VACUUM FORMING, way of manufacturing of items from sheet thermoplastics. An item of a required profile receive at the expense of the swing pressure originating owing to rarefaction in a cavity above which the leaf is made fast. It is applied, napr., in manufacture of containers, component parts of refrigerators, bodies of devices.

AIR VOID - EXTRACTION (in medicine), the operation of extraction of a fruit during stems the special apparatus - a vacuum extraction still which calyx sticks to the head of a fruit (at the expense of rarefaction of air). Apply predominary at a begun asphyxia of a fruit.

VAKF (vakuf) (the arab.), in Muslim countries property (movable and immovable), refused by the state or a separate face on the religious or charitable purposes. It was saved in some modern countries of the Orient.

VAKH (grech)., Bahus (armour)., in antique mythology one of names of the god of wine growing Dionisa.

ORGIES, in Other. Rome festivals in honour Dionisa (Vakha), from 2 century up to n. e. Gained character of orgies. Figuratively - a feral orgy, an orgy.

VAKHANKA, in antique mythology sputnitsa god Vakha.

VACCINE (from an armour. vaccina - cow), a drug from the alive (neutralized) or killed microorganisms (and also from separate antigenic components of a microbial cell) and products of their vital activity (see. An anatoxin). It is applied with the medical and prophylactic purposes.

VACCINATION, see in an item. An immunization.

The BANK (platen), curvilinear architectonic oblom, semicircular in a cross section.

The BANK, in economy - total amount of production in the value terms, made for any fixed season.

The BANK, the machinery parts relaying a twisting moment and bolstering rotating parts. Distinguish shafts direct (the smooth and stepwise), elbow, pinion shafts, etc., and also flexible shafts and torsion bars (transmit only a twisting moment).

The BANK, 1) the high landfill, routinely combined with a pit ahead. Ministered an interrupting for the attacking opponent, a battle item defending. It was applied before 1-st world war. 2) System of reinforced strips and items (see " the Atlantic bank ", Shafts Roman, " Eastern bank ").

POWER TAKE-OFF SHAFT, the mechanism relaying a part of an engine power of a tractor, self-propelled chassis, the automobile for actuating actions of trailer, hinged or fixed instruments.

The BANK TECTONIC, in geology - cavicorn, quite often asymmetric raising, characteristic for ramps. With tektonichskim the bank clumps of petroleum and gas often are connected.

VALAAMOVA the SHE-ASS, in the Bible unexpectedly started talking she-ass of the divinator of Balaam. Expression " Valaamova a she-ass " is applied in ironical sense in relation to unexpectedly started talking, routinely silent person.

VALAAMSKIE ISLANDS, group of islands in a northwest part Ladoga an eskar. Will consist from about. Balaam (28 êì2) and over 50 small-sized. A gross area 36 êì2. An altitude up to 70 m. Islands are coated primarily with coniferous forests. On about. Balaam - a settlement, buildings Valaamskogo of a monastery. Tourism.

VALAKHILI, in mythology induizma volant dwarfs; wise and virtuous guides of heavenly beings.

VALAMAT-BACK Gafar Rustamovich (r. 1916), the Tadjik ballet dancer, the ballet master, the national actor of the USSR (1976). Worked at the Tadjik theatre of opera and ballet by him. Ajni; with 1965 chief of band of dance "Lola". The state premium of the USSR (1949).

VALANS (Valence), city in a southeast of France, on r. Rhone, an administrative centre of department Drom. 102 thousand inhabitants (1992). Flavoring, textile, tanning, a paper industry; manufacture of hours.