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Spanish translation of semi

  • asemia: aphasia in which there is an inability to employ or understand writing,speech or gestures as a means of communication
    Category: Medicine

  • dissemination: the timely conveyance of intelligence,in an appropriate form and by any suitable means,to those who need it
    Category: Defense

  • semi: semi-finished products or semis are products generally obtained by forging or rolling of crude steel and intended for further processing into finished products
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • semi: in the case of products with a sugar content of between 50 and 90 grams per litre
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • semi: one of the thickness degrees of a letter,between light and bold
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • semi: a statistic equal to one half of the range
    Category: Statistics

  • semi: in the case of products with a sugar content of between 90 and 130 grams per litre
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • semi: a device that automatically delivers a discharge which is independent of fluctuations of water level or pressure on the delivery side,and only varies with water level or pressure,on the supply side
    Category: Building industry

  • semi: product ot two prime numbers
    Category: Mathematics

  • semi: material delicately balanced in the transitional zone between metals and semiconductors
    Category: Physics

  • semi-aniline: leather which has been aniline dyed or stained,incorporating a small quantity of pigment,not so much as to conceal the natural characteristics of the hide
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • semi-attended: station which is normally not manned but which is manned when necessary
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • semi-closed: a hydrocarbon concrete having after compaction a percentage of voids greater than 5% but smaller than or equal to 10%
    Category: Building industry

  • semi-conducting: a jacket having a sufficiently low resistance so that its outer surface can be kept at substantially earth potential by an earthed conductor in contact with it at frequent intervals
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Semi-Continuous: shift work carried out by alternating or successive teams in which there is no daily break in production but production or service is interrupted at the end of the week
    Category: Law

  • semi-Diesel: intermediate lighter type of compression-ignition engines, operating at lower compression; to start this type, the cylinder-head must be pre-heated
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • semi-direct: lighting by means of fittings with a light distribution such that 60% to 90% of the emitted luminous flux reaches the working plane directly,assuming that this plane is unbounded
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • semi-diurnal: sinusoidal wave, of period 12 hours, which is one of the significant terms in the Fourier series expression of the diurnal variation of atmospheric pressure.
    Category: The cosmos

  • semi-diurnal: tides requiring approximately one-half lunar day to complete their cycle, that is two high waters and two low waters in each lunar day; predominating type of tide throughout the world is semi-diurnal
    Category: The cosmos

  • semi-empirical: a mass formula based on the liquid-drop model of the nucleus(Elsevier`s dictionary of nuclear science and technology)
    Category: Mathematics

  • semi-finished: semi-finished products or semis are products generally obtained by forging or rolling of crude steel and intended for further processing into finished products
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • semi-finished: ..-- such as dairy products, meats, and fruits.
    Category: Commerce - movement of goods

  • semi-gloss: semi-gloss:having a reflectivity between flat and gloss on a dried surface used esp.of enamel and paint
    Category: The chemical industry

  • semi-haematite: semi-hematite pig iron:pig iron containing 0.20 to 0.50 P
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • semi-hermetic: a compressor directly coupled to an electric motor and contained within a gas-tight bolted casing
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • semi-hermetically: a condensing unit in which the motor plus compressor are semi-hermetically sealed
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • semi-indirect: lighting by means of fittings with a light distribution such that only 10% to 40% of the emitted luminous flux reaches the working plane directly,assuming that this plane is unbounded
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • semi-integral: a detachable tank which forms part of the aircraft structure when in place
    Category: Transport

  • semi-invariant: in older usage this term,introduced by Thiele(1889),related to what are now called cumulants.The words`semi-invariant`or`seminvariant`are now better confined to statistics which are independent of the origin and are multiplied by a scale factor under transformations of scale.The moments about the sample mean and the cumulants are both seminvariant in this sense and other symmetric functions of the observations exist with seminavariant properties.The term is not,but could be,used to describe statistics such as the range,which are symmetric functions of the observations
    Category: Statistics

  • semi-latin: an experimental design for 2k treatments arranged in the form of a rectangle with k rows of 2k; each row being an arrangement of the 2k treatments, each pair of columns 1,2,3,4,etc., being also an arrangement of the 2k treatments; no row or column therefore containing the same treatment more than once. It may also be regarded as a k X k Latin square with each plot split. The design has been criticised on the grounds that it leads to biased estimates of error
    Category: Statistics

  • semi-milled: paddy rice from which the husk, part of the germ, and the whole or part of the outer layers of the pericarp, but not the inner layers, have been removed
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • semi-modular: an outlet which works as a semi-module
    Category: Building industry

  • semi-module: a device that automatically delivers a discharge which is independent of fluctuations of water level or pressure on the delivery side,and only varies with water level or pressure,on the supply side
    Category: Building industry

  • semi-monocoque: a structural concept in which longitudinal members as well as formers reinforce the skin and help to carry the stresses
    Category: Transport

  • semi-open: A type of shedding in which threads that are to remain in the top shed line for the next pick are lowered a short distance and are then raised again.The other threads are raised and lowered as in open shedding.
    Category: Various industries and crafts

  • semi-open: a hydrocarbon concrete having after compaction a percentage of voids greater than 10% but smaller than or equal to 15%
    Category: Building industry

  • semi-open: system where air stocked in pressurized tanks is fed to a mask before being returned to the atmosphere
    Category: Physics

  • semi-open: a pump in which the impeller has shrouds on one side
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • semi-permanent: region where low pressure largely predominates during a particular part of the year and where a depression appears on mean monthly pressure charts...also semi-permanent low PROME 71&
    Category: The cosmos

  • semi-permanent: region where high pressure largely predominates during about a given half-year and where an anticyclone appears on the corresponding seasonal mean pressure chart.
    Category: The cosmos

  • semi-permanent: the link established part of the time for one user and,at other times,may be released
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • semi-permanent: A cross-lighting flame,the gas supply to which comes on with the main burner and remains alight during the whole of the period that the main burner is on
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • semi-permanent: the method made up of both permanently located pipelines and portable pipelines
    Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

  • semi-processed: cold-rolled non-alloy steel strip which has been lightly cold worked and the magnetic properties of which shall be developed by the user
    Category: Iron and steel industries

  • semi-public: sector occupying a position of public services in respect of which it is decreed in the political decision-making process that the market mechanism should play little or no part:hospitals,care for the elderly,welfare institutions and the authorities that administer the social security...
    Category: Medicine

  • semi-range: a statistic equal to one half of the range
    Category: Statistics

  • semi-retractable: type of landing gear that can tilt to reduce the space aboard the carrier,adjust the cargo floor to truck bed or alter the wing angle of attack to allow catapult launches
    Category: Transport

  • semi-reverberant: the sound field prevailing in a large enclosure with moderately reflecting surfaces
    Category: Medicine

  • semi-rigid: a rotor wherein each blade is attached to the hub by a feathering hinge and by a fixed member or members having a certain degree of flexibility in the flapping and lag planes
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • semi-rigid: an approximate theory of elastic structures in which the theoretical infinite number of degrees of freedom is represented by a finite number,each being associated with an invariable mode
    Category: Physics



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