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41 unit
единица; агрегат; узел; блок; ( войсковая) часть, подразделение; удельныйair support signal unit — Бр. подразделение связи авиационной поддержки
aircraft torpedo development unit — Бр. подразделение по испытанию и усовершенствованию авиационных торпед
air-sea warfare development unit — подразделение разработки приёмов борьбы авиации с кораблями противника
angular rate control unit — блок двухстепенных [прецессионных] гироскопов
auxiliary takeoff rocket unit — ракетный стартовый ускоритель [ускоритель взлета]
combat crew training unit — часть [подразделение] подготовки боевых экипажей
hose(-drum, -reel) unit — шланговый агрегат (системы дозаправки топливом)
jet assisted takeoff unit — реактивный ускоритель взлета; ркт. стартовый двигатель
long-range combat air unit — часть [подразделение] бомбардировочной авиации; подразделение истребителей-бомбардировщиков дальнего действия
main unit of landing gear — главная но: га шасси
monitor and equalization display unit — блок контроля и индикации рассогласования подсистем (резервированной системы)
range temperature control unit — дв. всережимный регулятор по температуре воздуха
rocket assisted takeoff unit — ракетный ускоритель взлета; ркт. стартовый двигатель
rudder artificial feel unit — механизм загрузки [усилий] руля направления
spotting and reconnaissance unit — корректировочно-разведывательная часть [подразделение]
vertical gyro control unit — гиродатчик вертикали; матка авиагоризонта
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42 control
управление; регулирование; контроль; орган [рычаг] управления; руль; pl. система управления или регулирования; управлять; регулироватьback seat flight control — управление ЛА из задней кабины [с места заднего лётчика]; pl. дублирующие органы управления в задней кабине
be out of control — терять управление [управляемость]; выходить из-под управления [контроля]
continuously variable thrust control — плавное [бесступенчатое] регулирование тяги
control c.g. control — регулирование центровки (ЛА)
control of missile attitude — стабилизация ракеты; управление пространственным положением ракеты
control of the air — превосходство или господство в воздухе; превосходство в области авиации [в авиационной технике]; контроль воздушного пространства
control of the yoke — разг. управление штурвалом
control of thrust orientation — управление ориентированием [направлением вектора] тяги
flight deck lighting controls — органы управления [ручки регулировки] освещением кабины экипажа
fling the controls over — перебрасывать органы управления (в противоположную сторону),
flow control with altitude compensation — регулятор расхода [подачи] с высотным корректором
fuel dump valve control — кран [рычаг крана] аварийного слива топлива
gas jet attitude control — управление пространственным положением с помощью системы газоструйных рулей
go out of control — терять управление, выходить из-под управления [контроля]
ground rollout rudder steering control — управление пробегом [на пробеге] с помощью руля направления
interconnected fuel and propeller controls — объединённая система регулирования подачи топлива и шага винта
jet tab thrust vector control — управление вектором тяги с помощью газовых рулей; дефлекторное управление вектором тяги
jet(-deflection, -direction) control — реактивное [струйное] управление; управление изменением направления тяги; струйный руль
manual mixture shut-off control — рычаг отсечки подачи горючей смеси, рычаг останова [выключения] двигателя
maximum boundary layer control — управление пограничным слоем при наибольшей эффективности [производительности, интенсивности работы] системы
recover the control — восстанавливать управление [управляемость]
respond to the controls — реагировать [отвечать] на отклонение рулей [органов управления]
space shuttle orbiter control — управление орбитальной ступенью челночного воздушно-космического аппарата
throttle and collective pitch control — верт. рычаг «шаг — газ»
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43 low
I
1. ləu adjective1) (not at or reaching up to a great distance from the ground, sea-level etc: low hills; a low ceiling; This chair is too low for the child.) bajo2) (making little sound; not loud: She spoke in a low voice.) bajo3) (at the bottom of the range of musical sounds: That note is too low for a female voice.) bajo4) (small: a low price.) bajo5) (not strong; weak or feeble: The fire was very low.) bajo6) (near the bottom in grade, rank, class etc: low temperatures; the lower classes.) bajo
2. adverb(in or to a low position, manner or state: The ball flew low over the net.) bajo- lower- lowly
- lowliness
- low-down
- lowland
- lowlander
- lowlands
- low-lying
- low-tech
3. adjectivelow-tech industries/skills.) (de) baja tecnología- be low on
II ləu verb(to make the noise of cattle; to moo: The cows were lowing.) mugirlow adj1. bajo2. gravetr[ləʊ]1 (in general) bajo,-a; (neckline) escotado,-a2 (battery) gastado,-a3 (depressed) deprimido,-a, abatido,-a4 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL grave1 bajo1 (low level) punto bajo2 SMALLMETEOROLOGY/SMALL área de baja presión\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto keep a low profile ser discreto,-alow comedy farsalow life bajos fondos nombre masculino pluralthe Low Countries los Países Bajos————————tr[ləʊ]1 (moo) mugirlow ['lo:] vi: mugirlow adv: bajo, profundoto aim low: apuntar bajoto lie low: mantenerse escondidoto turn the lights down low: bajar las luces1) : bajoa low building: un edificio bajoa low bow: una profunda reverencia2) soft: bajo, suavein a low voice: en voz baja3) shallow: bajo, poco profundo4) humble: humilde, modesto5) depressed: deprimido, bajo de moral6) inferior: bajo, inferior7) unfavorable: malto have a low opinion of him: tener un mal concepto de él8)to be low on : tener poco de, estar escaso delow n1) : punto m bajoto reach an all-time low: estar más bajo que nunca3) : mugido m (de una vaca)adj.• abatido, -a adj.• bajo, -a adj.• canallesco, -a adj.• deficiente adj.• grave adj.• hondo, -a adj.• humilde adj.• indigno, -a adj.• pequeño, -a adj.• rastrero, -a adj.• reducido, -a adj.adv.• bajo adv.n.• precio mínimo s.m.• punto bajo s.m.v.• berrear v.• mugir v.
I ləʊadjective -er, -est1) ( in height) bajoto fly at low altitude — volar* bajo or a poca altura
2)turn the radio down low — bájale al radio (AmL exc CS), baja la radio (CS, Esp)
b) ( in pitch) <key/note/pitch> grave, bajo3) (in intensity, amount, quality) <pressure/temperature> bajo; <wages/prices> bajo; < proportion> pequeño; <standard/quality> bajo, malo; <number/card> bajocook on a low flame o heat — cocinar a fuego lento
the temperature was in the low sixties — la temperatura apenas pasaba de 60° Fahrenheit
4) ( in short supply)supplies are low — los suministros escasean or están empezando a faltar
to be low ON something: we're rather low on milk — tenemos or nos queda poca leche
5) (in health, spirits)to feel low — ( physically) sentirse* débil; ( emotionally) estar* deprimido
to be in low spirits — estar* bajo de moral or con la moral baja
6)a) ( humble) (liter) bajo, humildeof low birth — de humilde cuna (liter)
b) ( despicable) bajo, mezquinoa low trick — una mala jugada, una mala pasada
II
adverb -er, -est1) bajoto fly low — volar* bajo or a poca altura
to bow low — hacer* una profunda reverencia
I wouldn't sink o stoop so low as to do that — no me rebajaría a hacer una cosa así, nunca caería tan bajo
2)a) (softly, quietly) bajob) ( in pitch) bajo
III
a) ( low point) punto m más bajothe peso has dropped to a new (record) low against the dollar — la cotización del peso ha alcanzado un nuevo mínimo (histórico) con respecto al dólar
relations between the two countries are at an all-time low — las relaciones entre los dos países nunca han sido peores
b) ( Meteo) zona f de bajas presiones
IV
intransitive verb mugir*
I [lǝʊ]1. ADJ(compar lower) (superl lowest)on low ground — a nivel del mar, en tierras bajas
2) (=quiet) [voice, TV, radio] bajo3) (=low-pitched) [voice, musical note] grave, bajo4) [number] bajo; [price, income] reducido, bajo; [stock, supplies] escaso5) (in intensity) [light, rate, speed, temperature] bajo6) (=inferior) [standard, quality] inferior7) (=humble) [rank] humilde; [card] pequeño8) (Aut)in low gear — en primera or segunda
9) [health] débil, malo; [diet] deficienteto feel low, be low in spirits — sentirse deprimido, estar bajo de moral
10) [character, behaviour, opinion] malo; [comedian] grosero; [character] vil; [joke, song] verde; [trick] sucio, malo; tide2. ADV(compar lower) (superl lowest)1) [aim, fly, sing] bajo; [swing] bajo, cerca de la tierra•
to bow low — hacer una reverencia profunda•
a dress cut low in the back — un vestido muy escotado de espalda•
to fall low — (fig) caer bajo•
to be laid low with flu — ser postrado por la gripe•
to lay sb low — derribar a algn, poner a algn fuera de combate•
to sink low — (fig) caer bajo2) [quietly] [say, sing] bajo, en voz baja3)to turn the lights/the volume down low — bajar las luces/el volumen
4) (Cards)3. N1) (Met) área f de baja presión2) (Aut) primera or segunda (marcha) f3) (fig) (=low point) punto m más bajoall-timeto reach a new or an all-time low — estar más bajo que nunca
4.CPDlow beam headlights NPL — (US) luces fpl de cruce
Low Church N — sector de la Iglesia Anglicana de tendencia más protestante
low comedy N — farsa f
Low Latin N — bajo latín m
low season N — (esp Brit) temporada f baja
Low Sunday N — Domingo m de Cuasimodo
low water mark N — línea f de bajamar
II [lǝʊ]1.VI mugir2.N mugido m* * *
I [ləʊ]adjective -er, -est1) ( in height) bajoto fly at low altitude — volar* bajo or a poca altura
2)turn the radio down low — bájale al radio (AmL exc CS), baja la radio (CS, Esp)
b) ( in pitch) <key/note/pitch> grave, bajo3) (in intensity, amount, quality) <pressure/temperature> bajo; <wages/prices> bajo; < proportion> pequeño; <standard/quality> bajo, malo; <number/card> bajocook on a low flame o heat — cocinar a fuego lento
the temperature was in the low sixties — la temperatura apenas pasaba de 60° Fahrenheit
4) ( in short supply)supplies are low — los suministros escasean or están empezando a faltar
to be low ON something: we're rather low on milk — tenemos or nos queda poca leche
5) (in health, spirits)to feel low — ( physically) sentirse* débil; ( emotionally) estar* deprimido
to be in low spirits — estar* bajo de moral or con la moral baja
6)a) ( humble) (liter) bajo, humildeof low birth — de humilde cuna (liter)
b) ( despicable) bajo, mezquinoa low trick — una mala jugada, una mala pasada
II
adverb -er, -est1) bajoto fly low — volar* bajo or a poca altura
to bow low — hacer* una profunda reverencia
I wouldn't sink o stoop so low as to do that — no me rebajaría a hacer una cosa así, nunca caería tan bajo
2)a) (softly, quietly) bajob) ( in pitch) bajo
III
a) ( low point) punto m más bajothe peso has dropped to a new (record) low against the dollar — la cotización del peso ha alcanzado un nuevo mínimo (histórico) con respecto al dólar
relations between the two countries are at an all-time low — las relaciones entre los dos países nunca han sido peores
b) ( Meteo) zona f de bajas presiones
IV
intransitive verb mugir* -
44 floating
['fləʊtɪŋ]1) (on water) [ bridge] galleggiante2) (unstable) [ population] fluttuante3) econ. [capital, debt] fluttuante* * *floating /ˈfləʊtɪŋ/A a.2 (ass., naut.) flottante: floating policy, polizza flottante (o aperta); floating cargo, carico flottante3 fluttuante; oscillante; variabile: (fin.) floating debt, debito fluttuante; (econ.) floating supply, offerta fluttuante; (stat.) floating population, popolazione fluttuante; (fin.) floating currency, valuta (o moneta) a tasso di cambio fluttuante (o a corso libero); (fin.) floating exchange rate, tasso di cambio fluttuante; (fin.) floating interest rate, tasso d'interesse variabile; (fin.) floating-rate bonds (o notes) obbligazioni a tasso d'interesse variabile5 (fisiol., med.) mobile: floating rib [kidney], costola [rene] mobileB n. [uc]● (naut.) floating anchor, ancora galleggiante □ (fin.) floating capital, capitale fluttuante; capitale circolante □ (leg., fin.) floating charge, garanzia (o privilegio) da cui è assistita un'obbligazione ( di una società: non esiste in Italia) □ ( giardinaggio) floating cloche, telo di plastica protettivo □ (naut.) floating crane, gru su pontone □ (naut.) floating dock, bacino di carenaggio galleggiante □ (naut.) floating light, faro galleggiante □ ( cucina) floating island, crema pasticcera con panna o albume montati a neve □ (mat., comput.) floating point, virgola mobile: floating point number, numero a virgola mobile; floating-point representation, rappresentazione in virgola mobile □ (naut.) floating stage, pontone □ (polit.) the floating vote, il voto fluttuante (o degli elettori indecisi) □ (polit.) floating voter, elettore indeciso; elettore che non vota sempre per lo stesso partito.* * *['fləʊtɪŋ]1) (on water) [ bridge] galleggiante2) (unstable) [ population] fluttuante3) econ. [capital, debt] fluttuante -
45 drop
I [drɔp] n1) капляShe drank it all to the last drop. — Она выпила все это до последней капли.
Large drops of sweat stream from his forehead. — Капли пота струились со лба.
Sweat rolled off in great drops. — Пот катился градом.
Drops of perspiration stood out on his forehead. — У него на лбу выступили капли пота.
- small drop- tiny drop
- dew drops
- tear drops
- glittering drops
- bitter drops
- drop bottle
- drop falls
- drop of rain
- cold drops of sweat
- two drops in a glass of water
- drop by drop
- at the first drops of rain
- absorb drops
- fall in small drops
- pour out a drop2) (обыкновенно pl) лекарственные капли- eye dropsLet me have my drops. — Дайте мне мои капли.
- nose drops
- ear drops
- drink in drops
- give smb the drops
- take some drops for one's heart
- take ten drops a day
- measure out a drop of medicine3) глоток, небольшое количество спиртногоHe's had a nice drop. — Он уже пропустил стаканчик.
He likes a little drop after dinner. — Он любит немного выпить после обеда.
I could do with a drop of something hot. — Я бы не прочь выпить чего-либо горячего. /Мне достаточно глотка чего-либо горячего.
I'll have a little tea, just a drop. — Я выпью немного чаю, только чуть-чуть.
Drop by drop wears the stone away. — ◊ Вода камень точит. /Капля и камень точит. /Капля по капле камень долбит. /Терпение и труд все перетрут.
The last drop makes the cup run over. — ◊ Последняя капля переполняет чашу терпения. /Семь бед миновал, а на одну наскочил.
A mere drop in the ocean. — ◊ Капля в море
- have a little drop- take a drop of water
- take a drop too much
- have a drop in one's eye
- take one's drops II [drɔp] nснижение, падение, понижениеThe plane made a mail and supply drop to the weather station. — Самолет сбросил почту и припасы на метеорологическую станцию.
He had a drop of about 20 feet. — Он сорвался/упал с высоты двадцать футов
- unexpected drop- sharp drop
- short drop
- vertical drop
- considerable drop
- 100 feet drop
- air drop
- mail drop
- birth-rate drop
- crime-rate drop
- drop seat
- drop front leaf
- sudden drop in temperature
- serious drop in income
- long drop down into the lake
- short drop to the lake
- suffer a drop in prices III [drɔp] v1) ронять, бросатьYou've dropped something. — Вы что-то обронили.
Be careful, don't drop that vase. — Осторожно, не урони вазу.
- drop smth- drop smth to the ground
- drop a handkerchief
- drop a letter
- drop a line to smb2) падать, капать, спадатьThe rain was dropping from the trees. — Дождь капал с деревьев.
Leaves drop to the ground. — Листья падают на землю.
My watch dropped into the water. — Мои часы упали в воду.
3) опускать, понижатьHis voice dropped to a whisper. — Его голос понизился до шепота.
- drop one's eyes- drop one's voice4) опускаться, снижаться- temperature dropped- prices are dropping5) прекращать- drop the subject- drop the conversation
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46 control
1) управление; регулирование; регулировка || управлять; регулировать; задавать2) контроль; проверка || контролировать; проверять3) орган управления; орган регулировки, регулятор; орган настройки4) устройство управления; блок управления6) рукоятка или рычаг управления7) профилактические мероприятия, надзор•"operation is under control" — всё предусмотрено для нормальной работы;to gain control — вчт. получать управление:to go out of control — становиться неуправляемым;to operate ( to handle) the flight controls — оперировать органами управления полётом;to pass control — вчт. передавать управление;to return control — вчт. возвращать управление;to take over control — брать управление на себя;to transfer control — вчт. передавать управление-
cascaded control-
cathode control-
CO/O2 combustion control-
communications control-
computer control-
contactor-type control-
continuous-path control-
course gage control-
current-mode control-
dispatcher control-
focusing control-
holding control-
horizontal-frequency control-
hue range control-
long-distance control-
managerial control-
microprogramming control-
numerical program control-
on-off action control-
position-based control-
slide control-
step-by-step control-
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47 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
48 characteristic
характеристика; характеристическая кривая; характерный параметр; характеристический; характерныйcollapsing characteristics of the gear — поведение [характеристики] шасси при поломке (в результате аварии, удара о землю)
explosive characteristics of fuel — взрывоопаспость топлива [горючего]
handling characteristics with autostabilization — характеристики управляемости (ЛА) с системой автостабилизации
handling characteristics without autostabilization — характеристики управляемости (ЛА) без системы автостабилизации
height control response characteristics — верт. характеристики управляемости по высоте
lift and drag characteristics — величины подъёмной силы и лобового сопротивления; зависимости подъёмной силы и лобового сопротивления
rough field handling characteristics — характеристики управляемости при движении по аэродрому с неровной поверхностью
s.f.c. characteristics — характеристики удельного расхода топлива [горючего]
Englsh-Russian aviation and space dictionary > characteristic
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49 tank
1. n водоём; резервуар2. n цистерна, бак, чанpetrol tank, gas tank — бензобак
store tank — бак-хранилище; складской бак; складская емкость
3. n фото бачок для проявления4. n реакторtreatment tank — реактор; пропиточный бак
5. n отсек6. n мор. опытный бассейн7. n элк. колебательный контур8. n информ. вчт. накопитель9. v наливать в бак10. v сохранять в бакеtank "full" mark — отметка верхнего уровня топливного бака
11. v обрабатывать в баке12. n воен. танкflail tank — танк-заградитель, танк с бойковым тралом
13. v разг. идти напроломСинонимический ряд:receptacle (noun) basin; cistern; container; holding pond; pool; receptacle; reservoir; store; supply; tub; vat; vessel -
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absorbent-type filter
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absorbent filter
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absorbing filter
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absorption filter
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ac line filter
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ac supply filter
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acoustic filter
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acousto-optical filter
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activated carbon filter
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active filter
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active power filter
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adaptive filter
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adaptive notch filter
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additive color filter
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additive filter
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adjustable density filter
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aerolescer pneumatic filter
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aerosol filter
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agile filter
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air filter
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air-conditioning filter
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air-intake filter
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all-dielectric interference filter
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all-pass filter
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all-pole filter
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all-zero filter
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ambient-light filter
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analog filter
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analog postsampling filter
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analog presampling filter
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anion-exchange filter
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antialiasing filter
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antialias filter
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aperture filter
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ash-free filter
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attenuator filter
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audio band-pass filter
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auto filter
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automatic drain filter
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bacterial filter
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bacteriological filter
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bag filter
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balanced filter
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band split filter
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band vacuum filter
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band-elimination filter
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band-exclusion filter
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band-limited filter
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band-pass filter
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band-rejection filter
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band-selective filter
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band-stop filter
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bandwidth filter
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bath filter
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beacon filter
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beat-interference filter
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belt filter
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bilithic filter
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binary filter
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biological filter
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blanket filter
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blue filter
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branching filter
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bridge filter
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broadband filter
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Butters filter
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Butterworth filter
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bypass filter
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bypass hydraulic filter
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candle filter
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canonical recursive filter
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capacitive filter
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capacitor filter
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cartridge filter
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cation-exchange filter
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Cauer filter
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cavity band-pass filter
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cavity filter
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cavity-coupled filter
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centrifugal air filter
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centrifugal filter
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centrifugal oil filter
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ceramic filter
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channel bank filter
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channel filter
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channel separating filter
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channel television filter
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Chebyshev filter
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chirp filter
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choke filter
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chroma filter
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chrominance notch filter
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click filter
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clogged filter
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cloth filter
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clutter suppression filter
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clutter filter
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C-message filter
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coalescing filter
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coarse filter
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coarse fuel filter
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coarse-grained filter
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coarse-mesh filter
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coaxial direct coupled resonator filter
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coaxial filter
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color filter
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color-balancing filter
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color-compensating filter
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color-correcting filter
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color-encoding filter
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color-separation filter
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color-stripe filter
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color-subcarrier notch filter
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color-trimming filter
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comb filter
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combined fuel filter
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compensating filter
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compensation filter
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contact filter
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continuously variable filter
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convolution filter
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correcting filter
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correction filter
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cross coupling filter
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crystal filter
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cyan filter
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dark-room filter
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dechirping filter
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decimation filter
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decision-feedback filter
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decoupling filter
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deemphasis filter
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deer-skin filter
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dehydrator filter
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delay-line filter
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depth filter
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detarring filter
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dewatering filter
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dielectric filter
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dielectric resonator filter
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diesel and fuel-oil filter
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digital elliptic filter
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digital filter
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digital matched filter
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digitally controlled filter
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discrete filter
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discrete-time linear filter
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discrimination filter
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disk filter
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disk vacuum filter
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dispersion filter
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dispersive filter
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disposable element filter
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disposable hydraulic filter
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distributed-constant filter
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distributed-element filter
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Doppler filter
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downward-flow filter
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drainage filter
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drum filter
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drum vacuum filter
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dry electrical filter
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dry filter
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drying filter
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dual hydraulic filter
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dual-split filter
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duplex filter
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dust filter
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easy-off filter
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edge-type disk filter
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effects filter
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electric filter
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electromechanical filter
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electronically tunable filter
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elimination filter
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elliptic filter
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enhancement filter
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enlarging filter
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envelope filter
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equalized filter
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equiripple filter
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externally mounted filter
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extraripple filter
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fabric filter
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fan filter
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feedback filter
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feedthrough filter
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ferrite-tunable filter
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fiberglass filter
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fibrous filter
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film filter
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final filter
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fine fuel filter
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finite-duration impulse-response filter
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finite impulse-response filter
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fixed target rejection filter
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fixed-frequency filter
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fixed filter
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float drain filter
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fog filter
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frequency filter
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frequency-selective filter
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front-end filter
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fuel filter
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fuel primary filter
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full-flow filter
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full-flow powdered ion-exchange filter
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Gaussian filter
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gauze filter
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gelatin filter
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generating filter
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glass filter
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glovebox filter
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graded filter
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gravel filter
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gravel packed filter
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gravel-sand filter
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gravitation filter
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gravity filter
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gray filter
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grease filter
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guard filter
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gyrator filter
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harmonic filter
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H-cation filter
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heat filter
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heavy oil filter
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HEPA filter
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high-cut filter
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high-frequency filter
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high-pass filter
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high-pressure filter
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high-rate filter
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high-temperature filter
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holographic filter
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hose air-jet filter
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hose pressure filter
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hose suction filter
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hot filter
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hum-eliminating filter
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hum filter
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hydraulic filter
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I filter
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IIR filter
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image-deblurring filter
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image-reflection filter
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impingement filter
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inductive filter
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infinite-duration impulse-response filter
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infinite impulse-response filter
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infrared filter
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in-line filter
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input filter
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insert filter
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intake filter
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in-tank filter
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integral oil filter
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integrate-and-dump filter
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integrating filter
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interdigital filter
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interference filter
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intermediate-frequency filter
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interpolation filter
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inverse filter
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inverted filter
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ion-exchange filter
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isolation filter
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jet filter
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Kalman filter
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keying filter
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ladder-type filter
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ladder filter
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lag filter
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lattice filter
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leapfrog filter
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light filter
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line filter
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linear filter
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loop filter
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low-cut filter
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low-frequency filter
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low-pass filter
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low-pass sampling filter
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low-pass zonal filter
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low-pressure filter
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low-rate filter
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L-type hydraulic filter
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lubrication filter
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lumped-constant filter
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lumped-element filter
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magnetic filter
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mandrel wrap filter
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mantle filter
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mash filter
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mass filter
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matched filter
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matching filter
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maximal ripple filter
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maximally-flat filter
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mechanical-wave filter
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mechanical filter
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membrane filter
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meshwire filter
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mesh filter
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metal disk fuel filter
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micronic filter
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microstrip filter
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microwave filter
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millipore filter
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mineral filter
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minimum-delay filter
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minimum-phase filter
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mirror filter
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mismatched filter
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mist filter
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mode filter
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modular hydraulic filter
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modulation filter
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monopole mass filter
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mosaic filter
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multibag filter
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multiband filter
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multicavity microwave filter
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multiple resonator filter
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multisection filter
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multistage filter
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narrow-band filter
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neutral-density filter
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neutral filter
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neutralizing filter
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never stop filter
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night filter
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noise filter
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nonclogging filter
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nonlinear filter
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nonminimum phase filter
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nonrecursive filter
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North matching filter
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notch filter
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nutsch filter
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octave filter
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oil bath filter
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oil filter
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oil-bath air filter
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one-pole filter
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on-line installable filter
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optical filter
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output filter
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outside-in filter
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pack filter
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paper filter
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partial flow filter
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partial flow hydraulic filter
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pass-band filter
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passive filter
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percolating filter
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percolation filter
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phase filter
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pilot filter
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pipeless filter
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pi-section filter
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plate-type filter
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plate filter
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plugged filter
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polarization filter
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polarizing filter
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polaroid filter
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pole-zero filter
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porous metal filter
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postdigitizing filter
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postemphasis filter
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postequalization filter
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postsampling filter
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powder filter
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power-line filter
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precoat filter
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prediction filter
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predictive-error filter
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predigitizing filter
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preliminary filter
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presampling filter
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pressure filter
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pressure line filter
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primary filter
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prime filter
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programmable filter
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proportional filter
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psophometric filter
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pulse-compression filter
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pulse-jet filter
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purified-helium dust filter
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Q filter
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quad filter
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quadrature mirror filter
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quadrupole mass filter
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quartz filter
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quick removal filter
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rapid filter
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reconstruction filter
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rectifier filter
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recursive filter
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rejection filter
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repulp filter
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resonant filter
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return filter
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return oil filter
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reverse filter
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RF filter
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ripple filter
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roll-off filter
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rotary filter
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safety filter
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sampled-data filter
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sand filter
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SAW filter
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scatter filter
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screen filter
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screw-in filter
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scrubber filter
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scrubbing filter
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second order damped filter
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secondary air filter
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secondary filter
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security filter
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selective filter
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self-aligning filter
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self-blowing drum filter
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self-cleaning filter
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self-tuning filter
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separation filter
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sewage filter
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shaping filter
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sharp-cutoff filter
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shunt filter
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sideband filter
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signal-separation filter
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silica gel filter
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sintered filter
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sintered glass filter
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sintered metal filter
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smoke filter
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smoothing filter
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sniffing filter
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softening filter
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solid-state filter
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spatial filter
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spatiotemporal filter
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sponge filter
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standard-rate filter
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star filter
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state-variable filter
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stop-band
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streamline filter
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striped-color filter
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striped filter
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strip-line filter
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submersible filter
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subtractive color filter
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subtractive filter
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suction filter
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suppression filter
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surface-acoustic-wave filter
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swept filter
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switched-capacitor filter
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synchronous filter
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synthetic fiber dust filter
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tapped-delay line filter
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telltale filter
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textile filter
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Thomson filter
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through filter
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throw-away filter
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time-varying filter
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toe filter
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total filter
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tracking filter
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transmission filter
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transparency filter
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transversal filter
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trickling filter
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tricolor filters
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trimming filter
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T-type hydraulic filter
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tubular cloth filter
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tunable filter
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tuned filter
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two-stage hydraulic filter
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ultraviolet filter
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unmatched filter
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vacuum filter
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variable band-pass filter
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variable density filter
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variable filter
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velocity filter
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ventilation filter
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vestigial sideband filter
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video filter
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viscous filter
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voice filter
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wadding filter
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wash hydraulic filter
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water filter
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wave filter
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waveguide direct coupled resonator filter
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waveguide filter
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wedge interference filter
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weighting filter
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weight filter
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wet electrical filter
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wet filter
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whitening filter
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wide-band filter
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Wiener filter
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wire mesh filter
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wire screen filter
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YIG filter
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51 indicator
1) индикатор; указатель3) стрелка; указатель ( измерительного прибора)5) вчт. индикаторный регистр•-
acceleration indicator
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acid-base indicator
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adjustable indicator
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air cleaner service indicator
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airfield surface movement indicator
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air-position indicator
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airspeed indicator
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alphanumeric indicator
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alphameric indicator
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altitude indicator
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altitude-limit indicator
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analog/digital indicator
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anchor cable indicator
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angle of attack indicator
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antenna position indicator
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approach slope indicator
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attack angle indicator
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attitude director indicator
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attitude indicator
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audio indicator
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availability indicator
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axle load indicator
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azimuth-elevation indicator
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balance indicator
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bank-and-pitch indicator
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banner indicator
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bar-graph indicator
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bar indicator
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baro data indicator
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battery charge indicator
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beam indicator
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bearing indicator
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beat indicator
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bin-level indicator
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biological indicator
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blast indicator
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blown fuse indicator
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boom angle indicator
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burnout indicator
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busy indicator
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cable-fault indicator
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cable-operated indicator
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call indicator
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camera speed indicator
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capacitance level indicator
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carbon ribbon supply indicator
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cathode-ray tube indicator
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cathode-ray indicator
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cathode-ray tuning indicator
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challenge indicator
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character indicator
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charge indicator
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check indicator
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circular scan indicator
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climb-and-descent rate indicator
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clogging indicator
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color-change indicator
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color indicator
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compass repeater indicator
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consumption indicator
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contamination indicator
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continuation indicator
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continuous-reading indicator
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continuous indicator
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control position electric indicator
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coolant level indicator
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course deviation indicator
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course direction indicator
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course indicator
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course-and-bearing indicator
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cross-pointer indicator
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CRT indicator
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currency indicator
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data indicator
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dead reckoning indicator
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deflection indicator
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demand indicator
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depth indicator
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depth-of-field indicator
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dew-point indicator
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dial indicator
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digital indicator
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digital pressure indicator
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direct indicator
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direction indicator
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direct-reading indicator
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dirt indicator
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discharge indicator
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dome-temperature indicator
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draft indicator
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drift angle indicator
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drift indicator
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drilling efficiency indicator
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electrical zero indicator
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electrical-contact indicator
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electroluminescent indicator
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elevation-position indicator
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end-of-file indicator
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end-of-film run indicator
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end-of-line indicator
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end-of-page indicator
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end-of-tape indicator
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explosive-gas indicator
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failure indicator
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failure warning indicator
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fault indicator
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film footage indicator
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filter bypass indicator
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filter clogging indicator
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filter differential pressure indicator
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firedamp indicator
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fixed-pointer indicator
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fixed-scale indicator
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flag indicator
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flap position indicator
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flash indicator
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flight indicator
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float level indicator
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flow indicator
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fluorescent indicator
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flywheel runout indicator
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fouling point indicator
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frame indicator
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free point indicator
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frequency indicator
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fuel indicator
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fuse indicator
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fusion-type indicator
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gas indicator
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gas-discharge indicator
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glass level indicator
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glow-discharge indicator
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ground indicator
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ground-position indicator
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guest-host indicator
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heading indicator
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height-position indicator
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height-range indicator
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helm indicator
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high-level indicator
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hot-spot indicator
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humidity indicator
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icing indicator
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illuminated indicator
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indicator of pollution
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in-lock indicator
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instantaneous pressure indicator
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interlock indicator
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interrupt indicator
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irreversible thermal indicator
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isotopic indicator
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jamming environment indicator
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knock indicator
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landing direction indicator
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leakage indicator
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LED indicator
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level indicator
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level-type indicator
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light-emitting-diode indicator
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limit indicator
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line indicator
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linear analog indicator
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liquid-crystal indicator
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local indicator
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location indicator
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log indicator
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low fuel level indicator
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luminescent indicator
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machine check indicator
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magazine orientation indicator
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magnetic compass indicator
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magnetic indicator for lightning current
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malfunction indicator
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mass-flow indicator
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maximum demand indicator
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measuring indicator
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moisture indicator
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movable-pointer indicator
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movable-scale indicator
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moving-target indicator
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mud-flow indicator
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multirange indicator
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needle indicator
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neon indicator
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null indicator
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null-frequency indicator
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numerical indicator
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numeric indicator
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oil indicator
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oil-level indicator
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oil-pressure indicator
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open-circuit indicator
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operation indicator
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operator indicator
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optimum-shift-point indicator
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oscillation indicator
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overflow indicator
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overload indicator
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partial discharge indicator
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passing signal indicator
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patch indicator
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peak indicator
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phase indicator
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phase rotation indicator
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P-indicator
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pit volume indicator
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plan-position indicator
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plasma indicator
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pneumatic job setting indicator
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point indicator
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pointer indicator
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polarity indicator
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position indicator
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potential indicator
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power indicator
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power ready indicator
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power-factor indicator
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power-level indicator
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precipitation indicator
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pressure indicator
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pressure ratio indicator
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priority message indicator
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proximity warning indicator
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radar indicator
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radial-time-base indicator
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radiation indicator
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radio magnetic indicator
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radioactivity indicator
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range indicator
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range-height indicator
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rate-of-climb indicator
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rate-of-flow indicator
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reference indicator
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remote indicator
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remote power indicator
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reset-type filter indicator
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reversible thermal indicator
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revolution indicator
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ribbon advance indicator
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ring indicator
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rotating-drum indicator
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route indicator
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routing indicator
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rudder angle indicator
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rudder indicator
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running notch indicator
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runway alignment indicator
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scale indicator
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scene brightness indicator
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scoring indicator
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shadow tuning indicator
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shorted-turn indicator
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short-turn indicator
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sign check indicator
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signal strength indicator
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skyline tension indicator
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slave indicator
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space target Doppler indicator
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speed indicator
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stability indicator
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stack indicator
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standing-wave indicator
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state-of-charge indicator
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status indicator
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stock indicator
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stop-light indicator
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storm indicator
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straingage indicator
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strain indicator
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stroke indicator
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sun intensity indicator
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sun-position indicator
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switch indicator
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synchro indicator
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tank-level indicator
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tap position indicator
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temperature indicator
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thickness indicator
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thread indicator
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tilt indicator
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tire-wear indicator
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tong-torque indicator
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ton-mile indicator
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top-center indicator
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total volume indicator
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track indicator
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track-occupancy indicator
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traffic indicator
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train indicator
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transmission test indicator
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transmission-type indicator
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trim indicator
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trim tab indicator
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tuned-reed indicator
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tuning indicator
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turn indicator
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turn-and-bank indicator
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turn-and-slip indicator
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ultraviolet indicator
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vacuum indicator
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vertical-scale indicator
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visible indicator
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visual approach slope indicator
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voltage indicator
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voltage-deviation indicator
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volume indicator
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water-level indicator
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weight-on-the-bit indicator
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weight indicator
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wind direction indicator
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wind indicator
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window-annunciator indicator
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52 SDR
1) Компьютерная техника: Systems of Distinct Representatives2) Геология: Special Drawing Rates3) Медицина: peak systolic to end diastolic ratio4) Американизм: Statistical Discrepancy Reported5) Военный термин: Small Development Requirement, Source-Directed Requirements, Supply Discrepancy Report, Surrogate Data Radio, System Design Requirement, signal data recorder, sonar data recorder, special dispatch rider, special driver, system definition requirement, system design report, system design review, system development requirement, system discrepancy report, анализ проекта системы (System Design Review)6) Техника: SNAP Developmental Reactor, scope of design revision, security design report, shutdown for repairs, significant deficiency report, single-drift region, site defense radar, sodium D2O reactor, sodium heavy water (DtO) reactor, software design requirement, software design review, software development requirement, splash detection radar, storage data register, strip-domain resonance, supplier deviation request7) Математика: система различных представителей (system of distinct representatives)8) Финансы: валюта, применяющаяся в расчётах МВФ9) Сокращение: Signal-to-Distortion Ratio, Software for Distributed Robotics, Strategic Defence Review (UK MoD), sender, sounder, sub-bottom depth recorder10) Физика: surface differential reflectivity11) Электроника: Software Defined Radio12) Вычислительная техника: Shared Data Research, Streaming Data Request, Single Data Rate (DDR, QDR), Store Data Register (IC), Service DiRectory (tool, SAP)13) Нефть: shut down for repairs, прекращение работ для проведения ремонта (shutdown for repairs), специальное право заимствования14) Банковское дело: специальные права заимствования (расчётные денежные единицы в рамках Международного валютного фонда; special drawing rights)15) Транспорт: Service Difficulty Report16) Воздухоплавание: Space Drawing Rights17) Деловая лексика: Singapore Depository Receipt, Special Depository Receipt, Special Drawing Right, специальные права заимствования (расчётные денежные единицы в рамках Международного валютного фонда, special drawing rights)18) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Standard Dimensional Ratio19) Менеджмент: supplier document register21) Инвестиции: special drawing rights22) Сетевые технологии: Session Directory Protocol, Single Data Rate23) Полимеры: slush, dip and rotational molding, standard( thermoplastic pipe) dimension ratio24) Контроль качества: small development requirements, system development requirements25) Пластмассы: Standard Diameter Ratio26) Химическое оружие: Safety design review, Software Discrepancy Report27) Обогащение: удельная скорость дренирования, specific drain rate28) Расширение файла: Sounder system Music, Statistical Data Recorder -
53 sdr
1) Компьютерная техника: Systems of Distinct Representatives2) Геология: Special Drawing Rates3) Медицина: peak systolic to end diastolic ratio4) Американизм: Statistical Discrepancy Reported5) Военный термин: Small Development Requirement, Source-Directed Requirements, Supply Discrepancy Report, Surrogate Data Radio, System Design Requirement, signal data recorder, sonar data recorder, special dispatch rider, special driver, system definition requirement, system design report, system design review, system development requirement, system discrepancy report, анализ проекта системы (System Design Review)6) Техника: SNAP Developmental Reactor, scope of design revision, security design report, shutdown for repairs, significant deficiency report, single-drift region, site defense radar, sodium D2O reactor, sodium heavy water (DtO) reactor, software design requirement, software design review, software development requirement, splash detection radar, storage data register, strip-domain resonance, supplier deviation request7) Математика: система различных представителей (system of distinct representatives)8) Финансы: валюта, применяющаяся в расчётах МВФ9) Сокращение: Signal-to-Distortion Ratio, Software for Distributed Robotics, Strategic Defence Review (UK MoD), sender, sounder, sub-bottom depth recorder10) Физика: surface differential reflectivity11) Электроника: Software Defined Radio12) Вычислительная техника: Shared Data Research, Streaming Data Request, Single Data Rate (DDR, QDR), Store Data Register (IC), Service DiRectory (tool, SAP)13) Нефть: shut down for repairs, прекращение работ для проведения ремонта (shutdown for repairs), специальное право заимствования14) Банковское дело: специальные права заимствования (расчётные денежные единицы в рамках Международного валютного фонда; special drawing rights)15) Транспорт: Service Difficulty Report16) Воздухоплавание: Space Drawing Rights17) Деловая лексика: Singapore Depository Receipt, Special Depository Receipt, Special Drawing Right, специальные права заимствования (расчётные денежные единицы в рамках Международного валютного фонда, special drawing rights)18) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Standard Dimensional Ratio19) Менеджмент: supplier document register21) Инвестиции: special drawing rights22) Сетевые технологии: Session Directory Protocol, Single Data Rate23) Полимеры: slush, dip and rotational molding, standard( thermoplastic pipe) dimension ratio24) Контроль качества: small development requirements, system development requirements25) Пластмассы: Standard Diameter Ratio26) Химическое оружие: Safety design review, Software Discrepancy Report27) Обогащение: удельная скорость дренирования, specific drain rate28) Расширение файла: Sounder system Music, Statistical Data Recorder -
54 steam
1. n парsteam inhalation — вдыхание паров, ингаляция
2. n разг. энергияto keep up a little steam in local industry — поддерживать хоть какую-то жизнь в местной промышленности
to run out of steam — устать, измотаться; быть совершенно без сил
3. a паровой4. a устаревший, допотопный5. v выделять пар или испарения6. v двигаться, идтиthe London express steamed into Newcastle right on time — лондонский экспресс пришёл в Ньюкасл точно по расписанию
7. v идти на всех парах, мчаться8. v готовить, варить на пару9. v запотевать, отпотевать10. v разг. развивать бешеную энергию11. v спец. обрабатывать паром, парить, пропаривать12. v спец. текст. декатировать13. v спец. отпаривать14. v спец. разг. злиться, кипетьСинонимический ряд:1. dampness (noun) dampness; moisture; wetness2. drive (noun) drive; enterprise; hustle; punch; vigour3. power (noun) animation; arm; beef; brawn; dint; energy; force; might; muscle; oomph; potency; power; puissance; sinew; sprightliness; strength; strong arm; vigor; vim; virtue4. water vapor (noun) cloud; condensation; fog; fumes; gas; haze; mist; vapor; vapour; water vapor; water vapour5. make steam (verb) boil; cook with steam; distil; give off steam; heat; make steam; pressure cook; vaporise; vaporize; volatilize -
55 contract
̘. ̈n.ˈkɔntrækt
1. сущ.
1) юридический документ а) контракт, договор, соглашение (любого рода) Society is indeed a contract. ≈ Общество - это в самом деле своего рода соглашение. - yellow-dog contract - award contract - legal contract - valid contract - void contract - sweetheart contract - against the contract - under the contract abrogate contract cancel contract repudiate contract breach contract break contract violate contract carry out contract execute contract conclude contract sign contract draw up contract write contract negotiate contract ratify contract contract price contract law б) брачный договор (также в варианте marriage contract) ;
помолвка;
приданое Syn: betrothal ∙ Syn: covenant, compact, bargain, agreement, treaty
2) затея, "дело", предприятие, авантюра
3) ж.-д. квартальный проездной билет
4) карт. заказ( в играх типа преферанса: взять то или иное число взяток) ;
вист, преферанс, бридж (в зависимости от контекста)
5) сл. заказ на убийство put a contract on smb.
2. гл.
1) становиться связанным с кем-л. или чем-л. а) заключать договор, соглашение;
принимать на себя обязательство;
вступать в какие-л. юридические отношения (в частности, брачные) The city contracted for a new library with their firm. ≈ С их фирмой городские власти заключили контракт на новую библиотеку. The firm contracted to construct the bridge. ≈ Фирма заключила договор на постройку моста. The woman claims that she contracted a form of marriage with the prisoner, who already has a wife. ≈ Эта женщина заявляет, что заключила с арестованным нечто вроде брачного контракта, но у него уже есть жена. - contract out - contract in Syn: agree, engage б) заводить, завязать( дружбу, знакомство и т.п.;
может прямо не переводиться) He felt that he contracted his first college friendship. ≈ Он почувствовал, что нашел своего первого друга в колледже. в) приобретать( привычку) ;
мед. заразиться, заболеть We cannot help contracting good from such association. ≈ В таком обществе нельзя не стать лучше. Syn: incur, catch, acquire г) делать долги;
оказываться связанным обязательствами The loans contracted had amounted to 530,000,000 francs. ≈ Общая сумма заимствований составила 530 миллионов франков.
2) уменьшаться в размерах, объеме и т.п. а) сжимать(ся) ;
сокращать(ся) The rocks, contracting the road. ≈ Скалы, зажимающие между собой дорогу. He hopes shortly to contract his expense. ≈ Он надеется вскоре сократить свои расходы. contract expenses contract efforts contract muscles Syn: restrict, confine, б) хмурить, морщить The companion whose brow is never contracted by resentment or indignation. ≈ Человек, на чьем лбу никогда не видели морщин отвращения. в) линг. стягиваться, подвергаться контракции (см. contracted
5)) г) объединять в себе, стягивать Why love among the virtues is not known;
It is, that love contracts them all in one. ≈ Почему любовь не числится среди добродетелей? Потому, что она объединяет их все. The king contracted formidable forces near Sedan. ≈ Король собрал огромную мощь под Седаном. д) тех. давать усадку ∙ Syn: concentrate, narrow, limit, shorten, shrink, knit ∙ contract in contract out договор, соглашение, контракт;
- * of purchase /of sale/ договор купли-продажи - * of insurance договор страхования - * period долгосрочный договор - * under seal договор за печатью - to make to enter into/ a * with заключить договор с - to accept /to approve/ a * принять соглашение - to award a * (американизм) заключить подряд - to be engaged on a * to supply smth., to be under * for smth. подписать договор на поставку чего-л брачный контракт помолвка, обручение( разговорное) предприятие (особ. строительное) (американизм) (жаргон) договоренность( о совершении преступления, особ. убийства) ;
плата наемному убийце (карточное) объявление масти и количества взяток (карточное) (разговорное) бридж-контракт договорный;
обусловленный договором, соглашением, контрактом - * price договорная цена - * value стоимость товаров, купленных или проданных по договору - * law договорное право - * surgeon( военное) вольнонаемный врач заключать договор, соглашение, сделку, контракт;
принимать на себя обязательства - to * to build a house заключить договор на постройку дома - to * a marriage with smb. заключать брачный контракт с кем-л. заключать (союз и т. п.) - to * an alliance with a foreign country заключить союз с иностранным государством приобретать, получать - to * good habits приобретать хорошие привычки - to * debts делать долги подхватывать (болезнь) - to * a disease заболеть сокращенная форма слова, сокращенное слово сжимать, сокращать;
суживать;
стягивать - to * muscles сокращать мускулы - to * a word сократить слово сжиматься, сокращаться;
суживаться - the heart *s by the action of the muscles сердце сокращается благодаря работе мышц - the valley *s as one goes up it по мере подъема долина сужается хмурить;
морщить - to * one's forehead морщить лоб - to * one's eyebrows нахмурить брови (техническое) давать усадку - wool fibers * in hot water шерстяное волокно в горячей воде садится accessory ~ юр. акцессорный договор accessory ~ акцессорный договор adhesion ~ договор присоединения adhesion ~ контракт присоединения adhesion ~ согласительный контракт advertising ~ контракт на рекламу agency ~ агентский договор aleatory ~ юр. алеаторный договор aleatory ~ алеаторный (рисковый) договор aleatory ~ юр. рисковый договор ancillary ~ дополнительный контракт annuity ~ договор страхования ренты annul a ~ аннулировать контракт antenuptial ~ сем.право добрачный договор apprenticeship ~ договор об ученичестве (связывающий лицо, желающее приобрести профессиональные навыки, и лицо, предоставляющее такое обучение на предприятии) apprenticeship ~ контракт на обучение back ~ фьючерсный контракт с наибольшим сроком break a ~ разрывать контракт building ~ контракт на строительство building loan ~ контракт на получение ссуды на строительство call-off ~ рамочный контракт cancel a ~ расторгать контракт cargo ~ договор о перевозке груза collateral ~ дополнительный контракт collective bargaining ~ коллективный договор collective labour ~ коллективное трудовое соглашение commercial ~ торговый договор commission ~ комиссионный контракт commutative ~ юр. двусторонняя сделка commutative ~ юр. синаллагматическая сделка conclude a ~ заключать договор conditional sale ~ контракт об условной продаже consensual ~ консенсуальный договор, договор, основанный на устном соглашении сторон construction ~ строительный подряд consultant's ~ договор о консультировании continuing ~ действующий контракт continuous purchase ~ непрерывно действующий договор купли-продажи contract брачный договор;
помолвка, обручение ~ брачный контракт ~ вступать (в брак, в союз) ~ тех. давать усадку;
спекаться ~ делать (долги) ~ договор ~ единица торговли на срочных биржах ~ заводить (дружбу) ;
завязать (знакомство) ~ заключать договор, соглашение;
принимать на себя обязательство ~ заключать договор ~ заключать контракт, договор ~ заключать контракт ~ заключать сделку ~ заключать соглашение ~ контракт, договор;
соглашение ~ контракт, договор ~ контракт ~ определение на службу ~ подряд ~ разг. предприятие (особ. строительное) ~ принимать (обязанности) ~ принимать на себя обязательства ~ приобретать (привычку) ;
получать, подхватывать;
to contract a disease заболеть ~ сжимать(ся) ;
сокращать(ся) ;
to contract expenses сокращать расходы;
to contract efforts уменьшать усилия;
to contract muscles сокращать мышцы ~ снижаться ~ сокращать ~ сокращаться ~ лингв. стягивать ~ хмурить;
морщить;
to contract the brow (или the forehead) морщить лоб ~ приобретать (привычку) ;
получать, подхватывать;
to contract a disease заболеть ~ attr. договорный;
contract price договорная цена;
contract law юр. договорное право ~ сжимать(ся) ;
сокращать(ся) ;
to contract expenses сокращать расходы;
to contract efforts уменьшать усилия;
to contract muscles сокращать мышцы ~ сжимать(ся) ;
сокращать(ся) ;
to contract expenses сокращать расходы;
to contract efforts уменьшать усилия;
to contract muscles сокращать мышцы ~ for carriage of passengers контракт на перевозку пассажиров ~ in restraint of trade договор об ограничении конкуренции ~ in writing договор в письменном виде ~ attr. договорный;
contract price договорная цена;
contract law юр. договорное право law: contract ~ договорное право ~ сжимать(ся) ;
сокращать(ся) ;
to contract expenses сокращать расходы;
to contract efforts уменьшать усилия;
to contract muscles сокращать мышцы ~ of adhesion договор на основе типовых условий ~ of adhesion договор присоединения ~ of affreightment договор о морской перевозке ~ of apprenticeship договор на обучение ~ of carriage контракт на перевозку ~ of carriage контракт на транспортировку ~ of delivery контракт на поставку ~ of employment контракт о работе по найму ~ of employment трудовое соглашение ~ of guarantee договор о поручительстве ~ of hire договор о найме ~ of hire контракт о прокате ~ of limited duration договор с ограниченным сроком действия ~ of mutual insurance договор о взаимном страховании ~ of partnership договор о партнерстве ~ of purchase договор купли-продажи ~ of record договор, облеченный в публичный акт ~ of sale договор купли-продажи ~ of service договор о сроках и условиях работы служащего ~ of service контракт на обслуживание ~ of trade торговый договор ~ out of освобождаться от обязательств ~ attr. договорный;
contract price договорная цена;
contract law юр. договорное право price: contract ~ договорная цена contract ~ сумма подряда ~ хмурить;
морщить;
to contract the brow (или the forehead) морщить лоб ~ to deliver goods контракт на поставку товаров ~ to pay by instalments принимать на себя обязательство платить в рассрочку ~ to sell соглашение о продаже cost-plus-incentive-fee ~ контракт с оплатой издержек плюс поощрительное вознаграждение cost-sharing ~ контракт с разделением затрат covered forward ~ бирж. защищенная срочная сделка currency ~ валютный контракт currency stipulated by ~ валюта, оговоренная контрактом currency used in a ~ валюта, используемая согласно контракту deferred annuity ~ договор об отсроченной ренте delivery ~ договор на поставку delivery ~ контракт на поставку determine a ~ прекращать действие договора determine a ~ расторгнуть договор development ~ договор на разработку development ~ контракт на строительство employee working under ~ работник, работающий по контракту employment ~ контракт личного найма employment training ~ контракт на производственное обучение endowment ~ договор о материальном обеспечении enforceable ~ контракт, обеспеченный правовой санкцией enter into ~ заключать договор entering into a ~ заключение контракта estate ~ контракт на владение имуществом exclusive ~ эксклюзивный контракт executed ~ договор, исполняемый в момент заключения executory ~ контракт, подлежащий исполнению в будущем export ~ контракт на экспорт продукции fictitious ~ фиктивный контракт fiduciary ~ фидуциарный договор fixed forward ~ бирж. форвардный контракт с фиксированной ценой fixed price ~ контракт с фиксированной ценой fixed-term ~ срочный контракт;
контракт заключенный на определенный срок fixed-term: fixed-term contract контракт на определенный срок;
срочный договор formal ~ оформленный договор formal ~ формальный договор forward ~ бирж. срочный контракт forward ~ бирж. форвардный контракт forward cover ~ контракт на куплю-продажу ценных бумаг на срок freight ~ контракт на перевозку грузов full payout ~ договор о полной выплате futures ~ бирж. сделка на срок futures ~ бирж. срочный контракт futures ~ бирж. фьючерсный контракт gaming ~ договор пари general ~ генеральный контракт general service ~ договор на общее обслуживание government ~ правительственный контракт hire ~ договор о найме hire purchase ~ юр. контракт о продаже в рассрочку homeownership savings ~ банк. договор о хранении сбережений от домовладения illegal ~ противоправный договор immoral ~ договор, нарушающий нравственность import ~ контракт на импорт incidental ~ побочный контракт incompetent to ~ не имеющий права вступать в сделки index-linked ~ индексированный контракт individual trade ~ идивидуальный торговый договор insurance ~ договор страхования insurance ~ страховой контракт interest rate ~ договор о ставке процента investment ~ договор об инвестировании joint development ~ совместный контракт на научные исследования joint venture ~ контракт о совместном предприятии labour ~ трудовое соглашение labour ~ трудовой договор labour: ~ contract трудовой договор land ~ договор о землевладении lease ~ договор о найме lease ~ договор об аренде leasing ~ договор об аренде licence ~ лицензионный договор loan ~ договор о ссуде loan ~ контракт на получение кредита loan ~ кредитное соглашение long ~ долгосрочный контракт long ~ фьючерсный контракт long-term ~ долгосрочный контракт long-term ~ фьючерсный контракт luggage carriage ~ контракт на перевозку багажа lump sum ~ контракт с твердой ценой main ~ основной договор maintenance ~ вчт. контракт на обслуживание maintenance ~ контракт на техническое обслуживание marine insurance ~ договор морского страхования marriage ~ брачный контракт mining ~ контракт на разработку месторождений полезных ископаемых model ~ типовой договор nearby ~ бирж. фьючерсный контракт с истекающим сроком nonfull payout ~ контракт с неполной выплатой nonfull payout ~ контракт с частичной выплатой notifiable ~ контракт, подлежащий регистрации open ~ бирж. открытый контракт open ~ бирж. срочный контракт с неистекшим сроком open-end ~ контракт, допускающий внесение изменений open-end ~ контракт без оговоренного срока действия open-end ~ открытый контракт option ~ бирж. опционный контракт package job ~ контракт на проведение всего комплекса работ parol ~ договор не за печатью parol ~ простой договор pension ~ договор о пенсионном обеспечении perform a ~ выполнять договор piece-work ~ контракт на сдельную работу postnuptial ~ имущественный договор между супругами, заключенный после вступления в брак pre-emption ~ контракт о преимущественном праве покупки preliminary ~ предварительный договор previously concluded ~ ранее заключенный контракт prime ~ контракт на строительство "под ключ" prime ~ контракт с генеральным подрядчиком prime ~ контракт с головным подрядчиком prime ~ основной контракт procurement ~ контракт на поставку (оборудования и т.п.) provisional ~ предварительный договор publisher's ~ контракт с издателем publishing ~ издательский контракт ratify a ~ ратифицировать договор ratify a ~ утверждать договор real ~ реальный договор reciprocal ~ двусторонний договор reciprocal ~ двусторонняя сделка reinsurance ~ договор о перестраховании renew a ~ возобновлять контракт renew a ~ продлевать договор rental ~ договор о сдаче в наем rental ~ договор об аренде repudiate a ~ расторгать договор rescind a ~ аннулировать контракт running ~ действующий договор sale ~ договор продажи sales ~ договор купли-продажи sales ~ контракт на продажу seasonal employment ~ контракт на временную работу по найму secured ~ гарантированный контракт service ~ договор на обслуживание sham ~ фиктивный контракт share index ~ договор о фондовом индексе shared cost ~ контракт с распределенными затратами simple ~ договор, не скрепленный печатью simple ~ неформальный договор simple ~ простой договор social ~ общественный договор solidarity ~ контракт (договор) солидарности specialty ~ договор за печатью spot ~ кассовая сделка spot ~ контракт за наличный расчет standard building ~ типовая форма строительного контракта standard ~ типовой контракт standing ~ постоянно действующий контракт subsidiary ~ дополнительный контракт subtenancy ~ договор субаренды supply ~ контракт на поставку surplus reinsurance ~ договор эксцедентного перестрахования synallagmatic ~ двусторонняя сделка synallagmatic ~ синаллагматическая сделка syndicated ~ соглашение между участниками синдиката tentative ~ предварительный договор terminate a ~ прекращать действие контракта terminate a ~ расторгать контракт training-employment ~ договор о профподготовке на работе transportation ~ договор о перевозках turnkey ~ контракт на строительство "под ключ" turnkey ~ контракт с головным подрядчиком uncovered option ~ бирж. непокрытый опционный контракт unenforceable ~ контракт, претензии по которому не могут быть заявлены в суде unilateral ~ односторонний контракт unperformed ~ невыполненный контракт unsecured forward ~ бирж. необеспеченный форвардный контракт violate a ~ нарушать договор violate a ~ нарушать контракт void ~ недействительный договор voidable ~ контракт, который может быть аннулирован в силу определенных причин wagering ~ договор-пари work ~ договор на выполнение работ work ~ подряд work-training ~ договор о профессиональном обучении work-training ~ договор об обучении на рабочем месте works ~ подрядный договор yellow-dog ~ амер. обязательство рабочего о невступлении в профсоюзБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > contract
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1) потеря; (мн. ч.) потери3) затухание, ослабление4) срыв ( в следящих системах)5) вчт. проигрыш6) ущерб; убыток•losses by slagging — потери со шлаком;losses by splashing — потери со всплесками;loss on ignition — потери при прокаливании;loss of auxiliary power — потеря вспомогательных источников энергоснабженияloss of circulation — поглощение бурового раствораloss of load — отключение нагрузки; сброс нагрузкиloss of lock rate — нарушение синхронизма, выпадение из синхронизмаloss of phase — 1. отключение (обрыв) фазы 2. выпадение из синхронизма, нарушение синхронизмаloss of synchronism — нарушение синхронизма, выпадение из синхронизма-
absorption loss
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accumulated loss
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activation loss
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active return loss
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added loss
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additional iron loss
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aircraft control loss
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airscrew slip loss
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alternating hysteresis loss
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altitude loss
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antenna-to-medium coupling loss
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aperture loss
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apparent power loss
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arc-drop loss
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ashpit loss
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atmospheric evaporation loss
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attenuation loss
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attrition loss
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avoidable loss
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backwash loss
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baking loss
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balance return loss
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banking loss
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bearing friction loss
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bending loss
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bit loss
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bleeding loss of greases
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boil-off losses
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branching loss
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breathing loss
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bridging loss
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brush contact resistance loss
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brush friction loss
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bulk resistive loss
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burn-off loss
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cable loss
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canal loss
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capacitor loss
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capacity loss
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carbon loss
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carpet loss
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choke loss
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circulating current loss
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circulating loss
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cladding loss
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clad loss
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coil loss
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cold loss
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commutator loss
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component loss
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compression loss
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conduction loss
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connection loss
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constant loss
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contact loss
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convection loss
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convective loss
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conversion loss
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conveyance loss
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cooling loss
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copper loss
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core loss
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corona power loss
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corrosion loss
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counting loss
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coupling loss
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current loss
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diameter loss
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dielectric absorption loss
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dielectric loss
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dielectric hysteresis loss
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directional control loss
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discharge loss
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dispersion loss
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dissipation loss
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dissipative loss
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distillation loss
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distribution loss
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divergence loss
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dot loss
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draft loss
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dust loss
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dusting loss
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early loss
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echo return loss
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eddy-current loss
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edge loss
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elastic loss
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electric loss
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end loss
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entrance loss
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equivalent power loss
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evaporation loss
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evaporative loss
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excitation loss
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exit loss
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external beat loss
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fiber loss
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field I2R loss
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filling loss
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filter loss
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fixed loss
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flow loss
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form loss
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free-space loss
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friction loss
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fuel tank loss
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generation losses
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gyromagnetic resonance loss
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harmonic tooth-ripple loss
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head loss
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head-to-tape spacing loss
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heat loss
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heat-leak loss
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I2R loss
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implementation loss
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incremental hysteresis loss
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incremental losses
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individual process loss
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induction loss
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in-process loss
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insertion loss
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instrument wall loss
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insulation loss
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interaction loss
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intermodulation loss
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interstage loss
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intrinsic loss
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inverse loss
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ionization loss
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iron loss
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irrigation loss
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jacket loss
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kerf loss
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keying loss
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latent heat loss
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leakage loss
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light leakage loss
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line loss
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linewidth loss
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link loss
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load loss
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magnetic hysteresis loss
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magnetic iron loss
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magnetic loss
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mass loss
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mechanical loss
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melting loss
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metal loss
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milling loss
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mining loss
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mode conversion loss
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multipath loss
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no-load loss
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oil stock loss
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open circuit loss
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operational loss
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optical loss
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oven loss
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oxidational loss
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partial mud loss
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path loss
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permeation loss of gasoline
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piezoelectric loss
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pipe loss
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pointing loss
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power loss
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preparation loss
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pressure loss
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pressure rapid loss
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pumping loss
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radiant loss
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reactive power loss
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refrigeration loss
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resonance loss
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restriction loss
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return loss
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rheostatic loss
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roasting loss
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rotational loss
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rusting loss
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salting loss
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shutdown loss
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spreading loss
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stack loss
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startup thermal loss
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supplementary loss
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temperature loss
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thickness loss
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1) фильтр || фильтровать2) цедилка || отцеживать•filter over a set — мат. фильтр над множеством
to filter off — отфильтровывать; отцеживать
- band-exclusion filter - band-rejection filter - completely regular filter - correction filter - countably incomplete filter - limited memory filter - linear continuous filter - optimum detecting filter - optimum filter - order convergent filter - piezoelectric ceramic filter - series filter - single pole filter - well symmetric filterto swing a filter out of a beam — оптика выводить светофильтр из пути луча
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1. n слезинка; капля крови; капелька потаprint drop — капля, образующая печатное изображение
2. n капля, капелька; чуточка; глоток3. n глоток спиртногоto have a drop too much — хватить лишнего, напиться
4. n мед. капли5. n драже; леденецpear drop — грушевидный леденец; леденец на грушевой эссенции
6. n серьга; подвеска; висюлька7. n архит. орнаментная отделка в виде подвески8. n падение, понижение, снижение; спад, спуск9. n спад10. n ав. разбрасывание, сбрасывание с самолёта; сбрасывание на парашюте11. n ав. десантparatroop drop — авиадесант, парашютный десант
12. n ав. расстояние сверху вниз, высота; обрыв; глубина падения или погруженияact drop — занавес, опускаемый между действиями или сценами
13. n ав. опускающаяся подставка14. n ав. падающее устройство, падающая дверца, трап15. n ав. пластинка, закрывающая замочную скважину16. n ав. прорезь, щель17. n ав. тех. перепад; падение18. n ав. результат поиска, выдачаto drop a case — отказаться от иска, от обвинения
19. n ав. сл. тайник20. n ав. амер. сл. круглый сирота; беспризорник21. v капать; стекать каплями22. v капать, выпускать по капле23. v падать, выпадать; вываливатьсяdrop to — падать до; спускаться до
24. v ронять, выпускать25. v бросать, сбрасывать; спускать26. v спускать или сбрасывать на парашюте27. v падать, опускатьсяto be ready to drop — валиться с ног от усталости, выбиться из сил
drop out — опускать, выпускать, пропускать
28. v валить, сваливать; сшибать, сбивать29. v умирать30. v падать, снижаться, понижаться; спадать, стихать31. v снижать, понижать32. v идти вниз33. v падать с определённой высоты34. v мор. погружаться вертикально35. v опускаться36. v спорт. посылать, забивать37. v спускаться, идти вниз по течению38. v спускать по течению39. v отступать назадdrop back — отступать; отходить
40. v оставлять сзади, обгонять41. v спорт. передавать назад42. v разг. кончаться, подходить к концу; прекращаться43. v разг. кончать, прекращать44. v разг. оставлять, бросать45. v разг. распускать46. v разг. опускать, пропускатьСинонимический ряд:1. decline (noun) abyss; decline; declivity; decrease; descent; dip; dive; downslide; downswing; downtrend; downturn; drop-off; fall; falloff; lowering; plunge; precipice; reduction; sag; skid; slide; slip; slump; tumble2. depth (noun) deepness; depth3. dram (noun) dollop; dram; jolt; nip; shot; sip; slug; snifter; snort; snorter; spot; toothful; tot4. droplet (noun) bead; drib; driblet; droplet; globule; gobbet; tear5. particle (noun) ace; atom; bit; crumb; dab; damn; dash; doit; fragment; grain; hoot; iota; jot; minim; mite; modicum; molecule; ounce; particle; pinch; ray; scrap; scruple; shred; smidgen; smitch; snap; speck; splash; syllable; tittle; trace; whit6. trickle (noun) dribble; drip; trickle7. abandon (verb) abandon; forsake; leave8. cancel (verb) call off; cancel; scrub9. collapse (verb) break down; cave in; collapse; crack; give out; peg out; succumb; wilt10. die (verb) cash in; conk; decease; demise; depart; die; expire; go; pass; pass away; pass out; perish; pip; pop off11. diminish (verb) diminish; dwindle; lessen12. discard (verb) discard; release13. dismiss (verb) ax; boot out; bounce; cashier; discharge; disemploy; dismiss; fire; give over; give up; kick out; let out; sack; skip; turn off14. drip (verb) distil; distill; drib; dribble; drip; leap; ooze; trickle; trill; weep15. fall (verb) decline; descend; dip; dive; fall; fall off; go down; keel over; nose-dive; pitch; plummet; plunge; sink; skid; slump; spill; sprawl; tumble16. fell (verb) bowl down; bowl over; bring down; cut down; deck; down; fell; flatten; floor; ground; knock down; knock over; lay low; level; mow down; prostrate; throw; throw down; topple17. lose (verb) forfeit; lose; lose out; sacrifice18. lower (verb) depress; let down; lower; take down19. quit (verb) quit; resign; terminate20. remove (verb) delete; eliminate; exclude; omit; remove21. separate (verb) break off; desert; divorce; end; separateАнтонимический ряд:abundance; climb; continue; empty; evaporate; flood; flow; include; increase; pick up; pour; pursue; rally; recover; rise; soar -
59 device
1) устройство2) установка; агрегат3) аппарат4) механизм5) прибор; измерительное устройство7) компонент; элемент8) схема•devices identical in design — конструктивные аналоги;-
alphanumeric display device-
automatic exposure control device-
bubble memory device-
bucket brigade charge-coupled device-
decision-making device-
drilling bit feed device-
electrical device-
exposure control device-
Gunn-effect device-
Hall-effect device-
hard-copy output device-
household electrical device-
humidity detecting device-
hybrid-type device-
Josephson-effect device-
maneuvering propulsion device-
materials-handling device-
multiport device-
night observation device-
noise dampening device-
photoconducting device-
propulsion device-
protection device-
raster-display device-
registering pin device-
reversible film feeding device-
seed-feeding device-
supply reel braking device-
three-axis device -
60 well
1) колодец2) источник3) водоём4) скважина5) зумпф; отстойник6) металлоприёмник ( шахтной печи)7) метал. горн8) строит. шахта (напр. лифта)9) углубление11) электрон. карман( в структуре ИС)•well on the beam — скважина с насосным подъёмником;to abandon a well — ликвидировать скважину;to bean a well back — снижать дебит фонтанирующей скважины;to bean a well up — повышать дебит фонтанирующей скважины;to blow a well — открывать фонтанирующую скважину на короткое время (для удаления воды, песка и т. п.);to bring a well in — вызывать приток пластового флюида в скважину;to bump off a well — отсоединять насосную скважину от группового привода;to complete a well — заканчивать скважину;to dry up a well — откачивать жидкость из скважины;to flow a well hard — эксплуатировать (фонтанирующую) скважину с максимальным возможным дебитом;to flush a well out — промывать скважину;to hand a well off — прекращать( насосную) эксплуатацию скважины;to hand off a well — отсоединять насосную скважину от группового привода;to junk a well — ликвидировать скважину;to kill a well — глушить скважину ( уравновешивать пластовое давление);to knife a well — чистить скважину ( от парафина) скребками;to line a well — обсаживать ствол скважины;to mud a well up — подавать буровой раствор в скважину ( после бурения с продувкой);to place a well on choke — начинать дросселировать поток из скважины с помощью штуцера;to pull a well — ликвидировать скважину с извлечением лифтовых труб и насосного оборудования;to put a well on production — вводить скважину в эксплуатацию;to put a well on the pump — 1. начинать насосную эксплуатацию скважины 2. устанавливать насосный подъёмник в скважине;to rework a well — восстанавливать дебит скважины;to rock a well — возбуждать приток в скважине попеременным открытием и закрытием устья;to shoot a well — торпедировать скважину;to shut down a well — консервировать скважину ( в процессе строительства);to shut in a well — закрывать [останавливать\] скважину ( устьевой задвижкой);to strip a well — попеременно двигать колонны насосных штанг и лифтовых труб в скважине ( для предотвращения скопления парафина);to suspend a well — законсервировать (строящуюся) скважину;to test a well — измерять дебит скважины;to wake up a well — вызывать приток пластового флюида в скважину;-
abandoned well
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absorption well
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anchor well
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appraisal well
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artesian well
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barren well
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beam well
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beer well
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blowing well
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branched well
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cased well
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centerboard well
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closed-in well
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cluster well
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commercial well
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completed well
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concentration well
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condensate well
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confirmation well
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controlled directional well
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cored well
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crooked well
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dead well
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development test well
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development well
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dewatering well
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directional well
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discovery well
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disposal well
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drainage well
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drain well
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drowned well
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dry well
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dual completion well
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dual-zone well
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edge well
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exploratory well
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extension well
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float well
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flowing well
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gage well
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gas well
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gravel-packed well
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head well
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high-flow-rate well
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horizontal well
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hot well
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infill well
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injection well
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in-pit well
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input well
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inspection well
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intake well
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irrigation well
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isolated well
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junked well
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key well
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killed well
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killer well
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ladle well
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landing gear well
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lift well
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line well
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loading well
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log well
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marginal well
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measuring well
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multipay well
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multiple completion well
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multiple-zone well
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noncommercial well
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nonproducing well
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n-type well
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observation well
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offset well
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offshore well
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oil well
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open well
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outpost extension well
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outpost well
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output well
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pipe well
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platform well
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potential well
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pressure observation well
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pressure well
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pressure-relief well
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producing well
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production well
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prolific well
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propeller well
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p-type well
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pumped well
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pumping well
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quantum well
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Ranney-type well
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recharge well
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relief well
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rim well
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rod-line well
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salt-water disposal well
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sanded-up well
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sandy well
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satellite well
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screened well
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settling well
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shut-in well
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single well
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slanted well
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slant well
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stair well
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step-out well
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stilling well
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stratigraphic test well
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structure test well
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suction well
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supply well
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surging well
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suspended well
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tar well
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temporarily abandoned well
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tonnage well
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tube well
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turnkey well
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underwater well
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waste-injection well
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water well
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wet well
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wheels well
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wild well
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wildcat well
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