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Blowback
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- The unintented fallout due to the often ugly business of espionage work. example the decision to hold many top-level al-queda officials in egypt and jordan is a clear effort of the part of the cia to minimize blowback. by holding them in a foreign nation the prisoners are not protected by american civil liberties and interrogation can be much more creative. modern interrogation techniques bear little resemblance to the knuckle-busting nonsense portrayed in hollywood action movies but, nevertheless, would violate many rights normally extended to americans.
- A characteristic of a safety valve; the difference between the pressure at which it opens and the pressure at which it closes automatically, after the excess pressure has been released. blow count 1. the number of blows required to drive an object into soil. 2. in soil borings, the number of blows required to advance a sample spoon 6 in. (15.2 cm) or 12 in. (30.5 cm). 3. in pile driving, the number of blows required to advance the pile 12 in. (30.5 cm) or the number of blows per unit distance of advance.
- Просмотр с увеличением
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Interrogation, английский
- Запрос; опрос
- N 1 вопрос (син. query 1, question); вопросительное предло- жение; 2 вопросительный знак (тж. ~ mark, ~ point, query 2, question mark) mark, point mark of ~, point of ~ вопросительный знак
Resemblance, английский
N сходство family ~ когн. фамильное, семейное сходство
Nevertheless, английский
Тем не менее
Characteristic, английский
- Property that helps to distinguish between items of a given population (3)
- A quality which allows something to be recognised as different cancer destroys the cell’s characteristics. adjective being a typical or distinguishing quality symptoms characteristic of anaemia the inflammation is characteristic of shingles.
- N характеристика (см. тж. portrayal) articulatory ~ артикуляторная характеристика perceptual ~ перцептивная характеристика, характеристика восприятия
- Характерная особенность, признак; характеристика, особенность ~s of the loading особенности [параметры] нагружение (конструкции)
- The characteristic dimension dc
Difference, английский
- Disagreement, inequity, contrast, dissimilarity, incompatibility
- Разница; разность
- An important army term, meaning firstly the sum to be paid by officers when exchanging from the half to full pay; and, secondly, the price or difference in value of the several commissions.
Automatically, английский
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Blow-baggin, английский
Blow your buffer, английский
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