Knal 1 gasgebläse 



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Kohäsionsf est j gkeit 



gas mixture (of H and 0), oxyhy- 

 drogen gas. -gasgebl'ase 

 oxyhydrogen blowpipe, -pyrometer 

 explosion pyrometer, -satz 

 detonating composition, 

 -schutzgerät pistol shot silencer, 

 .crack s., noise killer (radio). 

 -welle shock wave (ac.) 



knapp close, tight, narrov; scanty, 

 meager, brief, concise. 



Knarre ratchet. 



knarren crackle, rattle, crack (of 

 loudspeaker), creak, squeak. 



Knebel-bol zen toggle bolt. 

 -griff schraube tommy screw. 



kneifen nip, squeeze, pinch. 



kneten knead, pug (cer.) 



Knet-holz plastic wood, -legierung 

 plastic alloy, wrought a., mal- 

 leable a. 



Knick breaic (in curves); crack, 

 flaw, kink; bend or knee (e.g., 

 upper and lower, of tube char- 

 acteristic). 



knicken crack, break, buckle, col- 

 lapse. 



Knick-festigkeit flexibility (of a 

 film), breaking strength, buckling 

 strength (of metal), -punkt, 

 -stelle kink or knee, break (of a 

 curve). »Widerstandsfähigkeit 

 folding endurance (of film), 

 breaking or buckling strength. 



Knie knee, bend (of a curve); 

 elbow, knuckle. 



knieförmig knee-shaped, geniculate. 



Kniegelenk knee joint, elbow j. 



Kniff (cf. Trick) artifice, trick, 

 device; crease, pinch, 



knistern crackle, crepitate, rustle 

 (silk). 



Knitterfestigkeit crumpling strength. 



Knoll chen nodule, little knob or 

 node. 



Knolle lump, knob, node, nodule, 

 knot. 



knollig knobby, knotty, bulbous. 



Knopf button, knob. Druck- push 

 button, press button. E instell - 

 focusing knob (camera). Trieb- 

 milled head, pinion h. (micr.). 



Knopf -etnpf "anger, Druck- pushbutton- 

 tuned receiver, receiver with 

 automatic tuning, -karte instruc- 

 tion chart, -röhre shoebutton 

 tube, acorn t. 



Knoten node, nodule, knot, knob; 

 plot, -abstand internodal, dis- 

 tance, -ebene, -fläche nodal 

 plane, n. surface (opt.), -linie 

 neutral line, common 1., nodal 1. 

 -punkt, -stelle nodal point (opt.); 

 junction p. -strahl beam or pen- 

 cil of non-uniform section, in 

 gas-focused c.-r. tubes, due to 

 poisons and secondary electrons. 

 -Verbindung transfer joint, 

 temporary bridge. 



Knüppel i sol ator club-type insulator, 

 pin i. 



knurren growl, snarl, rumble. 



Kochbecher beaker. 



koch-beständi g resistant, stable or 

 fast to boiling (dyes, etc. ) 

 -echt fast to boiling (dyes). 



kochend(er) Akkumulator agitated 

 or gassing accumulater (just dis- 

 connected from charger). 

 -(es) Geräusch boiling noise. 



Kochpunktmesser ebullioscope. 

 Koeffizient s.a. Faktor und 

 Beiwert. 



Koeffizient, Ausnutzungs- utiliza- 

 tion coefficient. Extlnktlons- 

 total-absorption coefficient, 

 extinction c. Gleitungs- slip 

 coefficient. Mi tführungs- 

 Fresnel coefficient of drag. 

 Schwächung s- absorption coeffi- 

 cient. Vereini gungs- ccanbination 

 coefficient. 



Koerzitivkraft coercive force, coer- 

 civity (sometimes: retentivitv). 

 -messer coercimeter. 



Koffer, Spei sun gs- current feed box. 

 -apparat box equipment, trunk unit 

 (for sound and picture pickup). 

 -kino portable projector equipment. 



Kohärenzlänge der Wei lenzüge co- 

 herence length of wave-trains. 



Kohäsionsf esti gkeit cohesion 

 strength. 



