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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
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Likelihood
Likelihood is defined as numerically equal to the probability when a series of hypotheses is being considered.
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198
Maximum likelihood method
The method of estimating a parameter (or parameters) of a population by that value (or values) which maximizes (or maximize) the likelihood of a sample......
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2773
Saddle siphon, or Hood siphon
A siphon having its duct formed of a U-shaped hood. The inlet lip of the hood is submerged below the full reservoir level and that of the outlet lip terminates in a water seal formed by various devices. The siphons are sometimes named according to the water seal provided (illustrated)......
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2775
Hood, or Cowl
A U-shaped body or structure made of reinforced cement concrete made over the body wall to form a siphon duct (illustrated)......
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2777
Entrance lip of hood, Upper lip of hood, or Upstream lip of hood
The upstream edge of the hood that remains submerged below the full reservoir level for siphonic action to begin (illustrated)......
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2782
Exit lip of hood, Downstream lip of hood, or Lower lip of hood
The downstream edge of the lower limb (illustrated).
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2822
Deflector hood
A curved deflector, used in jet diffusion method, to prevent the jet from being torn apart by induced eddies until it is well submerged (illustrated)......
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2857
Deflector, or Triangular end sill
A sloped continuous wall provided at the end of a rigid apron to deflect the high velocity stream near the bed and to form ground rollers on its downstream to bank up bed material against it thus protecting the apron from being undermined (illustrated)......
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2858
Jet deflector
A sector-shaped block with sloping arris which cut the high velocity jet emerging from an outlet for the purpose of flaring out the jet laterally into a fan-shaped sheet......
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2861
Tunnel spillway bucket, or Tunnel deflector
A device to deflect and spread the high velocity flow high into the air and permit the dissipation of energy at a safe distance downstream from the tunnel outlet......
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3501
Riffle-deflector sand trap
A type of sand trap consisting of riffles, vortex tube, a middle chamber and a rectangular duct. The riffles, arranged in a series of parabolic lines and extending from either one side or from both sides of the canal towards the middle, divert the bed load towards the middle where it is trapped by the vortex tube which in turn discharges it into th.....
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3502
Metal vane deflector sand trap
A type of sand trap consisting of rows of curved metal vanes set in the bed of the canal normal to the direction of flow. The bed load accumulates in a ridge downstream of the line of vanes and is washed into the short vortex tubes which discharge into a waste channel (illustrated)......
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