The WATT, power unit of a SI, is meant W. It is called in honour Dzh. Uatta. 1 Âò=107 erg / s=0,102 of kgf. ì/ñ=1,36. 10-3 l. Seconds. In technique widely apply aliquot units: kilowatt (1 êÂò=103 W) and a megawatt (1 ÌÂò=106 W).

WATTMETER (from watt and... Meter), an electrical gauge meter of active power (in watts) in circuits permanent or alternating-current. Activity of a wattmeter is based on interaction of 2 windings - current and the pressure{voltage;stresses}, powered up in succession with a load and in bridge her.

VATTO (Watteau) Antoine (1684-1721), the French painter and risovalshchik. In household and theatrical scenes, t. n. The gallant festivals noted by refined tenderness of inking nuances, trepetnostju drawing, has reconstructed the world of the most thin{finest} spiritual conditions (" Pilgrimage on an island to Kiefer ", 1719-18).

The WATT-HOUR, off-system unit of activity and power, is meant Vt.ch (1 þ=VT 3600 Dzh, 1 þ=kw 3,6. 106 Dzh).

WATTS (a nem. Watten, from niderl. wadden - coastal beaches), the flat lowlands of a marine shore deluged during inflows.

VAU, city on a southwest of Sudan. Ok. 100 thousand inhabitants. A unit of motorways. Shopping center of a farming area (a cotton, a peanut, a grain, cattle). Factory on manufacture of a dried meat, the sawing enterprises, and also vegetable-canning factories.

VAUPSHASOV Stanislav Alekseevich (1899-1976), the scout, the Hero of Soviet Union (1944), the colonel. In 1942-44 commander of guerilla order in the Minsk region.

The VOUCHER (English voucher), 1) the document certifying payment of the goods and services (napr., the paid invoice, the extinguished account{invoice}), a granting of credit, raising money (receipt), etc. 2) the Same, that the privatization check

VAUERMAN (Wouwerman) Filips (1619-1668), the Netherlands painter. Conversations, landscapes, battle scenes distinguish entertaining, efficacyy, picturesqueness, thinness of drive of sveto-air medium.

"VAFD", the bourgeois political party in Egypt. It is based in November 1918 S.Zaglulom. Supervised over national-liberation motion in 20th of 20 century. Its{her} representatives in 20-50-Ñ repeatedly headed government. After July revolution in Egypt 1952 it dissolved (in 1953). In 1978 it has been based (in 1984 the consignment " New Vafd " is legalized).

Current-voltage diagrams, the river in Zap. Siberia, dextral in-leak{influx} of Ob. 964 kms, the area of basin of 76,7 thousand êì2. Average discharge of water 665 m3 / with. Driveable. It is navigable on 453 kms from a seconds. Larjak.

VAHANSKY the BACKBONE, in the south of Pamir, in Tadjikistan and Afghanistan. Length of 160 kms, an altitude up to 6281 m. The area of a glaciation (terrain of Tadjikistan) ok. 96,2 êì2.

VAHANTSY, one of pripamirskih peoples.

VAHIDIN SUDIROHUSODO (Wahidin Sudirohusodo) (ok. 1857-1917), one of the first organizers of national motion in Indonesia, the doctor.

VAHIDOV Erkin (r. 1936), the Uzbek poet, the national poet of Uzbekistan (1985). Collections of lyrical verses on a modernity " Respiration of a dawn " (1962), " the Sofa of a youth " (1969), " Revolt immortal " (1983), " In one minute songs be not torn, a catgut " (1986), etc.

VAKH - KANTONMENT, city on north-east of Pakistan. 122 thousand inhabitants. A machine industry and metal working (small-arms factory), textile, cement, a food-processing industry, a thorough revision of agricultural production. Handicraft industries: embroidery, manufacture of crude - art items from a tree, metals.

VAHMISTR (from a nem. Wachtmeister), a grade and the position of a unter-officer personnel in a cavalry and horse artillery in Russian and some foreign armies, and also in a gendarmery.

VAHNJA, a marine fish of a set treskovyh. The length up to 50 sm, weighs up to 1,1 kg. In boreal part Quiet ok., including in coastal waters Chukchi and Far East seas. Object of a craft.

VAHRAMEEV Vsevolod Andreevich (1912-86), the Russian geologist, corresponding member AN the USSR (1979). Transactionses on a stratigraphy and paleofloristike Mesozoic.

SHIFT TEAM (from a nem. Wacht - the sentinel), 1) a principal view of a duty on the ships{spacecrafts} and the courts, ensuring their float, safety, and in a VTR and fighting readiness. It is divided on obshchekorabelnuju, special, leading and anchor. 2) Period during which one changeover of the order keeps the watch (4-6 hours).