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superior [su:'pɪərɪə(r)]

1 adjective

(a) (better, greater) supérieur;

∎ a superior wine un vin de qualité supérieure;

∎ superior to supérieur à;

∎ the book is vastly superior to the film le livre est bien meilleur que le film;

∎ superior in number to supérieur en nombre à, numériquement supérieur à;

∎ the enemy troops were superior in numbers les troupes ennemies étaient en plus grand nombre ou supérieures en nombre

(b) (senior → officer, position) supérieur;

∎ superior to supérieur à, au-dessus de;

∎ the superior classes les classes fpl dirigeantes

(c) pejorative (supercilious) suffisant, hautain;

∎ with a superior smile avec un sourire suffisant ou condescendant;

∎ in a superior voice d'un ton suffisant ou supérieur;

∎ she feels superior elle se croit supérieure

(d) (upper) supérieur;

∎ the superior limbs les membres mpl supérieurs

(e) Typography (letter, number) supérieur, suscrit

(f) Biology supérieur;

∎ the superior mammals les mammifères mpl supérieurs

2 noun

supérieur(e) m,f

►► Law superior court ≃ tribunal m de grande instance, French Canadian Cour f supérieure;

Astronomy superior planet planète f supérieure

1) высший, старший (по рангу, званию, социальному положению и т. п.)

2)

а) лучший, более совершенный; превосходящий

б) превосходный, исключительный

в) недосягаемый, неподвластный; безразличный

3) численно превосходящий; больший

4) высокомерный, надменный, презрительный

5)

а) расположенный выше, находящийся выше (чего-л.); верхний

б) астр. отстоящий от Солнца дальше, чем Земля

в) полигр. надстрочный

6)

а) главный, центральный, основополагающий

б) лог. более широкий, всеобъемлющий; родовой ( о понятии)

1)

а) глава, начальник, руководитель, старший

б) ( Superior) глава религиозной общины

в) уст. правитель, губернатор

2) тот, кто превосходит другого, лучше другого

3) полигр. надстрочный знак

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

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Educated by a number of governesses in a number of houses from Yorkshire to Ealing, she was the daughter of a hypochondriac mother and her absent, separated, husband, the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. As a child a mysterious and undiagnosed illness deprived her "of the use of her limbs" and she was "obliged to use crutches". The complaint was probably psychosomatic as it cleared up when she was 17 and was about to attend her first court ball. On 8 July 1835 she was married to William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace. She later bore two sons and a daughter. She was an avid student of science and in particular mathematics, in the course of which Charles Babbage encouraged her. In 1840 Babbage was invited to Turin to present a paper on his analytical engine. In the audience was a young Italian military engineer, L.F.Menabrea, who was later to become a general in Garibaldi's army. The paper was written in French and published in 1842 in the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève. This text was translated into English and published with extensive annotations by the Countess of Lovelace, appearing in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs. The Countess thoroughly understood and appreciated Babbage's machine and the clarity of her description was so great that it is undoubtedly the best contemporary account of the engine: even Babbage recognized the Countess's description as superior to his own. Ada often visited Babbage in his workshop and listened to his explanations of the structure and use of his engines. She shared with her husband a love of horse-racing and, with Babbage, tried to develop a system for backing horses. Babbage and the Earl apparently stopped their efforts in time, but the Countess lost so heavily that she had to pawn all her family jewels. Her losses at the 1851 Derby alone amounted to £3,200, while borrow-ing a further £1,800 from her husband. This situation involved her in being blackmailed. She became an opium addict due to persistent pain from gastritis, intermittent anorexia and paroxys-mal tachycardia. Charles Babbage was always a great comfort to her, not only for their shared mathematical interests but also as a friend helping in all manner of small services such as taking her dead parrot to the taxidermist. She died after a protracted illness, thought to be cancer, at East Horsley Towers.

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