Russian big medical dictionary > strength and stability
2 strength and stability

Строительство: прочность и устойчивость

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > strength and stability
3 strength

1. n сила

strength of body — физическая сила

strength of mind — сила духа

strength of words — сила слов

to have no strength left — остаться без сил

my strength was gone — мои силы иссякли

to recover strength — восстановить силы

wind strength — сила ветра

sound strength — сила звука

current strength — сила тока

ionic strength — ионная сила

muscle strength — сила мышцы

2. n сильная сторона, достоинство

strengths and weaknesses — достоинства и недостатки

to exceed in strength — быть сильнее, превосходить силой

3. n источник силы; поддержка

he is my strength — он источник моей силы; в нём моя сила

strength of mind — сила духа

test of strength — проба сил

bulk strength — основные силы

flour strength — < сила> муки

loss of strength — упадок сил

4. n тех. прочность; предел прочности

the strength of a rope — прочность верёвки

strength testing machine — машина для испытания на прочность

post-buckling strength — прочность после потери устойчивости

longitudinal strength standards — нормы продольной прочности

general structural strength — общая конструктивная прочность

ultimate torsional strength — предел прочности при кручении

5. n эффективность

the strength of current — сила тока

6. n интенсивность

mode strength — интенсивность моды

sink strength — интенсивность стока

odor strength — интенсивность запаха

aroma strength — интенсивность запаха

vortex strength — интенсивность вихря

7. n крепость, концентрация

the strength of an acid — концентрация кислоты

liquor strength — крепость настоя

alcohol strength — крепость спирта

alcoholic strength — крепость спирта

dye strength — концентрация красителя

strength of brine — крепость раствора

8. n твёрдость

9. n физ. напряжённость

10. n воен. численность, численный состав

numerical strength — численность

military strength — численность вооружённых сил

strength at sea — численность морского флота

fighting strength — боевой состав

in full strength — в полном составе

under strength — неполной численности

T/O strength — штатная численность

total strength — общая численность

operational strength — боевой состав

actions strength — штатная численность

aggregate strength — общая численность

11. n воен. состав, штат

on the strength — в составе, в штате, в списках

commissioned strength — численность офицерского состава

effective combat strength — боевой состав

depleted strength — уменьшившийся состав

12. n воен. стабильность, устойчивость

strength and stability — прочность и устойчивость

opening strength — устойчивость горной выработки

13. n воен. наиболее сильный напор воды

I did it on the strength of your promise — я сделал это на основании вашего обещания

flow strength — скоростной напор потока

strength of sewage — концентрация сточных вод

of tenfold strength — в десять раз более сильный

Синонимический ряд:

1. ability (noun) ability; forte; strong point; talent

2. base (noun) base; foundation

3. courage (noun) courage; fortitude; grit; nerve

4. durability (noun) durability; resilience; stamina; toughness

5. efficacy (noun) cogency; effectiveness; efficacy; potency; validity

6. intensity (noun) brightness; concentration; depth; fervor; fervour; intensity; loudness; pungency; vividness

7. power (noun) animation; arm; beef; brawn; capacity; dint; energy; force; health; might; muscle; power; powerfulness; puissance; sinew; sprightliness; steam; strong arm; vigor; vigorousness; vigour; vim; virtue; vitality

8. stability (noun) firmness; integrity; security; solidity; soundness; stability; stableness; steadiness; wholeness

9. substance (noun) amount; body; burden; core; crux; gist; kernel; matter; meat; nub; nubbin; pith; purport; sense; short; substance; sum and substance; sum total; thrust; upshot

Антонимический ряд:

flaw; frailty; languor; mildness; timidity; vulnerability; weakness

English-Russian base dictionary > strength
4 stability

1. n устойчивость, стабильность; состояние равновесия

domestic stability — внутренняя устойчивость

positive stability — устойчивость

foam stability — устойчивость пены

lack of stability — нестабильность

stability zone — зона устойчивости

gene stability — стабильность генов

2. n постоянство, непоколебимость, твёрдость

man of stability — надёжный человек

volume stability — постоянство объема

family stability — постоянство состава семьи

3. n тех. прочность, крепость; жёсткость

coke stability — прочность кокса

gluten stability — крепость клейковины

marital stability — прочность семейных отношений

strength and stability — прочность и устойчивость

4. n ав. мор. остойчивость, устойчивость

statical stability — статическая устойчивость

storage stability — устойчивость при хранении

hovering stability — вертикальная устойчивость

neutral stability — нулевой запас устойчивости

oil stability — устойчивость масла к окислению

Синонимический ряд:

1. firmness (noun) balance; constancy; endurance; equilibrium; firmness; integrity; security; soundness; stableness; steadiness; strength; wholeness

2. substantiality (noun) fact; permanence; solidity; substantiality

Антонимический ряд:

instability

English-Russian base dictionary > stability
5 opening strength

устойчивость горной выработки

rock strength — прочность горной породы

strength and stability — прочность и устойчивость

post-buckling strength — прочность после потери устойчивости

English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > opening strength
6 coke stability

прочность кокса

strength and stability — прочность и устойчивость

English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > coke stability
7 прочность после потери устойчивости

post-buckling strength

устойчивость к ползучести — creep strength

устойчивость против ползучести — creep strength

устойчивость горной выработки — opening strength

прочность и устойчивость — strength and stability

устойчивость к долговременным нагрузкам — creep strength

Русско-английский военно-политический словарь > прочность после потери устойчивости
8 прочность и устойчивость

Construction: strength and stability

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > прочность и устойчивость
9 Creativity

   1) All Human Complex Problem Solving Is Creativity

   Put in this bald way, these aims sound utopian. How utopian they areor rather, how imminent their realization-depends on how broadly or narrowly we interpret the term "creative." If we are willing to regard all human complex problem solving as creative, then-as we will point out-successful programs for problem solving mechanisms that simulate human problem solvers already exist, and a number of their general characteristics are known. If we reserve the term "creative" for activities like discovery of the special theory of relativity or the composition of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, then no example of a creative mechanism exists at the present time. (Simon, 1979, pp. 144-145)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Models of Creative Association

   Among the questions that can now be given preliminary answers in computational terms are the following: how can ideas from very different sources be spontaneously thought of together? how can two ideas be merged to produce a new structure, which shows the inﬂuence of both ancestor ideas without being a mere "cut-and-paste" combination? how can the mind be "primed," so that one will more easily notice serendipitous ideas? why may someone notice-and remember-something fairly uninteresting, if it occurs in an interesting context? how can a brief phrase conjure up an entire melody from memory? and how can we accept two ideas as similar ("love" and "prove" as rhyming, for instance) in respect of a feature not identical in both? The features of connectionist AI models that suggest answers to these questions are their powers of pattern completion, graceful degradation, sensitization, multiple constraint satisfaction, and "best-fit" equilibration.... Here, the important point is that the unconscious, "insightful," associative aspects of creativity can be explained-in outline, at least-by AI methods. (Boden, 1996, p. 273)

   3) Creative Innovation and Social Independence

   There thus appears to be an underlying similarity in the process involved in creative innovation and social independence, with common traits and postures required for expression of both behaviors. The difference is one of product-literary, musical, artistic, theoretical products on the one hand, opinions on the other-rather than one of process. In both instances the individual must believe that his perceptions are meaningful and valid and be willing to rely upon his own interpretations. He must trust himself sufficiently that even when persons express opinions counter to his own he can proceed on the basis of his own perceptions and convictions. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 58)

   4) Ego Strength and Emotional Stability among Creative Geniuses

   he average level of ego strength and emotional stability is noticeably higher among creative geniuses than among the general population, though it is possibly lower than among men of comparable intelligence and education who go into administrative and similar positions. High anxiety and excitability appear common (e.g. Priestley, Darwin, Kepler) but full-blown neurosis is quite rare. (Cattell & Butcher, 1970, p. 315)

   5) Its Mundane Character

   he insight that is supposed to be required for such work as discovery turns out to be synonymous with the familiar process of recognition; and other terms commonly used in the discussion of creative work-such terms as "judgment," "creativity," or even "genius"-appear to be wholly dispensable or to be definable, as insight is, in terms of mundane and well-understood concepts. (Simon, 1989, p. 376)

   6) Mozart's Musical Ideas Came to Him in Polished Form

   From the sketch material still in existence, from the condition of the fragments, and from the autographs themselves we can draw definite conclusions about Mozart's creative process. To invent musical ideas he did not need any stimulation; they came to his mind "ready-made" and in polished form. In contrast to Beethoven, who made numerous attempts at shaping his musical ideas until he found the definitive formulation of a theme, Mozart's first inspiration has the stamp of finality. Any Mozart theme has completeness and unity; as a phenomenon it is a Gestalt. (Herzmann, 1964, p. 28)

   7) Scientific Theories and Works of Art Alike Originate in Fantasy

   Great artists enlarge the limits of one's perception. Looking at the world through the eyes of Rembrandt or Tolstoy makes one able to perceive aspects of truth about the world which one could not have achieved without their aid. Freud believed that science was adaptive because it facilitated mastery of the external world; but was it not the case that many scientific theories, like works of art, also originated in phantasy? Certainly, reading accounts of scientific discovery by men of the calibre of Einstein compelled me to conclude that phantasy was not merely escapist, but a way of reaching new insights concerning the nature of reality. Scientific hypotheses require proof; works of art do not. Both are concerned with creating order, with making sense out of the world and our experience of it. (Storr, 1993, p. xii)

   8) Self- Esteem and Creative Expression

   The importance of self-esteem for creative expression appears to be almost beyond disproof. Without a high regard for himself the individual who is working in the frontiers of his field cannot trust himself to discriminate between the trivial and the significant. Without trust in his own powers the person seeking improved solutions or alternative theories has no basis for distinguishing the significant and profound innovation from the one that is merely different.... An essential component of the creative process, whether it be analysis, synthesis, or the development of a new perspective or more comprehensive theory, is the conviction that one's judgment in interpreting the events is to be trusted. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 59)

   9) Stages in Creative Problem- Solving

   In the daily stream of thought these four different stages [preparation; incubation; illumination or inspiration; and verification] constantly overlap each other as we explore different problems. An economist reading a Blue Book, a physiologist watching an experiment, or a business man going through his morning's letters, may at the same time be "incubating" on a problem which he proposed to himself a few days ago, be accumulating knowledge in "preparation" for a second problem, and be "verifying" his conclusions to a third problem. Even in exploring the same problem, the mind may be unconsciously incubating on one aspect of it, while it is consciously employed in preparing for or verifying another aspect. (Wallas, 1926, p. 81)

    10) The Bisociative Pattern of the Creative Synthesis

   he basic, bisociative pattern of the creative synthesis [is] the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills, or matrices of thought. (Koestler, 1964, p. 121)

    11) The Earliest Stages in the Creative Process Involve a Commerce with Disorder

   Even to the creator himself, the earliest effort may seem to involve a commerce with disorder. For the creative order, which is an extension of life, is not an elaboration of the established, but a movement beyond the established, or at least a reorganization of it and often of elements not included in it. The first need is therefore to transcend the old order. Before any new order can be defined, the absolute power of the established, the hold upon us of what we know and are, must be broken. New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive that world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." (Ghiselin, 1985, p. 4)

    12) The Inner Life of the Creative Process

   New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive our world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." Chaos and disorder are perhaps the wrong terms for that indeterminate fullness and activity of the inner life. For it is organic, dynamic, full of tension and tendency. What is absent from it, except in the decisive act of creation, is determination, fixity, and commitment to one resolution or another of the whole complex of its tensions. (Ghiselin, 1952, p. 13)

    13) The Problem of What Impels the Creative Person

   [P]sychoanalysts have principally been concerned with the content of creative products, and with explaining content in terms of the artist's infantile past. They have paid less attention to examining why the artist chooses his particular activity to express, abreact or sublimate his emotions. In short, they have not made much distinction between art and neurosis; and, since the former is one of the blessings of mankind, whereas the latter is one of the curses, it seems a pity that they should not be better differentiated....

   Psychoanalysis, being fundamentally concerned with drive and motive, might have been expected to throw more light upon what impels the creative person that in fact it has. (Storr, 1993, pp. xvii, 3)

    14) Theories of Creative Thinking

   A number of theoretical approaches were considered. Associative theory, as developed by Mednick (1962), gained some empirical support from the apparent validity of the Remote Associates Test, which was constructed on the basis of the theory.... Koestler's (1964) bisociative theory allows more complexity to mental organization than Mednick's associative theory, and postulates "associative contexts" or "frames of reference." He proposed that normal, non-creative, thought proceeds within particular contexts or frames and that the creative act involves linking together previously unconnected frames.... Simonton (1988) has developed associative notions further and explored the mathematical consequences of chance permutation of ideas....

   Like Koestler, Gruber (1980; Gruber and Davis, 1988) has based his analysis on case studies. He has focused especially on Darwin's development of the theory of evolution. Using piagetian notions, such as assimilation and accommodation, Gruber shows how Darwin's system of ideas changed very slowly over a period of many years. "Moments of insight," in Gruber's analysis, were the culminations of slow long-term processes.... Finally, the information-processing approach, as represented by Simon (1966) and Langley et al. (1987), was considered.... [Simon] points out the importance of good problem representations, both to ensure search is in an appropriate problem space and to aid in developing heuristic evaluations of possible research directions.... The work of Langley et al. (1987) demonstrates how such search processes, realized in computer programs, can indeed discover many basic laws of science from tables of raw data.... Boden (1990a, 1994) has stressed the importance of restructuring the problem space in creative work to develop new genres and paradigms in the arts and sciences. (Gilhooly, 1996, pp. 243-244; emphasis in original)

Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Creativity
10 SA

1) Общая лексика: социальная ответственность (стандарт SA 8000 'Social Accountability')

2) Компьютерная техника: Scalable Architecture, Set Attribute, Shutdown Acknowledged

3) Геология: Спектральный анализ ( Spectral analysis)

4) Медицина: sacrum anterior, serum albumin (концентрация альбумина в сыворотке крови)

5) Американизм: Set Aside, Special Application, Support Administration

6) Спорт: Sets Against

7) Военный термин: Logistics Staff Officer, Secretary of the Army, Security Administrator, Seventh Army, Situation Analysis, Situation Awareness, Situational Awareness (4) Signals Analysis, South Australian, Space Applications, Special Act, Springfield armory, Stand Alone, Surprise Attack, Systems Administrator, Systems Architecture, safety analysis, scientific adviser, security assistance, selected ammunition, semiactive, senior adviser, service action, service adviser, service arm, servo assembly, ship-to-aircraft, shipping authority, signal analysis, signal analyzer, signature analysis, simple alert, single-action, site activation, slow-acting, small arms, snap-action, special actions, special agent, special area, special assignment, special assistant, specific activity, spectrum analysis, staging area, standby altimeter, storage area, subassembly, subject to approval, subsistence allowance, substitution authorization, supervisory authority, supplemental agreement, supply agency, supply area, support agency, supporting arms, surface area, surface attack, surface-to-air, system approach, systems analysis, used to identify FSU Surface-to-Air Missiles, e.g., SA-7/GRAIL

8) Техника: Securities Art, acoustic sweep, safety & assessment department, satellite astronomy, separate amplifiers, service air, servoamplifier, signal attenuation, slow-acting relay, spaceborne astronomy, spacecraft adapter, supplement agreement, supporting agency, switching device

9) Сельское хозяйство: Sustainable Agriculture

10) Химия: Silver Azide

11) Математика: анализ систем (systems analysis), самосопряжённый (self-adjoint), сигнатурный анализ (signature analysis), системный подход (systems approach)

12) Религия: Supreme Allah

13) Железнодорожный термин: Norfolk Southern Railway Company

14) Юридический термин: Side Arm

15) Экономика: societe anonima

16) Грубое выражение: Sex Angle, Sexy Adventures, Sore Arse

17) Металлургия: Submerged Arc

18) Телекоммуникации: Source Address, Subarea

19) Сокращение: Arsine (Chemical warfare blood agent), Salvation Army, Sanskrit, Saturday, Saudi Arabia (NATO country code), Scientific Adviser (UK), Seaman Apprentice, Securities Act, Selective Availability (GPS), Selective Availability, Service Assistant, Situational Awareness, Sociedad Anonima (Spain, Venezuela), Sociedada Anonima (Portugal), Sociedade Anonima (Brazil), Societe Anonyme (Belgium, France, Greece, Switzerland), South Africa, South African, South America, South Australia, Swept Audio, sail area, sex appeal, shaft alley, spectrum analyzer, stress anneal, sinoatrial, Sexaholics Anonymous (a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to stop lusting and become sexually sober), Anonyme (French company designation), Bureau of South Asian Affairs (US Department of State), Franciscan Friars of the Atonement (religious order), Sachsen, Safety and Arming, Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters; India), Salary Adjustment, Sale Agreement, Salerno, Campania (Italian province), Sales Associate (real estate), Salta (Argentina province), Sample Analysis, Samtö, Samus Aran (Metroid character), San Andreas (video game), San Antonio, Sandia Apparatus, Sanofi Aventis (pharmaceutical company), Santa Ana (California), Sarajevo (auto registration for Sarajevo, Bosnia), Saskatchewan, Saturable Absorber, Saudi Arabia, Save (assembly language ASM51 assembler control), Say, Say Again (logging abbreviation), Scientific Advisor, Scientific American, Scientific-Atlanta (US satellite communications company), Scout Association, Scouting Association (UK), Scrambled Americans (video production company), Search and Attack, Seasonally Adjusted, Secret Admirer, Section Adaptation, Security Administration, Security Architecture, Security Association (IPSec), Security Authority, Security Awareness, See Also, Seismic Acoustics, Selection Authority, Self Aligned, Self Assessment, Senior Advisor, Sensor Assembly, Server Administrator, Service Advisor, Service Agent, Service Application, Service Appointment, Service Area, Service Assurance, Service Availability, Service-Affecting, Services Administrator (IRC operator), Services and Agencies, Setup Acknowledge (ITU-T), Sewickley Academy (Pennsylvania), Sexaholics Anonymous, Inc., Sexual Assault, Sexually Active, Shadow Alliance (gaming clan), Shared Area, Sheezyart (website), Shipping Authorization, Shipwright Apprentice, Short Abstract (abstracting & indexing), Short Acronym, Show Assistant, Shredder Afval (Dutch: shredder garbage), SicherheitsAbteilung (German: Safety Department), Side Angle (geometry), Significant Accomplishments, Simulated Annealing, Simulation and Analysis, Sine Anno (Latin: Without Date), Singapore Artillery, Single Access, Single Action (revolver), Single Adult, Single Aisle (aircraft), Single Award, Sinus Arrhythmia, Sir Aaron (Pokemon), Situation Assessment, Situation(al) Awareness, Situational Analysis, Sleep Apnea, Slowly Adapting Fiber (In Skin), Smart Alec, Smart Ass, Smoothing Algorithm, Sneak Attack (gaming), Sniper Assist (gaming, Starcraft), Socié, Social Accountability, Social Actions, Social Anxiety, Socialist Appeal, Sociedad Anó, Sociedade Anó, Society of the Atonement, Software Architecture, Solar Array, Solutions Architect, Something Awful (humor webpage), Something's Awful (website), Son Altesse (French: His/Her Highness), Sonata Arctica (band), Sonic Advance (video game), Sonic Adventure (game), Sound Attenuation, Source Address (IEEE 802.3), Source-Active (Cisco), Sourcing Analyst, South African Airways (IATA airline code), South Asia, Space Academy, Space Ace (video game), Space Available (airline travel), Spaced Antenna, Spare Allocation, Special Access, Special Action, Specialist Association (stock market exchanges), Spectral Acceleration (seismology), Spherical Array, Spinal Anesthesia, Spiral Acquisition, Spirited Away (Japanese anime movie), Splenic Artery, Spooksoliy Ara^nkas, Spring Awakening (musical), Springfield (Massachusetts) Armory (closed), Stabsarzt (German military), Stachowski Alpacas, Staging Activity, Standardised Approach, Standards Australia, Standby Air, State Annex (department of state building), Station Actual, Status Asthmaticus, Stealth Assassin (gaming), Stent Area, Stochastic Approximation, Storage Allocator, Stores Accountant, Storm Afdeling, Strategic Attack, Stroke Association, Structured Analysis (software engineering), Student Ambassadors, Student Assistant, Student Association, Studies and Analysis, Stuffed Animal, Stupid Ass, Stьrmabteilung (German: stormtroopers; paramilitary organization of Nazi Party), Sua Altezza (Italian: Her/His Majesty), Sub-Address (ISDN), Subscriber Access, Substance Abuse, Subsystem(s) Analysis, Suffield Academy (Suffield, Connecticut), Sugar Association, Sum Assured, Summa (Latin: sum), Sunshine Act, Suomen Armeija (Army of Finland), SuperAmerica, Superachromat (tele-photo lenses made by Carl Zeiss), Supervising Authority, Supplemental Appropriation, Supplemental Assembly, Supply Air (HVAC), Support Acquisition, Supportability Analysis, Supras Auteuil, Surveillance Area, Sustainable America, Swansea (postal code for Swansea, Wales), Swiss Army, Switch Arbiter, Syllabic Abbreviation, Symbolic Analysis, System Abort, System Administration, System Administrator, System Analysis, System Architecture, System Assessment, fsins (Iceland), k Atvinnulí, nima (Spanish company designation), short answer, té, Shareholders Agreement

20) Университет: Sophomore Advisor, Special Activities, Strongly Agree, Student Administration, Study Abroad, Summer Absenteeism

21) Физиология: Short Acting

22) Электроника: Sampling Actuation, Socket A, Structured Audio

23) Вычислительная техника: Storage Array, Systems Analyst, sense amplifier, smart applet, Spare Area (CD-MRW, DA), Software Assurance (MS), Source (MAC) Address (SNA, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI)

24) Нефть: south addition

25) Генетика: streptavidin, стрептавидин

26) Офтальмология: (Spherical Aberration) Сферическая аберрация

27) Банковское дело: Закон о ценных бумагах (США, 1933 г.; Securities Act)

28) Транспорт: Shipyard Agreement, Slow Away

29) Пищевая промышленность: Special Ale

30) Фирменный знак: Samso

31) Экология: sludge age

32) Деловая лексика: Services Administration

33) Образование: State Agency, Student Apathy

34) Сетевые технологии: Security Association, Server Address, администратор системы, адрес отправителя

35) ЕБРР: С учётом сезонных изменений (Seasonally adjusted), special account

36) Полимеры: sectional area, self-acting, semiautomatic, sieve analysis

37) Программирование: Set Access, Shift Amount, Starting Address

38) Автоматика: start of action

39) Сахалин Р: Sakhalin Administration

40) Океанография: Simple- Adjoint, Supplied Air

41) Химическое оружие: Safety assessment, summary account

42) Макаров: standard atmosphere

43) Безопасность: Security Advisory

44) Электротехника: security analysis, stability area

45) Имена и фамилии: Stanley Arthur

46) Майкрософт: сопоставление безопасности

47) Общественная организация: Scholarship America

48) Должность: Shopping Assistant

49) Чат: Sibling Alert

50) Правительство: Santa Ana, California

51) НАСА: Software Assurance, Solar Atmosphere

52) Программное обеспечение: Scripting Additions, Search Algorithm, Special Applications, Sql Administrator

53) Федеральное бюро расследований: San Antonio Field Office

54) AMEX. Stage II Apparel Corporation

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > SA
11 Sa

1) Общая лексика: социальная ответственность (стандарт SA 8000 'Social Accountability')

2) Компьютерная техника: Scalable Architecture, Set Attribute, Shutdown Acknowledged

3) Геология: Спектральный анализ ( Spectral analysis)

4) Медицина: sacrum anterior, serum albumin (концентрация альбумина в сыворотке крови)

5) Американизм: Set Aside, Special Application, Support Administration

6) Спорт: Sets Against

7) Военный термин: Logistics Staff Officer, Secretary of the Army, Security Administrator, Seventh Army, Situation Analysis, Situation Awareness, Situational Awareness (4) Signals Analysis, South Australian, Space Applications, Special Act, Springfield armory, Stand Alone, Surprise Attack, Systems Administrator, Systems Architecture, safety analysis, scientific adviser, security assistance, selected ammunition, semiactive, senior adviser, service action, service adviser, service arm, servo assembly, ship-to-aircraft, shipping authority, signal analysis, signal analyzer, signature analysis, simple alert, single-action, site activation, slow-acting, small arms, snap-action, special actions, special agent, special area, special assignment, special assistant, specific activity, spectrum analysis, staging area, standby altimeter, storage area, subassembly, subject to approval, subsistence allowance, substitution authorization, supervisory authority, supplemental agreement, supply agency, supply area, support agency, supporting arms, surface area, surface attack, surface-to-air, system approach, systems analysis, used to identify FSU Surface-to-Air Missiles, e.g., SA-7/GRAIL

8) Техника: Securities Art, acoustic sweep, safety & assessment department, satellite astronomy, separate amplifiers, service air, servoamplifier, signal attenuation, slow-acting relay, spaceborne astronomy, spacecraft adapter, supplement agreement, supporting agency, switching device

9) Сельское хозяйство: Sustainable Agriculture

10) Химия: Silver Azide

11) Математика: анализ систем (systems analysis), самосопряжённый (self-adjoint), сигнатурный анализ (signature analysis), системный подход (systems approach)

12) Религия: Supreme Allah

13) Железнодорожный термин: Norfolk Southern Railway Company

14) Юридический термин: Side Arm

15) Экономика: societe anonima

16) Грубое выражение: Sex Angle, Sexy Adventures, Sore Arse

17) Металлургия: Submerged Arc

18) Телекоммуникации: Source Address, Subarea

19) Сокращение: Arsine (Chemical warfare blood agent), Salvation Army, Sanskrit, Saturday, Saudi Arabia (NATO country code), Scientific Adviser (UK), Seaman Apprentice, Securities Act, Selective Availability (GPS), Selective Availability, Service Assistant, Situational Awareness, Sociedad Anonima (Spain, Venezuela), Sociedada Anonima (Portugal), Sociedade Anonima (Brazil), Societe Anonyme (Belgium, France, Greece, Switzerland), South Africa, South African, South America, South Australia, Swept Audio, sail area, sex appeal, shaft alley, spectrum analyzer, stress anneal, sinoatrial, Sexaholics Anonymous (a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to stop lusting and become sexually sober), Anonyme (French company designation), Bureau of South Asian Affairs (US Department of State), Franciscan Friars of the Atonement (religious order), Sachsen, Safety and Arming, Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters; India), Salary Adjustment, Sale Agreement, Salerno, Campania (Italian province), Sales Associate (real estate), Salta (Argentina province), Sample Analysis, Samtö, Samus Aran (Metroid character), San Andreas (video game), San Antonio, Sandia Apparatus, Sanofi Aventis (pharmaceutical company), Santa Ana (California), Sarajevo (auto registration for Sarajevo, Bosnia), Saskatchewan, Saturable Absorber, Saudi Arabia, Save (assembly language ASM51 assembler control), Say, Say Again (logging abbreviation), Scientific Advisor, Scientific American, Scientific-Atlanta (US satellite communications company), Scout Association, Scouting Association (UK), Scrambled Americans (video production company), Search and Attack, Seasonally Adjusted, Secret Admirer, Section Adaptation, Security Administration, Security Architecture, Security Association (IPSec), Security Authority, Security Awareness, See Also, Seismic Acoustics, Selection Authority, Self Aligned, Self Assessment, Senior Advisor, Sensor Assembly, Server Administrator, Service Advisor, Service Agent, Service Application, Service Appointment, Service Area, Service Assurance, Service Availability, Service-Affecting, Services Administrator (IRC operator), Services and Agencies, Setup Acknowledge (ITU-T), Sewickley Academy (Pennsylvania), Sexaholics Anonymous, Inc., Sexual Assault, Sexually Active, Shadow Alliance (gaming clan), Shared Area, Sheezyart (website), Shipping Authorization, Shipwright Apprentice, Short Abstract (abstracting & indexing), Short Acronym, Show Assistant, Shredder Afval (Dutch: shredder garbage), SicherheitsAbteilung (German: Safety Department), Side Angle (geometry), Significant Accomplishments, Simulated Annealing, Simulation and Analysis, Sine Anno (Latin: Without Date), Singapore Artillery, Single Access, Single Action (revolver), Single Adult, Single Aisle (aircraft), Single Award, Sinus Arrhythmia, Sir Aaron (Pokemon), Situation Assessment, Situation(al) Awareness, Situational Analysis, Sleep Apnea, Slowly Adapting Fiber (In Skin), Smart Alec, Smart Ass, Smoothing Algorithm, Sneak Attack (gaming), Sniper Assist (gaming, Starcraft), Socié, Social Accountability, Social Actions, Social Anxiety, Socialist Appeal, Sociedad Anó, Sociedade Anó, Society of the Atonement, Software Architecture, Solar Array, Solutions Architect, Something Awful (humor webpage), Something's Awful (website), Son Altesse (French: His/Her Highness), Sonata Arctica (band), Sonic Advance (video game), Sonic Adventure (game), Sound Attenuation, Source Address (IEEE 802.3), Source-Active (Cisco), Sourcing Analyst, South African Airways (IATA airline code), South Asia, Space Academy, Space Ace (video game), Space Available (airline travel), Spaced Antenna, Spare Allocation, Special Access, Special Action, Specialist Association (stock market exchanges), Spectral Acceleration (seismology), Spherical Array, Spinal Anesthesia, Spiral Acquisition, Spirited Away (Japanese anime movie), Splenic Artery, Spooksoliy Ara^nkas, Spring Awakening (musical), Springfield (Massachusetts) Armory (closed), Stabsarzt (German military), Stachowski Alpacas, Staging Activity, Standardised Approach, Standards Australia, Standby Air, State Annex (department of state building), Station Actual, Status Asthmaticus, Stealth Assassin (gaming), Stent Area, Stochastic Approximation, Storage Allocator, Stores Accountant, Storm Afdeling, Strategic Attack, Stroke Association, Structured Analysis (software engineering), Student Ambassadors, Student Assistant, Student Association, Studies and Analysis, Stuffed Animal, Stupid Ass, Stьrmabteilung (German: stormtroopers; paramilitary organization of Nazi Party), Sua Altezza (Italian: Her/His Majesty), Sub-Address (ISDN), Subscriber Access, Substance Abuse, Subsystem(s) Analysis, Suffield Academy (Suffield, Connecticut), Sugar Association, Sum Assured, Summa (Latin: sum), Sunshine Act, Suomen Armeija (Army of Finland), SuperAmerica, Superachromat (tele-photo lenses made by Carl Zeiss), Supervising Authority, Supplemental Appropriation, Supplemental Assembly, Supply Air (HVAC), Support Acquisition, Supportability Analysis, Supras Auteuil, Surveillance Area, Sustainable America, Swansea (postal code for Swansea, Wales), Swiss Army, Switch Arbiter, Syllabic Abbreviation, Symbolic Analysis, System Abort, System Administration, System Administrator, System Analysis, System Architecture, System Assessment, fsins (Iceland), k Atvinnulí, nima (Spanish company designation), short answer, té, Shareholders Agreement

20) Университет: Sophomore Advisor, Special Activities, Strongly Agree, Student Administration, Study Abroad, Summer Absenteeism

21) Физиология: Short Acting

22) Электроника: Sampling Actuation, Socket A, Structured Audio

23) Вычислительная техника: Storage Array, Systems Analyst, sense amplifier, smart applet, Spare Area (CD-MRW, DA), Software Assurance (MS), Source (MAC) Address (SNA, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI)

24) Нефть: south addition

25) Генетика: streptavidin, стрептавидин

26) Офтальмология: (Spherical Aberration) Сферическая аберрация

27) Банковское дело: Закон о ценных бумагах (США, 1933 г.; Securities Act)

28) Транспорт: Shipyard Agreement, Slow Away

29) Пищевая промышленность: Special Ale

30) Фирменный знак: Samso

31) Экология: sludge age

32) Деловая лексика: Services Administration

33) Образование: State Agency, Student Apathy

34) Сетевые технологии: Security Association, Server Address, администратор системы, адрес отправителя

35) ЕБРР: С учётом сезонных изменений (Seasonally adjusted), special account

36) Полимеры: sectional area, self-acting, semiautomatic, sieve analysis

37) Программирование: Set Access, Shift Amount, Starting Address

38) Автоматика: start of action

39) Сахалин Р: Sakhalin Administration

40) Океанография: Simple- Adjoint, Supplied Air

41) Химическое оружие: Safety assessment, summary account

42) Макаров: standard atmosphere

43) Безопасность: Security Advisory

44) Электротехника: security analysis, stability area

45) Имена и фамилии: Stanley Arthur

46) Майкрософт: сопоставление безопасности

47) Общественная организация: Scholarship America

48) Должность: Shopping Assistant

49) Чат: Sibling Alert

50) Правительство: Santa Ana, California

51) НАСА: Software Assurance, Solar Atmosphere

52) Программное обеспечение: Scripting Additions, Search Algorithm, Special Applications, Sql Administrator

53) Федеральное бюро расследований: San Antonio Field Office

54) AMEX. Stage II Apparel Corporation

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Sa
12 sa

1) Общая лексика: социальная ответственность (стандарт SA 8000 'Social Accountability')

2) Компьютерная техника: Scalable Architecture, Set Attribute, Shutdown Acknowledged

3) Геология: Спектральный анализ ( Spectral analysis)

4) Медицина: sacrum anterior, serum albumin (концентрация альбумина в сыворотке крови)

5) Американизм: Set Aside, Special Application, Support Administration

6) Спорт: Sets Against

7) Военный термин: Logistics Staff Officer, Secretary of the Army, Security Administrator, Seventh Army, Situation Analysis, Situation Awareness, Situational Awareness (4) Signals Analysis, South Australian, Space Applications, Special Act, Springfield armory, Stand Alone, Surprise Attack, Systems Administrator, Systems Architecture, safety analysis, scientific adviser, security assistance, selected ammunition, semiactive, senior adviser, service action, service adviser, service arm, servo assembly, ship-to-aircraft, shipping authority, signal analysis, signal analyzer, signature analysis, simple alert, single-action, site activation, slow-acting, small arms, snap-action, special actions, special agent, special area, special assignment, special assistant, specific activity, spectrum analysis, staging area, standby altimeter, storage area, subassembly, subject to approval, subsistence allowance, substitution authorization, supervisory authority, supplemental agreement, supply agency, supply area, support agency, supporting arms, surface area, surface attack, surface-to-air, system approach, systems analysis, used to identify FSU Surface-to-Air Missiles, e.g., SA-7/GRAIL

8) Техника: Securities Art, acoustic sweep, safety & assessment department, satellite astronomy, separate amplifiers, service air, servoamplifier, signal attenuation, slow-acting relay, spaceborne astronomy, spacecraft adapter, supplement agreement, supporting agency, switching device

9) Сельское хозяйство: Sustainable Agriculture

10) Химия: Silver Azide

11) Математика: анализ систем (systems analysis), самосопряжённый (self-adjoint), сигнатурный анализ (signature analysis), системный подход (systems approach)

12) Религия: Supreme Allah

13) Железнодорожный термин: Norfolk Southern Railway Company

14) Юридический термин: Side Arm

15) Экономика: societe anonima

16) Грубое выражение: Sex Angle, Sexy Adventures, Sore Arse

17) Металлургия: Submerged Arc

18) Телекоммуникации: Source Address, Subarea

19) Сокращение: Arsine (Chemical warfare blood agent), Salvation Army, Sanskrit, Saturday, Saudi Arabia (NATO country code), Scientific Adviser (UK), Seaman Apprentice, Securities Act, Selective Availability (GPS), Selective Availability, Service Assistant, Situational Awareness, Sociedad Anonima (Spain, Venezuela), Sociedada Anonima (Portugal), Sociedade Anonima (Brazil), Societe Anonyme (Belgium, France, Greece, Switzerland), South Africa, South African, South America, South Australia, Swept Audio, sail area, sex appeal, shaft alley, spectrum analyzer, stress anneal, sinoatrial, Sexaholics Anonymous (a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to stop lusting and become sexually sober), Anonyme (French company designation), Bureau of South Asian Affairs (US Department of State), Franciscan Friars of the Atonement (religious order), Sachsen, Safety and Arming, Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters; India), Salary Adjustment, Sale Agreement, Salerno, Campania (Italian province), Sales Associate (real estate), Salta (Argentina province), Sample Analysis, Samtö, Samus Aran (Metroid character), San Andreas (video game), San Antonio, Sandia Apparatus, Sanofi Aventis (pharmaceutical company), Santa Ana (California), Sarajevo (auto registration for Sarajevo, Bosnia), Saskatchewan, Saturable Absorber, Saudi Arabia, Save (assembly language ASM51 assembler control), Say, Say Again (logging abbreviation), Scientific Advisor, Scientific American, Scientific-Atlanta (US satellite communications company), Scout Association, Scouting Association (UK), Scrambled Americans (video production company), Search and Attack, Seasonally Adjusted, Secret Admirer, Section Adaptation, Security Administration, Security Architecture, Security Association (IPSec), Security Authority, Security Awareness, See Also, Seismic Acoustics, Selection Authority, Self Aligned, Self Assessment, Senior Advisor, Sensor Assembly, Server Administrator, Service Advisor, Service Agent, Service Application, Service Appointment, Service Area, Service Assurance, Service Availability, Service-Affecting, Services Administrator (IRC operator), Services and Agencies, Setup Acknowledge (ITU-T), Sewickley Academy (Pennsylvania), Sexaholics Anonymous, Inc., Sexual Assault, Sexually Active, Shadow Alliance (gaming clan), Shared Area, Sheezyart (website), Shipping Authorization, Shipwright Apprentice, Short Abstract (abstracting & indexing), Short Acronym, Show Assistant, Shredder Afval (Dutch: shredder garbage), SicherheitsAbteilung (German: Safety Department), Side Angle (geometry), Significant Accomplishments, Simulated Annealing, Simulation and Analysis, Sine Anno (Latin: Without Date), Singapore Artillery, Single Access, Single Action (revolver), Single Adult, Single Aisle (aircraft), Single Award, Sinus Arrhythmia, Sir Aaron (Pokemon), Situation Assessment, Situation(al) Awareness, Situational Analysis, Sleep Apnea, Slowly Adapting Fiber (In Skin), Smart Alec, Smart Ass, Smoothing Algorithm, Sneak Attack (gaming), Sniper Assist (gaming, Starcraft), Socié, Social Accountability, Social Actions, Social Anxiety, Socialist Appeal, Sociedad Anó, Sociedade Anó, Society of the Atonement, Software Architecture, Solar Array, Solutions Architect, Something Awful (humor webpage), Something's Awful (website), Son Altesse (French: His/Her Highness), Sonata Arctica (band), Sonic Advance (video game), Sonic Adventure (game), Sound Attenuation, Source Address (IEEE 802.3), Source-Active (Cisco), Sourcing Analyst, South African Airways (IATA airline code), South Asia, Space Academy, Space Ace (video game), Space Available (airline travel), Spaced Antenna, Spare Allocation, Special Access, Special Action, Specialist Association (stock market exchanges), Spectral Acceleration (seismology), Spherical Array, Spinal Anesthesia, Spiral Acquisition, Spirited Away (Japanese anime movie), Splenic Artery, Spooksoliy Ara^nkas, Spring Awakening (musical), Springfield (Massachusetts) Armory (closed), Stabsarzt (German military), Stachowski Alpacas, Staging Activity, Standardised Approach, Standards Australia, Standby Air, State Annex (department of state building), Station Actual, Status Asthmaticus, Stealth Assassin (gaming), Stent Area, Stochastic Approximation, Storage Allocator, Stores Accountant, Storm Afdeling, Strategic Attack, Stroke Association, Structured Analysis (software engineering), Student Ambassadors, Student Assistant, Student Association, Studies and Analysis, Stuffed Animal, Stupid Ass, Stьrmabteilung (German: stormtroopers; paramilitary organization of Nazi Party), Sua Altezza (Italian: Her/His Majesty), Sub-Address (ISDN), Subscriber Access, Substance Abuse, Subsystem(s) Analysis, Suffield Academy (Suffield, Connecticut), Sugar Association, Sum Assured, Summa (Latin: sum), Sunshine Act, Suomen Armeija (Army of Finland), SuperAmerica, Superachromat (tele-photo lenses made by Carl Zeiss), Supervising Authority, Supplemental Appropriation, Supplemental Assembly, Supply Air (HVAC), Support Acquisition, Supportability Analysis, Supras Auteuil, Surveillance Area, Sustainable America, Swansea (postal code for Swansea, Wales), Swiss Army, Switch Arbiter, Syllabic Abbreviation, Symbolic Analysis, System Abort, System Administration, System Administrator, System Analysis, System Architecture, System Assessment, fsins (Iceland), k Atvinnulí, nima (Spanish company designation), short answer, té, Shareholders Agreement

20) Университет: Sophomore Advisor, Special Activities, Strongly Agree, Student Administration, Study Abroad, Summer Absenteeism

21) Физиология: Short Acting

22) Электроника: Sampling Actuation, Socket A, Structured Audio

23) Вычислительная техника: Storage Array, Systems Analyst, sense amplifier, smart applet, Spare Area (CD-MRW, DA), Software Assurance (MS), Source (MAC) Address (SNA, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI)

24) Нефть: south addition

25) Генетика: streptavidin, стрептавидин

26) Офтальмология: (Spherical Aberration) Сферическая аберрация

27) Банковское дело: Закон о ценных бумагах (США, 1933 г.; Securities Act)

28) Транспорт: Shipyard Agreement, Slow Away

29) Пищевая промышленность: Special Ale

30) Фирменный знак: Samso

31) Экология: sludge age

32) Деловая лексика: Services Administration

33) Образование: State Agency, Student Apathy

34) Сетевые технологии: Security Association, Server Address, администратор системы, адрес отправителя

35) ЕБРР: С учётом сезонных изменений (Seasonally adjusted), special account

36) Полимеры: sectional area, self-acting, semiautomatic, sieve analysis

37) Программирование: Set Access, Shift Amount, Starting Address

38) Автоматика: start of action

39) Сахалин Р: Sakhalin Administration

40) Океанография: Simple- Adjoint, Supplied Air

41) Химическое оружие: Safety assessment, summary account

42) Макаров: standard atmosphere

43) Безопасность: Security Advisory

44) Электротехника: security analysis, stability area

45) Имена и фамилии: Stanley Arthur

46) Майкрософт: сопоставление безопасности

47) Общественная организация: Scholarship America

48) Должность: Shopping Assistant

49) Чат: Sibling Alert

50) Правительство: Santa Ana, California

51) НАСА: Software Assurance, Solar Atmosphere

52) Программное обеспечение: Scripting Additions, Search Algorithm, Special Applications, Sql Administrator

53) Федеральное бюро расследований: San Antonio Field Office

54) AMEX. Stage II Apparel Corporation

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > sa
13 JOBS

1) Американизм: Jumpstart Our Business Strength Act (Senate Bill 1637)

2) Военный термин: Job Opportunities in the Business Sector

3) Метеорология: Job Opportunities And Business Support

4) Деловая лексика: Jobs Opportunities And Basic Skills

5) Должность: Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, And Stability

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > JOBS
14 jobs

1) Американизм: Jumpstart Our Business Strength Act (Senate Bill 1637)

2) Военный термин: Job Opportunities in the Business Sector

3) Метеорология: Job Opportunities And Business Support

4) Деловая лексика: Jobs Opportunities And Basic Skills

5) Должность: Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, And Stability

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > jobs
15 firmeza

f.

1 firmness (fortaleza, solidez).

2 solidity.

3 resolution.

4 single-mindedness, singleness of purpose.

5 fastness.

* * *

firmeza

► nombre femenino

1 firmness, steadiness

* * *

SF

1) [del terreno] firmness

2) [de carácter, convicciones] strength, firmness

con firmeza — firmly

se negó con firmeza a delatarlos — he firmly refused to inform on them

* * *

femenino

a) ( de convicciones) strength

con firmeza — firmly

b) ( del terreno) firmness

* * *

= firmness, steadiness, sureness, sturdiness.

Ex. To implement this policy without creating resentment requires firmness and sensitivity.

Ex. As the sobbing abated, the secretary's voice regained some steadiness.

Ex. In other words, to make sense of life-situations and to make intelligent decisions when we meet them, we need to have pondered the various possibilities either before the situations arise or with speed and sureness when they arise.

Ex. The life of military brats is a 'mixed bag': they're worldly and sophisticated, which civilians might label as ' sturdiness'.

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* con firmeza = assertively, resolutely, firmly, unshakably, staunchly.

* * *

femenino

a) ( de convicciones) strength

con firmeza — firmly

b) ( del terreno) firmness

* * *

= firmness, steadiness, sureness, sturdiness.

Ex: To implement this policy without creating resentment requires firmness and sensitivity.

Ex: As the sobbing abated, the secretary's voice regained some steadiness.

Ex: In other words, to make sense of life-situations and to make intelligent decisions when we meet them, we need to have pondered the various possibilities either before the situations arise or with speed and sureness when they arise.

Ex: The life of military brats is a 'mixed bag': they're worldly and sophisticated, which civilians might label as ' sturdiness'.

* con firmeza = assertively, resolutely, firmly, unshakably, staunchly.

* * *

firmeza¹

feminine

A

1 (de convicciones) strength

su firmeza de carácter es admirable her strength of character is admirable

rehusó con firmeza la invitación he firmly declined the invitation

2 (del terreno) firmness

B

firmeza masculine and feminine ( Chi fam hum) ( masculine) steady boyfriend;

( feminine) steady girlfriend

firmeza²

adjective

( Chi fam): está firmeza para hacerlo he's determined to do it

es firmeza para el trago he likes his drink ( colloq)

firmeza³

adverb

( Chi fam) hard

* * *

firmeza sustantivo femenino
a) (de convicciones, carácter) strength;

◊ con firmeza firmly

b) ( del terreno) firmness

firmeza sustantivo femenino firmness
' firmeza' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
decisión
- energía
- entereza
- inseguridad
- inseguro
- pulso
- voluntad
English:
exception
- firmness
- resolve
- self-assertiveness
- single-mindedness
- steadfastness
- steadiness
- firmly

* * *

firmeza nf

1. [fortaleza, solidez] firmness;
[de construcción] stability
2. [de argumento] solidity

3. [de carácter, actitud] firmness;

defendió con firmeza su postura he firmly defended his stance

* * *

firmeza

f firmness

* * *

firmeza nf

1) : firmness, stability

2) : strength, resolve

* * *

firmeza n strength

con firmeza firmly

Spanish-English dictionary > firmeza
16 characteristic

характеристика; характеристическая кривая; характерный параметр; характеристический; характерный

amplitude versus frequency response characteristic — амплитудно-частотная характеристика

blast characteristics of the weapon — поражающие свойства оружия

characteristic of hydrazine fuel flammability — характеристика воспламенения гидразина

characteristics of planetary orbits — характеристики орбит планет

collapsing characteristics of the gear — поведение [характеристики] шасси при поломке (в результате аварии, удара о землю)

explosive characteristics of fuel — взрывоопаспость топлива [горючего]

handling characteristic of propellant — эксплуатационная характеристика ракетного топлива

handling characteristics with autostabilization — характеристики управляемости (ЛА) с системой автостабилизации

handling characteristics without autostabilization — характеристики управляемости (ЛА) без системы автостабилизации

height control response characteristics — верт. характеристики управляемости по высоте

lift and drag characteristics — величины подъёмной силы и лобового сопротивления; зависимости подъёмной силы и лобового сопротивления

lunar rover vehicle characteristics — характеристики лунохода

performance characteristic of propellant — рабочая характеристика ракетного топлива

physical characteristics of planets — физические характеристики планет

rough field handling characteristics — характеристики управляемости при движении по аэродрому с неровной поверхностью

s.f.c. characteristics — характеристики удельного расхода топлива [горючего]

short period characteristics of the airplane — характеристики самолёта в короткопериодическом движении

yaw rate damping characteristics — характеристики демпфирования угловой скорости рыскания

— ablation characteristics

— accelerated stall characteristics

— acceleration characteristics

— adhesion characteristics

— adsorption characteristics

— aeroacoustic characteristics

— aerodynamic characteristics

— aeroelastic characteristics

— aerothermodynamic characteristics

— air characteristics

— aircraft characteristics

— airframe characteristics

— altitude characteristic

— amplitude characteristic

— amplitude-phase characteristic

— amplitude-time characteristic

— antispin characteristics

— antistall characteristics

— approach handling characteristics

— autoignition characteristic

— autorotational characteristics

— autorotative characteristics

— ballistic characteristics

— base pressure characteristic

— bonding characteristics

— boost characteristics

— booster characteristics

— boundary layer characteristics

— breakout characteristics

— buffet characteristics

— carriage characteristics

— cavitation characteristics

— clean-wing characteristics

— combustion characteristic

— control characteristic

— control feel characteristics

— control force characteristics

— control-fixed characteristics

— control-rate characteristic

— conversion control characteristics

— crosswind characteristics

— damping characteristic

— deceleration characteristics

— deck landing characteristics

— decomposition characteristics

— deflagration characteristic

— departure characteristics

— deployment characteristics

— design characteristics

— digital target characteristic

— dimensional characteristics

— directional behavior characteristics

— directional control characteristics

— discharge characteristic

— ditching characteristics

— dive characteristics

— dynamic characteristic

— dynamic stability characteristics

— engine characteristics

— engine-control characteristic

— engine-inoperative characteristics

— engine-out characteristics

— exhaust characteristic

— extinguishment characteristics

— failure-survival characteristics

— flame characteristic

— flight characteristics

— flight handling characteristics

— flow characteristic

— flutter characteristics

— flying characteristics

— force-deflection characteristics

— fracture characteristics

— free-flight characteristics

— frequency-response characteristic

— fuel consumption characteristics

— fuel flow characteristics

— gliding characteristics

— ground-handling characteristics

— handling characteristics

— heading holding characteristics

— heat-transfer characteristics

— high-angle-of-attack characteristics

— high-incidence characteristics

— high-speed characteristics

— high-supersonic characteristics

— hinge-moment characteristic

— hover characteristics

— hypersonic characteristics

— hypervelocity characteristics

— ignition characteristics

— inlet characteristics

— inlet flow characteristics

— instrument flight characteristics

— insulation characteristics

— interchangeability characteristics

— inviscid-flow characteristics

— landing characteristics

— lateral behavior characteristics

— lateral-control characteristics

— lateral-directional characteristics

— lateral-directional control characteristics

— lateral-directional stability characteristics

— launching characteristics

— linear characteristic

— liydrodynamic characteristics

— llghtplane-type stalling characteristics

— loading characteristic

— longitudinal behavior characteristics

— longitudinal control characteristics

— longitudinal short-period characteristics

— longitudinal stability characteristics

— low-speed characteristics

— low-subsonic characteristics

— LOX-compatibility characteristic

— lubrication characteristic

— maintainability characteristics

— maneuvering characteristics

— military characteristics

— missile center-of-gravity characteristic

— moment characteristics

— motion characteristic

— natural stall characteristics

— near-stall characteristics

— neutral burning characteristics

— nonlinear characteristic

— nonresidue forming characteristic

— nonsteady characteristics

— nozzle metering characteristic

— nuclear characteristics

— operating characteristics

— operational characteristics

— optimum characteristics

— orbit characteristics

— oscillatory characteristics

— out-of-rig characteristics

— overload characteristic

— oxidation-corrosion characteristics

— parachute opening characteristics

— penetrating characteristics

— performance characteristics

— pitching characteristics

— pitch-rate damping characteristics

— pitch-response characteristics

— pitch-up characteristic

— porosity characteristic

— poststall characteristics

— powder-burning characteristic

— power-supply characteristics

— pressure-recovery characteristic

— pressure-sensitivity characteristic

— prestall characteristics

— progressive-burning characteristics

— propellant characteristic

— propeller characteristic

— protective characteristics

— radiation characteristic

— range characteristics

— rated characteristic

— recovery characteristic

— reentry characteristics

— regressive burning characteristic

— reingestion characteristics

— resolution characteristic

— response characteristic

— restraint characteristics

— riding qualities characteristics

— rocket-motor characteristics

— rolling characteristics

— roll-rate damping characteristics

— roll-response characteristics

— rotor characteristics

— runaway characteristics

— separation characteristics

— service characteristics

— shielding characteristics

— shimmy characteristics

— shortfield characteristics

— shutoff characteristic

— single-engine flight characteristics

— slow-down characteristics

— slow-flight characteristics

— slow-speed characteristics

— sonic boom characteristics

— spin characteristics

— spin recovery characteristics

— spray characteristics

— stability characteristics

— stage characteristics

— stall approach characteristics

— stalling characteristics

— starting characteristics

— start-up characteristic

— static aerodynamic characteristics

— static stability characteristic-s

— STOL characteristics

— store launch characteristics

— strength characteristics

— strength-density characteristic

— structural characteristics

— subsonic-hypersonic characteristics

— surface characteristic

— surface radiation characteristics

— surge characteristics

— takeoff characteristics

— takeoff handling characteristics

— taxying characteristics

— technical characteristics

— tensile strength/weight characteristics

— test-bench characteristics

— Theological characteristic

— thermoviscoelastic characteristics

— thrust characteristic

— time-response characteristic

— toxicity characteristics

— trajectory characteristics

— transfer characteristic

— transient-response characteristic

— transition characteristics

— transonic-speed characteristics

— trim characteristic

— turbulence characteristics

— turn characteristics

— two-dimensional characteristics

— undercarriage characteristics

— vertical-flight characteristics

— vibration characteristics

— viscous-flow characteristics

— volt-ampere characteristic

— VTOL characteristics

— warhead characteristic

— warhead radar characteristic

— water handling characteristic

— wear-inhibiting characteristics

— wing lifting characteristics

— yawing characteristics

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17 TS

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Tissue Specificity, trading securities

2) Компьютерная техника: Telecommunication System, Temporary Storage

3) Медицина: Turner syndrome (синдром Шерешевского-Тёрнера)

4) Американизм: Technical Sergeant, Tentative Solution

5) Спорт: Team Slayer, Tennis Supplies, Title Set

6) Военный термин: TROJAN SPIRIT, Tactical School, Target Specific, Target Spotting, Total Strength, Training Support, Transaction Services, Troop Strength, Turn Starboard, tactical superiority, tank squadron, target signature, target simulator, target strength, target system, technical specifications, technical stores, technical support, telecommunications system, telescopic sight, tentative specification, test set, test site, test specification, test stand, test summary, test system, third stage, time slot, torpedo station, tracking system, training squadron, training station, training system, transfer station, transmission set, transmittal sheet, transmitter station, transport and supply, transport service, transport squadron, trouble shooting, ТП

7) Техника: T suppressor cell, Top Start, Transformer Substations, Transition Sets, Turn Stop, target seeker, telephone set, temperature-sensitive, terminal station, terminal system, terrestrial station, test signal, test specifications, test-solution, thermal shield, time-shared bus, timing selector, top salt, tracking scope, transfer strategy, transit storage, transport station, tropospheric scatter, tuning stability, turn signal, датчик температуры ( tenperature sensor)

8) Шутливое выражение: Twisted Sister

9) Химия: Temperature Sensitive

10) Математика: тригонометрический ряд (trigonometric series)

11) Религия: Tainted Souls, Two Spirit

12) Юридический термин: Trustee Sale

13) Бухгалтерия: Total Surplus

14) Страхование: Timesheet

15) Ветеринария: Teratology Society

16) Грубое выражение: Terribly Sexy, Tiny Sex, Tortured Scrotum, Tough Shit

17) Политика: Tunisia

18) Телекоммуникации: Telecom Server, Tip And Sleeve, Tip Sleeve

19) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Tunisia), Telegraph System, Telemetering System, Time Stamp, Top Secret (security classification), Top Secret, Trainer Subsystem, Training Ship, Training Simulator, Transattack Survivability, Transmitter Segment, Transport Support, Tsonga, Tunisia (NATO country code), taper shank, tile base, time sharing, time switch, tool shed, tool steel, total slack, tough situation, transonic, tube sheet, typescript, test specification (number), транссексуал (transsexual), Tough Stuff, Transmission Subsystem, tricuspid stenosis

20) Физика: Tangential Section, Temporal Synchronization, Transition State

21) Физиология: Thoracic spine, Thyroid Stimulating, Tough Skin, Tourette Syndrome, Tuberous Sclerosis

22) Электроника: The Static, Time Step, Transparent Substrate

23) Вычислительная техника: Traffic Shaping, transport stream, TriState (IC)

24) Нефть: surface temperature, teflon steel, temperature switches, tray spacing, кровля солевого пласта (top salt), технические условия (technical specifications), технические условия на проведение испытаний

25) Банковское дело: условия кредитования (term sheet( ЮКБ))

26) Транспорт: Terminal Services, Thermo Start, Tiger Stripe, Tilt Shift, Tilt Start, Tire Sales, Transit Stop

27) Пищевая промышленность: Totally Sweet

28) Фирменный знак: Thompson And Strickland, Tri Star

29) СМИ: The Same

30) Деловая лексика: Task Starts, Trade Services

31) Бурение: песчаник тар-спрингс (Tar Springs; свита отдела честер миссисипской системы)

32) Образование: Traffic School, Training Session

33) Сетевые технологии: Tell Server, Terminal Server, Transaction Set, Transaction Systems

34) Полимеры: tensile strength, test solution, thermoset, thermosetting, total solids, two-sided, two-stage

35) Автоматика: tool sensor

36) Пластмассы: Thermoplastics Screw

37) Океанография: The Surface, Tropical Storm

38) Химическое оружие: technical secretariat

39) Расширение файла: Tape Status

40) Нефть и газ: equipment test system

41) Антарктика: Сила цели

42) Электротехника: transformer substation, transient stability

43) Фантастика Time Stalkers

44) Имена и фамилии: Terminator Schwarzenegger, The Shark, Thomas Stearns

45) Высокочастотная электроника: timeslot

46) Должность: Tech Support, Telecommunication Science

47) Чат: Terribly Sad

48) Правительство: Treasure State

49) Хобби: Terribly Scarce

50) Международная торговля: Trade Specialist

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > TS
18 Ts

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Tissue Specificity, trading securities

2) Компьютерная техника: Telecommunication System, Temporary Storage

3) Медицина: Turner syndrome (синдром Шерешевского-Тёрнера)

4) Американизм: Technical Sergeant, Tentative Solution

5) Спорт: Team Slayer, Tennis Supplies, Title Set

6) Военный термин: TROJAN SPIRIT, Tactical School, Target Specific, Target Spotting, Total Strength, Training Support, Transaction Services, Troop Strength, Turn Starboard, tactical superiority, tank squadron, target signature, target simulator, target strength, target system, technical specifications, technical stores, technical support, telecommunications system, telescopic sight, tentative specification, test set, test site, test specification, test stand, test summary, test system, third stage, time slot, torpedo station, tracking system, training squadron, training station, training system, transfer station, transmission set, transmittal sheet, transmitter station, transport and supply, transport service, transport squadron, trouble shooting, ТП

7) Техника: T suppressor cell, Top Start, Transformer Substations, Transition Sets, Turn Stop, target seeker, telephone set, temperature-sensitive, terminal station, terminal system, terrestrial station, test signal, test specifications, test-solution, thermal shield, time-shared bus, timing selector, top salt, tracking scope, transfer strategy, transit storage, transport station, tropospheric scatter, tuning stability, turn signal, датчик температуры ( tenperature sensor)

8) Шутливое выражение: Twisted Sister

9) Химия: Temperature Sensitive

10) Математика: тригонометрический ряд (trigonometric series)

11) Религия: Tainted Souls, Two Spirit

12) Юридический термин: Trustee Sale

13) Бухгалтерия: Total Surplus

14) Страхование: Timesheet

15) Ветеринария: Teratology Society

16) Грубое выражение: Terribly Sexy, Tiny Sex, Tortured Scrotum, Tough Shit

17) Политика: Tunisia

18) Телекоммуникации: Telecom Server, Tip And Sleeve, Tip Sleeve

19) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Tunisia), Telegraph System, Telemetering System, Time Stamp, Top Secret (security classification), Top Secret, Trainer Subsystem, Training Ship, Training Simulator, Transattack Survivability, Transmitter Segment, Transport Support, Tsonga, Tunisia (NATO country code), taper shank, tile base, time sharing, time switch, tool shed, tool steel, total slack, tough situation, transonic, tube sheet, typescript, test specification (number), транссексуал (transsexual), Tough Stuff, Transmission Subsystem, tricuspid stenosis

20) Физика: Tangential Section, Temporal Synchronization, Transition State

21) Физиология: Thoracic spine, Thyroid Stimulating, Tough Skin, Tourette Syndrome, Tuberous Sclerosis

22) Электроника: The Static, Time Step, Transparent Substrate

23) Вычислительная техника: Traffic Shaping, transport stream, TriState (IC)

24) Нефть: surface temperature, teflon steel, temperature switches, tray spacing, кровля солевого пласта (top salt), технические условия (technical specifications), технические условия на проведение испытаний

25) Банковское дело: условия кредитования (term sheet( ЮКБ))

26) Транспорт: Terminal Services, Thermo Start, Tiger Stripe, Tilt Shift, Tilt Start, Tire Sales, Transit Stop

27) Пищевая промышленность: Totally Sweet

28) Фирменный знак: Thompson And Strickland, Tri Star

29) СМИ: The Same

30) Деловая лексика: Task Starts, Trade Services

31) Бурение: песчаник тар-спрингс (Tar Springs; свита отдела честер миссисипской системы)

32) Образование: Traffic School, Training Session

33) Сетевые технологии: Tell Server, Terminal Server, Transaction Set, Transaction Systems

34) Полимеры: tensile strength, test solution, thermoset, thermosetting, total solids, two-sided, two-stage

35) Автоматика: tool sensor

36) Пластмассы: Thermoplastics Screw

37) Океанография: The Surface, Tropical Storm

38) Химическое оружие: technical secretariat

39) Расширение файла: Tape Status

40) Нефть и газ: equipment test system

41) Антарктика: Сила цели

42) Электротехника: transformer substation, transient stability

43) Фантастика Time Stalkers

44) Имена и фамилии: Terminator Schwarzenegger, The Shark, Thomas Stearns

45) Высокочастотная электроника: timeslot

46) Должность: Tech Support, Telecommunication Science

47) Чат: Terribly Sad

48) Правительство: Treasure State

49) Хобби: Terribly Scarce

50) Международная торговля: Trade Specialist

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Ts
19 ts

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Tissue Specificity, trading securities

2) Компьютерная техника: Telecommunication System, Temporary Storage

3) Медицина: Turner syndrome (синдром Шерешевского-Тёрнера)

4) Американизм: Technical Sergeant, Tentative Solution

5) Спорт: Team Slayer, Tennis Supplies, Title Set

6) Военный термин: TROJAN SPIRIT, Tactical School, Target Specific, Target Spotting, Total Strength, Training Support, Transaction Services, Troop Strength, Turn Starboard, tactical superiority, tank squadron, target signature, target simulator, target strength, target system, technical specifications, technical stores, technical support, telecommunications system, telescopic sight, tentative specification, test set, test site, test specification, test stand, test summary, test system, third stage, time slot, torpedo station, tracking system, training squadron, training station, training system, transfer station, transmission set, transmittal sheet, transmitter station, transport and supply, transport service, transport squadron, trouble shooting, ТП

7) Техника: T suppressor cell, Top Start, Transformer Substations, Transition Sets, Turn Stop, target seeker, telephone set, temperature-sensitive, terminal station, terminal system, terrestrial station, test signal, test specifications, test-solution, thermal shield, time-shared bus, timing selector, top salt, tracking scope, transfer strategy, transit storage, transport station, tropospheric scatter, tuning stability, turn signal, датчик температуры ( tenperature sensor)

8) Шутливое выражение: Twisted Sister

9) Химия: Temperature Sensitive

10) Математика: тригонометрический ряд (trigonometric series)

11) Религия: Tainted Souls, Two Spirit

12) Юридический термин: Trustee Sale

13) Бухгалтерия: Total Surplus

14) Страхование: Timesheet

15) Ветеринария: Teratology Society

16) Грубое выражение: Terribly Sexy, Tiny Sex, Tortured Scrotum, Tough Shit

17) Политика: Tunisia

18) Телекоммуникации: Telecom Server, Tip And Sleeve, Tip Sleeve

19) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Tunisia), Telegraph System, Telemetering System, Time Stamp, Top Secret (security classification), Top Secret, Trainer Subsystem, Training Ship, Training Simulator, Transattack Survivability, Transmitter Segment, Transport Support, Tsonga, Tunisia (NATO country code), taper shank, tile base, time sharing, time switch, tool shed, tool steel, total slack, tough situation, transonic, tube sheet, typescript, test specification (number), транссексуал (transsexual), Tough Stuff, Transmission Subsystem, tricuspid stenosis

20) Физика: Tangential Section, Temporal Synchronization, Transition State

21) Физиология: Thoracic spine, Thyroid Stimulating, Tough Skin, Tourette Syndrome, Tuberous Sclerosis

22) Электроника: The Static, Time Step, Transparent Substrate

23) Вычислительная техника: Traffic Shaping, transport stream, TriState (IC)

24) Нефть: surface temperature, teflon steel, temperature switches, tray spacing, кровля солевого пласта (top salt), технические условия (technical specifications), технические условия на проведение испытаний

25) Банковское дело: условия кредитования (term sheet( ЮКБ))

26) Транспорт: Terminal Services, Thermo Start, Tiger Stripe, Tilt Shift, Tilt Start, Tire Sales, Transit Stop

27) Пищевая промышленность: Totally Sweet

28) Фирменный знак: Thompson And Strickland, Tri Star

29) СМИ: The Same

30) Деловая лексика: Task Starts, Trade Services

31) Бурение: песчаник тар-спрингс (Tar Springs; свита отдела честер миссисипской системы)

32) Образование: Traffic School, Training Session

33) Сетевые технологии: Tell Server, Terminal Server, Transaction Set, Transaction Systems

34) Полимеры: tensile strength, test solution, thermoset, thermosetting, total solids, two-sided, two-stage

35) Автоматика: tool sensor

36) Пластмассы: Thermoplastics Screw

37) Океанография: The Surface, Tropical Storm

38) Химическое оружие: technical secretariat

39) Расширение файла: Tape Status

40) Нефть и газ: equipment test system

41) Антарктика: Сила цели

42) Электротехника: transformer substation, transient stability

43) Фантастика Time Stalkers

44) Имена и фамилии: Terminator Schwarzenegger, The Shark, Thomas Stearns

45) Высокочастотная электроника: timeslot

46) Должность: Tech Support, Telecommunication Science

47) Чат: Terribly Sad

48) Правительство: Treasure State

49) Хобби: Terribly Scarce

50) Международная торговля: Trade Specialist

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > ts
20 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, 714-1140

   The 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, 1140-1385

   Two 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 in

   Portugal (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, 1385-1580

   The 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, 1580-1640

   Despite 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, 1640-1822

   Foreign 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 the

   Church (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, 1822-1910

   During 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, 1910-26

   Portugal'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), 1926-74

   During 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, 1974-76

   Following 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 until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   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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