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4381 | reseau | A NETWORK. In PHOTOGRAPHY, a glass plate on which is etched a NETWORK of fine lines. Sometimes used as a focal-plane plate to provide a mean... more |
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4382 | resection | The graphical or analytical determination of a POSITION as the intersection of at least three lines of known relative direction to correspon... more |
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4383 | resection station | See STATION. |
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4384 | reservoir | A place where anything is collected and stored, generally in large quantity; especially a POND, LAKE or BASIN, either natural or artificial,... more |
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4385 | residual | See ERROR: RESIDUAL. |
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4386 | residual deviation | See DEVIATION. |
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4387 | residual error | See ERROR. |
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4388 | residual magnetism | See MAGNETISM. |
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4389 | resolution | The separation by an optical system of parts of an object or of two or more objects close together. The degree of ability to make such a sep... more |
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4390 | resolving power | A mathematical expression of DEFINITION in a RADAR or OPTICAL SYSTEM, usually stated as the maximum number of lines per millimetre that ca... more |
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4391 | resonance | Re-enforcement or prolongation of any wave motion, such as SOUND, RADIO WAVES, etc., resulting when the NATURAL FREQUENCY of the body or sys... more |
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4392 | resonant frequency | See FREQUENCY. |
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4393 | resource exploration | The search for economic deposits of minerals, ore, gas, oil or coal. |
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4394 | responder | A transmitter, fitted to a submersible or on the seabed, which can be triggered by a hardwired external control signal to transmit an interr... more |
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4395 | responder beacon | See TRANSPONDER BEACON. |
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4396 | response | For a device or system, the motion or other OUTPUT resulting from an excitation or stimulus under special conditions. |
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4397 | responsor | A RADIO RECEIVER which receives a reply from a TRANSPONDER and produces an OUTPUT suitable for feeding to a display system. A responsor is u... more |
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4398 | restitution | The process of determining the true planimetric position of objects whose images appear on photographs. Restitution corrects for distortion... more |
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4399 | restricted area | A specified area designated by appropriate authority within which access or navigation is restricted in accordance with certain specified co... more |
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4400 | resurvey | A retracing on the GROUND of the lines of an earlier SURVEY, in which all points of the earlier SURVEY that are recovered are held fixed and... more |