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I noticed such words that have been created as a result of illiteracy of some people. Some examples: Old jargon word: «модерновый». This word was coined in XX century to express the idea of a ...
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I saw some text in Russian recently which talked about phishing attacks. It described one as designed for "mammoths" (мамонтов). I am interested to learn more about this term. I can guess it ...
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I'm looking for a single word translation of the metrological term "measurand" (the physical quantity intended to be measured) into Russian. "Измеряемая величина" is two words and ...
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From Russian Wikipedia on the Fletcher-Class Destroyers, it says, Двигательная установка компоновочно повторяла тип «Гливз» — была высокотемпературной установкой среднего (43 Атм.) давления, которая ...
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In 1957, Sputnik was launched. The word "sputnik" can be used for satellites in Russian or English. Before 1957, was "sputnik" used that way? Did Russians have a different word or ...
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Этот вопрос больше к кардиологам, чем к лингвистам. Я очень прошу воздержаться от предположений и флуда. Я программист и имею отношение к разработке кардиологического софта. Недавно заметил странный ...
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During a software development process, software is usually deployed on different environments, which also have different names and roles, depending on the team and development process: Development ...
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As we all know, acceleration is the derivative of velocity, and if we want to introduce how fast acceleration is changing, thus, introducing a second derivative of velocity — this is actually called ...
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Math term join infinite distributive in Russian? Also "meet infinite distributive"?
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I noticed that in Russian, when one wants to sell something in USD he writes instead in Cyrillic letters: у.е. for example: 120.000 у.е. What's the relation between the letters у.е. to USD?
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I it my understanding that all of these mean a building, as in “man-made structure.” However, I have been told that сооружение and постройка are rather technical. What do they really mean? How are ...
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What's the correct way to describe in Russian a beam-ceilinged room, that is, a room with wooden beams in its ceiling?
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How do I say "API (application programming interface)" in Russian? Is there maybe some acronym (aside from АПИ) that makes it easy to read in translation from English to Russian?
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In formal logic, there is the notion of a distinction between "free variables" and "bounded variables". I found this distinction difficult to understand, until I thought of it this way: free ...
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How do they refer in Russian to a public address system in the department store? I looked up some possible terms in a dictionary and found these two: "система оповещения" and "трансляция", but I am ...
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