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  • 1 technology base program

    Engineering: TBP

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > technology base program

  • 2 программа по развитию научно-технической базы

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > программа по развитию научно-технической базы

  • 3 программа разработки технической основы

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > программа разработки технической основы

  • 4 база данных

    1) Computers: data-base, data base, database
    2) Mathematics: data base
    4) Information technology: base
    5) Taxes: data bank
    7) Network technologies: DB
    8) Programming: (БД) database (совокупность данных, хранимых в соответствии со схемой данных, манипулирование которыми выполняют в соответствии с правилами средств моделирования данных, см. ГОСТ Р ИСО/МЭК ТО 10032-2007), (БД) DB
    9) Automation: data area
    10) SAP.tech. data basis

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > база данных

  • 5 СУБД

    1) General subject: DBMS
    3) Linguistics: data-base (program), database (program)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > СУБД

  • 6 óptico

    adj.
    optic, eye-related, optical.
    m.
    optician.
    * * *
    1 (nervio, ángulo) optic; (ilusión, instrumento, efecto) optical
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 optician
    * * *
    (f. - óptica)
    adj.
    * * *
    óptico, -a
    1.
    ADJ [instrumentos, fibra] optical; [nervio] optic
    2.
    SM / F optician
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo optical
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino optician
    * * *
    Ex. All the print in one book should be of the same kind, to obviate the need for optical adjustment.
    ----
    * accesorios ópticos = eyewear.
    * almacenamiento óptico = optical storage.
    * aparato óptico = optical device.
    * base de datos en disco óptico = optical disc database.
    * coincidencia óptica = optical coincidence.
    * de un modo óptico = optically.
    * disco de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage disc.
    * disco óptico = optical disc [optical disk].
    * disco óptico de ordenador = computer optical disc.
    * disco óptico digital = optical digital disc.
    * edición óptica = optical publishing.
    * efecto óptico = optical illusion.
    * fibra óptica = optic fibre.
    * ficha de coincidencia óptica = Batten card, optical coincidence card, Peek-a-boo card.
    * ilusión óptica = optical illusion.
    * información transmitida por fibra óptica = fibre optic-based information.
    * lápiz óptico = light pen, Plessey pen, telepen, barcode wand, data pen.
    * lector de discos ópticos = optical disc drive.
    * lector óptico = optical drive, optical reader, optical scanner.
    * lector óptico de caracteres = optical character reader.
    * lectura óptica = optical scanning.
    * medios de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage media.
    * mineralogía óptica = optical mineralogy.
    * nervio óptico = optic nerve.
    * OCR (reconocimiento óptico de caracteres) = OCR (optical character recognition).
    * óptica de fibra de vidrio = fibre optics.
    * productos ópticos = optical media, optical products.
    * Programa Piloto sobre Discos Opticos = Optical Disc Pilot Program.
    * Proyecto Nacional de Lectura Optica de Textos de Agricultura (NATDP) = National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project (NATDP).
    * rayo óptico = light ray.
    * red óptica = optical network.
    * representación óptica médica = medical imaging.
    * representación óptica por resonancia magnética = magnetic resonance imaging.
    * sistema de comunicación óptica = optical communication system.
    * sistema de discos ópticos = optical disc system.
    * sistema óptico = optical system.
    * sistema óptico de información = optical information system.
    * tecnología de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage technology.
    * tecnología de discos ópticos = optical disc technology.
    * tecnología de videodiscos ópticos = optical videodisc technology.
    * tecnología óptica = optical technology.
    * telescopio óptico = optical telescope.
    * videodisco óptico = optical videodisc.
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo optical
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino optician
    * * *

    Ex: All the print in one book should be of the same kind, to obviate the need for optical adjustment.

    * accesorios ópticos = eyewear.
    * almacenamiento óptico = optical storage.
    * aparato óptico = optical device.
    * base de datos en disco óptico = optical disc database.
    * coincidencia óptica = optical coincidence.
    * de un modo óptico = optically.
    * disco de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage disc.
    * disco óptico = optical disc [optical disk].
    * disco óptico de ordenador = computer optical disc.
    * disco óptico digital = optical digital disc.
    * edición óptica = optical publishing.
    * efecto óptico = optical illusion.
    * fibra óptica = optic fibre.
    * ficha de coincidencia óptica = Batten card, optical coincidence card, Peek-a-boo card.
    * ilusión óptica = optical illusion.
    * información transmitida por fibra óptica = fibre optic-based information.
    * lápiz óptico = light pen, Plessey pen, telepen, barcode wand, data pen.
    * lector de discos ópticos = optical disc drive.
    * lector óptico = optical drive, optical reader, optical scanner.
    * lector óptico de caracteres = optical character reader.
    * lectura óptica = optical scanning.
    * medios de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage media.
    * mineralogía óptica = optical mineralogy.
    * nervio óptico = optic nerve.
    * OCR (reconocimiento óptico de caracteres) = OCR (optical character recognition).
    * óptica de fibra de vidrio = fibre optics.
    * productos ópticos = optical media, optical products.
    * Programa Piloto sobre Discos Opticos = Optical Disc Pilot Program.
    * Proyecto Nacional de Lectura Optica de Textos de Agricultura (NATDP) = National Agricultural Text Digitizing Project (NATDP).
    * rayo óptico = light ray.
    * red óptica = optical network.
    * representación óptica médica = medical imaging.
    * representación óptica por resonancia magnética = magnetic resonance imaging.
    * sistema de comunicación óptica = optical communication system.
    * sistema de discos ópticos = optical disc system.
    * sistema óptico = optical system.
    * sistema óptico de información = optical information system.
    * tecnología de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage technology.
    * tecnología de discos ópticos = optical disc technology.
    * tecnología de videodiscos ópticos = optical videodisc technology.
    * tecnología óptica = optical technology.
    * telescopio óptico = optical telescope.
    * videodisco óptico = optical videodisc.

    * * *
    óptico1 -ca
    1 (del ojo) optical
    2 ( Fís, Ópt) optical
    óptico2 -ca
    masculine, feminine
    optician
    * * *

    óptico
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    optical
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    optician
    óptico,-a
    I adjetivo optical
    nervio óptico, optic nerve
    fibra óptica, optical fibre, fibre-optic
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino optician

    ' óptico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    disco
    - óptica
    - efecto
    - espejismo
    English:
    optic
    - optical
    - optician
    * * *
    óptico, -a
    ♦ adj
    optic
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] optician
    * * *
    I adj optical;
    nervio óptico optic nerve
    II m, óptica f optician
    * * *
    óptico, -ca adj
    : optical, optic
    óptico, -ca n
    : optician
    * * *
    óptico n (persona) optician

    Spanish-English dictionary > óptico

  • 7 cliente

    f. & m.
    customer, patron, client, costumier.
    * * *
    1 client, customer
    * * *
    (f. - clienta)
    noun
    client, customer
    * * *
    SMF [de tienda, bar, restaurante, banco] customer; [de empresa] customer, client; [de hotel] guest, customer

    cliente fijo, cliente habitual — regular customer

    * * *
    - ta masculino, femenino (de tienda, de restaurante) customer; (de empresa, de abogado) client, customer; ( de hotel) guest; ( en taxi) fare, customer

    cliente asiduo or habitual — regular customer (o client etc)

    * * *
    = client, customer, patron, visitor, browser, client, punter, hotel guest.
    Nota: De hotel.
    Ex. Regular monthly outputs can be supplied, or other arrangements can be made to suit the client.
    Ex. New data base items are sent to customers on magnetic tape.
    Ex. The level of specificity that is desirable in any index is a function of the collection being indexed, its use and its patrons.
    Ex. In all 20 per cent of visitors went out of the bookshop with a book they had intended to buy, 15 per cent went out with a book they had not intended to buy and 67 went out with both intended and unintended purchases.
    Ex. In the Internet, a browser is a client program that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources.
    Ex. In the Internet, a client is a software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer, often across a great distance.
    Ex. It could mean simply the ability of the punter to move between pieces of information in much the same way as he or she uses the remote controller to change channels on analogue television.
    Ex. Hotel guests not only steal towels and toiletries, but some of them even take home unusual objects like sex toys, stuffed animals and toilet seats.
    ----
    * arquitectura cliente-servidor = client-server architecture.
    * atención al cliente = customer care, customer support.
    * atención personal al cliente = personal selling.
    * centrado en el cliente = customer-centred [customer-centered, USA].
    * cliente de hotel = hotel guest.
    * cliente fijo = loyalty of custom.
    * cliente habitual = habitué.
    * cliente leal = loyal customer.
    * cliente satisfecho = satisfied customer.
    * cliente-servidor = client-server.
    * cliente web = WWW browser, Web browser.
    * departamento de atención al cliente = customer service department.
    * el cliente siempre tiene la razón = the customer is always right.
    * facturar a los clientes = bill + clients.
    * lealtad del cliente = customer loyalty.
    * para atraer al cliente = window dressing.
    * programa cliente = browser.
    * ser cliente de una tienda = patronise + shop.
    * servicio de atención al cliente = customer service, service department.
    * servicio de atención al cliente en su propio automóvil = drive-through (drive-thru).
    * servicio de atención al cliente por teléfono = call centre.
    * tecnología cliente-servidor = client-server technology.
    * * *
    - ta masculino, femenino (de tienda, de restaurante) customer; (de empresa, de abogado) client, customer; ( de hotel) guest; ( en taxi) fare, customer

    cliente asiduo or habitual — regular customer (o client etc)

    * * *
    = client, customer, patron, visitor, browser, client, punter, hotel guest.
    Nota: De hotel.

    Ex: Regular monthly outputs can be supplied, or other arrangements can be made to suit the client.

    Ex: New data base items are sent to customers on magnetic tape.
    Ex: The level of specificity that is desirable in any index is a function of the collection being indexed, its use and its patrons.
    Ex: In all 20 per cent of visitors went out of the bookshop with a book they had intended to buy, 15 per cent went out with a book they had not intended to buy and 67 went out with both intended and unintended purchases.
    Ex: In the Internet, a browser is a client program that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources.
    Ex: In the Internet, a client is a software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer, often across a great distance.
    Ex: It could mean simply the ability of the punter to move between pieces of information in much the same way as he or she uses the remote controller to change channels on analogue television.
    Ex: Hotel guests not only steal towels and toiletries, but some of them even take home unusual objects like sex toys, stuffed animals and toilet seats.
    * arquitectura cliente-servidor = client-server architecture.
    * atención al cliente = customer care, customer support.
    * atención personal al cliente = personal selling.
    * centrado en el cliente = customer-centred [customer-centered, USA].
    * cliente de hotel = hotel guest.
    * cliente fijo = loyalty of custom.
    * cliente habitual = habitué.
    * cliente leal = loyal customer.
    * cliente satisfecho = satisfied customer.
    * cliente-servidor = client-server.
    * cliente web = WWW browser, Web browser.
    * departamento de atención al cliente = customer service department.
    * el cliente siempre tiene la razón = the customer is always right.
    * facturar a los clientes = bill + clients.
    * lealtad del cliente = customer loyalty.
    * para atraer al cliente = window dressing.
    * programa cliente = browser.
    * ser cliente de una tienda = patronise + shop.
    * servicio de atención al cliente = customer service, service department.
    * servicio de atención al cliente en su propio automóvil = drive-through (drive-thru).
    * servicio de atención al cliente por teléfono = call centre.
    * tecnología cliente-servidor = client-server technology.

    * * *
    cliente -ta
    masculine, feminine
    1 (de una tienda) customer; (de una empresa) client, customer; (de un restaurante) customer, patron; (de un hotel) guest; (de un abogado, arquitecto) client; (en un taxi) fare, customer
    cliente asiduo or habitual regular customer ( o client etc)
    2
    cliente masculine ( Inf) client
    * * *

     

    cliente
    ◊ -ta sustantivo masculino, femenino (de tienda, restaurante) customer;


    (de empresa, abogado) client;
    ( de hotel) guest;
    ( en taxi) fare, customer;
    ◊ cliente habitual regular customer (o client etc)

    cliente mf client, customer

    ' cliente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abogada
    - abogado
    - alquilar
    - asidua
    - asiduo
    - dirigirse
    - habitual
    - huésped
    - huéspeda
    - parroquiana
    - parroquiano
    - atender
    - casero
    - fijo
    - servicio
    English:
    attend to
    - big
    - caller
    - client
    - customer
    - guest
    - major
    - patron
    - patronize
    - prospective
    - punter
    - regular
    - serve
    - service
    - soliciting
    - support
    - visitor
    - with
    - custom
    - customize
    - loyalty
    - now
    - please
    - prospect
    * * *
    cliente, -a
    ♦ nm,f
    [de tienda, garaje, bar] customer; [de banco, abogado] client; [de hotel] guest;
    perder/ganar un cliente to lose/gain a customer/client;
    un cliente habitual a regular customer/client/guest;
    el cliente siempre tiene razón the customer is always right
    ♦ nm
    Informát client
    * * *
    m/f de tienda customer; de empresa client
    * * *
    cliente, -ta n
    : customer, client
    * * *
    1. (en tienda, etc) customer

    Spanish-English dictionary > cliente

  • 8 línea

    f.
    1 line, tracing.
    2 trajectory.
    3 product line, line of production.
    * * *
    1 (gen) line
    2 (tipo) figure
    \
    de primera línea first-class, first-rate
    guardar la línea to keep one's figure
    línea aérea airline
    línea continua solid line, unbroken line
    línea de meta finishing line
    línea de puntos dotted line
    línea de salida starting line
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    1. SF
    1) (=raya) line

    en línea — (=alineado) in (a) line, in a row

    tirar una línea — (Arte) to draw a line

    en toda la línea — [ganar, vencer] outright; [derrotar] totally

    línea de base — (Agrimensura) base-line

    línea de flotación — (Náut) water line

    línea de montaje — assembly line, production line

    línea discontinua — (Aut) broken line

    2) [en un escrito] line
    3) (Com) (=género, gama) line

    es único en su línea — it is unique in its line, it is the only one of its kind

    de primera línea — first-rate, top-ranking

    4) (Elec) line, cable
    5) (Telec) line

    han cortado la línea — I've o we've been cut off

    línea de socorro — helpline, telephone helpline

    línea (telefónica) de ayuda — helpline, telephone helpline

    6) (Mil) line

    de línea — regular, front-line

    línea de batalla — line of battle, battle line

    7) (Aer, Ferro)

    autobús de línea — service bus, regular bus

    línea férrea — railway, railroad (EEUU)

    8) (Dep) line

    línea de banda — sideline, touchline

    línea de meta — [en fútbol] goal line; [en carrera] finishing line

    línea de saque — baseline, service line

    línea lateral — sideline, touchline

    9) (Inform)

    línea de estado, línea de situación — status line

    10) (=talle) figure

    guardar o conservar la línea — to keep one's figure (trim)

    11) (=moda)
    12) [de pensamiento, acción] line

    explicar algo a grandes líneas o en sus líneas generales — to set sth out in broad outline, give the broad outline of sth

    línea dura — (Pol) hard line

    13) [genealógica] line

    línea sucesoria — line of succession, order of succession

    2.
    SMF (Dep) linesman, assistant referee
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( raya) line
    b) (Art) (dibujo, trazo) line
    c) ( de cocaína) (fam) line (colloq)
    2) (Dep)
    a) ( en fútbol) line

    línea de gol or de fondo — goal line

    b) ( en béisbol) drive
    3)
    a) ( renglón) line

    leer entre líneas — to read between the lines

    b) líneas femenino plural ( carta breve)
    4) (fila, alineación) line

    de primera línea — < tecnología> state-of-the-art; < producto> top-quality, high-class; <actor/jugador> first-rate

    en primera línea: sigue en primera línea — she/he still ranks among the best

    5)
    a) (Transp)

    no hay servicio en la línea 5 — ( de autobuses) there are no buses operating on the number 5 bus route; ( de metro) there is no service on line 5

    b) (Elec, Telec) line

    no hay línea or no me da línea — the phone o the line is dead

    c) ( en genealogía) line

    por línea materna — on his (o her etc) mother's side

    d) (Arg) ( de pescar) line
    6) ( sobre un tema) line

    en la línea de... — along the lines of...

    7)
    a) (estilo, diseño)
    b) (gama, colección) line
    8) ( figura)

    mantener/cuidar la línea — to keep/watch one's figure

    * * *
    = line, line-up, trajectory.
    Ex. Longer titles since each title can occupy only one line will be truncated and only brief source references are included.
    Ex. The title of the article is 'The information market: a line-up of competitors'.
    Ex. In hindsight, it is easy to see a trajectory of inevitability that made MARC, the ISBDs, and AACR2 seem more the result of historical forces than the often faltering and separate steps they were in truth.
    ----
    * acceso en línea = online access.
    * acceso mediante línea telefónica = dial-access.
    * adquisición en línea = online acquisition.
    * aprendizaje en línea = online learning.
    * baile en línea = line dance.
    * base de datos en línea = online database.
    * búsqueda en línea = online searching, online search.
    * cabeza de línea = railhead.
    * catálogo en línea = online catalogue.
    * comercio en línea = online business.
    * compra en línea = online shopping.
    * conexión a través de línea dedicada = leased line connection.
    * continuando con la línea de = in the vein of.
    * conversación en línea = online chat.
    * cruzar la línea = cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea divisoria = cross + the boundary, cross + the great divide, cross + the dividing line, cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea que separa = cross over + the line separating.
    * cruzar las líneas divisorias que separan + Nombre = cross + Adjetivo + lines.
    * de línea blanda = soft-line.
    * de línea dura = hard-line.
    * de líneas rectas = straight-line.
    * de primera línea = first-line.
    * describir en líneas generales = outline.
    * de última línea = streamlined.
    * distribuidor de información en línea = host, online host.
    * empleado de línea aérea = airline official.
    * en el momento de escribir estas líneas = at the time of writing.
    * en la línea de = along the lines.
    * en la línea de fuego = in the hot seat, in the front line, on the front line.
    * en la misma línea de = in the vein of.
    * en la misma línea que = in line with.
    * en línea = online [on-line], online-based, inline [in-line].
    * en línea con = in line with.
    * en línea recta = as the crow flies.
    * en líneas generales = broadly speaking, generally, loosely, on the whole, in outline, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide.
    * en línea sucesoria = in line of descent.
    * en + Posesivo + línea de tiro = in + Posesivo + sights.
    * en primera línea = in the front line, first-line, on the front line.
    * enseñanza en línea = online education.
    * estado del ordenador en fuera de línea = offlineness.
    * estado del ordenador en línea = onlineness.
    * estar accesible en línea = go + online.
    * facsímil de línea = line-block facsimile.
    * foro de debate en línea = online forum.
    * fuera de línea = offline [off-line].
    * gráfica de líneas = line graph.
    * grosor de línea = line-width.
    * impresión en línea = online print.
    * impresión fuera de línea = offline print.
    * impresora de líneas = line printer.
    * información en línea = online information.
    * juez de línea = linesman, assistant referee.
    * línea ADSL (Línea de Subscripción Digital Asimétrica) = ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
    * línea aérea = airline.
    * línea a línea = line-by-line.
    * línea arbolada, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea argumental = line of discussion, line of direction.
    * línea base = baseline [base line].
    * línea con marcas entrecortadas = dashed line.
    * línea curva = curved line.
    * línea de acción = course of action.
    * línea de actuación = course of action, line of attack, operational line, action line, prong, line of direction.
    * línea de agua, la = water line, the.
    * línea de alta tensión = power line.
    * línea de argumentación = line of discussion.
    * línea de búsqueda = query line.
    * línea de comunicación = line of communication.
    * línea de comunicaciones = communications line.
    * línea de demarcación = demarcation line.
    * línea dedicada = dedicated line, leased line.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de falla = fault line.
    * línea defensiva = line of defence, defence line.
    * línea de ferrocarril = rail line, rail link, railway line, railroad(s), railway(s).
    * línea de flotación, la = water line, the.
    * línea de fuego = firing line, front-line, line of fire.
    * línea de investigación = line of enquiry, line of research, line of enquiry, research front, avenue (for/of) research, research avenue, avenue of investigation, research line.
    * línea de investigación futura = avenue (for/of) future research.
    * línea de investigación posible = avenue for further research.
    * línea del horizonte = skyline.
    * línea de los árboles, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea de mando = line of authority, line of command.
    * línea de medio campo = halfway line.
    * línea de meta = finish line, finishing line.
    * línea de montaje de coches = car assembly line.
    * línea de números = number line.
    * línea de pensamiento = line of thought.
    * línea de productos = product line.
    * línea de puntos = dotted line.
    * línea de seguridad = lifeline.
    * línea de trabajo = line of work.
    * línea de transmisión = line transmission.
    * línea de vegetación arbórea, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de vegetación, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de ventas = line.
    * línea de vida = lifeline.
    * línea directa = hotline [hot-line].
    * línea divisoria = cut-off point, demarcation, divide, dividing line, borderline, cut off [cutoff].
    * linea divisoria, la = great divide, the.
    * línea fija = fixed line.
    * línea horizontal = flat.
    * línea indicativa de la evolución de una gráfica = trend line [trend-line].
    * línea informativa = caption.
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * línea numérica = number line.
    * línea oblicua (/) = oblique stroke (/), oblique line (/), oblique.
    * línea recta = straight line.
    * líneas de sombras = hachures.
    * líneas de transmisión por onda luminosa = light-wave transmission lines.
    * línea separatoria = dividing line.
    * línea telefónica = phone line, telephone line.
    * línea telefónica dedicada = leased telephone line, leased phone line.
    * listado de impresora de líneas = line printer output.
    * mantenerse en línea con = keep in + line with.
    * modalidad en línea = online mode.
    * módulo de catálogo de acceso público en línea = online public access catalogue module.
    * negocio en línea = online business.
    * nueva línea = linefeed.
    * OCLC (Centro Bibliotecario en Línea) = OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
    * patinador en línea = inline skater.
    * patinaje en línea = inline skating, roller-blading.
    * persona que se cuida la línea = weight watcher.
    * por línea telefónica = over the telephone line.
    * presentación en línea = online display.
    * primera línea = front-line [front line], forefront.
    * primera línea de defensa = first line of defence.
    * recuperación en línea = online retrieval.
    * recurso en línea = online resource.
    * red en línea = online network.
    * revista electrónica en línea = online journal.
    * seguir líneas diferentes = be on different lines.
    * Servicio de Consulta en Línea de BLAISE = BLAISE-LINE.
    * servicio de información en línea = online information service.
    * servicio en línea = online service.
    * símbolo de avance de línea = line feed character.
    * sistema en línea = online system.
    * suscripción en línea = online subscription.
    * teléfono de línea directa = direct-dial telephone.
    * terminal en línea = online terminal.
    * tiempo de conexión en línea = online time.
    * tienda en línea = online store.
    * título por línea = title-a-line.
    * tres en línea = noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe.
    * usuario conectado en línea = online user.
    * vehículo con ruedas en línea = cycle.
    * vehículo de dos ruedas en línea = two-wheeler.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( raya) line
    b) (Art) (dibujo, trazo) line
    c) ( de cocaína) (fam) line (colloq)
    2) (Dep)
    a) ( en fútbol) line

    línea de gol or de fondo — goal line

    b) ( en béisbol) drive
    3)
    a) ( renglón) line

    leer entre líneas — to read between the lines

    b) líneas femenino plural ( carta breve)
    4) (fila, alineación) line

    de primera línea — < tecnología> state-of-the-art; < producto> top-quality, high-class; <actor/jugador> first-rate

    en primera línea: sigue en primera línea — she/he still ranks among the best

    5)
    a) (Transp)

    no hay servicio en la línea 5 — ( de autobuses) there are no buses operating on the number 5 bus route; ( de metro) there is no service on line 5

    b) (Elec, Telec) line

    no hay línea or no me da línea — the phone o the line is dead

    c) ( en genealogía) line

    por línea materna — on his (o her etc) mother's side

    d) (Arg) ( de pescar) line
    6) ( sobre un tema) line

    en la línea de... — along the lines of...

    7)
    a) (estilo, diseño)
    b) (gama, colección) line
    8) ( figura)

    mantener/cuidar la línea — to keep/watch one's figure

    * * *
    = line, line-up, trajectory.

    Ex: Longer titles since each title can occupy only one line will be truncated and only brief source references are included.

    Ex: The title of the article is 'The information market: a line-up of competitors'.
    Ex: In hindsight, it is easy to see a trajectory of inevitability that made MARC, the ISBDs, and AACR2 seem more the result of historical forces than the often faltering and separate steps they were in truth.
    * acceso en línea = online access.
    * acceso mediante línea telefónica = dial-access.
    * adquisición en línea = online acquisition.
    * aprendizaje en línea = online learning.
    * baile en línea = line dance.
    * base de datos en línea = online database.
    * búsqueda en línea = online searching, online search.
    * cabeza de línea = railhead.
    * catálogo en línea = online catalogue.
    * comercio en línea = online business.
    * compra en línea = online shopping.
    * conexión a través de línea dedicada = leased line connection.
    * continuando con la línea de = in the vein of.
    * conversación en línea = online chat.
    * cruzar la línea = cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea divisoria = cross + the boundary, cross + the great divide, cross + the dividing line, cross + the line.
    * cruzar la línea que separa = cross over + the line separating.
    * cruzar las líneas divisorias que separan + Nombre = cross + Adjetivo + lines.
    * de línea blanda = soft-line.
    * de línea dura = hard-line.
    * de líneas rectas = straight-line.
    * de primera línea = first-line.
    * describir en líneas generales = outline.
    * de última línea = streamlined.
    * distribuidor de información en línea = host, online host.
    * empleado de línea aérea = airline official.
    * en el momento de escribir estas líneas = at the time of writing.
    * en la línea de = along the lines.
    * en la línea de fuego = in the hot seat, in the front line, on the front line.
    * en la misma línea de = in the vein of.
    * en la misma línea que = in line with.
    * en línea = online [on-line], online-based, inline [in-line].
    * en línea con = in line with.
    * en línea recta = as the crow flies.
    * en líneas generales = broadly speaking, generally, loosely, on the whole, in outline, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide.
    * en línea sucesoria = in line of descent.
    * en + Posesivo + línea de tiro = in + Posesivo + sights.
    * en primera línea = in the front line, first-line, on the front line.
    * enseñanza en línea = online education.
    * estado del ordenador en fuera de línea = offlineness.
    * estado del ordenador en línea = onlineness.
    * estar accesible en línea = go + online.
    * facsímil de línea = line-block facsimile.
    * foro de debate en línea = online forum.
    * fuera de línea = offline [off-line].
    * gráfica de líneas = line graph.
    * grosor de línea = line-width.
    * impresión en línea = online print.
    * impresión fuera de línea = offline print.
    * impresora de líneas = line printer.
    * información en línea = online information.
    * juez de línea = linesman, assistant referee.
    * línea ADSL (Línea de Subscripción Digital Asimétrica) = ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
    * línea aérea = airline.
    * línea a línea = line-by-line.
    * línea arbolada, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea argumental = line of discussion, line of direction.
    * línea base = baseline [base line].
    * línea con marcas entrecortadas = dashed line.
    * línea curva = curved line.
    * línea de acción = course of action.
    * línea de actuación = course of action, line of attack, operational line, action line, prong, line of direction.
    * línea de agua, la = water line, the.
    * línea de alta tensión = power line.
    * línea de argumentación = line of discussion.
    * línea de búsqueda = query line.
    * línea de comunicación = line of communication.
    * línea de comunicaciones = communications line.
    * línea de demarcación = demarcation line.
    * línea dedicada = dedicated line, leased line.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * línea de falla = fault line.
    * línea defensiva = line of defence, defence line.
    * línea de ferrocarril = rail line, rail link, railway line, railroad(s), railway(s).
    * línea de flotación, la = water line, the.
    * línea de fuego = firing line, front-line, line of fire.
    * línea de investigación = line of enquiry, line of research, line of enquiry, research front, avenue (for/of) research, research avenue, avenue of investigation, research line.
    * línea de investigación futura = avenue (for/of) future research.
    * línea de investigación posible = avenue for further research.
    * línea del horizonte = skyline.
    * línea de los árboles, la = timberline, the, tree line, the.
    * línea de mando = line of authority, line of command.
    * línea de medio campo = halfway line.
    * línea de meta = finish line, finishing line.
    * línea de montaje de coches = car assembly line.
    * línea de números = number line.
    * línea de pensamiento = line of thought.
    * línea de productos = product line.
    * línea de puntos = dotted line.
    * línea de seguridad = lifeline.
    * línea de trabajo = line of work.
    * línea de transmisión = line transmission.
    * línea de vegetación arbórea, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de vegetación, la = tree line, the, timberline, the.
    * línea de ventas = line.
    * línea de vida = lifeline.
    * línea directa = hotline [hot-line].
    * línea divisoria = cut-off point, demarcation, divide, dividing line, borderline, cut off [cutoff].
    * linea divisoria, la = great divide, the.
    * línea fija = fixed line.
    * línea horizontal = flat.
    * línea indicativa de la evolución de una gráfica = trend line [trend-line].
    * línea informativa = caption.
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * línea numérica = number line.
    * línea oblicua (/) = oblique stroke (/), oblique line (/), oblique.
    * línea recta = straight line.
    * líneas de sombras = hachures.
    * líneas de transmisión por onda luminosa = light-wave transmission lines.
    * línea separatoria = dividing line.
    * línea telefónica = phone line, telephone line.
    * línea telefónica dedicada = leased telephone line, leased phone line.
    * listado de impresora de líneas = line printer output.
    * mantenerse en línea con = keep in + line with.
    * modalidad en línea = online mode.
    * módulo de catálogo de acceso público en línea = online public access catalogue module.
    * negocio en línea = online business.
    * nueva línea = linefeed.
    * OCLC (Centro Bibliotecario en Línea) = OCLC (Online Computer Library Center).
    * patinador en línea = inline skater.
    * patinaje en línea = inline skating, roller-blading.
    * persona que se cuida la línea = weight watcher.
    * por línea telefónica = over the telephone line.
    * presentación en línea = online display.
    * primera línea = front-line [front line], forefront.
    * primera línea de defensa = first line of defence.
    * recuperación en línea = online retrieval.
    * recurso en línea = online resource.
    * red en línea = online network.
    * revista electrónica en línea = online journal.
    * seguir líneas diferentes = be on different lines.
    * Servicio de Consulta en Línea de BLAISE = BLAISE-LINE.
    * servicio de información en línea = online information service.
    * servicio en línea = online service.
    * símbolo de avance de línea = line feed character.
    * sistema en línea = online system.
    * suscripción en línea = online subscription.
    * teléfono de línea directa = direct-dial telephone.
    * terminal en línea = online terminal.
    * tiempo de conexión en línea = online time.
    * tienda en línea = online store.
    * título por línea = title-a-line.
    * tres en línea = noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe.
    * usuario conectado en línea = online user.
    * vehículo con ruedas en línea = cycle.
    * vehículo de dos ruedas en línea = two-wheeler.

    * * *
    A
    1 (raya) line
    una línea curva/recta/quebrada a curved/straight/broken line
    línea divisoria dividing line
    la línea del horizonte the line of the horizon, the horizon
    cortar por la línea de puntos cut along the dotted line
    2 ( Art) (dibujo, trazo) line
    3 (de cocaína) ( fam); line ( colloq)
    Compuestos:
    continuous o unbroken line
    Plimsoll line, load line
    demarcation line
    water line
    life line
    heart line
    police line
    time line
    equinoctial circle o line
    international date line
    meridian
    B ( Dep)
    línea de gol or de fondo goal line
    Compuestos:
    sideline, touchline
    line of scrimmage
    (en el tenis) baseline; (en el baloncesto) end line
    line of scrimmage
    finishing line, wire ( AmE)
    (en rugby) twenty-two meter line
    (en una carrera) finishing line, wire ( AmE); (en fútbol) goal line
    starting line
    C
    1 (renglón) line
    te saltaste una línea you missed out o skipped a line
    leer entre líneas to read between the lines
    (carta breve): les mandó unas líneas para decir que estaba bien she dropped them a few lines to say that she was well
    D (fila, alineación) line
    las líneas enemigas the enemy lines
    de primera línea ‹tecnología› state-of-the-art;
    ‹producto› top-quality, high-class; ‹actor/jugador› first-rate
    en primera línea: el alero demostró que sigue en primera línea the winger showed that he still ranks among the best o he is still a top-class player
    Compuestos:
    battle line, line of battle
    forward line
    E
    1 ( Transp):
    no hay línea directa, tiene que hacer transbordo en Río there is no direct service, you have to change in Rio
    final de la línea end of the line
    no hay servicio en la línea 5 (de autobuses) the number 5 (bus) is not running, there are no buses operating o there is no service on the number 5 bus route; (de metro) there is no service on line 5
    los barcos que cubren la línea Cádiz-Las Palmas the ships which cover the Cadiz-Las Palmas route o run
    2 ( Elec, Telec) line
    línea telefónica/telegráfica telephone/telegraph line
    no hay líneaor no me da línea the phone o the line is dead
    la línea está ocupada the line is busy o ( BrE) engaged
    Compuestos:
    ( Tel) party line
    ( Tel) land line
    por línea materna on his ( o her etc) mother's side
    4 ( Arg) (de pescar) line
    Compuestos:
    airline
    assembly line
    railroad track ( AmE), railway line ( BrE)
    F
    (sobre un tema): seguir la línea del partido to follow the party line
    los partidarios de una línea más radical those in favor of taking a more radical line
    las principales líneas de su programa político the main points of their political program
    en la línea de … along the lines of …
    el proyecto, en líneas generales, consiste en … broadly speaking o broadly, the project consists of …
    en líneas generales las dos versiones coinciden broadly speaking, the two versions coincide, on the whole o by and large the two versions coincide
    ser de una sola línea ( Chi); to be straight (as a die) ( colloq)
    G
    1
    (estilo, diseño): un coche de líneas aerodinámicas a streamlined car, an aerodynamically designed car
    le gusta la ropa de línea clásica she likes the classical look
    2 (gama, colección) line
    nuestra nueva línea de productos de belleza our new line o range of beauty products
    Compuesto:
    línea blanca/marrón
    white/brown goods (pl)
    H
    (figura): mantener/cuidar la línea to keep/watch one's figure
    * * *

     

    línea sustantivo femenino
    1 ( en general) line;

    escribirle unas líneas a algn to drop sb a line;
    seguir la línea del partido to follow the party line;
    en líneas generales broadly speaking;
    por línea materna on his (o her etc) mother's side;
    línea de montaje assembly line;
    línea de gol goal line;
    línea de llegada finishing line, wire (AmE);
    línea de salida starting line;
    de primera línea ‹ tecnología› state-of-the-art;

    ‹ producto› top-quality, high-class;
    ‹actor/jugador› first-rate;
    ◊ leer entre líneas to read between the lines

    2 (Transp, Tele) line;

    final de la línea end of the line;
    no hay línea directa a Córdoba there is no direct service to Cordoba;
    intenté llamarte pero no había línea I tried to ring you but the phone o the line was dead;
    la línea está ocupada the line is busy
    3
    a) (gama, colección) line, range;

    ◊ nuestra nueva línea de cosméticos our new line o range of cosmetics

    b) ( estilo):


    4 ( figura):

    línea sustantivo femenino
    1 Geom line
    2 (trayecto de autobús) route
    (de ferrocarril, metro) line
    Av línea aérea, airline
    3 Inform en línea, on-line
    4 (figura, cuerpo esbelto) figure
    mantener la línea, to keep one's figure
    (diseño) design
    5 Com (de productos) line
    6 (fila) line
    poner en línea, to line up
    7 (cable) line
    línea telegráfica, telegraph line
    ♦ Locuciones: en líneas generales, roughly speaking
    entre líneas, between the lines
    Tel línea caliente, hotline
    ' línea' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aerodinámica
    - aerodinámico
    - alinear
    - banda
    - continua
    - continuo
    - derecha
    - derecho
    - estacionamiento
    - extensión
    - flotación
    - fuego
    - horizonte
    - intervenir
    - juez
    - punto
    - salida
    - sucesión
    - trazar
    - trazo
    - verso
    - autobús
    - comer
    - conservar
    - controlar
    - curva
    - delantero
    - descendente
    - discontinuo
    - ecuador
    - ininterrumpido
    - lateral
    - oblicuo
    - ocupado
    - paralela
    - patín
    - prolongar
    - quebrado
    - raya
    - recto
    - renglón
    - saltar
    - separar
    - tenue
    - transversal
    - vertical
    English:
    airline
    - borderline
    - bus route
    - busline
    - commercial pilot
    - credit line
    - crow
    - cut off
    - dead
    - describe
    - draw
    - editorial
    - electrify
    - extend
    - faint
    - file
    - finishing line
    - fire
    - firing line
    - frill
    - hard line
    - length
    - line
    - name
    - oblique
    - overbook
    - party line
    - plot
    - product line
    - range
    - rank
    - roller blades
    - rollerblade
    - route
    - sideline
    - skyline
    - starting line
    - straight
    - touchline
    - vein
    - waistline
    - waterline
    - watershed
    - winning post
    - wiretapping
    - air
    - carrier
    - demarcation
    - directly
    - dividing line
    * * *
    línea nf
    1. [raya, trazo, renglón, límite] line;
    una línea recta a straight line;
    una línea quebrada a crooked line;
    la línea del cielo the skyline;
    ir en línea recta to go in a straight line;
    leerle a alguien las líneas de la mano to read (the lines on) sb's hand;
    estar en línea to be in (a) line;
    poner/ponerse en línea to line up;
    estacionar en línea to park end-to-end;
    escribir o [m5] mandar unas líneas a alguien to drop sb a line;
    leer entre líneas to read between the lines
    línea continua [en carretera] solid white line; Com línea de crédito credit limit; Com línea de descubierto overdraft limit;
    línea discontinua [en carretera] broken white line;
    línea divisoria dividing line;
    Mil línea de fuego firing line;
    línea de mira line of fire;
    línea punteada dotted line;
    línea de puntos dotted line;
    línea de tiro line of fire
    2. [ruta] line;
    han añadido varias paradas a la línea 30 the number 30 bus has several new stops;
    la línea circular del metro the Br underground o US subway circle line
    línea férrea railway (line), US railroad track;
    línea de ferrocarril railway (line), US railroad track
    3. [compañía aérea]
    una línea de vuelos charter a charter airline
    línea aérea airline
    4. [de telecomunicaciones] line;
    cortar la línea (telefónica) to cut off the phone;
    dar línea a alguien to put in a line for sb;
    no hay o [m5] no tenemos línea the line's dead
    línea arrendada leased line; Fam línea caliente [erótica] chat line, telephone sex line; [de atención al cliente] hot line;
    línea directa direct line;
    Fig
    tiene línea directa con el presidente she has a direct line to the president's office;
    línea erótica telephone sex line;
    línea exterior outside line;
    línea privada private line;
    Informát línea RDSI ISDN line; RP líneas rotativas [centralita] switchboard
    5. [en deportes] line;
    la línea defensiva/delantera the back/front line, the defence/attack;
    la línea medular the midfield
    línea de banda sideline, touchline;
    línea de fondo [en fútbol] goal line [at end of field];
    [en baloncesto] end line;
    línea de gol goal line [between goalposts];
    línea de llegada finishing line;
    línea de marca [en rugby] try o goal line;
    línea de medio campo halfway line;
    línea de meta [en fútbol] goal line;
    [en carreras] finishing line;
    línea de salida starting line;
    línea de saque baseline, service line;
    línea de servicio service line;
    línea de seis veinticinco [en baloncesto] three-point line;
    línea de tiros libres [en baloncesto] free throw line
    6. [en comercio] line;
    una nueva línea de productos a new line of products
    línea blanca white goods;
    línea marrón brown goods
    7. [silueta] [de persona] figure;
    guardar/mantener la línea to watch/keep one's figure
    8. [contorno]
    9. [estilo, tendencia] style;
    la línea del partido the party line;
    la línea dura del sindicato the union's hard line;
    de línea clásica classical;
    eso está muy en su línea that's just his style;
    seguir la línea de alguien to follow sb's style
    línea de conducta course of action;
    línea de investigación line of inquiry
    10. [categoría] class, category;
    de primera línea [actor, pintor, producto] first-rate;
    [marca, empresa] top
    11. [de parentesco] line;
    está emparentada con ella por línea materna she's related to her on her mother's side
    12. Informát line;
    en línea on-line;
    fuera de línea off-line
    línea de base baseline;
    línea de comando command line
    13. [en el bingo] line;
    cantar línea to call a line;
    ¡línea! line!
    14. Fam [de cocaína] line
    15. Comp
    en líneas generales in broad terms;
    fueron derrotados en toda la línea they were soundly defeated
    * * *
    f line;
    mantener la línea watch one’s figure;
    de primera línea fig first-rate;
    tecnología de primera línea state-of-the art technology;
    perdieron en toda la línea they were soundly beaten;
    entre líneas fig between the lines;
    dos o
    cuatro líneas a alguien drop s.o. a line;
    la línea se ha cortado TELEC the line’s gone dead;
    no hay línea TELEC the line’s dead
    * * *
    línea nf
    1) : line
    línea divisoria: dividing line
    línea de banda: sideline
    2) : line, course, position
    línea de conducta: course of action
    en líneas generales: in general terms, along general lines
    3) : line, service
    línea aérea: airline
    línea telefónica: telephone line
    * * *
    línea n line
    cuidar la línea / mantener la línea to watch your weight

    Spanish-English dictionary > línea

  • 9 disco

    adj.
    disco.
    f.
    m.
    1 disk (anatomy, Astron & Geom).
    disco solar the sun
    2 record.
    disco compacto compact disk
    disco de éxito hit (record)
    disco de larga duración LP, long-playing record
    3 (traffic) light.
    4 discus (sport).
    5 disk (computing).
    disco de arranque/del sistema startup/system disk
    disco duro/flexible hard/floppy disk
    disco magnético magnetic disk
    disco óptico optical disk
    disco removible/rígido removable/hard disk
    disco virtual virtual disk
    6 dial.
    7 disco music, disco.
    8 hard disk, harddisk, disc, disk.
    9 dish.
    * * *
    1 disc
    2 DEPORTE discus
    3 (de música) record
    \
    disco duro hard disk
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) disc, disk
    •
    - disco sencillo
    * * *
    I
    SM
    1) (Mús) record

    siempre está con el mismo disco, no cambia de disco — * he's like a cracked record *

    2) (Inform) disk

    disco de arranque — startup disk, boot disk

    disco flexible, disco floppy — floppy disk

    3) (Dep) discus
    4) (=señal) (Ferro) signal
    5)

    disco de freno — (Aut) brake disc

    6) (Telec) dial
    7)
    II
    * SF (=discoteca) disco
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) (Audio) record, disc (colloq)

    parecer un disco rayado — (fam) to be like a worn-out gramophone record (colloq)

    b) (Inf) disk
    2)
    a) (Dep) discus
    b) (Med) disk*
    c) (Auto, Mec)

    frenos de disco — disk* brakes

    d) ( del teléfono) dial
    3)
    a) ( señal de tráfico) (road) sign
    b) ( semáforo) (Ferr) signal; (Auto) traffic light
    II
    femenino (fam) ( discoteca) disco
    * * *
    = disc [disk], diskette, gramophone record, record, sound disc, phonodisc, puck, platter.
    Ex. Chapter 6 covers discs, tapes, piano rolls and sound recordings on film.
    Ex. The message asks you to confirm that you want to delete the 'current record' from the diskette.
    Ex. The majority of this schedule is devoted to various 'physical forms': globes and relief maps, gramophone records, tapes, etc.
    Ex. For example, the child doing a project about birds will require books to give him background information, a record or cassette to let him hear a bird-song, and a film to help him to appreciate bird flight.
    Ex. The library may have music scores, books on music, sound discs and sound tapes, to mention but a few of the possible media.
    Ex. For instance, a change has been introduced from phonodisc and phonotape to sound recording, a term more easily understood by the public.
    Ex. But goal-scorers don't give up the puck that easily -- especially in the offensive zone.
    Ex. Hard drives typically have several platters which are mounted on the same spindle.
    ----
    * basado en discos ópticos = optical disc based.
    * base de datos en disco óptico = optical disc database.
    * cabeza lectora de disco = disc reading head.
    * cola de discos = disc queue.
    * colección de discos = record collection.
    * coleccionista de discos = discologist.
    * controladora de disco duro = hard disc controller board.
    * deterioro de los discos = disc rot.
    * directorio del disco = diskette directory.
    * disco actualizado = current disc.
    * disco analógico = analog disc.
    * disco CD-ROM = CD-ROM disc.
    * disco compacto (CD) = compact disc (CD).
    * disco con información = data diskette, data disk.
    * disco de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage disc.
    * disco de archivo = archival disc.
    * disco de cera = wax disc.
    * disco de demostración = demonstration disc.
    * disco de larga duración = long-play record.
    * disco de larga duración (LP) = LP (long play record).
    * disco de ordenador = computer disc.
    * disco de salida = output diskette.
    * disco de sectores blandos = soft sectored disc.
    * disco de stop = stop sign.
    * disco de vinilo = vinyl record.
    * disco digital = digital disc.
    * disco duro = hard disc, hard drive.
    * disco fijo = fixed disc.
    * disco flexible = diskette, floppy disc, floppy diskette.
    * disco floppy = floppy diskette, floppy disc.
    * disco índice = index disc.
    * disco láser = laser disc.
    * disco magnético = magnetic disc.
    * disco óptico = optical disc [optical disk], videodisc [video disc].
    * disco óptico de ordenador = computer optical disc.
    * disco óptico digital = optical digital disc.
    * disco óptico WORM = WORM optical disk.
    * disco sencillo = single.
    * disco sonoro = phonograph record, phonographic record, audio disc.
    * disco Winchester = Winchester disc.
    * edición en disco compacto = cd edition, compact disc edition.
    * en disco = ondisc.
    * espacio de almacenamiento en disco = drive storage space.
    * espacio en disco = disc space.
    * fichero en disco = disc file.
    * freno de disco = disc brake.
    * funda de disco = record sleeve.
    * funda de un disco = record cover.
    * guardar una búsqueda en disco = save + Posesivo + search + to disc.
    * hernia de disco = spinal disc herniation, slipped disc, disc herniation.
    * insertar disco en disquetera = load + disc into drive.
    * lector de disco óptico WORM = WORM optical disc drive.
    * lector de discos ópticos = optical disc drive.
    * lista de discos más vendidos, la = charts, the.
    * máquina de discos = jukebox.
    * memoria en disco = disc memory.
    * orden de funcionamiento del disco = disc operating command.
    * paquete de discos = disc pack.
    * pasar registros a disco = transfer + records + to disc.
    * Programa Piloto sobre Discos Opticos = Optical Disc Pilot Program.
    * sistema de discos ópticos = optical disc system.
    * sistema operativo de disco = Disc Operating System (DOS).
    * sobre disco = ondisc.
    * tecnología de discos ópticos = optical disc technology.
    * tienda de discos = record shop, record store.
    * unidad de disco = disc drive [disk drive], record deck.
    * videodisco = videodisc [video disc].
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) (Audio) record, disc (colloq)

    parecer un disco rayado — (fam) to be like a worn-out gramophone record (colloq)

    b) (Inf) disk
    2)
    a) (Dep) discus
    b) (Med) disk*
    c) (Auto, Mec)

    frenos de disco — disk* brakes

    d) ( del teléfono) dial
    3)
    a) ( señal de tráfico) (road) sign
    b) ( semáforo) (Ferr) signal; (Auto) traffic light
    II
    femenino (fam) ( discoteca) disco
    * * *
    = disc [disk], diskette, gramophone record, record, sound disc, phonodisc, puck, platter.

    Ex: Chapter 6 covers discs, tapes, piano rolls and sound recordings on film.

    Ex: The message asks you to confirm that you want to delete the 'current record' from the diskette.
    Ex: The majority of this schedule is devoted to various 'physical forms': globes and relief maps, gramophone records, tapes, etc.
    Ex: For example, the child doing a project about birds will require books to give him background information, a record or cassette to let him hear a bird-song, and a film to help him to appreciate bird flight.
    Ex: The library may have music scores, books on music, sound discs and sound tapes, to mention but a few of the possible media.
    Ex: For instance, a change has been introduced from phonodisc and phonotape to sound recording, a term more easily understood by the public.
    Ex: But goal-scorers don't give up the puck that easily -- especially in the offensive zone.
    Ex: Hard drives typically have several platters which are mounted on the same spindle.
    * basado en discos ópticos = optical disc based.
    * base de datos en disco óptico = optical disc database.
    * cabeza lectora de disco = disc reading head.
    * cola de discos = disc queue.
    * colección de discos = record collection.
    * coleccionista de discos = discologist.
    * controladora de disco duro = hard disc controller board.
    * deterioro de los discos = disc rot.
    * directorio del disco = diskette directory.
    * disco actualizado = current disc.
    * disco analógico = analog disc.
    * disco CD-ROM = CD-ROM disc.
    * disco compacto (CD) = compact disc (CD).
    * disco con información = data diskette, data disk.
    * disco de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage disc.
    * disco de archivo = archival disc.
    * disco de cera = wax disc.
    * disco de demostración = demonstration disc.
    * disco de larga duración = long-play record.
    * disco de larga duración (LP) = LP (long play record).
    * disco de ordenador = computer disc.
    * disco de salida = output diskette.
    * disco de sectores blandos = soft sectored disc.
    * disco de stop = stop sign.
    * disco de vinilo = vinyl record.
    * disco digital = digital disc.
    * disco duro = hard disc, hard drive.
    * disco fijo = fixed disc.
    * disco flexible = diskette, floppy disc, floppy diskette.
    * disco floppy = floppy diskette, floppy disc.
    * disco índice = index disc.
    * disco láser = laser disc.
    * disco magnético = magnetic disc.
    * disco óptico = optical disc [optical disk], videodisc [video disc].
    * disco óptico de ordenador = computer optical disc.
    * disco óptico digital = optical digital disc.
    * disco óptico WORM = WORM optical disk.
    * disco sencillo = single.
    * disco sonoro = phonograph record, phonographic record, audio disc.
    * disco Winchester = Winchester disc.
    * edición en disco compacto = cd edition, compact disc edition.
    * en disco = ondisc.
    * espacio de almacenamiento en disco = drive storage space.
    * espacio en disco = disc space.
    * fichero en disco = disc file.
    * freno de disco = disc brake.
    * funda de disco = record sleeve.
    * funda de un disco = record cover.
    * guardar una búsqueda en disco = save + Posesivo + search + to disc.
    * hernia de disco = spinal disc herniation, slipped disc, disc herniation.
    * insertar disco en disquetera = load + disc into drive.
    * lector de disco óptico WORM = WORM optical disc drive.
    * lector de discos ópticos = optical disc drive.
    * lista de discos más vendidos, la = charts, the.
    * máquina de discos = jukebox.
    * memoria en disco = disc memory.
    * orden de funcionamiento del disco = disc operating command.
    * paquete de discos = disc pack.
    * pasar registros a disco = transfer + records + to disc.
    * Programa Piloto sobre Discos Opticos = Optical Disc Pilot Program.
    * sistema de discos ópticos = optical disc system.
    * sistema operativo de disco = Disc Operating System (DOS).
    * sobre disco = ondisc.
    * tecnología de discos ópticos = optical disc technology.
    * tienda de discos = record shop, record store.
    * unidad de disco = disc drive [disk drive], record deck.
    * videodisco = videodisc [video disc].

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Audio) record, disk, disc ( esp BrE colloq)
    grabar un disco to make o cut a record o disk
    poner un disco to put on a record
    cambiar de or el disco ( fam); to change the subject
    parecer un disco rayado ( fam); to be like a worn-out gramophone record ( colloq)
    2 ( Inf) disk
    Compuestos:
    bar (with music, where one can dance)
    (disco) CD, compact disc; (aparato) compact disc player
    compact disc interactive
    boot disk
    album, LP
    ● disco de oro/platino
    gold/platinum disc
    ● disco de video or ( Esp) vídeo digital
    digital versatile disc, DVD
    hard disk
    fixed disk
    ● disco flexible or floppy
    floppy disk
    laser disc
    master disc
    video disk
    hard disk
    single
    digital versatile disc, DVD
    (CS) flying saucer
    B
    1 ( Dep) discus
    lanzamiento de disco the discus, throwing the discus
    2 ( Med) disk*
    3 ( Auto, Mec):
    frenos de disco disk* brakes
    C
    1 (señal de tráfico) sign, road sign
    2 (semáforo) ( Ferr) signal; ( Auto) traffic light
    * * *

    Del verbo discar: ( conjugate discar)

    disco es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    discó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    discar    
    disco
    discar ( conjugate discar) verbo transitivo/intransitivo (AmL) to dial
    disco sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) (Audio) record;


    poner un disco to put on a record;
    disco compacto CD, compact disc;
    disco de larga duración album, LP;
    disco volador (CS) flying saucer
    b) (Inf) disk;


    disco flexible or floppy floppy disk
    2
    a) (Dep) discus

    b) (Anat) disk( conjugate disk);

    (Auto, Mec) disk

    3 ( señal de tráfico) (road) sign
    disco sustantivo masculino
    1 disc, US disk
    2 Mús record
    disco compacto, compact disc
    3 Inform disk
    disco duro, hard disk
    disco óptico, optical disk
    4 Anat disc
    5 Dep discus
    6 familiar traffic light
    ' disco' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    boîte
    - cara
    - carátula
    - cariño
    - compacta
    - compacto
    - digitalmente
    - discotequera
    - discotequero
    - editar
    - ficha
    - forzuda
    - forzudo
    - hernia
    - lanzamiento
    - portada
    - producción
    - rayar
    - resurgimiento
    - salir
    - sencilla
    - sencillo
    - surco
    - vuelta
    - álbum
    - año
    - combarse
    - compact disc
    - duración
    - enrollar
    - funda
    - girar
    - lanzador
    - poner
    - presentar
    - que
    - repetido
    - sacar
    - stop
    - tapa
    - tejo
    - unidad
    - voltear
    English:
    badge
    - CD
    - compact disc
    - cut
    - dial
    - disc
    - disc brakes
    - disco
    - disco music
    - discus
    - disk
    - DOS
    - flip side
    - gold disc
    - groove
    - hard disk
    - make
    - making
    - play
    - plug
    - puck
    - record
    - release
    - side
    - single
    - sleeve
    - title track
    - track
    - warehouse
    - compact
    - discotheque
    - hard
    - long
    - out
    - slipped disc
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [de música] record;
    un disco de boleros/de música de cámara an album of boleros/chamber music;
    van a grabar otro disco they're going to record another album;
    pasamos la tarde poniendo discos we spent the afternoon listening to records;
    Fam
    ser como o [m5] parecer un disco rayado to go on like a broken o cracked record;
    Fam
    ¡cambia de disco, que ya aburres! give it a rest for heaven's sake, you're going on like a cracked record!
    disco compacto compact disc;
    disco de larga duración LP, long-playing record;
    disco de oro gold disc;
    disco de platino platinum disc;
    disco recopilatorio compilation album;
    2. Informát disk
    disco de alta densidad high-density disk;
    disco de arranque start-up disk;
    disco compacto compact disc;
    disco compacto interactivo interactive compact disc;
    disco de destino destination disk;
    disco de doble densidad double-density disk;
    disco duro hard disk;
    disco duro externo external hard disk;
    disco duro extraíble removable hard disk;
    disco flexible floppy disk;
    disco maestro master disk;
    disco magnético magnetic disk;
    disco óptico optical disk;
    disco RAM RAM disk;
    disco removible removable disk;
    disco rígido hard disk;
    disco del sistema system disk;
    disco virtual virtual disk
    3. [semáforo] (traffic) light;
    el disco se puso en rojo/verde the lights turned to red/green;
    saltarse un disco en rojo to jump a red light
    4. [de teléfono] dial
    5. [prueba atlética, objeto que se lanza] discus;
    lanzamiento de disco (throwing) the discus;
    6. [en hockey sobre hielo] puck
    7. Anat disc;
    una hernia de disco a slipped disc, Espec a herniated disc
    8. Astron disc;
    el disco solar/lunar solar/lunar disc
    9. Geom disc
    ♦ nf
    Fam [discoteca] club
    disco2 adj inv
    Fam Mús [de discoteca] disco;
    la música disco disco (music);
    el sonido disco de los setenta the seventies disco sound
    * * *
    m
    1 disk, Br
    disc
    2 DEP discus
    3 MÚS record;
    cambiar de disco fig fam change the record
    4 ( discoteca) disco
    * * *
    disco nm
    1) : phonograph record
    2) : disc, disk
    disco compacto: compact disc
    3) : discus
    * * *
    1. (de música) record
    3. (en deporte) discus
    disco compacto compact disc / CD

    Spanish-English dictionary > disco

  • 10 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence

  • 11 próximo

    adj.
    1 next, coming, forthcoming, upcoming.
    2 nearby, near, nearest, neighboring.
    * * *
    1 (cerca) near
    * * *
    (f. - próxima)
    adj.
    1) next, forthcoming
    2) near
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=cercano) near, close; [pariente] close

    en fecha próxima — soon, at an early date

    estar próximo a algo — to be close to sth, be near sth

    estar próximo a hacer algo — to be on the point of doing sth, be about to do sth

    2) (=siguiente) next
    * * *
    - ma adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( siguiente) next
    b) (como pron)
    2) [ESTAR] ( cercano)
    a) ( en el tiempo) close, near

    estar próximo A + INF — to be close to + ing, to be about to + inf

    b) ( en el espacio) near, close

    próximo A algo — close o near to something

    * * *
    = adjacent, adjoining, close [closer -comp., closest -sup.], forthcoming, immediate, next + Expresión Temporal, sorrounding, neighbour [neighbor, -USA], coming, near-side, in sight, over the horizon, on the horizon, proximate.
    Ex. Before him there are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions.
    Ex. The library is poorly sited outside the shopping centre and on the brow of a hill, and faces competition from adjoining libraries.
    Ex. Superior cataloguing may result, since more consistency and closer adherence to standard codes are likely to emerge with cataloguers who spend all of their time cataloguing, than with a librarian who tackles cataloguing as one of various professional tasks.
    Ex. Following internal discussion, it was agreed that a new library should be given the University's top priority in any forthcoming capital building project.
    Ex. This system offers immediate access when required by users and staff, preferably several users at the same time.
    Ex. And then the young librarian, as in a dream, heard from the lips of her supervisor the words, 'Jeanne, please let bygones be bygones and put this year's evaluation behind you. I'll try to make it up to you next year'.
    Ex. It examines the role that small university libraries can play in their surrounding communities and the benefits to be gained by both parties.
    Ex. The command 'neighbour' lists the terms around the base term alphabetically forwards or backwards.
    Ex. I have myself seen, in a northern market, a bookstall where the stall-holder had over a dozen old shoeboxes under the counter in which each month the ten new titles were placed so that the customers could buy the whole new range gradually over the coming month.
    Ex. The near-side press point was placed further in towards the middle of the tympan (and of the sheet) than the off-side point.
    Ex. The trend is definitely towards the electronic submission, but the point where this method will entirely supplant the others is not yet in sight.
    Ex. This article surveys the changes which have already occurred and those which are just over the horizon.
    Ex. The author concludes with descriptions of advances in the technology currently on the horizon.
    Ex. For example, Literature and Language should be proximate, as should Commerce and Economics and Business, Psychology and Medicine, and so on.
    ----
    * acontecimiento próximo = coming event.
    * año próximo, el = coming year, the.
    * de próxima publicación = about to be published.
    * durante el próximo año = over the next year.
    * el año próximo = the year ahead.
    * en el año próximo = in the coming year, in the coming year.
    * en el próximo año = in the year ahead, in the coming year.
    * en las próximas semanas = over the next few weeks.
    * en los próximos años = in the next few years.
    * en los próximos días = in the next few days, over the next few days.
    * estar próximo = be at hand.
    * lado más próximo, el = near side, the.
    * la próxima moda = the next hot thing.
    * mes próximo, el = next month.
    * para el año próximo = for the year ahead.
    * próxima apertura = opening soon.
    * próximo a = adjacent to, in the vicinity of, in the proximity of.
    * próximos años, los = years ahead, the, next few years, the.
    * * *
    - ma adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( siguiente) next
    b) (como pron)
    2) [ESTAR] ( cercano)
    a) ( en el tiempo) close, near

    estar próximo A + INF — to be close to + ing, to be about to + inf

    b) ( en el espacio) near, close

    próximo A algo — close o near to something

    * * *
    = adjacent, adjoining, close [closer -comp., closest -sup.], forthcoming, immediate, next + Expresión Temporal, sorrounding, neighbour [neighbor, -USA], coming, near-side, in sight, over the horizon, on the horizon, proximate.

    Ex: Before him there are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions.

    Ex: The library is poorly sited outside the shopping centre and on the brow of a hill, and faces competition from adjoining libraries.
    Ex: Superior cataloguing may result, since more consistency and closer adherence to standard codes are likely to emerge with cataloguers who spend all of their time cataloguing, than with a librarian who tackles cataloguing as one of various professional tasks.
    Ex: Following internal discussion, it was agreed that a new library should be given the University's top priority in any forthcoming capital building project.
    Ex: This system offers immediate access when required by users and staff, preferably several users at the same time.
    Ex: And then the young librarian, as in a dream, heard from the lips of her supervisor the words, 'Jeanne, please let bygones be bygones and put this year's evaluation behind you. I'll try to make it up to you next year'.
    Ex: It examines the role that small university libraries can play in their surrounding communities and the benefits to be gained by both parties.
    Ex: The command 'neighbour' lists the terms around the base term alphabetically forwards or backwards.
    Ex: I have myself seen, in a northern market, a bookstall where the stall-holder had over a dozen old shoeboxes under the counter in which each month the ten new titles were placed so that the customers could buy the whole new range gradually over the coming month.
    Ex: The near-side press point was placed further in towards the middle of the tympan (and of the sheet) than the off-side point.
    Ex: The trend is definitely towards the electronic submission, but the point where this method will entirely supplant the others is not yet in sight.
    Ex: This article surveys the changes which have already occurred and those which are just over the horizon.
    Ex: The author concludes with descriptions of advances in the technology currently on the horizon.
    Ex: For example, Literature and Language should be proximate, as should Commerce and Economics and Business, Psychology and Medicine, and so on.
    * acontecimiento próximo = coming event.
    * año próximo, el = coming year, the.
    * de próxima publicación = about to be published.
    * durante el próximo año = over the next year.
    * el año próximo = the year ahead.
    * en el año próximo = in the coming year, in the coming year.
    * en el próximo año = in the year ahead, in the coming year.
    * en las próximas semanas = over the next few weeks.
    * en los próximos años = in the next few years.
    * en los próximos días = in the next few days, over the next few days.
    * estar próximo = be at hand.
    * lado más próximo, el = near side, the.
    * la próxima moda = the next hot thing.
    * mes próximo, el = next month.
    * para el año próximo = for the year ahead.
    * próxima apertura = opening soon.
    * próximo a = adjacent to, in the vicinity of, in the proximity of.
    * próximos años, los = years ahead, the, next few years, the.

    * * *
    A
    en la próxima estación at the next station
    el próximo jueves vamos al cine (esta semana) we're going to the movies this Thursday o on Thursday; (la siguiente) we're going to the movies next Thursday
    el mes/año próximo next month/year
    2 ( como pron):
    esto lo dejamos para la próxima we'll leave this for next time
    tome la próxima a la derecha take the next right, take the next on the right
    nos bajamos en la próxima we are getting off at the next stop
    B [ ESTAR] (cercano)
    1 (en el tiempo) close, near
    la fecha ya está próxima the day is close o is drawing near
    el verano está próximo summer's nearly here
    el programa se emitirá en fecha próxima the program will be transmitted in the near future
    próximo A + INF close TO + ING
    estaba próximo a morir he was close o near to death
    ya estaba próximo a graduarse he was close to graduating o he had nearly finished school o he was about to graduate
    2 (en el espacio) near, close próximo A algo close o near TO sth
    un hotel próximo a la playa a hotel close to o near the beach
    * * *

     

    próximo
    ◊ -ma adjetivo

    1


    b) ( como pron):


    tome la próxima a la derecha take the next (on the) right
    2 [ESTAR] ( cercano)


    en fecha próxima in the near future

    próximo A algo close o near to sth
    próximo,-a adjetivo
    1 (cercano) near, close
    una calle próxima, a nearby street
    en fechas próximas, soon o in the near future
    2 (siguiente) next: me bajo en la próxima (parada), I get off at the next stop
    el próximo verano iremos a Berlín, next summer we're going to Berlin
    ' próximo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cara
    - cerca
    - concejo
    - cónclave
    - inmediata
    - inmediato
    - mes
    - novilunio
    - pegar
    - próxima
    - salida
    - tomar
    - vecina
    - vecino
    - entrante
    - futuro
    - lunes
    - oriente
    - plazo
    - proyecto
    English:
    beside
    - bring in
    - call
    - coming
    - forthcoming
    - four-door
    - kin
    - move
    - near
    - Near East
    - next
    - operational
    - proximate
    - close
    - dealer
    - due
    - fare
    - Monday
    - pending
    - start
    - tide
    - up
    * * *
    próximo, -a adj
    1. [en el tiempo] near, close;
    las vacaciones están próximas the holidays are nearly here
    2. [en el espacio] near, close;
    una casa próxima al río a house near the river;
    el colegio está muy próximo al centro the school is very near to Br the centre o US downtown
    3. [en número] close;
    un número de muertos próximo al centenar a death toll approaching one hundred
    4. [siguiente] next;
    el próximo año next year;
    el próximo domingo next Sunday;
    la próxima vez next time;
    me bajo en la próxima I'm getting off at the next stop;
    * * *
    adj
    1 ( siguiente) next;
    el próximo año next year;
    ¡hasta la próxima! see you next time!
    2 ( cercano) near, close (a to)
    * * *
    próximo, -ma adj
    1) : near, close
    la Navidad está próxima: Christmas is almost here
    2) siguiente: next, following
    la próxima semana: the following week
    * * *
    1. (siguiente) next
    2. (cercano) near
    Si algo está próximo en el tiempo, se usa el adverbio nearly o soon
    está próximo el verano it's nearly summer / it will soon be summer

    Spanish-English dictionary > próximo

  • 12 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.
       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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  • 13 Forschungsabteilung

    Forschungsabteilung f IND, V&M research department
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    f <Ind, V&M> research department
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    Forschungsabteilung
    research (experimental) department, research arm (US);
    • Forschungsamt Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research (Br.);
    • Forschungsanlagen research facilities;
    • [multidisziplinärer] Forschungsansatz [multidisciplinary] research approach;
    • Forschungsanstalt research establishment;
    • Forschungsarbeit [field] study;
    • Forschungsarbeit auf dem gleichen Gebiet research work on parallel lines;
    • wissenschaftliche Forschungsarbeit betreiben to study and research;
    • Forschungsaufgabe research assignment;
    • Forschungsauftrag research assignment (contract);
    • Forschungsaufwand cost of exploration, research expenditure (effort);
    • Forschungsbasis scientific outpost;
    • Forschungsbeihilfe research grant;
    • Forschungsbericht research report;
    • Forschungseinrichtungen research organization;
    • Forschungsetat research budget;
    • Forschungsförderung research aid (funding);
    • Forschungsgemeinschaft, Forschungsgesellschaft research association;
    • Forschungsingenieur experimental engineer;
    • Forschungsinstitut research institute (establishment);
    • Forschungsinstitut für Verbraucherfragen Research Institute for Consumers’ Affairs;
    • in einem Forschungsinstitut tätig sein to be engaged in research work;
    • Forschungsleiter director of research;
    • Forschungsminister research minister, Minister of Science and Technology (Br.);
    • Forschungsministerium [etwa] Ministry of Technology (Br., abolished 1970);
    • Forschungsobjekt research base;
    • Forschungspolitik der europäischen Union Union’s research policy;
    • Forschungsprioritäten research priorities;
    • Forschungsprogramm scientific research program(me).

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  • 14 метод

    approach, device, manner, mean, method, mode, practice, procedure, system, technique, technology, theory, way
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    ме́тод м.
    method; procedure; technique
    агрегатнопото́чный ме́тод — conveyor-type production [production-line] method
    аксиомати́ческий ме́тод — axiomatic [postulational] method
    ме́тод амплиту́дного ана́лиза — kick-sorting method
    анаглифи́ческий ме́тод картогр. — anaglyphic(al) method
    ме́тод аналити́ческой вста́вки топ. — cantilever extension, cantilever (strip) triangulation
    ме́тод быстре́йшего спу́ска стат. — steepest descent method
    вариацио́нный ме́тод — variational method
    ме́тод Верне́йля радио — Verneuil method
    весово́й ме́тод — gravimetric method
    ме́тод ветве́й и грани́ц киб. — branch and bound method
    ме́тод взба́лтывания — shake method
    визуа́льный ме́тод — visual method
    ме́тод возду́шной прое́кции — aero-projection method
    ме́тод враще́ния — method of revolution
    ме́тод вреза́ния — plunge-cut method
    ме́тод вре́мени пролё́та — time-of-flight method
    вре́мя-и́мпульсный ме́тод ( преобразования аналоговой информации в дискретную) — pulse-counting method (of analog-to-digital conversion)
    ме́тод встре́чного фрезерова́ния — conventional [cut-up] milling method
    ме́тод вы́бега эл. — retardation method
    ме́тод вымета́ния мат. — sweep(ing)-out method
    ме́тод гармони́ческого бала́нса киб., автмт. — describing function method
    ме́тод гармони́ческой линеариза́ции — describing function method
    голографи́ческий ме́тод — holographic method
    гравиметри́ческий ме́тод — gravimetric(al) method
    графи́ческий ме́тод — graphical method
    ме́тод графи́ческого трансформи́рования топ. — grid method
    графоаналити́ческий ме́тод — semigraphical method
    ме́тод гра́фов мат. — graph method
    группово́й ме́тод ( в высокочастотной телефонии) — grouped-frequency basis
    систе́ма рабо́тает групповы́м ме́тодом — the system operates on the grouped-frequency basis
    ме́тод двух ре́ек геод., топ. — two-staff [two-base] method
    ме́тод двух узло́в ( в анализе электрических цепей) — nodal-pair method
    ме́тод дирекцио́нных угло́в геод. — method of gisements
    ме́тод запа́са про́чности ( в расчетах конструкции) — load factor method
    ме́тод засе́чек афс. — resection method
    ме́тод зерка́льных изображе́ний эл. — method of electrical images
    ме́тод зо́нной пла́вки ( в производстве монокристаллов полупроводниковых материалов) — floating-zone method, floating-zone technique
    ме́тод избы́точных концентра́ций ( для опробования гипотетического механизма реакции) — isolation method (of the testing the rate equations)
    ме́тод измере́ния, абсолю́тный — absolute [fundamental] method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния, конта́ктный — contact method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния, ко́свенный — indirect method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния, относи́тельный — relative method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния по то́чкам — point-by-point method
    ме́тод измере́ния, прямо́й — direct method of measurement
    ме́тод измере́ния угло́в по аэросни́мкам — photogoniometric method
    ме́тод изображе́ний эл. — method of images, image method
    ме́тод изото́пных индика́торов — tracer method
    иммерсио́нный ме́тод — immersion method
    и́мпульсный ме́тод свар. — pulse method
    ме́тод и́мпульсов — momentum-transfer method
    ме́тод инве́рсии — inversion method
    и́ндексно-после́довательный ме́тод до́ступа, основно́й вчт. — basic indexed sequential access method, BISAM
    и́ндексно-после́довательный ме́тод до́ступа с очередя́ми вчт. — queued indexed sequential access method, BISAM
    интерференцио́нный ме́тод — interferometric method
    ме́тод испыта́ний — testing procedure, testing method
    ме́тод испыта́ний, кисло́тный — acid test
    ме́тод испыта́ний, пане́льный — panel-spalling test
    ме́тод испыта́тельной строки́ тлв. — test-line method
    ме́тод иссле́дований напряже́ний, опти́ческий — optical stress analysis
    ме́тод истече́ния — efflux method
    ме́тод итера́ции — iteration method, iteration technique
    ме́тод итера́ции приво́дит к сходи́мости проце́сса — the iteration (process) converges to a solution
    ме́тод итера́ции приво́дит к (бы́строй или ме́дленной) сходи́мости проце́сса — the iteration (process) converges quickly or slowly
    ме́тод картосоставле́ния — map-compilation [plotting] method
    ме́тод кача́ющегося криста́лла ( в рентгеноструктурном анализе) — rotating-crystal method
    ка́чественный ме́тод — qualitative method
    кессо́нный ме́тод — caisson method
    коли́чественный ме́тод — quantitative method
    колориметри́ческий ме́тод — colorimetric method
    ме́тод кольца́ и ша́ра — ball-and-ring method
    комплексометри́ческий ме́тод ( для определения жёсткости воды) — complexometric method
    кондуктометри́ческий ме́тод — conductance-measuring method
    ме́тод коне́чных ра́зностей — finite difference method
    ме́тод консерви́рования — curing method
    ме́тод контро́ля, дифференци́рованный — differential control method
    ме́тод контро́ля ка́чества — quality control method
    ме́тод ко́нтурных то́ков — mesh-current [loop] method
    ме́тод ко́нуса — cone method
    ме́тод корнево́го годо́графа киб., автмт. — root-locus method
    корреляцио́нный ме́тод — correlation method
    ко́свенный ме́тод — indirect method
    ме́тод кра́сок ( в дефектоскопии) — dye-penetrant method
    лаборато́рный ме́тод — laboratory method
    ме́тод ла́ковых покры́тий ( в сопротивлении материалов) — brittle-varnish method
    ме́тод лине́йной интерполя́ции — method of proportional parts
    ме́тод Ляпуно́ва аргд. — Lyapunov's method
    ме́тод магни́тного порошка́ ( в дефектоскопии) — magnetic particle [magnetic powder] method
    магни́тно-люминесце́нтный ме́тод ( в дефектоскопии) — fluorescent magnetic particle method
    ме́тод ма́лого пара́метра киб., автмт. — perturbation theory, perturbation method
    ме́тод ма́лых возмуще́ний аргд. — perturbation method
    ме́тод мгнове́нной равносигна́льной зо́ны рлк. — simultaneous lobing [monopulse] method
    ме́тод механи́ческой обрабо́тки — machining method
    ме́тод ме́ченых а́томов — tracer method
    ме́тод микрометри́рования — micrometer method
    ме́тод мно́жителей Лагра́нжа — Lagrangian multiplier method, Lagrange's method of undetermined multipliers
    ме́тод моме́нтных площаде́й мех. — area moment method
    ме́тод Мо́нте-Ка́рло мат. — Monte Carlo method
    ме́тод навига́ции, дальноме́рный ( пересечение двух окружностей) — rho-rho [r-r] navigation
    ме́тод навига́ции, угломе́рный ( пересечение двух линий пеленга) — theta-theta [q-q] navigation
    ме́тод наиме́ньших квадра́тов — method of least squares, least-squares technique
    ме́тод наискоре́йшего спу́ска мат. — method of steepest descent
    ме́тод нака́чки ( лазера) — pumping [excitation] method
    ме́тод накопле́ния яд. физ. — “backing-space” method
    ме́тод наложе́ния — method of superposition
    ме́тод напыле́ния — evaporation technique
    ме́тод нару́жных заря́дов горн. — adobe blasting method
    ме́тод незави́симых стереопа́р топ. — method of independent image pairs
    ненулево́й ме́тод — deflection method
    ме́тод неопределё́нных мно́жителей Лагра́нжа — Lagrangian multiplier method, Lagrange's method of undetermined multipliers
    ме́тод неподви́жных то́чек — method of fixed points
    неразруша́ющий ме́тод — non-destructive method, non-destructive testing
    нерекурси́вный ме́тод — non-recursive method
    нето́чный ме́тод — inexact method
    нефелометри́ческий ме́тод — nephelometric method
    ме́тод нивели́рования по частя́м — method of fraction levelling
    нулево́й ме́тод — null [zero(-deflection) ] method
    ме́тод нулевы́х бие́ний — zero-beat method
    ме́тод нулевы́х то́чек — neutral-points method
    ме́тод обеспе́чения надё́жности — reliability method
    ме́тод обрабо́тки — processing [working, tooling] method
    ме́тод обра́тной простра́нственной засе́чки топ. — method of pyramid
    обра́тно-ступе́нчатый ме́тод свар. — step-back method
    ме́тод объединё́нного а́тома — associate atom method
    объекти́вный ме́тод — objective method
    объё́мный ме́тод — volumetric method
    ме́тод одного́ отсчё́та ( преобразование непрерывной информации в дискретную) — the total value method (of analog-to-digital conversion)
    окисли́тельно-восстанови́тельный ме́тод — redox method
    опера́торный ме́тод — operational method
    ме́тод определе́ния ме́ста, дальноме́рно-пеленгацио́нный ( пересечение прямой и окружности) — rho-theta [r-q] fixing
    ме́тод определе́ния ме́ста, дальноме́рный ( пересечение двух окружностей) — rho-rho [r-r] fixing
    ме́тод определе́ния ме́ста, пеленгацио́нный ( пересечение двух линий пеленга) — theta-theta [q-q] fixing
    ме́тод определе́ния отбе́ливаемости и цве́тности ма́сел — bleach-and-colour method
    ме́тод определе́ния положе́ния ли́нии, двукра́тный геод. — double-line method
    ме́тод опти́ческой корреля́ции — optical correlation technique
    ме́тод осажде́ния — sedimentation method
    ме́тод осо́бых возмуще́ний аргд. — singular perturbation method
    ме́тод осредне́ния — averaging [smoothing] method
    ме́тод отбо́ра проб — sampling method, sampling technique
    ме́тод отклоне́ния — deflection method
    ме́тод отопле́ния метал. — fuel practice
    ме́тод отраже́ния — reflection method
    ме́тод отражё́нных и́мпульсов — pulse-echo method
    ме́тод отыска́ния произво́дной, непосре́дственный — delta method
    ме́тод па́дающего те́ла — falling body method
    ме́тод парамагни́тного резона́нса — paramagnetic-resonance method
    ме́тод пе́рвого приближе́ния — first approximation method
    ме́тод перева́ла мат. — saddle-point method
    ме́тод перено́са коли́чества движе́ния аргд. — momentum-transfer method
    ме́тод перераспределе́ния моме́нтов ( в расчёте конструкций) — moment distribution method
    ме́тод пересека́ющихся луче́й — crossed beam method
    ме́тод перехо́дного состоя́ния ( в аналитической химии) — transition state method
    ме́тод перпендикуля́ров — offset method
    ме́тод перспекти́вных се́ток топ. — grid method
    ме́тод пескова́ния с.-х. — sanding method
    пикнометри́ческий ме́тод — bottle method
    ме́тод площаде́й физ. — area method
    ме́тод повторе́ний геод. — method of reiteration, repetition method
    ме́тод подбо́ра — trial-and-error [cut-and-try] method
    ме́тод подо́бия — similitude method
    ме́тод подориенти́рования топ. — setting on points of control
    ме́тод по́лной деформа́ции — total-strain method
    ме́тод полови́нных отклоне́ний — half-deflection method
    ме́тод положе́ния геод. — method of bearings, method of gisements
    полуколи́чественный ме́тод — semiquantitative method
    ме́тод поля́рных координа́т — polar method
    ме́тод попу́тного фрезерова́ния — climb [cut-down] milling method
    порошко́вый ме́тод ( в рентгеноструктурном анализе) — powder [Debye-Scherer-Hull] method
    ме́тод посе́ва — seeding technique
    ме́тод после́довательного счё́та ( преобразования аналоговой информации в дискретную) — incremental method (of analog-to-digital conversion)
    ме́тод после́довательных исключе́ний — successive exclusion method
    ме́тод после́довательных подстано́вок — method of successive substitution, substitution process
    ме́тод после́довательных попра́вок — successive correction method
    ме́тод после́довательных приближе́ний — successive approximation method
    ме́тод после́довательных элимина́ций — method of exhaustion
    ме́тод послесплавно́й диффу́зии полупр. — post-alloy-diffusion technique
    потенциометри́ческий компенсацио́нный ме́тод — potentiometric method
    пото́чно-конве́йерный ме́тод — flow-line conveyor method
    пото́чный ме́тод — straight-line flow method
    ме́тод прерыва́ний ( для измерения скорости света) — chopped-beam method
    приближё́нный ме́тод — approximate method
    ме́тод проб и оши́бок — trial-and-error [cut-and-try] method
    ме́тод программи́рующих програ́мм — programming program method
    ме́тод продолже́ния топ. — setting on points on control
    ме́тод проекти́рования, моде́льно-маке́тный — model-and-mock-up method of design
    ме́тод простра́нственного коди́рования ( преобразования аналоговой информации в дискретную) — coded pattern method (OF analog-to-digital conversion)
    ме́тод простра́нственной самофикса́ции — self-fixation space method
    прямо́й ме́тод — direct method
    ме́тод псевдослуча́йных чи́сел — pseudorandom number method
    ме́тод равносигна́льной зо́ны рлк. — lobing, beam [lobe] switching
    ме́тод равносигна́льной зо́ны, мгнове́нный рлк. — simultaneous lobing, monopulse
    ме́тод ра́вных высо́т геод. — equal-altitude method
    ме́тод ра́вных деформа́ций ( в проектировании бетонных конструкций) — equal-strain method
    ме́тод ра́вных отклоне́ний — equal-deflection method
    радиацио́нный ме́тод — radiation method
    ме́тод радиоавтогра́фии — radioautograph technique
    ме́тод радиоакти́вных индика́торов — tracer method
    радиометри́ческий ме́тод — radiometric method
    ме́тод разбавле́ния — dilution method
    ме́тод разделе́ния тлв. — separation method
    ме́тод разделе́ния переме́нных — method of separation of variables
    ме́тод разли́вки метал. — teeming [pouring, casting] practice
    ме́тод разме́рностей — dimensional method
    ра́зностный ме́тод — difference method
    ме́тод разруша́ющей нагру́зки — load-factor method
    разруша́ющий ме́тод — destructive check
    ме́тод рассе́яния Рэле́я — Rayleigh scattering method
    ме́тод ра́стра тлв. — grid method
    ме́тод ра́стрового скани́рования — raster-scan method
    ме́тод расчё́та по допусти́мым нагру́зкам — working stress design [WSD] method
    ме́тод расчё́та по разруша́ющим нагру́зкам стр. — ultimate-strength design [USD] method
    ме́тод расчё́та при по́мощи про́бной нагру́зки стр. — trial-load method
    ме́тод расчё́та, упру́гий стр. — elastic method
    резона́нсный ме́тод — resonance method
    ме́тод реитера́ций геод. — method of reiteration, repetition method
    рентгенострукту́рный ме́тод — X-ray diffraction method
    ме́тод реше́ния зада́чи о четвё́ртой то́чке геод. — three-point method
    ме́тод решета́ мат. — sieve method
    ру́порно-ли́нзовый ме́тод радио — horn-and-lens method
    ме́тод самоторможе́ния — retardation method
    ме́тод сви́лей — schlieren technique, schlieren method
    ме́тод сдви́нутого сигна́ла — offset-signal method
    ме́тод секу́щих — secant method
    ме́тод се́рого кли́на физ. — gray-wedge method
    ме́тод се́ток мат., вчт. — net(-point) method
    ме́тод сече́ний ( в расчёте напряжений в фермах) — method of sections
    символи́ческий ме́тод — method of complex numbers
    ме́тод симметри́чных составля́ющих — method of symmetrical components, symmetrical component method
    ме́тод синхро́нного накопле́ния — synchronous storage method
    ме́тод скани́рования полосо́й — single-line-scan television method
    ме́тод скани́рования пятно́м — spot-scan photomultiplier method
    ме́тод смеще́ния отде́льных узло́в стр. — method of separate joint displacement
    ме́тод совпаде́ний — coincidence method
    ме́тод сосредото́ченных пара́метров — lumped-parameter method
    ме́тод спада́ния заря́да — fall-of-charge method
    спектроскопи́ческий ме́тод — spectroscopic method
    ме́тод спира́льного скани́рования — spiral-scan method
    ме́тод сплавле́ния — fusion method
    ме́тод сплошны́х сред ( в моделировании) — continuous field analog technique
    ме́тод сре́дних квадра́тов — midsquare method
    статисти́ческий ме́тод — statistical technique
    статисти́ческий ме́тод оце́нки — statistical estimation
    ме́тод статисти́ческих испыта́ний — Monte Carlo method
    стробоголографи́ческий ме́тод — strobo-holographic method
    стробоскопи́ческий ме́тод — stroboscopic method
    стру́йный ме́тод метал. — jet test
    ступе́нчатый ме́тод ( сварки или сверления) — step-by-step method
    субъекти́вный ме́тод — subjective method
    ме́тод сухо́го озоле́ния — dry combustion method
    ме́тод сухо́го порошка́ ( в дефектоскопии) — dry method
    счё́тно-и́мпульсный ме́тод — pulse-counting method
    табли́чный ме́тод — diagram method
    телевизио́нный ме́тод электро́нной аэросъё́мки — television method
    телевизио́нный ме́тод электро́нной фотограмме́трии — television method
    тенево́й ме́тод — (direct-)shadow method
    термоанемометри́ческий ме́тод — hot-wire method
    топологи́ческий ме́тод — topological method
    ме́тод то́чечного вплавле́ния полупр. — dot alloying method
    то́чный ме́тод — exact [precision] method
    ме́тод травле́ния, гидри́дный — sodium hydride descaling
    ме́тод трапецеида́льных характери́стик — Floyd's trapezoidal approximation method, approximation procedure
    ме́тод трёх баз геод. — three-base method
    ме́тод триангуля́ции — triangulation method
    ме́тод трилатера́ции геод. — trilateration method
    ме́тод углово́й деформа́ции — slope-deflection method
    ме́тод углово́й модуля́ции — angular modulation method
    ме́тод удаля́емого трафаре́та полупр. — rejection mask method
    ме́тод удаля́емой ма́ски рад. — rejection mask method
    ме́тод узло́в ( в расчёте напряжении в фермах) — method of joints
    ме́тод узловы́х потенциа́лов — node-voltage method
    ме́тод ура́внивания по направле́ниям геод. — method of directions, direction method
    ме́тод ура́внивания по угла́м геод. — method of angles, angle method
    ме́тод уравнове́шивания — balancing method
    ме́тод усредне́ния — averaging [smoothing] method
    ме́тод фа́зового контра́ста ( в микроскопии) — phase contrast
    наблюда́ть ме́тодом фа́зового контра́ста — examine [study] by phase contrast
    ме́тод фа́зовой пло́скости — phase plane method
    ме́тод факториза́ции — factorization method
    флотацио́нный ме́тод — floatation method
    ме́тод формирова́ния сигна́лов цве́тности тлв. — colour-processing method
    ме́тод центрифуги́рования — centrifuge method
    цепно́й ме́тод астр. — chain method
    чи́сленный ме́тод — numerical method
    ме́тод Чохра́льского ( в выращивании полупроводниковых кристаллов) — Czochralski method, vertical pulling technique
    ме́тод Шо́ра — Shore hardness
    щупово́й ме́тод — stylus method
    ме́тод электрофоре́за — electrophoretic method
    эмпири́ческий ме́тод — trial-and-error [cut-and-try] method
    энергети́ческий ме́тод
    1. косм. energy method
    2. стр. strain energy method
    ме́тод энергети́ческого бала́нса — power balance method
    эргати́ческий ме́тод ( при общении человека с ЭВМ) — interactive [conversational] technique

    Русско-английский политехнический словарь > метод

  • 15 экран

    1) General subject: baffle, baffle-plate, easel (в репродукционной камере), guard plate, riddle, screen, shade, shield
    2) Computers: screen display
    3) Naval: baffle wall, water wall (в котле)
    4) Medicine: barrier (защитный)
    5) Military: panel
    6) Engineering: baffle plate, baffler, baseboard (фотоувеличителя), blind, curtain, curtain wall (в плазменном пространстве печи), dasher (парового котла), diaphragm (плотины), face, face panel (ЭЛТ), faceplate (ЭЛТ), facing membrane, gobo, membrane, radiant tubes (топки), shadow wall (в пламенном пространстве печи), sheet shading, visor, wall, waterwall (топочный)
    7) Construction: cut-off plane, impervious diaphragm (плотины), sounding-board
    8) Mathematics: boundary
    9) Railway term: face (трубки)
    10) Automobile industry: bafle, excluder, safety screen
    11) Cinema: back-cloth, ease
    12) Metallurgy: baffling element
    14) Telecommunications: tube-face
    15) Electronics: viewing screen
    16) Information technology: face (ЭЛТ), screen shot
    18) Astronautics: armor, display, mask
    21) Electronic tubes: face panel
    22) Drilling: attenuator
    23) Sakhalin energy glossary: shroud, structural barrier (тектонический), structural seal (тектонический)
    24) Polymers: apron, covering
    25) Automation: (отклоняющий) baffle plate
    27) Science: base plate
    28) Makarov: blanket (плотины), curtain (отражающий), curtain wall (в пламенном пространстве печи), facing diaphragm, impact plate, impact plate (отражающий), scope, screen (защитный), screen (над порталом тоннеля), sheet, shroud (защитный), wall (топки котла), water wall (топочный)
    29) SAP.tech. dynpro, screen program, scrn
    30) oil&gas: sieve
    31) Electrical engineering: (защитный) screen, (защитный) shield
    32) Hi-Fi. baffle (передняя стенка корпуса акустической системы, на которой крепятся громкоговорители)
    33) Office equipment: shading sheet

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