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Spanish translation of hone

  • babyphone: a service providing for a call to be made to a telephone in the off-hook condition for the purpose of audible supervision at the called subscriber`s premises
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • carphone: Car telephone systems provide full 2-way communication over a wide area(message relay system)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • cryptophone: Device for communication in secret language
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • diaphone: a fog signal device similar in design to a siren
    Category: Transport

  • dishonest: an alternative name for a logical process,and the opposite in a mathematical sense,of an 'honest' process
    Category: Mathematics

  • ear-phone: an electroacoustic transducer that transforms electrical oscillations into sound waves and intended to be closely coupled acoustically to the ear
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • earphone: device which converts electrical energy into sound and which is worn over,or inserted into the ear
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • earphone: electroacoustic transducer which transforms electrical oscillations into sound waves and intended to be closely coupled acoustically to the ear.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • earphone: an electroacoustic transducer that transforms electrical oscillations into sound waves.It is intended to be closely coupled acoustically to the ear
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • earphones: device that converts electrical energy into sound waves and is worn over or inserted into the ear
    Category: General

  • freephone: supplementary telecommunication service
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • geophone: a device using a microphone placed in the soil or water mass to register shock waves in a seismic survey. Apparatus used in the search of victims buried under rubble or avalanche
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • geophone: a detector,placed on or in the ground in seismic work,which responds to the ground motion at the point of its location
    Category: The cosmos

  • geophones: seismic sensors buried along the edge of the runway to measure point of touchdown,severity of impact and bounces on landing
    Category: Transport

  • Gramophone: an electroacoustic device including a record player,an amplifying system and one or more built-in or separate loudspeakers
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Gramophone: British term for phonograph.
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • headphone: an assembly of one or two earphones on a headband
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • homophone: homophones are homonyms having the same phonic form,ex.:son-sun
    Category: Language and literature

  • hone: to produce a very fine finish by abrasion with extremely fine material
    Category: The chemical industry

  • honest: sound wine free from adulteration and which has not been subjected to illicit treatment
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • honey: a sweet sticky yellowish fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • honey-comb-zone: a fare structure in which the cost of a trip is a function of the length of the trip measured in the number of hexagon-shaped zones to be crossed
    Category: Transport

  • honeycomb: a grid of intersecting surfaces in a wind tunnel,designed to reduce large-scale disturbances and straighten the flow
    Category: Physics

  • honeycomb: and foamed plastics are used extensively as core for sandwich construction, which consist of thin skins or facings separated by a thick low-density core material.
    Category: Language and literature

  • honeycombing: fissures in the interior of a piece of timber,generally caused by drying stresses resulting from case-hardening
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • honeycombing: local roughness of the face of a concrete wall caused by the concrete having segregated so badly that there is very little sand to fill the gaps between the stones at this point.
    Category: Building industry

  • honeyeater: forming the meliphagidae Family, are found mostly in the South Pacific, also called honeysuckers
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • honeyeaters: forming the meliphagidae Family, are found mostly in the South Pacific, also called honeysuckers
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • hydrophone: a transducer that produces electric signals in response to waterborne acoustic signals
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • interphone: Intercommunication system using headphones and microphones for communication between adjoining or nearby studios or offices.
    Category: General

  • microphone: the electroacoustical transducer by which electrical signals are obtained from acoustical oscillations; the electro-acoustic transducer operating from an acoustical system to an electrical system
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • microphone: a transducer which converts sound waves into electric signals
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • nautophone: a fog signal device consisting of an electrically vibrated diaphragm attached to a horn emitting a high note at full power 99999INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951
    Category: Transport

  • payphone: a public(or private)telephone that accepts coins or encoded credit cards
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • phone: an acoustic unit used to measure the overall loudness level of a noise
    Category: Physics

  • phoneme: smallest element of a speech signal
    Category: Language and literature

  • phonemic: perceptual completion of familiar patterns:perceivers hear sounds that have been cut off from words as if they had actually been present
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • phonetic: specific units having the feature for beginning and acting upon data from the voice source or having a voice-form output
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • phonetic: an access mode in which the name of the entity sought is typed with a spelling that may differ slightly from its original one
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • phonetic: codes are used for each letter if there is a possibility of words being misheard over the telephone
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • phonetic: the expression in figures of the sound distance between the pronunciation of two strings,that enables to query a database,a document or videotex service by a character string without knowing the exact spelling of that string
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • phonetic: the maximum reading on specified measuring instrument of the speech power during the enunciation of a syllable
    Category: Physics

  • phonetically: Logatom intelligibility expressed as the percentage of logatoms correctly reproduced at the receiving end of the line. (PH/pTIH)
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • phonetically: a word in which the vowels and consonants or consonant combinations are approximately in the same proportion as in the usual language
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • phoney: an area free of live mines used to simulate a minefield,or section of a minefield,with the object of deceiving the enemy
    Category: Defense

  • sarrusophone: musical instrument related to the oboe family, but made of brass; a military band instrument; the name comes from the French bandmaster Sarrus
    Category: General

  • telephone: a telephone set with associated wiring and auxiliary equipment connected to a telephone network for the purpose of telephony
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • telephone: a device used mainly for voice communications which converts audible signals into electrical waves,which can then be transmitted over communications channels
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • thermophone: an electroacoustic transducer in which sound waves of calculable magnitude result from the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor whose temperature varies on response to a current input
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • videophone: a telephone incorporating a small TV camera and screen which enables the user to see as well as hear the subscriber at the other end of the circuit
    Category: News-systems and communications



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