Translation of jack (English-English)

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carjacking: The kind of crime carried out against a person sitting in his or her car
Category: Law

hijack: illegal, violent action committed mainly in an aeroplane, for private or political ends
Category: Management in the public and private sector

hijacking: illegal, violent action committed mainly in an aeroplane, for private or political ends
Category: Management in the public and private sector

jack: powered linear actuator
Category: Mechanical engineering

jack: A spring-steel wire part comprising a straight stem containing a loop near the top,to which a string from the jacquard of the lace furnishing machine is attached,and a point at the top at right angles to the stem.The point can enter between the warp and pattern threads so as to restrict their lateral movement.
Category: Various industries and crafts

jack: An intermediate lever,on straight-bar machines,acted on by the slurcock to transmit motion to the sinkers.
Category: Various industries and crafts

jack: a connector to mate with a telephone plug
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

jack-knife: a method,which reduces bias in estimation and provides approximate confidence intervals in cases where ordinary distribution theory proves difficult
Category: Mathematics

jack-up: Used for positioning the steel towers of the cableway in Eastern Scheldt
Category: Mining

jacket: 1.a flat, transparent, plastic carrier made to hold single or multiple microfilm images; 2.the plastic, ceramic, or metal where a completed chip is mounted
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

jacket: a sealed space around a piece of equipment or a store, through which a cooling medium can be circulated
Category: Mechanical engineering

jacket: the protective outer covering of a bundle of fibres
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

jacket: printed wrappers of paper or the like placed over the cover of a document at the time of its publication
Category: Printing and publishing

jacket: a transparent plastic carrier with a single or multiple sleeve or pocket made to fold microfilm in flat strips.
Category: Documentation and information

jacket: a felt cover for a couch roll in a papermaking machine...a cloth covering for a machine roller usually woven or felted in tubular form...
Category: Various industries and crafts

jacketed: a cold room which is entirely surrounded by insulated cavities or corridors,in which cold air is circulated
Category: Mechanical engineering

jacketed: three methods of steam tracing are employed.They are external,internal,and jacketed..Jacketed tracing is widely used where the heating load is high
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

jacketed: a machine in which the casing...is surrounded by a jacket in which hot water or steam can be circulated, thus keeping the...liquid in the pump at a temperature at which it can flow sufficiently free ly.
Category: Mechanical engineering

jackhammer: an air-operated percussion-type drill that is small enough for being handled by a man
Category: Building industry

Jackknife: a dive in which the diver bends in midair to touch his toes and straightens out immediately before entering the water.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

jackknifing: this action tends to pull the front of the body upward, causing the swimmer either to land flat on his chest or, more commonly, to avoid this by piking or --.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

jackleg: a support on which a jackhammer is mounted while drilling.
Category: Mining

jacknife: When the semi-trailer goes out of control and swings around at an acute angle to the tractor.
Category: Management in the public and private sector

jacknife: ..the -- is the least expensive. The back drops to seat level to form a bed 42 inches wide....Storage space for bed linens is concealed under the --.
Category: Domestic economy

jacknifing: accident lorsque la remorque vient s`appuyer sur le côté de l`automobile.
Category: Language and literature

jackpot: an unusually large pot (as in the game of poker) formed by accumulation of stakes from previous play in which no decision was reached.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

jackscrew: a screw attached to one half of a two-piece,multiple-contact connector and used to draw both halves together and to separate them
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

jackstay: in aerostats,a wire designed to maintain the correct spacing between the component parts of a rigging system
Category: Transport

jackstay: iron rod or wire rope which is fitted on top of a yard,and to which the head of a square sail is bent
Category: General

jumping-jack: a toy figure of a man jointed and made to jump or dance by means of strings or a sliding stick
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

oil-jacked: journal bearing in which high pressure oil is forced under the shaft journal to establish a lubricating film
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

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