- fire-quenching
- пожаротушение
English-Russian glossary on space technology. 2015.
English-Russian glossary on space technology. 2015.
Quenching — Quench Quench, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quenched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quenching}.] [OE. quenchen, AS. cwencan in [=a]cwencan, to extinguish utterly, causative of cwincan, [=a]cwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. cw[=i]nan, [=a]cw[=i]nan, to waste… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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