Translation of self (English-English)

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do-it-yourself: that practice or hobby of building or repairing.
Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure

non-self-maintained: a discharge that ceases in the absence of an external ionising agent
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

non-self-maintained: gas conduction for which the necessary charge carriers are produced by the aid of an external ionising agent
Category: Physics

nonself-luminous: a colour perceived to belong to a nonself-luminous object
Category: Physics

nonself-restoring: a type of insulation which loses its insulating properties,or does not recover them completely,after a disruptive discharge
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

self: the internal regulatory system of response and activity tendencies within the organism
Category: Medicine

self: the offspring resulting from self-pollination
Category: Botany and zoology

self: a sum of the attitudes and behavioural predispositions that make up the personality
Category: Medicine

self-absorption: the absorption of radiation from a radionuclide,contained in a radioactive source,in the material of that source
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

self-actualization: possibilities of realizing fully one`s personal(e.g.intellectual)potential
Category: Medicine

self-adapting: pertaining to the capability of a device or program to change the characteristics of its performance in response to changes in its environment
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

self-adhesive: strips recognisable as being intended for use solely or mainly as a means of sticking; generally used for packaging goods and for similar purposes
Category: Various industries and crafts

self-administered: a pension scheme governed by trustees
Category: Insurance

self-aligned: high performance bipolar device in the BICMOS project
Category: General

self-aligning: a radial ball bearing in which the outer raceway is spherical
Category: Mechanical engineering

self-aligning: a radial roller bearing with barrel-shaped rollers
Category: Mechanical engineering

self-avoiding: a random walk in which the units have physical size and no two units may occupy the same region of space; or, on a lattice, a walk which at no point crosses or touches itself
Category: Statistics

self-balancing: a part of the accounting records maintained independently of the main accounting structure and tying in with this structure only by means of a control account
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

self-balancing: power meter where the power sensing element is one arm of a bridge circuit which is automatically balanced by adjusting a suitable parameter,the corresponding variations being used as a means of measuring the power
Category: General

self-conjugate: a Latin square which remains the same if its rows and columns are interchanged,i.e.it is symmetrical about its main diagonal
Category: Statistics

self-contain: said of some controls which have all that is necessary within themselves
Category: Mechanical engineering

self-contain: a complete refrigeration system,factory assembled,charged and tested,mounted on a frame or in a casing
Category: General

self-contain: heat protective garment which achieves its independence by using a heat sink or reservoir or any convenient power source or substance in which phase changes are associated with large latent heat changes,and used where work cannot be done safely or satisfactorily without its protection
Category: Medicine

self-contain: a receptacle which includes an enclosure and mounting means such that it can be mounted flush to a supporting surface without the use of a flush device,outlet box,raceway,or other enclosure
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

self-contain: air cooling coil and fan fitted in the same casing as the refrigeration compressor and condenser together with the necessary automatic controls
Category: Physics

self-contain: an electric drive which provides a separate motor for each machine driven
Category: Mechanical engineering

self-contain: system of air circulation which is complete in itself
Category: Transport

self-contain: an X-ray apparatus in which the high-voltage generator and the X-ray tube are in one container
Category: Medicine

self-contain: oxygen, compressed-air or fresh-air breathing apparatus making the wearer independent of the surrounding air for a limited time or within a limited distance
Category: Technical and industry in general

self-contained: said of some controls which have all that is necessary within themselves
Category: Mechanical engineering

self-defence: The right of a person to ward off an attack by means that are reasonable in the circumstances if that person is unlawfully attacked or unlawfully threatened with imminent attack.
Category: Law

self-delineating: a block with the property that its end points can be identified by examining the block itself.A defined pattern or flag at the beginning of each block might serve to demarcate the block
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

self-delineating: an interface whose entire serial bit stream consists of a self-delineating labelled multiplexing
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

self-destroying: a fuze designed to burst a projectile before the end of its flight
Category: Defense

self-destruct: system for missile, remote pilotless vehicle or similar air vehicle allowing them to explode into harmless fragments at particular time or geographical location
Category: Technical and industry in general

self-determination: free choice of one`s own actions or states at work
Category: Labour

self-draining: said of a watertight cockpit with drains through which rain,spray or water shipped on board is led to sea
Category: General

self-elevating: fitted with devices which enable it to float,and with retractable legs which are lowered to the sea-bed
Category: Transport

self-employment: a compulsory social security contribution for self-employed persons levied on their net earnings,to provide for retirement pensions for the contributor or surviving spouse,or disability pensions
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

self-excited: a term applied to a machine to denote that the excitation is supplied by the machine itself
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

self-extinguishing: resin formulation which will burn in the presence of a flame but which will extinguish itself within a specified time after the flame is removed
Category: General

self-extinguishing: Fault which disappears of its own accord without the necessity of switches opening.
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

self-extinguishing: insulation fault during which the arc extinguishes without it being necessary to disconnect the device from the system,for its essential dielectric properties to be restored
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

self-fertile: capable of producing seed upon self-fertilization
Category: Botany and zoology

self-fertilization: the fusion of male and female gametes from the same genotype
Category: Botany and zoology

self-financing: the provision of finance for a business from undistributed profits and/or other internal resources
Category: Economics

self-guarded: the frog of a tournout,provided with guides or flanges above its running surface,which contact the tread rims of wheels for the purpose of safety,guiding their flanges past the point of the frog
Category: Building industry

self-heating: Objective within the fast fusion studies. (Phase III of the JET Experimental Programme) (XII/717/75, p. 37)
Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

self-help: The action or faculty of providing for oneself without assistance from others
Category: Management in the public and private sector

Self-induced: continuing oscillation that is generated in a system when non-oscillatory energy is supplied
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

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