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French translation of shield
German translation of shield
Spanish translation of shield

  • glareshield: overhanging lip above instrument panel to protect pilot`s night vision from bright reflections on windshield
    Category: Transport

  • heat-shield: usually non-structural layer protecting primary structure from high-temperature environment which would degrade strength such as around aeroplane afterburners, at base of large rocket vehicle and, especially, over upstream face of body on re-entry
    Category: Mechanical engineering

  • heatshield: usually non-structural layer protecting primary structure from high temperature environment which would degrade strength,such as around aeroplane afterburners,at base of large rocket vehicle,and especially,over upstream face of body on re-entry
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • shield: a conducting layer placed around an insulated conductor or cable to limit the penetration,or escape,of electric or electromagnetic fields,thereby preventing electromagnetic interference.The shield may be formed of metallic braid,metal tape,metal-backed foil,metal tube,or conductive polymer
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • shield: a mobile steel support under which the process of excavation and lining of a tunnel can be carried out in poor ground
    Category: Building industry

  • shield: a mechanical barrier or enclosure provided for protection
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • shield: a body of material intended to reduce the intensity of radiation entering a region
    Category: Nuclear industry (with applied atomic and nuclear physics)

  • shield: protective structure or cover
    Category: Transport

  • shielded: qualifies a device provided with electrically conducting or magnetically permeable enclosure which shields either content or exterior against unwanted magnetic/electrical fields
    Category: News-systems and communications

  • shielded-type: a cable in which each insulated conductor is enclosed in a conducting envelope so constructed that substantially every point on the surface of the insulation is at earth potential or at some predetermined potential with respect to earth under normal operating conditions
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy

  • Shielding: providing a mechanical barrier or enclosure for the purpose of protection from harmful external factors
    Category: Management in the public and private sector

  • Shielding: the suppression of all the display elements that lie within a given boundary
    Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

  • Shielding: a conducting layer placed around an insulated conductor or cable to limit the penetration,or escape,of electric or electromagnetic fields,thereby preventing electromagnetic interference.The shield may be formed of metallic braid,metal tape,metal-backed foil,metal tube,or conductive polymer
    Category: Electrical engineering and energy



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