university+college+hospital

1) (lesser) kleiner...

2) (unimportant) weniger bedeutend; geringer [Bedeutung]; leicht [Operation, Verletzung, Anfall]; Neben[figur, -rolle]

3) (Mus.) Moll-

1) (person) Minderjährige, der/die

2) (Amer. Univ.) Nebenfach, das

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1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) kleiner

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.)

- academic.ru/47121/minority">minority

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[ˈmaɪnəʳ, AM -ɚ]

I. adj

1. (small) detail, problem, criticism nebensächlich; character, plot unbedeutend; crime, violation geringfügig; improvement, repair unwichtig; accident, incident leicht; interest, hobby klein

\minor road Nebenstraße f

\minor alteration/tiff kleine Veränderung/Meinungsverschiedenheit

to be of \minor importance von geringer Bedeutung sein

\minor offence [or AM offense] leichtes Vergehen

2. (low-ranking) official, supervisor untergeordnet; (not important) unbedeutend

a \minor author/composer/poet ein unbedeutender Schriftsteller/Komponist/Poet

\minor part [or role] Nebenrolle f; ( fig) untergeordnete Rolle

3. MED (not serious) leicht

\minor injury leichte Verletzung

\minor operation kleiner Eingriff

4. inv MUS Moll-

\minor chord Mollakkord m

\minor key Molltonart f

a \minor note ein Ton in Moll

to end on a \minor note ( fig) mit einer traurigen Note enden

\minor scale Molltonleiter f

5. after n BRIT SCH (for younger brother) junior

Smith \minor Smith junior

II. n

1. (underage person) Minderjährige(r) f(m)

2. MUS Moll nt

3. SPORT (minor leagues)

▪ the \minors pl niedrige Klassen

4. UNIV (secondary study) Nebenfach m

he has a literature major with a \minor in linguistics er studiert Literatur im Hauptfach mit Linguistik im Nebenfach

III. vi UNIV

to \minor in biology/linguistics/maths Biologie/Linguistik/Mathematik im Nebenfach studieren

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1. adj

1) (= of lesser extent) kleiner; (= of lesser importance) unbedeutend, unwichtig; offence, illness, operation, injuries leicht; surgery klein; interest, importance geringer; poet, position unbedeutend; prophet, planet klein

2) (MUS) Moll-

3) (Brit SCH inf)

2. n

1) (MUS)

2) (JUR) Minderjährige(r) mf

3) (US UNIV) Nebenfach nt

3. vi (US UNIV)

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minor [ˈmaınə(r)]

A adj

1. a) kleiner(er, e, es), geringer(er, e, es)

b) klein, unbedeutend, geringfügig

c) untergeordnet ( auch PHIL):

minor casualty MIL Leichtverwundete(r) m/f(m);

of minor importance von zweitrangiger Bedeutung;

receive minor injuries leicht verletzt werden;

minor league SPORT US untere Spielklasse;

minor offence (US offense) JUR Vergehen n, Übertretung f;

minor part THEAT etc kleinere Rolle;

minor party POL kleine Partei;

minor penalty (Eishockey) kleine Strafe;

minor planet ASTRON kleiner Planet;

minor premise → B 3;

the Minor Prophets BIBEL die kleinen Propheten;

minor sentence LING unvollständiger Satz;

minor shareholder (bes US stockholder) WIRTSCH Kleinaktionär(in);

minor subject → B 5;

minor suit (Bridge) geringere Farbe (Karo od Kreuz); → operation 9

2. Neben…, Hilfs…, Unter…:

minor axis MATH, TECH kleine Achse, Halb-, Nebenachse f;

minor determinant MATH Minor f, Unterdeterminante f;

a minor group eine Untergruppe

3. JUR minderjährig, unmündig

4. SCHULE Br jünger:

Smith minor Smith der Jüngere

5. MUS

a) klein (Terz etc)

b) Moll…:

C minor c-moll;

minor key Moll(tonart) n(f);

in a minor key fig gedämpft; im Kleinen;

minor mode Mollgeschlecht n;

minor scale Molltonleiter f

B s

1. JUR Minderjährige(r) m/f(m), Unmündige(r) m/f(m)

2. MUS

a) Moll n

b) Mollakkord m

c) Molltonart f

3. PHIL Untersatz m

4. Minor REL → Minorite

5. UNIV US Nebenfach n

C v/i minor in UNIV US Geschichte etc als oder im Nebenfach studieren

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1) (lesser) kleiner...

2) (unimportant) weniger bedeutend; geringer [Bedeutung]; leicht [Operation, Verletzung, Anfall]; Neben[figur, -rolle]

3) (Mus.) Moll-

1) (person) Minderjährige, der/die

2) (Amer. Univ.) Nebenfach, das

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geringer adj.

kleiner adj. n.

Minderjährige m.,f.

Minor -- (Mathematik) m.

endowment [ɪnˈdaʊmənt]

( = money) (for school, college) dotation f ; (prize, university chair) fondation f

► endowment policy noun assurance f à capital différé

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1) ( action) (of hospital, school) dotation f; (of prize, academic post) fondation f; ( money given) dotation f

2) ( talent) don m

repairs, injuries drobny; poet pomniejszy; ( MED) operation mały; ( MUS) moll post

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1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) (po)mniejszy, niewielki, drobny

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.)

- minority

1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) mazāks; mazsvarīgāks

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.) otršķirīgs studiju priekšmets

- minority

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nepilngadīgais; mazā premisa; minors; otršķirīgs priekšmets; jaunākais; mazsvarīgāks; minora

1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) nedidelis, šalutinis

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.) ðalutinis specializacijos dalykas

- minority

adj. liten, obetydlig; minderårig; mindre, smärre, underordnad; moll (musik); lägre

n. minderårig, omyndig person

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1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) mindre

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.)

- minority

1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) menší, vedlejší

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.) vedlejší obor

- minority

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1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) menší, vedľajší

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.) vedľajší odbor vysokoškolského štúdia

- minority

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1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) minor, secundar, neimportant

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.)

- minority

1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) μικρός,ασήμαντος,δευτερεύων

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.)

- minority

1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) secondaire, mineur, petit

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.)

- minority

1) (less, or little, in importance, size etc: Always halt when driving from a minor road on to a major road; She has to go into hospital for a minor operation.) menor, sem importância

2) ((American) a secondary subject that a student chooses to study at university or college: Her major is in physics, but she has a minor in computer science.)

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SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology

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The younger brother of William Hunter (1718–83), who was of great distinction but perhaps of slightly less achievement in similar fields, he owed much of his early experience to his brother; William, after a period at Glasgow University, moved to St George's Hospital, London. In his later teens, John assisted a brother-in-law with cabinet-making. This appears to have contributed to the lifelong mechanical skill which he displayed as a dissector and surgeon. This skill was particularly obvious when, after following William to London in 1748, he held post at a number of London teaching hospitals before moving to St George's in 1756. A short sojourn at Oxford in 1755 appears to have been unfruitful.

Despite his deepening involvement in the study of comparative anatomy, facilitated by the purchase of animals from the Tower menagerie and travelling show people, he accepted an appointment as a staff surgeon in the Army in 1760, participating in the expedition to Belle Isle and also serving in Portugal. He returned home with over 300 specimens in 1763 and, until his appointment as Surgeon to St George's in 1768, was heavily involved in the examination of this and other material, as well as in studies of foetal testicular descent, placental circulation, the nature of pus and lymphatic circulation. In 1772 he commenced lecturing on the theory and practice of surgery, and in 1776 he was appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to George III.

He is rightly regarded as the founder of scientific surgery, but his knowledge was derived almost entirely from his own experiments and observations. His contemporaries did not always accept or understand the concepts which led to such aphorisms as, "to perform an operation is to mutilate a patient we cannot cure", and his written comment to his pupil Jenner: "Why think. Why not trie the experiment". His desire to establish the aetiology of gonorrhoea led to him infecting himself, as a result of which he also contracted syphilis. His ensuing account of the characteristics of the disease remains a classic of medicine, although it is likely that the sequelae of the condition brought about his death at a relatively early age. From 1773 he suffered recurrent anginal attacks of such a character that his life "was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him". Indeed, it was following a contradiction at a board meeting at St George's that he died.

By 1788, with the death of Percival Pott, he had become unquestionably the leading surgeon in Britain, if not Europe. Elected to the Royal Society in 1767, the extraordinary variety of his collections, investigations and publications, as well as works such as the "Treatise on the natural history of the human teeth" (1771–8), gives testimony to his original approach involving the fundamental and inescapable relation of structure and function in both normal and disease states. The massive growth of his collections led to his acquiring two houses in Golden Square to contain them. It was his desire that after his death his collection be purchased and preserved for the nation. It contained 13,600 specimens and had cost him £70,000. After considerable delay, Par-liament voted inadequate sums for this purpose and the collection was entrusted to the recently rechartered Royal College of Surgeons of England, in whose premises this remarkable monument to the omnivorous and eclectic activities of this outstanding figure in the evolution of medicine and surgery may still be seen. Sadly, some of the collection was lost to bombing during the Second World War. His surviving papers were also extensive, but it is probable that many were destroyed in the early nineteenth century.

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SUBJECT AREA: Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Steam and internal combustion engines

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Kettering gained degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from Ohio State University. He was employed by the National Construction Register (NCR) of Dayton, Ohio, where he devised an electric motor for use in cash registers. He became Head of the Inventions Department of that company but left in 1909 to form, with the former Works Manager of NCR, Edward A. Deeds, the Dayton Engineering Laboratories (later called Delco), to develop improved lighting and ignition systems for automobiles. In the first two years of the new company he produced not only these but also the first self-starter, both of which were fitted to the Cadillac, America's leading luxury car. In 1914 he founded Dayton Metal Products and the Dayton Wright Airplane Company. Two years later Delco was bought by General Motors. In 1925 the independent research facilities of Delco were moved to Detroit and merged with General Motors' laboratories to form General Motors Research Corporation, of which Kettering was President and General Manager. (He had been Vice-President of General Motors since 1920.) In that position he headed investigations into methods of achieving maximum engine performance as well as into the nature of friction and combustion. Many other developments in the automobile field were made under his leadership, such as engine coolers, variable-speed transmissions, balancing machines, the two-way shock absorber, high-octane fuel, leaded petrol or gasoline, fast-drying lacquers, crank-case ventilators, chrome plating, and the high-compression automobile engine. Among his other activities were the establishment of the Charles Franklin Kettering Foundation for the Study of Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis at Antioch College, and the founding of the Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. He sponsored the Fever Therapy Research Project at Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, which developed the hypertherm, or artificial fever machine, for use in the treatment of disease. He resigned from General Motors in 1947.